It Can Only Get Better (Or Maybe Not)

Friends?

Thanks for reading my last chapter!! This chapter will be a little bit shorter. The picture is of Kayla. ENJOY!!!!

Katherine <3

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(Grace P.O.V.)
Lunch, ugh how I hate Lunch. I sit on the floor. Everybody else laughing, gossiping, eating, celebrating, etc. I'm just sitting waiting for lunch to be over.

It's about now that the bullies come. The leader of the group has short dark brown hair and hazel eyes. She does the most damage of all seven of them, the rest just laugh and agree.

Her names Kayla, she's not even that pretty for today's standards. She definitely isn't nice, so I wonder why she has so many - followers, minions whatever you want to call them.

"You're so fat, is that why you don't eat?" her squeaky voice returns me to the present I stick to my usual tactic and keep quiet,

"You're ugly, so freaking ugly. You have no friends, nobody likes you"

'Don't remind me' I think, rolling my eyes slightly.

"You're fat, you never eat because you're trying to lose weight, and I could go on forever on how much of a disgrace you are to this world." I stay silent.

"Oh so you're not going to answer, huh to scared" she says hauntingly.

"Am I interrupting anything?" says a voice. Kayla turns her head so fast and sharply I get slapped in the face by her hair. She smiles sweetly at the owner of the voice...

Noah.

"Nope we were just having a friendly conversation, right Grace?" she says giving me a look that says 'if you tell him you will pay'. I don't like lying or talking around Kayla, so I just stay quiet. He comes and sits next to me on the floor.

"I've been looking for you" he says softly.

"W-why?" Stutter trying to straighten out my thoughts,

"Because you're the only one I know and by the looks of it you need a friend as much as I do, if not as much; more" he grins. I smile back softly.

"Ehemm" someone who I'm assuming was Kayla cleared their throat.

"So you're the new kid everybody has been going on about?" She asks.

"Oh how rude of me" he gets up

"I'm Noah Waters and you are?" he asks

"I'm Kayla Stone" she says supporting a flirty smile. He reached his hand out for her to shake.

"Let's skip formality's" she says pulling him into a hug.

He looks at me and his expression says it all. 'Help me' he mouths. I stifle a giggle mouthing back a "nope". After what seems like forever, she releases him from her hold and says

"Very nice to meet you!" Still with that flirty smile plastered on her face.

"You too" he smirks.

"Well we better be going, see you tomorrow!" Kayla says winking at me, or Noah. I can't tell. She and her minions (who I forgot where there) walk away.

The rest of lunch was quiet. Noah and I just sat in silence.

The rest of the day went by quick; Noah was in almost all my classes. Before we knew it we were on our way home.

It's about 3:20 PM when school ends. Noah and I sat together again, third seat from the back on the right. The seat I take every day. We didn't talk much, just saying 'hello' and 'goodbye'.

I get home and unlock our door, then lock it back up behind me.

"Mom, I'm home" I yell into our apartment.

Our apartment has one bedroom, which included a double bed, three pillows, four blankets and two sheets. It also has an oak wood dresser (one of the drawers missing) and a small closet. The walls are a pale blue, the only room that has colored walls.

We have a small kitchen/dining room; it has a microwave (with the time on it), a mini fridge, a few broken; almost empty cupboards, a table and two chairs.

The bathroom was nothing special, a very small shower, a sink and a toilet. Most of our stuff (which isn't much) is on the floor.

I walk into the kitchen,

"Anyone home?" I say worriedly, they are almost always home after school and they if they weren't going to be here.

Right out of the corner of my eye I spot a white thing on the table. 'That wasn't there this morning' I think.

It's a tissue with my name on it, it read:

'Dear Grace, We are sorry we aren't home; your dad has to work late. Meanwhile there was no food so I'm out shopping. We will be home at around 7:00 PM. Make sure you finish all your homework. Love, mom <3'

I sit at the table and pull out my books.

It's about 5:00 by the time I needed and read the book I got from the library. I decided since I have 2 hours to kill before mom and dad get home. So I decide I'll go to the old park across the street. I grab an old worn out hoodie before heading to the park.

I sit down on the swings and start swinging slowly.

I think about Noah, how he was really nice to me and not to mention really handsome. He had basically said that we would be friends. I wonder if he'd stick to that after he found out (if he hadn't already) about how unpopular I am, and how I've had no friends. What I'm most scared about is when he finds out how poor I am. How I have no time really to spare, I work every day except Mondays and holidays.

I was so lost in my thoughts, I didn't realize that someone came and started swinging beside me.

I quickly got up and nearly ran home.

"I'm home darling" my mom shouts walking through the door. "You must be starving!"

We sit down and eat.

A few moments later my dad walks through the door. He sits and starts eating with us.

She tells us about whom she ran into at the store, he tells us who came into the shop, and I tell them about the new guy, Noah.

Soon after we finished eating, I decided to call it a night.

I go to the bathroom, take a two minute shower (because the rest of my family have to shower too).

I change back into my blue oversized T-shirt, because i dont have anything else to change into. Brush my teeth. And crawl into the sheets for an early night.