Reggie Peters And Brittany Mercer

1994 Monday 7:50 am

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Hey guys. I'm sorry that I haven't been posting my usual every other day. I just forget and I am so busy with school and hw. That is why I am posting this chapter as well because I haven't done my usual. I also have been working on my story as well, so that takes time. I hope you have an amazing week and just enjoy!! 💙💙

"I'm Robby Blake. I'm a freshman and I got lost, but I found the right class."
"Let me see your schedule." The new student hands him his schedule. "Well Mr. Blake. I do believe you are in the right class. You can sit in the empty seat next to the blonde girl." He moves towards Brittany's direction and sits in the seat next to him.
"Hi," he says to her. "I'm-"
"Robby Blake," she said, interrupting him. "I heard. I'm Brittany Mercer. Nice to meet you, fresh-meat." She laughs at her own comment and turns towards Luke, who was giving her a dirty look.
"What?" She asks him
"Dude," he tells her. "You have a boyfriend."
"Yeah, don't you think I know that? I'm just being nice."
"Okay, but you are going to tell Reggie about this, aren't you?"
"Yeah, of course I am. I tell him everything now!"
"Did you tell him that you were the one that actually broke his lamp?"
"Yeah, no. I haven't told him that yet."
"You said it looked like, and I quote, 'a cat threw up on it, a dog ate that throw up, and it came out of it's ass instead of it's mouth because it couldn't stand the taste.'"
"Okay, so maybe I didn't like the lamp. I didn't say that word for word."
"Yeah, you did." She rolls his eyes and pays attention to the teacher.
"We are going to learn about the people around you," Mr. Bander says. He grabs a stack of papers off of his desk and starts passing them out. "When you get your paper, write your name on it and then flip it over." Brittany does the exact thing. When she got her paper, she wrote her name and then flipped it over. Her teacher is still passing out the paper, so she decides to draw on the back of hers. She doesn't know what it is, she just draws.
"Okay, now on the back of your paper, I want you to-" he stops at Brittany's desk. "Miss-" he flips her paper over to look at her last name. "Mercer. That is some beautiful art. That is not what I wanted you to do on the back, but this. This is something. Are you in art class?"
"No, drama."
"Well, you should consider switching to art." He walks away from her desk and continues giving directions. "With the back of the paper, describe three people, that you don't know, and go to them first with your paper. It needs to be something positive. Please, no negative comments." Brittany looks around the room and picks the people to write about. She already knows one person, but she doesn't want to make it obvious.
'A best friend,' she writes down. 'Who I can't actually go talk to, aka Luke. The new boy, brunette behind Luke, and the stinky man in front of me.' She plans to not talk to the last one. He just stinks and she doesn't know why.
"Okay everyone," her teacher says. "Go to one of the people you wrote down." Brittany walks towards the brunette behind Luke, but she already goes to talk to him.
"You are very handsome sir," she hears her tell him. She laughs at her remark. The girl looks over at Brittany. "What's so funny dracula?"
"Oh nothing," Brittany replies to her snarky comment. "Just one question."
"Depends on the question."
"How do you feel about the LGBTQ+ community?"
"Well, I don't know. Why would that matter?"
"Because," Luke says. "I'm gay. I'm Bi, actually, to be more specific. I don't go out with snuty girls like you. So, why don't you just leave me alone." The girl gives the two of them a look and she walks off with an attitude. Brittany crosses off her name on the back of her paper. Luke grabs the paper and looks at the drawing on the back. "Dang. That is good. I had no idea Brit."
"Yeah," she exclaims."Neither did I. Anyways, I'm gonna go talk to the stinky dude that sits in front of me. Tootles." She waves to Luke and turns around.
"Hey," the new guy says. "Am I on your paper for people to talk to?"
"Actually," she replies to him. "You are."
"So, we have to write something down in a space about ourselves on each other's papers." He grabs her paper and starts to write on it.
"You can dance. Wow, you aren't as boring as I thought." He pretends like he is hurt. He puts his hand over his chest.
"I was kidding." She pushes his shoulder. Luke notices that she did her flirting move. She grabs Robby's paper and writes, 'I love to sing.'
"You're just a girl with a hole bunch of secrets aren't you?"
"Yeah, maybe."
"I like the necklace. Where'd you get it?"
"Actually, my friend bought it for me."  'Did I just call my boyfriend a friend? Uh oh.' She is hoping Luke didn't hear her. She knows he did, because he shows up right next to her.
"Correction," he budges in and says. "Your boyfriend gave it to you. Your boyfriend! Not your friend. Your boyfriend!" He emphasized 'boyfriend' both times to make sure she knows she has a boyfriend.
"Yeah. My mistake. My boyfriend. You know what. It was good talking to you Robby, but I need to talk to this person for a second."
She pushes Luke to go to his desk. "Ow," he says because she pushed him into his desk. "What was that for?"
"You know what that was for. I accidentally said 'friend'. It's not like I did it on purpose. I love Reggie's and you know that!"
"Yeah. I do know that."
Just then, their teacher rings his bell. "Okay class," he starts off. "Sit down please. Except for Mercer. Would you come to the front of the class please." She walks up to the front of the class with her paper. Her teacher grabs it out of her hand and crosses out the people she wrote on the back. Then he put it underneath the projector. The entire class goes silent when her drawing is shown to the entire class. She sees Luke give her a thumbs up. She rolls her eyes at him. "This is the beautiful masterpiece she drew." Everyone in the classroom gives her a round of applause. "Here you go. You can sit back down now." She grabs the paper from her teacher and sits down. "Okay. Let's talk about our class rules and what's going to happen this week." Brittany was looking at her paper. She didn't know she could draw. Whenever she did draw, it was always stick figures or something. How could she draw something so beautiful? Is it because she has inspiration from Reggie? If it is inspiration, is it actually Reggie? She looks over at the new guy. He was already looking at her. 'Okay,' she thinks to herself. 'That wasn't weird at all. Why is he looking at me?' She looks back at him to see him staring at the front of the class. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' She keeps asking herself that question so many times in a row. What is really wrong with her? Does she not love Reggie anymore? Does she like this new person? Impossible. She has loved Reggie for a while and they just started dating. She just met this other man. So, of course she still loves Reggie, right?

