The New Boy

reality

the bell rings bringing me back to reality. I look next to me and see Jack smiling at me.
"so, what do you have next?" I ask him.
"umm.." he says checking his schedule. "I have P.E. with James."
"that's coed." I say. "I have it too."
"good because I can't wait to get you out when we play dodgeball." he says smirking.
"I don't know. I never get out." I say remembering every time i've played dodgeball.
"we'll see about that." he says winking at me. I feel my cheeks burn.
"we should probably get going now." I say getting up.
"okay. lead the way." Jack says waving his hand towards the door. we start walking and he grabs my hand. I quickly move my hand, shocked by what he just did.
"oh.. uh.. sorry. I.." he says rubbing the back of his neck.
"no. I'm sorry, I just was surprised." I say grabbing his hand.
"oh. I'll give you a warning next time." he says laughing.
"no need for a warning anymore." I say smiling at him.
"well good. so. I was thinking, that maybe, if you aren't busy, we could uh.. hang out after school?" he says.
"yeah. I'd love to. my house?" I ask.
"yeah. sounds good." he says.
"we're here." I say as we walk up to the locker room doors.
"I'll see you in class." he says leaning in to kiss me. I kiss him back and then walk into the girls locker room. I hear people whispering as I walk in;
"did you see her and the new guy. they were making out."
"he could do better than her."
"she is so lucky."
"I heard that she paid him."
"they should be homecoming king and queen."
"she's probably just using him to get popular."
I just ignore them, some of them pissing me off, some of them making me extremely happy. I go to my locker and get changed. everyone is wearing matching clothes. I walk into the gym and see Jack talking to some of the jocks. shit. he's not one of them is he? all of the girls are either staring at him or me. I walk over to him. he sees me and smiles. he turns back to them and says something. he turns and walks over to me.
"hello gorgeous." he says.
"hey Gilinsky." I say.
"do you know Josh, Troy and Chris?" he asks.
"uhh.. sort of." I reply.
"sort of?" he asks.
"they're not really my crowd." I say.
"well, who is your crowd?" he says grabbing my waist.
"pretty much just Anna." I say.
"just Anna?" he asks.
"yeah." I say confused.
"well, I'm sure that everyone here would love to be a part of your crowd. I mean, you're gorgeous and nice and perfect." he says pulling me closer.
"but I don't really want to be a part of all of their crowds." I say trying to hide my rosy red cheeks.
"well, why not Josh, Troy and Chris?" he asks.
"they're the jocks." I say.
"but you play sports and I've heard that you're pretty amazing." he says smiling at me.
"really? who said that?" I say blushing even more.
"Josh, Troy and Chris did." he says.
"really? I mean, I've never spent any time with them because I feel like they're the stereotypical jocks that party and sleep around and get drunk every night, but still get good grades because they suck up to the teachers or they pay someone else to do it." I say rambling.
"well, if they are like that, we can go back to Anna." he says before kissing my forehead.
"okay. sounds good." I say as he takes my hand and we start walking towards them. after we've taken a few steps, Mr. James comes in.
"okay. we're going outside and playing flag football first. anyone who doesn't want to play can either walk the track or get a zero. now Chris and Amy pick teams." he says walking to get the balls. Amy is the head cheerleader. she's sort of a slut and one of the other flyers. she picks out every little thing I do wrong when I fly. it's so annoying. Chris and Amy start picking names. Chris picks Jack, Troy, Josh and me in that order. I'm actually really good at sports. especially football. I always play wide receiver and I never drop the ball. I'm also pretty fast, so I get a lot of touchdowns. at least 2 per class. I'm not as good at throwing, but I still can throw. after everyone is picked, we go outside. Jack plays quarterback because that's what he actually plays and I play fullback because I can make it through the other teams defense easily. the play starts and Jack hands the ball off to me. I run through the defense, dodging tackling a and hurdling over people. I quickly glance back and see that there's a few people gaining on me. I pick up my speed and leave them in the dust. I end up scoring a touchdown. I'm engulfed by my team and Jack picks me up and spins me around and plants a kiss on my lips.
"when they said that you were good, they weren't lying." Jack says.
"that was easy no one even was close to me." I say laughing.
"yeah, because you outran the whole defense." he says laughing, putting me down. we continue to play and we go for the two point conversion. everyone is covering me, so Chris easily scores. I score once more and we win in a shutout. it's only P.E., but I'm still happy about it. we get changed and I show Jack to his core lab while I go to English. Amy comes up to me.
"hey girl." she says.
"hey?" I say confused. she never talks to me.
"I was wondering if you'd want to be cocaptain with me." she says.
"yeah. I guess. and when's practice tonight?" I ask.
"5-7 in the gym." she says.
"okay. I'll be there at 4:00 to help set up." I say.
"okay. and do you want to hang out Saturday? we could get all of the pep-rally details figured out and go shopping for our homecoming dresses. just like old times." she says. we used to be best friends, but she started sleeping around and drinking sophomore year. she had a bad year. last year she wasn't as bad. she drank, but didn't get drunk and only had sex when she was at parties. maybe she'll be better this year.
"yeah. that sounds good." I smile at her.
"okay. I'll be at your house at noon." she says.
"okay. I'll see you at practice." I say.
"okay." she walks away.
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