My secret chocolate admirer

CHAPTER 2: Small Steps

~~JEMMA'S P.O.V:~~
I arrived in the school parking lot and reverse parked my car into the parking spot I could find that was nearest to the school door. There, standing at the main entrance, was my best friend Lia Hensworth, waiting for me with her back leaning against the wall, and her bony arms crossed over.

" You're late! I was waiting forever for you to come. Come on, we have maths today and you know how Mrs Clemton would freak out and emphasise the fact that we we're late. No. Wait. You were late. But I stayed for you."

"Gee, now that you said that, I was gonna thank you but now, I'll think about it." I said in a sarcastic manner, but I wasn't meant to be sarcastic at all.

She wraps her arms around my waist and pulls me into a bear hug. I could clearly see her red streaks in her mud brown hair. Her overhanging fringe made her look like a 10 year old girl that had a growth spurt and had a voice implant. Her navy-blueish eyes sparkled heavily as she fluttered her eyelashes. She wore her favourite cropped tank top with a white singlet underneath. She had new multicoloured Vans that I couldn't recognise ever seeing.

"Come on you two, I don't want to see a best friend relationship. Their too girly and hurt my precious eyes." Josh states. I just plainly rolled my eyes at his boyish statement but I was surprised that I could hear Lia giggling faintly at it. At her reaction, my foolish brother smirked and I could tell he was impressed at his statement. Ooooh, there's a love relationship going on here.

We ran as fast as our legs could take us. I knew what my mother would say if she found out we were late. I could just faintly hear her annoying voice scolding me in my head. We arrived into the room.

"We're here, we're here!" I screamed like I did every time I was late, but this time, I felt a tinge embarrassment creep into my sole.

Everyone glared at us in shame, but they had no reason to. Suddenly my cheeks turned rosy red and I realised that I just made myself the exact centre of attention. I hated people ogling my every single movement.

"Gemma! Please do not interrupt our maths test and sit down. You have missed 20 minutes of the test. No extra time given." Mrs Clemton stated. Oh shit! I forgot about the test! I didn't even study for it. I've been going to those stupid parties my brother invited me to and he always stayed home. No wonder he stayed. That little ass hole. I'm going to kill him the next time he brushes passed me.

As I stressed about the whole situation, I could feel someone's stare burn through my head and realised it was Lia. She probably understood what I was stressing about from my facial expression and since she knew I went to all those freakin', lame old parties.

"Pst. Gem. Can you hear me? Sit down here, I'll help you."

I followed her instructions, and sat down. But what I didn't notice was that I was sitting in the back row, where I had a perfectly good view of couples making out. Seriously, they were in my view. How would I concentrate with them in my way! And most of them were my brother's best friends. Way to go Lia.

As Mrs Clemton handed the test to me, Lia took it away as soon as she turned around. I thought she was gonna help me, not do it for me! At least I could have seen the questions and tried them first. Yeah, I know. Others would be willing to give their friends their tests to do. But, when I read the dictionary (don't ask me why; I was only 11 years old) I search up the word geek and nerd, and then I clearly stated that I was half geek-nerd. Maybe a little bit more. But one thing was for sure. I hated and still hate maths. And I don't think I'll ever use equations in my life again.

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I had to wait one whole hour for the test to end. I always told my brother to wait whenever he was acting like a douche bag, which was like 24/7, and then he would eventually go burzurk and pester me until I screamed at him in a shut-up-or-I-will-kill-you way. But I didn't actually realise how frustrating it was until this very day. Sometime, I will regrets ever being mean to him, but I guess that's what normal brothers and sisters do right?

Lunch time started and I was ready to tell Lia everything she did to me, which was based into the torture category, so she would feel sorry for ever choosing to become my best friend. We had this thing going between us where we took our chances at making each other feel bad and eventually admitting that they did something wrong. Today was my day to shine and I have been planing for the best comebacks I've ever thought of. She always got me to admit that I did something I shouldn't have done to her and now she didn't know what was coming at her.

I was one of the last ones to come out of the room, no kidding I was at the back and was delayed by some make out sessioners who were walking like snails that wouldn't last a day of surviving. I spotted Lia waiting for me, except this time, she was talking to Ace Hitcher, one of the hot nerds that were passing by. He had black hair the colour of a Ravens feather and really faint baby blue eyes that almost resembled grey. I could see the outline of his abs from the tight shirt he wore and the muscles on his arms. He wasn't the hottest boy I've ever seen but he sure was cute. I could see why Lia was drooling right I front of him.

"Hey Lia, what are you up to?"

"Sup Gem, meet Ace Hitcher. We found out that we live in the same street and, well, we live in the same street and all." I didn't really feel like talking about those sorts of stuff right now. I could see from the expression on Lia's face that she knew I wasn't interested at all.

"Cool, now can I talk to you, privately?" I said, hooking my arm with hers and pulling her away from the scene.

" Argh! I was having one of the best conversations with him. What is it?" I was trying to think of an excuse to bring her out of that conversation.

"Um, ah, y-you were drooling in front of him!"

" OMG! Really? Why didn't you tell me earlier? Did you see his expression? Did he see me?"She kept on loading questions at me and it was funny to look at her expression when she was worried. Lia, Lia Hensworth, you're such a...then I just realised that we had to go.

"Yes, yes he did, now let's go. Say good bye to your new boyfriend" I was thinking she would freak out like normal girls would but she really surprised me.

"Good bye Ace, see you tomorrow!" Oh, how I wish I had a video tape right now! I would play it on her wedding day!

As I turned around to get Lia away from that douche, I fell backwards onto the concrete floor. I clutched my knees tightly as I lifted myself up and opened my eyes to see Jackson Haynes, piercing his glare into my eyes. His marble blue eyes swirled in annoyance as he stared at me. Everything was flawless about him. His eyes, mouth, cheekbones, abs, hair, you name it and I could say a compliment about it. Probably, just not his temper. Well,what a coincidence, he was the bad boy of the school any way.

"Watch it! Can't you move out of my way, I'm in a hurry my sweet" Those two last words made my eyes widen about two times the size. A smirk drew onto his perfect face. Wait, what! Let me just figure out where I left my senses and I will assist you shortly.

"Watch your mouth Haynes! Since when did you have permission to call me sweet? From when I was conscious, people only called me sweet when..." I had just remembered what happened a few years ago, when I was thirteen. I promised myself that I would never talk about that moment to anyone unless I could trust them. I always kept promises and never broke any. One stray tear steamed down my burning cheek and I tried to hold back the others.

"You're speechless, I'm sorry, but I can't help having sooo good looks." He said in his cocky way, but I wasn't affected by it. All I just wanted to do was ruin that pretty face of his.

"Shut up asshole!" I said with all the anger I had in me. I could take this any longer. I stood up and brushed off the dust from my thighs. I turned and ran into the restroom. Cliché, I know, but that was the only place I could think of right now.

I had to get away from that bad boy.
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😄W/N😄:
Hey guys! Love people commenting this story and don't mind negative comments! Makes my writing better😸please don't copy write any writing in this chapter. Don't want a bad day after I found out that my holidays ended😟Argh! See u guys later!!!