Never Be

Chapter 9

Ana's POV
It's lunch time and everyone is laughing because of what happened in 1st period. Ironically, Brooklyn is wearing her Carlton shirt. A couple years ago, Gisselle, Molly and I, came up with the idea to make Carlton merch. There's a graphic tee that has "who took the money" on the front and on the back it says "I took the money", and one that says "order in the court". Then there are 5 shirts with a single pocket on the chest. On the pockets there's Carlton peeking over the pocket, Zelda, Spider-Man, minecraft, and marvel. In total we probably made $100 each. It was a small trend, but all of us still have our shirts.

Jalin gets out of the snack bar line. She then hands Jaden a pizza stick, Molly a brownie, Tori a fudge ice cream bar, and me a cookie cone. We all give her the money we owe her and start eating. Jaden gets up and points. Carlton is pushing his body through a hole in the railings. One of the coaches comes out and says "Carlton!" Carlton whips his head around and he looks like a deer caught in the headlights. "What are you doing?" the coach asks. "I don't know," Carlton says. We all laugh and continue eating our food. We then start to talk about pretty little liars and the Big A reveal. "I totally knew it!" Dani says. "Whatever!" I say. Kole walks up and sits in front of me and next to Kadena. "What are you guys talking about?" He asks making his voice higher. "PLL," I say. "I love that show!"he exclaims. "I don't know who a is though, busy week," he says. "Do y'all know?" He inquires. We nod. "Who?!" He flips. "Do you want to know?" Molly asks and he nods. I tell him and he responds like dani. I roll my eyes and call bs. He throws a sour patch kid at my face and it hits my nose. I threw it right back at him, but my aim sucks. It hits Gisselle. She then throws something at me.

10 minutes later, everyone who sat at that table had detention and had to clean up the table. Except for Brooklyn, Tori, Dani, Jaden and Jalin because they're the only ones who didn't throw food.
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Gisselle, Kadena, Kole, Molly and I are all sitting in the office. "What did you do this time Ana?" The receptionist, Mandy, asks. I'm the only student that doesn't have to call her Mrs. Irwin. Back in freshman year, before the divorce, my dad was a 11th grade science teacher. Alex and I would stay after school and hang out in the office. This year I'm in here for either 1. Acting up or 2. Coach Swanson. "Food fight," I repsond. "Just you 5?" She asks. "We're not that good," I say and she smiles.

Mandy is actually pretty young. She's 25. She has one younger brother, Ashton. He's pretty hot if I say so, and Kadena defiantly thinks he a god. He's 19 and I wouldn't mind getting crushed to death by his arms. He's also a drummer and damn. The drums magnify his hotness.Over the years he's been hanging around our crappy school, so he can hang out with Mandy. That's the reason Kadena wants to be in the office so much, she might catch a glimpse of Ashton. I thinks that's the only reason she's gonna throw a party when her go to LA next week. Speaking of which I need to tell Mandy. "Hey can you tell ash that there's a party next week and he's invited?" I ask and she nods. I smile and say thanks. "Ana!" Molly and Kadena say. "You weren't gonna do it, wimp," I tell Kadena.

"Ana is like the best person to dare because she doesn't care what people think," Molly says and I agree. I feel like I have my life together because since 6th grade I haven't cared what people thought of me and that's like the only thing people say they think back on their life. They're always like "I wished I didn't care about what people thought about me". While I on the other hand will sometimes, most of the time, walk into school with only half a head straightened. "Speaking of party, why wasn't I invited?" Kole asks. "Oh I didn't think that Mr. Football-Captain would want to go to a 2nd class party," Kadena says.

"Oh I would totally make a celebrity visit to a 2nd class party," he says jokingly. "Plus I have someone on the inside," he says smiling at me. Honestly he has the best smile. Except in mid 7th grade, when he had a blonde mustache. Far away he was cute, but up close he looked like a rat with rabies. It was a dark time for him. The 5th-7th time period was awkward for everyone. Translated to guys couldn't keep eye contact because of their brain downstairs. Except for this one kid, all of the guys voices were cracking. When they cracked, they sounded like a mouse.

We end up waiting for 5 more minutes. Two more people had entered the office. Asia and Colten. Molly had always been impressed with the way that I just knew peoples names. Like one day she pointed to a random guy and said "I bet you Ana knows his name" and I did. It was This Asian kid named Calum.

We finally get into the principals office and he says that we have after school detention for a week. A week in a small space filled with five idiots. Nothing could go wrong...

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Here ya go Kadena:)