Why...? ❦ ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 ❦

Chapter 10

As the days went by, the small group of friends were cleaning out of their lockers, placing their books and notebooks and other things in their boxes, carrying them to their cars, minus Jess, she placed her box in Nick's trunk, closing it shut, "I guess we're done," she dusted her pants. Nick nodded, "tomorrow we start our first day, right?" He asked her, she nodded, "but we have to be there one hour early to get our schedule and locker number," it was his turn to nod, "okay, we will, let's go home and drop our boxes before we head out again." Nick went ahead to the driver's side of the car, Jess took a deep breath, "a fresh start, I can do this."

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"Did you hear? We have new students, I wonder what they look like," "I heard that they are all guys! And hot!" "I heard that it will be five hot chicks and some looser." Ah, the rumors, Jess rolled her eyes annoyed, she wasn't surprised to hear them spreading like wildfire first thing in the morning, "are you feeling okay?" Thomas whispered close to her ear, sending shivers down her spine, "yeah, just amused, that's all," he chuckled, "things never changed, well then, be prepared for what's coming next." He was right, whenever they had a new student, mostly females would be all over him, Thomas had confessed to her that he hated when they called him Tommy without him giving them permission, that was the main reason why the boys called him that to either annoy him or tease him, but he told her that when she called him Tommy, for some reason it didn't bother him as much as he would expect it, although, she would rarely call him that, as she felt that it didn't suit him because of his bad-boy look, so she stuck with calling him, Tom. 

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Damien and Bill handed them their schedules, "looks like we have the same classes together." Bill shrugged his shoulders, but inside he was happy, Nick cheered, "now I get to bug you guys every single day!" The boys groaned while Jess laughed at them, "come on boys, let's go find our lockers before class starts and pick up our books too," Fred teased, Jess rolls her eyes, "Yeah, whatever," now it was their turn to laugh.

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"Need some help Jess?" Damien side hugged her, she almost dropped her notebook and photos, "don't surprise me like that, and I'm almost finished, I just- did you give me this notebook? I don't remember keeping it in my previous locker?" She stared down at the worn-out notebook, "what notebook? Oh! Nope!" Damien looked confused when he saw the pictures of Jess and Damien, then the pictures of Jess and Thomas, "sweet photos, did Nick or Fred took them?" "I don't remember neither of them taking photos of us, weird, I'll take them with me after school, that notebook might have some answers." She sighed and put it back to its place, she closed her locker and Damien handed her backpack that had a binder and a few books for their classes, "thanks Dam-Dam." Damien smiled and took her hand, "let's go and meet up with the other guys," she hummed in agreement.

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Jess wasn't used to getting so much attention like the previous school, she felt nervous and almost uncomfortable as they introduced themselves, when it was her turn to speak, Tom held her hand tightly, comforting her as she introduced herself after her turn was done she squeezed his hand, assuring him that she's okay, he squeezed in return as it was his turn to introduce himself, she noticed either the girls or boys' lips dropped when they saw their intertwined hands, but she didn't care, she suddenly felt confident in herself, maybe because how confident he is around other people, she is slowly obtaining from his personality unbeknownstly.
The teacher dismissed them and they took the remaining seats, they sat at the far back of the classroom, the orders were: Damien, Jess, Nick in the last row to the left and the next row were Bill, Thomas, and Fred. "Hey Jess do you have an extra pen that I could use?" Nick poked her back multiple times, she held her breath and quickly reached for her pencil case and pulled out a random pen and handed it to him, "here, now stop poking my back before I bitch smack you." He chuckled and took her pink pen, "pink? Really?" He almost gagged, but laughed quietly, "how did you know that it's my favorite color?" He teased her, she sighed, shaking her hand, and went back to copying the whiteboard, she could hear Fred smacking the back of his head as she started to do her work, she held back a laugh, thanking Fred mentally. 

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"You didn't have to hit me that hard," Nick grumbled as he rubbed his head, "you deserved it, you were this close to getting Jess in trouble on her first day, and I'm sure you would too if Jess had the heart to drag you down into hell with her." Fred crossed his arms, "thanks Fred, but you didn't have to-" Fred quickly hugged Jess, glaring at nick, "you're too nice, don't worry my child, I'll be the one to protect you-" Tom stood up from his seat and quickly took her from his grasp, "that's my job, mom," "then start doing your job before I'll take it away from you-" "I can't just get out of my seat during class I could get in trouble-" "then let me do my motherly job-" "and they're at it again." Bill mused watching them bicker, pulling out a bag of chips from his bag, handing the bag to Damien, as the other students were watching with confused looks on their faces as they watched the six friends: Jess trying to separate Tom, Fred, and Nick from breaking each other's necks and the other two boys eating their snacks as they watched their friends making a scene. Jess had enough and signaled the two remaining boys to help her, they sighed and got up, as the boys were busy bickering, either of them held their heads and made them headbutt each other (Jess was behind Fred, Damien was behind Tom and Bill was behind Nick) causing the three boys to groan in pain, rubbing their heads, Jess smiled to herself, satisfied when she got the reaction that she was expecting to get. "Jess!" The three boys whined in pain, "I warned you guys," the students shivered in fear, what they found out about them were: 1) the new students are attractive, 2) they are weird, 3) don't make Jess mad, 4) they need help.

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"Damien, is it lunchtime? I'm starving~" Jess whined as she hugged him from behind, crying on his right shoulder, Damien patted her head gently, "yes, did you bring your own lunch? Or?" "Thomas made me lunch, he said so this morning," Damien raised an eyebrow, "Thomas can cook?" "shut it Damien Rodriguez!" Thomas hit his head gently with a book, before handing the book to her, "thanks for letting me borrow it," she let go of Damien and took the book, placing it on top of her desk, "what do you think about it?" She smiled at him, Tom took her hand and helped her up, "it was alright," she noticed how puffy his eyes were and how clear they had gotten, how was it she just noticed his glossy eyes? "Did you bring our lunch?" She asked him as they waited for the others to get their lunch from their bags, Thomas handed her a purple bento, "yup." Jess quickly kissed his cheek, "we're ready lovebirds, let's go." Bill announced, the two couples nodded and left the classroom, "do you think we are allowed to eat outside?" Asked Nick, "I asked the principal and they said that we are allowed to eat outside on Fridays," Bill informed, Thomas, Nick, and Jess pouted, "the cafeteria it is then."

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As the time flies by, it was the end of classes for today, students rushed out of their classrooms as quickly as possible as either of them had to attend to their activities, study at the library, do homework, or detention.
Jess pushed the many students and made it safely to her locker, she pulled out her small key and unlocking it, she opened her bag and quickly pulled out her books from her bag before noticing the notebook, she paused to ponder, should she take it with her today? She let out an annoyed sigh and placed her books in the locker before reaching for the notebook and placing it into her bag, she closed the locker and locked, Jess almost screamed when she saw someone's face behind where her door locker was, but quickly stood up straight and fixed her posture, "and you are?" Jess asked, sounding uninterested, "oh! I'm Kaz!" "Jess, pleasure to meet you, now if you excuse me I have to meet up with my boyfriend," "wait!" Kaz grabbed her wrist, "it's me, y-your older brother!" Jess paused, her eyes widened with shock, "b-brother?"