The Deal

Chapter 13

Wow the conflict chapter falls on chapter 13!! That's a funny coincidence 😂 maybe it really is unlucky! Anyway enjoy the chapter!

Sammi was floating on clouds after the bell rang in world history class. Because after world history that day came lunch. And lunch on this particular day meant her first time truly talking to the Queens, as friends.

For some reason or other, "friends" didn't feel like the right word. Sammi figured it was probably just because she wasn't used to it - though that didn't feel quite right either.

But she didn't have time to worry about that, because Jake and Leah were on their way to a day of sitting with the popular girls at lunch and Leah was vocal about her concerns.

"I can and will say I told you so when this doesn't work," Leah warned.

"I can and will say I told you so when it does," Sammi countered, though the things Leah was saying must have been getting in her head, because she found herself actually doubting it. She shook her head and told herself to snap out of it. The Queens were nice to people they were friends with, and would accept Leah, no problem. She was sure...

The only thing Jake had said the whole time was that he suspected Leah was right. So Sammi just couldn't wait to prove both of them wrong.

Sammi's eyes were immediately able to spot the Queen's table in the lunchroom. Six people sat there: Angela and her boyfriend, David, Makayla and her boyfriend, Cody, and Lucy and her boyfriend, Rowan.

Sammi smiled excitedly as she began to walk in that direction, prepared to add: Samantha and her boyfriend, Jake, as well as her best friend Leah.

Leah bit her lip. "I think I'll fill up my water bottle first. You two go ahead."

"Alright, you'll know exactly where we are," Sammi said with a smile as they arrived at the table.

Time to be Samantha for the thirty minutes she'd been waiting for since the start of school.

Lucy spotted her first. "Oh, hey Samantha," she said, patting the seat next to her. Their boyfriends all sat across from them, so Jake silently sat across from Samm- antha. If he was nervous or uncomfortable, it didn't show.

"So," Makayla said with a sly smile, addressing the guy accross from her, Cody. "This is the girl who was able to pull off a grand slam like this-" she guestured to Jake "-in only ten days. Pretty impressive, right?"

"Does he talk?" Cody asked.

Samantha nodded. "Yeah. He's actually really sweet when he does."

Cody groaned and and pulled three dollars out of his pocket, slapping them reluctantly into Makayla's outstretched hand. "I bet against 'Kayla that he was mute."

"Sweet? That's the word? Ok, that's just adorable!" Lucy giggled. "The hot emo kid is a teddy bear inside."

Jake shrugged and bit into an apple.

"Yeah, very sweet. Have you two made out yet?" Angela asked, throwing a piece of popcorn into yer mouth.

Sammi was caught off guard by the question, but Samantha just laughed and said, "Nope, not yet, though he was pretty good for the five second preview I got." She wondered if Jake would like the way she worded that, but figured he wouldn't mind. He looked totally neutral, anyway.

"Well, after the Fall dance this Saturday, you can tell us how it went," Makayla said with a wink.

Cody nudged Jake. "How about your girl? Is she as good at kissing as she says you are?"

Jake swallowed a part of his apple and then simply said, "Better." Without another word, he continued eating.

Samantha spotted Leah with her water bottle across the lunchroom, making her way to the table at the pace of a snail as Cody said, "I actually don't know if that is the best answer to that I ever heard."

"Well is was definitely the cutest," Lucy said before breaking off a piece of her banana bread and eating it.

Leah was only six feet away now, and Samantha was enjoying the conversation, so she was sure Leah would as well.

Five feet.

Four feet.

Three feet.

Two feet.

One foot.

Sitting down next to her-

"Hold on, what's the freak doing here?" Angela snapped coldly.

Leah looked down. "I told you, Sammi," she muttered, quiet enough that only she and Jake could hear.

"Freak? What do you mean?"

"Booksmart and constantly singing broadway songs. I'm telling you, she's not the type of girl you'd like to hang out with."

"I - well, she -"

"And she just transferred to the school this year. Her Sophomore year!" Makayla added. "Who knows what kind of gross place she could have been from before? It's an odd year of school to move. Maybe her family finally got enough money to move to an area where her house and schools are clean."

Sammi was internally begging for Leah to stand up for herself and say she'd actually moved from a really nice place, but she was completely silent, and that was the moment Samantha betrayed her.

"Yeah, I don't want her bringing that kind of energy to our table," she said wittily with a laugh that sounded so much like a mean girl in a Disney movie she immediately wanted to take it back. Not just take it back, but throw it in a garbage can that would take it somewhere it would get burned up.

But Leah had already picked up her stuff and run away from the table.

"Aw, I think the cried," Lucy said with a giggle. "She's older than you, and she actually cried. At least she's not poisoning our table anymore."

Jake stood up and grabbed his things. "I never knew people outside of Disney TV shows and fanfictions were actually like this," he stated simply, and then he walked away.

"I know, right? A tenth grader crying. That's right out of some anti-bullying show on Disney channel," Angela said with a laugh. Samantha couldn't make herself force one out.

"Hey, where'd your boyfriend go?" Makayla asked Samantha.

But it was Sammi who shrugged and picked up her stuff to follow him, seizing the excuse to get away from the toxic table she'd been sitting at.

I know I'm making the mean girls REALLY mean, but hey, it has to be enough to get into Sammi's thick skull that they aren't nice 😅 besides, this IS kinda like a Disney channel plot. Anyway, let me know if you liked the chapter!

~Kit-Kat