Taking Chances

0.01: chapter one

first chapter, the picture is of Abbie Smith. (played by Lily Collins)
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/B R O D Y\

"Class dismissed" Mr. Brown nodded at all of his students, including me. A couple students groan, Mr, Brown is the kind of teacher that goes by "the bell doesn't dismiss you, I do" and that's probably why I despise him. The way his dull grey eyes glare at you when you screech your chair across the floor or when you don't get the answer correct he give you the "are you dumb?" look and shakes his head slowly at you. All in all, he's just a lonely man who needs a friend.
I grab my books off my desk and scurry out of his classroom just like the rest of the students. This was my last period and I'm in quite a hurry to get home, no specific reason I just don't like being here, I mean sure I have loads of friends and am taken as popular here. Sure my parents have payed thousands of dollars to get me into this specific private school, but it's just a school that is filled with gross hormonal teenagers.
I walk down the white halls to turn the corner. I bump into one of my best friends Jake Anderson.
Jake is a very outgoing guy that is very talkative. He's always smirking at something, it's strange not to see a grin on his face. He has very light blue eyes and also light brown hair. He is an inch shorter than me and I'm 6'. I've always found his shoulders very large and thought he looked like a football player but he would get pissed off every time I'd say it.
I've been friends with him since elementary school, we were on the same hockey team and instantly connected. A thing we share is, our passion for hockey, he's really my only friend that enjoys hockey as much as I do and it's nice.

"Hey man" he has a little smirk on his face.

"Aye" I nod at him, smirking back.

"Heading out so fast?" He asks as we walk towards my locker.

"Yeah, I have to watch my sister" I say, I'm not lying, my mum will probably make me watch her as she's always out late at work.

"Aw, that's shit" he shakes his head and leans against my locker. I put my books into my locker, and put the ones I need for homework in my bag.

"Yeah" I laugh at his expression.

"Well I could-" and he cuts off as someone wraps their arms around my torso, as I can tell the change of expression shown in his face I know it's my girlfriend, Abbie Smith.
Abbie has been my girlfriend for three years now and going on four this year. She's a loud person but can also be down to earth when she's not blabbing on about some drama show she watched last night or her new make up that just came in.
She does complain a lot and my friends don't really like her, my mom says "whatever makes you happy", and I guess she does make me happy.
I love her and she does make me happy, she's beautiful in so many ways, her dirty blonde hair always smells so nice and is always shiny. Her eyes are a perfect shade of dark blue and her lips are so plump and perfect to kiss. All in all, I really do love her no matter what anyone says.

I grab her arms and turn myself around, last time I saw her was at lunch, we only have one class together and that class is in the morning.

"Hey" she smiles up at me.

"Hey" I lean down and place my lips on hers. "Are you coming over today?" I whisper in her ear. She pulls back a bit and I find that odd.

"Um I can't, I have to- to go shopping with Destiny today, I promised her I would go" she fumbled out.

"This is the third time this week" I whine like a baby.

"I know, tomorrow" she smiled and pulls my face in for another kiss. I quickly grab her waist and pull her towards me, but then she pulls back.

"See you tomorrow" she waves good bye and blows a kiss. I then turn back to my locker and Jake is staring at me.

"You disgust me" he shakes his head. I roll my eyes.

"Whatever"

"As I was saying, until she rudely interrupted, I could help you babysit" he winked followed by his usual smirk.

"Yeah, yeah let's go" I grab my bag and close my locker. It's not a surprise that Jake is coming over, it's actually weird if he's not there.
We start to head out, today's one of my lucky days where I don't have hockey practice.
Don't get me wrong, I love hockey, but the constant practicing really tires you out, it doesn't help that my coach makes the practices four hours long doing the same thing over and over. But I have to admit it's better than dry land practice.
Jake and I make it out to the parking lot, I'm proud to say my car is a matte black, Audi R8. Jake walks over to his car.

"Meet you up there" he grins at me.

"Yeah" I get inside my car and throw my bag in the backseat. I put the keys I'm ignition and I'm about to start driving when someone gets in my car.

"What the fuck?" I shoot my head to the person who's bombarded my car. Ryan Wilson.
Ryan is a very cocky person. He's the captain of the football team, girls all over him, he's got money, I mean most of the people do at my school. Ryan thinks he's funny, but really he's not, sometimes he'll crack a funny joke but must of the time they're stupid.

"Didn't mean to intrude, thought I could catch a ride to your place" he elbows my arm, trying to hint that he got his car taken away again.

"Yeah, yeah" I start driving to my house, it's only about ten minutes away from the school, which is good in most situations. We pull into the driveway, Jake made it here before I did.

"I won" Jake yelled as I step out of my car. I roll my eyes. We all walk up to the door and it's unlocked which surprises me. As soon as we walk in I hear a voice yell,

"Who is it?" It's my sister, Blair.
Blair's fourteen, in grade nine at the same private school as me. Blair is a very forgetful person as you can tell she forgot to lock the door. She's also very smart though, it kinda runs in the family, "being smart".

"It's a psycho killer" Ryan yells and I laugh. She comes walking down the stairs and rolls her eyes.

"Next time remember to lock the door" I scold her.

"Yeah, I guess I forgot" she shrugs and walks into the kitchen.

"Mums at work I'm guessing?" I follow her into the kitchen.

"Obviously" she has a piece of banana bread in her mouth.

"Brody, we'll be downstairs" Jake says to me. My room is in the basement, which is pretty cool. I have everything you need to live down there, a mini fridge, my own bathroom, a Tv, a couch, obviously a bed and basically every game council.

"Okay" I nod at them.

"Well I was just coming down to see who was barging into the house, Gabby's upstairs waiting for me" and with that she turns around and walks upstairs. I go downstairs to find the boys already on the Xbox.
I walk over to my dresser to change out of my uniform, since my schools a private school we have to wear stupid uniforms. I take off my black and maroon uniform top and slip on a grey hoodie that has my hockey number and last name on the back. I slip off my khakis and replace them for my black nike track pants. I then walk over to my couch and plop down next to Jake, and grab a controller.

"Ready to get your ass kicked?" Ryan smirks at me

"Oh it's on" I smirk back.

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first chapter! hope you liked it.
I'm think I'm going to update this book two days a week so maybe like Wednesday and Saturday.

tell me if you guys want the chapters longer or shorter.
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