ʜɪɢʜsᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʟᴏᴠᴇ | ᴊᴏᴇ ᴍᴀᴢᴢᴇʟʟᴏ

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   "Hey Charles! Why did you run away like that huh?" I yelled to him making him stop in his tracks after getting off the school bus after school. "Answer me" he stood there for five seconds then began walking towards his home. I caught up with him putting my hand on his shoulder stopping him in his tracks. "Hey" I said softly "are you okay?" He just looked down not answering me. "Yeah" he said a few seconds after finally meeting my eyes. "Wanna talk?" I asked him now standing in front of him. "I have to go home" he walked passed me to his house which left me standing in the road having no choice but to walk home.

   The next day at school Charles didn't even look at me in English. Not even once. I kept trying to get his attention "Charles!" I whispered to him when I dropped my pencil trying anything to get him to interact with me. He didn't pick it up he just kept looking at out teacher. "Thanks a lot" I said as I got out of my chair to retrieve my pencil. "Ms. Jamison what are you doing?" My teacher asked making the whole class look back towards me, I even got a look from Charles. "Oh nothing I just dropped my pencil" I said as I sat back at my desk.

   After English I headed to my math class surprised to see Ben already at our desk. He smirked at me when I walked to the back of the room towards him. "I'm surprised you're here on time." I said friendly taking a seat next to him. We see the teacher walk into class so I got out two pieces of lined paper since Ben is THAT type to not bring much supplies to school. "Aw thanks" he said in a low voice grabbing the paper.

   I couldn't focus much on the warm up cause my brain only had that adorable, weird red head on my mind.

   "Shay can you answer number three please?" My teacher said making me snap out of my day dream. Shit I have no clue what the answer is. "Umm." I look down at my paper pretending to think about the question I have no idea about. "It's 48" Ben said. I look over at his paper to see actual math on it. "Thank you Mr Hardy" our teach said as she wrote his answer on the white board. Holly shit he seems like the type to not care about school but I guess he does. I look at him still in shock. "What? Didn't think anyone besides you knew math?" He said in a quiet tone. We both giggled and continued the warm up.

   I'm pretty good at math considering what happened ten minutes ago. We were working on math problems and of course today my mind decides to not care about anything but Charles.

"Hey what's up with Charles?" I ask the blonde "what do you mean?" He asked looking into my eyes. "He just won't talk to me now since-" I stopped talking considering if I should tell him if he kissed or not. From his face and little giggle he seems like he knows what's up "ah nothing it's just that his balls haven't dropped yet" with Ben saying that in the quiet classroom a few students looked back at us. We smiled at them till they turned back around. I give him the stare "tmi Bro" we both laughed after that.

   Ben led me to his table at lunch. A few boys were already there dressed similar to Ben. Tough.

   "Who's this little girl?" A boy asked walking up to me to playfully pinch my cheek. I laughed at the guy. "Her names Shay" Ben said. The boy had curly black hair with beautiful chocolate brown skin he's handsome I thought. Ben offered me to sit down and he sat across from me at the table.

   Ben searched the room from our table. "Hey kid!" He said standing up catching someone's attention from across the room I couldn't make out who it was. Ben waved the person over. I began eating my peanut butter jelly sandwich not paying attention to what was happening around me.  "Hi" a recognizable voice said. Instead of looking up I tried to guess who it was. Man my sandwich was so good I couldn't look away from it. The voice was higher than Bens but deep enough to be a boy. After taking a last bite of the sandwich I look up to see the boy that was on my mind all day standing next to the table talking with Ben.

   I saw Ben whisper to Charles something I couldn't hear. Charles then sat down right next to me. Since I knew he wouldn't talk I decided not to say anything to him. At least until he was going to say something first. "Hey" he said quickly looking at me earning eye contact. "Hi" I said to him then I looked back down at my potato chips. At the awkward silence I look up at Ben to see him nod at the shy red head. "Um-" he stuttered making me look at the boy again. "Want to go to Star Plaza with me Friday night?" I swallow my chips and ask, "what's that?" "Oh- it's a arcade type thing" he said quickly. I look over at Ben and see him nod at me a million times quick. "Sure why not" the red head smiled at my words.

   After school Charles walked me to the bus stop waiting for the bus to show up. Trying not to be awkward I ask him, "what's in that arcade place?" I said with a head tilt squinting from the bright sun. "It's just a place for games and there is even trampolines, mini golf, and some climbing stuff" he said passionately looking into my eyes making me blush about how cute he is. I nod with a smile on my face but that disappeared quickly hearing familiar high pitched giggles.

   Charles and I both look behind us to see three girls with nasty looks on their faces. "Oh so the slut is hanging out with my man now?" The blonde petite girl said harshly. I look over at Charles and see him look at the girl with shock. "Don't call her that Amelia!" Charles said defensively stepping a little in front of me in defense. "Watch it man whore. You get like two girls every week" the girl with dark long hair said to him. "Besides they all just use you" Riley chimed in.

   "Shut the fuck up" Charles said defensively towards the bitchy girls. I step in, "why don't you bitches go bully someone else since that's the only thing that keeps your low self esteem in tact." Charles looked back at me shocked that I could even talk like that. They just coughed in disbelief and walked away. "We're over man whore" Amelia said pushing his shoulder back lightly. We look towards each other after the girls walked away. "I hate those girls" I said looking in the distance stomping my foot on the ground. "I was never dating her" he said out of the blue making me look at him.

   "I know, I'm pretty sure she thinks she can get any boy she wants" we both giggle and shortly after the bus arrived picking us,and the other students up.

   The whole way was filled with awkward silence as we were sitting right next to each other in the very back of the bus.

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A/N

The arcade will be the next chapter.

And by the way I made "Star Plaza" up lmao

Sorry I haven't been posting a lot, I've just been busy with school. I'll try to do better.

Here's our boy now

(And omg he wished me a happy birthday on Instagram!!!!)