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"Hey, C." Piper smiled as Cora walked over, her eyeliner heavy today, despite it not being a usual look she went for. "You okay?"
Cora sat down at the lunch table, a little smile left her lips. "Yeah, i'm good."
"We were just talking about bringing it up to the school to get us better mats for the gym." the curly haired girl said back, nodding her way. "What do you think?"
Cora pulled the jello from her backpack. "I think it's great. I've been loosing my footing on those mats."
"Okay, good." Piper nodded around the table. "That makes all five agree. So, if we head to Principle-"
She was cut off by a loud crash behind then. Cora leaned to the right some to look at the destroyed science project, Demetri, who was in her AP science class, looking in pure disbelief at Hawk. Cora knew Hawk, he asked her for a pen once and, despite not having another one, she gave him hers anyways. She wondered why he decided to destroy it, or if it was intentional. "That reminds me that I need to finish my project."
Piper laughed at her. "Out of all things, that reminds you?"
Cora had to grin. "We're in AP Bio together. I've been distracted lately."
"We all know." Lacey, a girl on the team, mocking slightly as the two girls next to her did the same. Cora's face fell, because she knew they were talking about the explicit video that was leaked of Cora a week ago.
"Stop." Piper looked at them with an eye roll. "I can help you finish if you need help."
"No, i'm pretty much done." she swallowed, shaking her head as she looked away.
"Why is your makeup so heavy today, Cora?" Hailee, the girl next Lacey asked. "Is it because Ryan is into heavy metal?"
Yes, it was. Cora was glad she at least noticed when he hadn't for the last week. Ryan being the asshole that leaked the video, the same asshole Cora was currently terribly attached to. She shook her head, recently touched up bleached hair stuck to her lips gloss just slightly. "Just got a little carried away when going for a simple look."
"I kinda like it." Lacey nodded her head. "You should try out black lipstick next."
Cora gave a little smile, despite knowing she was just making fun of her. She looked back toward the commotion that happened moments before, seeing Ms.Blatt scolding Sam, Hawk giving his best innocent look as he, possibly, was explaining what happened. Cora knew she probably shouldn't stare, especially when the four around her were engaging in another conversation about possibly getting new stalls for the bathroom.
When Ms.Blatt walked away, Cora rose her eyebrows innocently as she watched an evil grin go across Hawks face, clearly mocking Sam and Demetri before heading back go the table. She didn't see Dough was watching her.
"Cora's looking over here." he laughed with the group of boys around the table. "Which one of you was with her last night?"
It had them laughing, Hawk looked over toward the table. He knew Cora, she gave him a pen once, and he knew she sat at the same table every day. His eyes met hers, her entire face went red, it made him smirk, and she broke the eye contact short by pretending to engage in the conversation her teammates were into. "She's cute."
