Secrets

Shocked Much

Viva's POV

'Here goes nothing'

For those of you who are wondering why I'm saying this, it's because I am about to walk into hell- I mean school.

I hate having to go to school but mum says I have to if I want to keep doing what I'm doing. I give myself a mini pep talk before getting out of my car and walking through the doors, now I know you are expecting me to say that as soon as I entered the room everyone stopped talking and stared at me but no- that only happens in books and this is reality. Nobody payed attention to me and that's how I like it, I walk straight to the office without anyone's help which is fine because I already got the school tour.

When I walk in the lady looks up from what she is doing and stares at me with a creepy smile, two dollar lipstick smudged on her teeth, "How may I help you?"

"I'm the new student, Laura Step," her smile gets wider and she whispers not so quietly, "Ohhh, Laura, right I got you, " she winks and continues on, "here is your schedule and your locker number, have a nice day Vi- Laura."

I recover from my shock and snatch my belongings off her before walking out the door and making my way straight to my locker. On my way I run into someone's chest and fall over, landing on my butt. The person chuckles and offers me their hand, I sigh and get up without using their hand, they chuckle again, "What's so funny, huh," the three boys stare at me in shock, "what? cat got your tongue" I smirk and walk straight past them, ignoring all the stares being thrown my way. As I approach my locker I see someone standing in front of it, just as I'm about to tell the person off, he turns around.

He grins at me and I just stand there, frozen like a statue before I come to my senses and jump into his open arms, grinning like a fool. "What are you doing here?" I ask grinning like a lunatic. He smiles, "I heard that you were coming back and I couldn't wait to see you so here I am. How have you been Viv?"

I stop smiling when he calls me 'Viv', "I'm fine, also my name is now Laura so yeah," his face falls, "just letting you know just in case someone hears you, we can't have that can we." 

"Why are you doing this?" he asks sadly, I smile. "I can't let anyone know who I really am."

He replies with, "Are you scared that they'll remember you?"

"They won't, I have got it covered, just keep it between us okay? I'm just glad I have you," his face brightens.

"I'm glad to have you back princess."

Just as I'm about to reply, the bell rings signalling everyone to get to class. I glance at Liam and smile apologetically, he just shrugs and says that he'll meet me outside of the cafeteria at lunch. I nod and walk in the opposite direction to him, towards the English room. When I enter I see that most people are still yet to arrive so I scan the seats and try to decide where to sit. There are four rows, nine seats in each row, I end up sitting in the back row in the very corner so nobody bothers me. Everyone eventually arrives and I hear shuffling and the chair next to mine scrapes across the floor as somebody goes to sit next to me, I don't look at them and continue to scribble little drawings in the back of my book. The person next to me clears their throat and I turn to look at them, he looks like he is about to say something but just as he opens his mouth, the door swings open with a bang. In walks the guys I saw this morning, the one I ran into was in the middle, he looked around the classroom until finally his eyes landed on me, I stared back which obviously surprised him, I guess he was expecting me to turn away blushing like any other girl would. Him and his two friends start walling in my direction, I keep eye contact with the middle guy and just as he gets over to me the teacher strolls in and yells at him to go find a seat and sit down. He smiles at me and leans closer so I can feel his mouth near my ear but I stay relaxed and breathe evenly, the guys behind him look shocked, I wink at them and one of them blushes, how cute, "I'll talk to you later kitty," says the guy. I just laugh and shoo him away. Boys these days, thinking they have every girl under their spell. I look around the classroom and most of the girls are glaring at me so I just smile and listen to the teacher talking.