After class

"Okay," Mr. Bander says. "I'll see you all tomorrow. Have a wonderful day of the rest of your first day at school." Brittany was so excited to get out of there. She wanted to go see Reggie. She walks out the door and sees Reggie standing in front of a locker.
"So," she says to him. "I guess you found your locker already. Wanna help me find mine? Wait, hold on." She grabs her schedule out of her backpack and looks at the locker number on it. "Looks like our lockers are right next to each other." She opens her locker, and puts her backpack inside. She grabs her binder out of her bag and then closes her locker.
"How many compliments did you get for your necklace?" He asks her as he closes his locker.
"At least 4. I'm sure I will get more throughout the day. So, I have PE next. What about you?"
He grabs his schedule out of his pocket and says,"Me too." She smiles and grabs his hand. They both walk towards the gym. On the way there, she thinks about anything that can distract her from any of her outside problems. She notices her brother walking the same direction as they are.
"Hey bro," she says to him. "What class do you have now?"
"Pe," he says. "What about you two?" They exchange looks and look back at Alex. "Oh come on! Seriously? I'm gonna have to listen to her talk about your ass and other stuff. That's gross. I don't want to know about any of it. None!"
"Yes sir! Anyways, would you like to walk with us to class?"
"Yeah, okay." They walk to class in silence, although the other students around them are loud. They don't speak a word to each other until they reach the gym. All Brittany wants to do is go to the studio and practice. She doesn't want to be at school or at home. She wants to be with the people that make her feel happy and safe. What Reggie wants is to have a perfect family where his parents don't fight all the time. And Alex. Alex wants his parents to love him for who he is. He just wants to go back home and lay in his comfortable bed again. The three of them walk into PE and Alex looks at his schedule again.
"Hey Brit," he says. "What teacher do you have?"
She pulls out her schedule and shows it to Alex. "We don't have the same teacher. Who's your PE teacher Reg?" He does the same thing. "Him and I do though."
"So I'm gonna be by myself?"
Just then, a person walks up from behind her and says,"I think we have the same teacher." She kinda recognizes that voice. She turns around and sees that it is the new kid.
"Robby," she says surprised. "Hey! Guys, this is a freshman in my History class. Robby, this is my brother Alex and my boyfriend, Reggie."
"Oh, so you are real," He sarcastically says to Reggie. Brittany and Robby start to laugh. Reggie gives them both a dirty look like he is jealous.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Reggie asks.
"It's an inside joke," Brittany tells him. "Well, kinda. He told me that he likes my necklace. And then I said that a friend got it for me." That part hit Reggie hard. "Luke overheard and came over to correct me. He told Robby that you are my boyfriend, not my friend. It's way funnier if you were actually there." Brittany looked over at her brother and noticed that he was laughing. "Why are you laughing?"
"Because," Alex says. "It's still funny no matter if you were there or not. Dang, you messed up bad Brit. Like, really bad. Anyways, we should get to our class. Let's go Reg." They both walk towards their class. Brittany and Robby go to sit down with their class as well. Brittany can see that Reggie is still looking at the two of them. 'Dang,' she thought to herself. 'I really did mess up!'