Behind the Mask

3.

"Mmmm....."

I sighed as I chewed the food in my mouth....it tasted sooo heavenly.

It was lunch time now, obviously, and I was starving. My stomach had been rumbling throughout the whole of last lesson, and it was so loud that the people near me started snickering whenever they heard it! To be honest, though, I personally found it quite hilarious too....it's a perfectly normal situation so I don't really see what people find so embarrassing about it!

But, with being The Nerd, I couldn't act upon my feelings; instead I blushed and looked away.

"Well someone seems to be enjoying their food......a lot!" Jasmine said, as she eyed me in disgust as I shoved in another mouthful of pasta and melted cheese, she hated cheese.

She slammed her tray on the table, the way she usually did, and slid into the chair opposite me. "Sooo....ho-"

"Well don't you just look sexy stuffing all that food in your mouth," a deeper voice cut in and sat down next to me. It then leaned in and whispered "keep moaning, you sound hot!"

I rolled eyes and turned to see my other best friend, Carter Niall! And Yes, I do mean 'Niall' as in he is the brother of the schools Bad Boy, Hunter Niall, in fact they are twins.....just not identical but fraternal. Nevertheless, Carter was still hot!

He had the same dirty blonde, disheveled hair as Hunter, though Carter's eyes were an electric blue whilst Hunter's were a forest green!

"I was joking!" he laughed, putting both his hands up in a surrender action since I had just whacked him on the side of the head along with Jasmine kicking him in the shin "And God.....you two are soo violent! And you're suppose to be nerds!"

"What you tryna say then eh?" I said giving him my evil glare.

"Yeah! There's nothing wrong with being a nerd!" Jasmine piped in giving him her own evil glare.

"Ooh I'm sooo scared of your stares it's killing me!!" Carter replied dramatically with one of his hands pressed against his forehead and his head slightly tilted back, "And calm down before both your heads blow up! I never said there was anything wrong with Nerds now though did I?"

"Well you were implying it!" Jasmine and I both screamed in unison........then burst out laughing, fist-bumping each other cause we're cool like that!

"How am I even friends with you guys?" Carter mumbled which earned him another slap from me and kick from Jasmine.

"Owwwww!" He cried, rubbing his head and leg in mock hurt, "seriously if you guys actually want to be in any sort of relationship you should really consider NOT slapping" he pointed at me, "or kicking!" this time pointing at Jasmine.

"Yeeess......but see, the point is whether we WANT one and right now the want is a negative" I said, with Jasmine nodding her head in agreement.

"Oh, but I can help change your mind Willow." Carter whispered in my ear, which earned him yet another slap from me.

"Oh honey, I'll show you just how well nerds can fight with a good beating right here, right now!" I cried, raising my fist into his face, "Come at me bruv! Show me what you've got! Come a-"

"Okay!" Jas cut-in "Tone it down a bit Will, you're being a bit ott at the moment!"

She turned to face Carter.

"We all get how much you looove Willow, but seriously Carter, you can at least try not to be a pervert" Jasmine cried whilst bursting into a fit of laughter.

I turned and looked at Carter, who's face had a hint of pink in, and smirked at the awkward look on his face.

I leaned in.

"Oh but you really would like to change my mind now don't you?" I whispered, my lips brushing against his ear, and groaned in his ear causing Jasmine to laugh harder than she already was.

I leaned back with a satisfied grin. Grabbing the banana on my tray, I slowly peeled it in front of Carter's face and lifted it up to my mouth and wrapped my lips around it then bit down with an even louder groan.

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get a guy flustered! Proven by the fact that Carter was definitely not looking happy with his face as red as a chilli pepper. Jasmine was just slowly dying from lack of oxygen, RIP Jas.

My nerd attitude had dropped, replaced by my natural sassiness. I couldn't help but chuckle.

Oh, my dear friend, you don't know who you're messing with.

Then, to my sadness, the bell rang.
I sighed and replaced my natural attitude with the 'schools nerd' attitude, sometimes, I just wish I could show myself instead of hiding behind my 'nerd mask'......

But life would be so much harder that way - faker anyway.