Sell Me Out (a 5SOS Fanfic)

2: Rumours and Substitute Teachers

ZOE'S POV
Rumours travel pretty fast around here.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I believe all of them.
It's just that you hear things, you know?
"Zoe!"
I snapped my head up so quickly I might've broken something.
"Ouch! Huh? Sorry what?" I should probably be paying attention to my best friend when she's talking to me... Oops...
"Were you even listening to me?"
Wow, she sounds annoyed...
"Uh... No. Not really..." Of course I receive an eye roll for that response.
"I'm sorry Bree. I'm just really tired today."
I didn't lie to her face... I just bent the truth a little bit...
"Is this about Jade? Look I'm sure she's fine. It's just a rumour. You don't even talk to her anymore."
Ok, so maybe we haven't exactly been on the best of terms for the past 4 months, but I still worry about her...
Especially with all these whispers of her and Luke walking out of the boys bathroom just a few seconds apart...
But it's ridiculous! She wouldn't even think about...
Would she? No! I'm just being stupid now!
And that's when someone started violently waving their hand in front of my face.
"Zoe? I just lost you again..."
I just nodded, and instead of looking back up at Bree, I looked around at where we'd chosen to sit.
It was kinda nice looking, with freshly mowed, bright green grass underneath us, trees that never stopped reaching for the sky, which was filled with thin, wisps of cloud just drifting endlessly.
It's so relaxing out here.
Just me and Bree, on the back field, "studying" for English.
Nothing distracting my already very occupied brain.
And that's when I saw it.
The dirty blonde high ponytail that seems to find me wherever I go.
Jade.
As per usual, she doesn't look my way, but I guess that's to be expected, after what I put her through.
Bree pulled my brain back to the surface, "Zoe... If you're still on planet Earth, we might actually have to study for this exam."
I let out an exhausted sigh,
"Do we have to? I just want to go to sleep!" I whined like a 5 year old.
Someone behind me laughed. I couldn't pinpoint the boy who said,
"Don't we all?"
I spun my head around and somehow managed to get all of my hair in my face.
I tried to brush it away with my hand but it was stuck and I'm not quite sure how...
"Anyone care to help? I can't see anything but a sea of brown hair!"
Luckily, Bree managed to untangle it from my earring, the cause of the catastrophe, so I could actually respond to the mystery person in front of me.
"Oh, hey Tyler!" I say as I jump up to hug him.
"Hey. So what exactly are you guys doing?" He looks behind me at Bree who is trying her hardest to cover our books which don't have any work or study notes in them...
"We are studying for English." She smiles unconvincingly.
Tyler just raises his eyebrows,
"Riiiight... Because you have so many great study notes..."
I gently slap his arm as Bree laughs to herself.
"Oh shut up, because we're totally the only people who haven't studied for this exam!" Oh how I love sarcasm.
That's when I notice that Bree and Tyler are sharing a strange look...
And then I come to the realisation that his arms are still around my waist.
Do I move and risk him not talking to me? Again...
Or do I stay and hope no one gets the wrong idea? Again...
It's a vicious cycle with Tyler.
I don't know if he thinks we're really good friends that hug a lot, or whether he thinks we have a thing.
Well, 4 months ago we were just friends, and then he got all weird.
And somehow that lead to Jade ignoring me, and the end of our friendship.
I was very deep in thought when Tyler finally let go of my waist.
He put his hands on my shoulders and looked into my hazel eyes with his brown ones.
"Are you ok Zoe?"
I smiled and nodded.
'Pfffft yeah sure, you're totally ok, just casually worrying about what Tyler thinks is going on here.'
Why is my mind always right?
"Yeah. Yeah I'm fine, just thinking about this stupid English exam, you know?"
Is it bad that I can lie to him so easily? I really hope he doesn't realise I'm lying to him...
*RING RING, RING RING*
Saved by the bell. Thank god.
Guess I'll have to wait to see if my lie is as believable as I think it is.
"Ugh. Lets go." Bree says while packing up her books.
I kneel down and stack mine in my black folder which is covered in band related stuff and fandom things too. I know it sounds like a weird mix, but that's just who I am.
"What do we have now?" I ask no one in particular.
Bree responds saying we have Math and that she has to hurry because she has a topic test.
"Haha good luck with that." Tyler says before saying he's going to try and finish reading, whatever book he's reading now, instead of doing Math.
Causing me to shake my head and laugh because somehow he still manages to get top marks even though all he does is read and do other nerdy things.
I really shouldn't judge because I do the exact same things, but I don't let them stop me from doing class work.
Bree waves and heads off to class, reading through her notes to make sure she didn't miss anything.
I hug Tyler again and tell him I might see him later.
"Bye Zoe." He waves.
I wave back and walk to Math.
***
CALUM'S POV
Ugh. Math has got to be the most boring subject.
And it doesn't help that I only have one friend in my class.
Well at least that one friend is my best friend, Michael.
We've been in here for almost 15 minutes and there's still no sign of a teacher.
Michael's just scribbling random stuff on the desk like he normally does and I'm trying so hard not to do the same.
I got so bored that I started hitting Michael on the head with my pen.
"Owwwww! Oi Calum stop hitting me!" He complained while laughing and grabbing my pen and throwing it across the room.
I was giggling uncontrollably until I heard someone across the room shout 'Clifford!'
I nudged Michael to get his attention.
"Uh, Michael, I think you hit someone with my pen..."
I still hadn't figured out who it was when he responded with,
"Well shit. Who was it?"
My eyes kept scanning the room as I shrugged.
That's when I realised who it was that he hit.
"Uh, Michael... You hit Zoe..."
He kept his head down as if the whole 'if I can't see you, you can't see me' thing would actually work.
I nudged him again to get him to look at me.
"Michael? Are you going to say sorry to Zoe? Her eye is still watering. Oh my god Michael, you hit her in the eye?! Go apologise to her!"
And of course, like all best friends would, he started singing,
"Calum's got a crush. Calum's got a crush."
Which I don't! Zoe's nice. And pretty. And funny.
But I don't have a crush on her.
"Shhhhh. Keep your voice down. And I do not!" I warned him,
"Just say sorry to Zoe. Please?"
He just rolled his eyes at me.
"Fine. Hey, Greene!"
Yep, that's Michael. Just casually yelling someone's last name across the extremely quite classroom.
Zoe turned around and gave Michael the biggest, scariest death stare I have ever seen.
"What do you want Clifford?"
Without a single stutter he started apolgising. Kind of...
"Well, Calum here told me that I should apologise for hitting you in the eye." Oh god...
'Don't pin this on me you idiot.' I thought to myself, embarrassed by his wording.
He raised his hands as if surrendering to Zoe,
"So that's what I'm doing. Sorry for hitting you in the eye." He finished and went back to scribbling on the desk.
That is, until Zoe started talking to him again.
"Hey Clifford." She yelled out causing Michael to look up yet again.
"Since Hood isn't gonna look up anytime soon, tell him I say thanks. You know, for knocking some sense into you."
Just as I was about to look up and start a conversation, the teacher decides to show up.
"Sorry I'm late class. Mr Berry is absent today, I am your substitute, Mrs Harding."
Yes! Substitute teacher! That means no textbook work!
"Okay class. If you could open your textbooks to page 394."
Well shit.

A/N
Helloooooo everyone!
So I'm Tess and my best friend Payton and I got bored and decided to make this account!
Payton wrote the first chapter and I wrote this one and we're thinking of rotating each chapter and seeing how it goes!
I tried to make this short but it didn't really work... Sorry...
Well I hope we're doing okay so far, just leave any feedback in the comments and we'll fix what we can!
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