The Great Escape || fuenciado

the first punch

Jaime's POV
"Jaime?" I felt someone nudge my shoulder. I wasn't looking at the person but I knew that the voice belonged to one of my best friends, Tony Perry.

"Huh?" I mumbled, still not looking at him.

"Jaime... you're staring," Tony said with a small laugh. I finally turned my head to him then looked back at who I was staring at.

I had been staring at the one and only, Vic Fuentes. He had just arrived on his motorcycle that he rode to school everyday and was now walking into the school. Two people were on the sides of him: Mike Fuentes- his younger brother, and Alex Babinski- one of his best friends. All three of them were wearing leather jackets, black sunglasses, ripped black jeans, and black boots; completely fitting their bad boy reputations.

"Earth. To. Jaime!" Tony shouted, smacking my face lightly as an attempt to snap me out of my gaze.

He was successful and I turned to him, glaring as I asked, "Was that really necessary?"

"Yes, yes it was. You really gotta stop staring at Vic so much dude... it's getting kind of creepy and he probably thinks you're a stalker," Tony stated.

"Bu-I-um I don't stare at him that much! I just, uhm, I want to make sure he gets into the building safely! Can't have anyone getting hurt now can we Tone?" I said, patting his back and smiling brightly. It was a majorly failed attempt to cover myself but at least I tried.

"You, are completely ridiculous," Tony rolled his eyes at me.

"Tony. I can not stop thinking about him though," I finally admitted, with a slight whine in my voice. With him being my best friend, I knew Tony was already fully aware of my very obvious interest in the school bad boy, yet I still tried to deny it every time he brought it up. Thankfully, not many people paid super close attention to me, unlike Tony, so no one else had caught onto my little crush. Well, at least I hoped so. It's not that I didn't have any friends, it's the fact that for the most part, I was moving around a lot. Most people would describe me as a 'social butterfly'. Everyone at the school knew me, or at least the people in my grade, which was 10th, making me a sophomore. Most of the time I had a smile on my face, which typically spread to the person or peoples face that I was speaking to at that moment. I wasn't apart of any specific group of people, I talked to everyone and just bounced around from group to group. There are times where I feel that I come off as annoying or too joyful, but most of the times I can't help it. I just love to smile and I love seeing other people smiling.

"Just go talk to him!" My best friends words disrupted my thoughts as he urged like he had done many times before, flailing his arms.

"I-I can't," I sighed. "He would probably ignore me... or would hate me or something. Probably both," I rambled slightly.

"Jaime, you just need to go up to him and say hey. You are one of the friendliest guys in the entire school and are a social butterfly. So go and fly over to him! Flap your wings like the beautiful creature you are!" Tony exclaimed, adding one of him award-winning smiles at the end. What did I tell you? Social butterfly.

"I can't believe I'm even friends with you," I muttered, shaking my head.

I began to walk away and into the building that I visit 5 days a week. It was Monday, the beginning of the day, and we had about 10 minutes until 1st period started. There were kids in the hallways, taking things out of their lockers and putting books in. I walked past them, trying to seek out Vic and his biker buddies. While I was looking around, I was also trying to figure what I would possibly say to him.

Vic moved to our high school, Clairemont High, at the beginning of January; after Christmas break. Mike obviously moved with him due to them being siblings and I guess him and Alex were pretty close since he moved as well. Vic and Alex were in my grade but Mike was a freshman. However, he took a couple sophomore classes and was with his brother most of the time so the grade difference wasn't very noticable. Vic mainly stuck around them but had a few other new friends as well. It was March now, and I had liked him from practically the minute I saw him, so my crush had lasted about 3 months already.

I had never talked to Vic before, and had no idea why I was about to. There was a loud voice inside my head telling me that he'll hate me. I know that I should at least talk to him before jumping to that conclusion, but his opinion of me is important so it's extremely difficult to not think of the possibility of it being a bad one.
Despite my fear of him disliking me, he intrigued me majorly. That was my reasoning for constantly staring at him. I know it's not very often when someone like me is so interested in someone like him, but I desperately wanted to figure him out. After three months of examining him and what he does (it's not stalking, it's admiring), I made it my job to figure out what goes on in that mind of his. He always shows such a 'tough guy' persona but I know that there's so much more depth to him.

From what I've seen, he seems to mask his feelings a lot, never really seeming to show many emotions. I want to be the person he shows his true self to, the one he doesn't feel like he has to be that 'tough guy' he tries to be. I want to know his feelings, his emotions and reactions to certain things, what he thinks and dreams about, what he enjoys doing.

The first step to figuring out all of those things is to just talk to him, which now that I see him and the other two, is exactly what I'm about to do. I'm going to throw the first punch. Or, I guess the first words.

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A•N

well hello everybody!! first chapter is done, it's okay I think :) okay so I couldn't think of a dang title so I decided to name it the first punch because Jaime's about to make the first move so yeah lmao. I know this is kind of a weird chapter but I'm trying to introduce characters and I'm trying to explain Jaime's thoughts as best as I can. it's gonna be a little rough at the beginning but once we get through the first couple of chapters it should work out well... we'll just have to see I guess :) I hope you guys enjoyed this and it would be cool if you guys commented and stuff because I like to know what you guys think! you can also vote if you wanna help me out :) so yeah that's it! thank you guys
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