Starting Over: My Life

Chapter Three: Popcorn

I saw my best and well, my only friend, Leah by her locker. I ran up to her and hugged her tight as he hugged me right back.

"Oh my gosh,Leah. It was awful," I started crying. I couldn't stop picturing everything that had happened the previous night.

"Shhh. It'll be okay" she rubbed soothing circles on my back. "I'm sure, it'll be okay. Do you want to talk about it?" she asked

"Maybe at lunch" I replied. I knew that if I started to tell her now, I would end up crying again and I wouldn't be able to stop.

"Ok well, we had better get to class. Mr. Perez hates it when we're late"

I turned around and felt something cold and wet hit my face.

"Loser!" Jake shouted as he then snickered to his friends around him.

"Jerk!" I yelled but I was too late. He was already around the corner of the hallway.

Maybe that was a good thing, he would probably do something horrible if he had heard me. I could feel all of the pairs of eyes staring at me and I could hear everyone giggling and laughing. I was humiliated.

"Oh my gosh Avery are you okay?" Leah asked.

"I'm fine" I muttered as I turned
around and started to walk away.

"Then where are you going"

"To the bathroom so I can clean this stuff off!" I shouted over my shoulder.

When I entered the bathroom, I saw her. The last person I wanted to see.

"Oh look Amy, it's the Loser. Gosh, she's so pathetic" Brittany snickered.

"Ugh so pathetic" Amy echoed.

I tried my best to ignore them, but Brittany and Amy are hard to ignore. I finished washing my face and left. I was really hoping they didn't follow me out.

I wonder if Leah was waiting for me outside the bathroom? I thought to myself. I decided to see if she did, so I looked over my shoulder to check if she was there. She wasn't. Oh well. As I turned back around, I bumped into someone.

"Sorry" I muttered as I looked up, praying it wasn't Jake. As I saw who it was, it occurred to me that I have never seen this person before. Must be new. I thought. I started to walk away.

"Wait" he said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

"What?" I answered back.

"Can you help me? My first hour class is Spanish with Mr. Perez and I have no idea where it is. Can you show me?"

"Um,ya sure. It's my first class too." Well, he is kinda cute. And I like the way his brown shaggy hair kinda falls into his blue eyes. I thought to myself.

"Sweet" he said as he smiled.

Wow he has really nice teeth. And I LOVE his smile.

It occurred to me that I didn't know what his name was, so I decided to ask.

"I will help you but I have a question first" I said.

"Which is?" He asked as he smiled even bigger, which I didn't think was possible.

"Name." I stated simply.

He scrunched up his cute nose and looked very confused as he said,"huh?"

"What is your name?" I asked very slow this time.

"Oh. It's Liam. What's yours?" He asked

"It's unicorn," I said jokingly.

He scrunched up his nose again and asked,"really?"

"No, not really. Did you seriously think it was?" I asked. When he didn't respond, I just shook my head and laughed a little. "I guess you aren't very bright." I said

"What is that supposed to mean?" He asked defensively.

"Nevermind" I smiled

"So what is your name?" He asked

"It's Avery." I responded

"Well I'm going to call you Unicorn," he whispered as if it was a secret.

"Fine, then I'm going to call you," shoot I had to think of a nickname for him, quick "popcorn" I finished. Ugh I'm such an idiot. Popcorn? Really? I just said the first thing that popped in my mind.

"Why? That name doesn't make any sense."

"Yes it does," I argued as I tried to think if an excuse I why I chose that name.

"How? How does that name fit me?"

"Because... You are about as smart as popcorn." I blurted out. Eh, I could've done worse, but it still was pretty bad.

"But popcorn is an inanimate object..." he said.

"That's the point silly," I said.

"Um okay. we had better get to class. I don't want to be late on my first day." there was that smile again.

We walked in and sat down in the back of the room right when the bell rang signaling class to start.

"Ok class, today we will be talking about-" Mr. Perez started.

Liam handed me a note.

What time do you have lunch?

I quickly wrote down

1:00 hbu?

He handed it back to me a minute later.

Same. Wanna go to Wendy's? It's right across the street.

Um sure ya. And I Know ;p

He leaned over and whispered "sweet. See you then," and he smiled. Again.

Wow his mouth must hurt from smiling so much. I thought to myself. But my thoughts were interrupted when I heard Mr. Perez.

"Avery and Liam see me after class,"

The bell rang a few minutes later and Liam and I made our way to the desk in the front.

"I'm going to give you guys a warn-"

I interrupted him "thank you Mr. Perez"

"I wasn't finished Av-"

I cut him off. Again. "Sorry"

He gave me a death glare and I mouthed sorry again.

"Anyway, I'm giving you a warning today but next time I see you two talking in class, you both get a detention. Got it?"

"Got it" we both said at the same time.

We walked out of the room and he handed me a slip of paper. "It's my number"

I smiled and asked him, "do you need help finding your next class?"

"Nah, I saw it on my way to spanish"

"Ok"I was a little disappointed.

I handed him a slip of paper as I said,"its my-" I started.

"Number"he finished with me. "I figured you would give it to me"

"Well I will see you at lunch. Meet at the front doors?" I asked.

"Ya sure. See you then"

Right before my next class started, I felt my phone buzz. It was Liam.

Hey:) I just decided to bug ya since I have nothing else better to do

I smiled as I quickly typed.

Well maybe if you got a life you would have sketching better to do.

Maybe today would be a good day.