Elite

4

"Don't you dare to use my sister for your own benefits. And don't get anything in your head because Theo helped you out." I look straight into his bright blue eyes. 

"Goddamnit. She's the first person at this school who didn't look weird at me this morning. I am sorry if you think I'm gonna use her because other people did, but I don't even know you guys, only the gossips. I don't care if you guys are popular or something like that. I only want to end this year in peace. I am very thankfull that your friend saved my ass in History class, but that's it." I snap at him.

He lets go of me and takes a step back, shocked from my outburst. I look at the other boy out of the corner of my eye. He is leaning casually against the lockers and watching us with an amused look on his face.

"You guys have the same temper. This was quiet entertaining to see. Would make the most famous couple from our whole school." He grins at us.

"Over my dead body." I answer, gritting my teeth, making him chuckle.

"Anyways, I'm out of here because now there are two people with this hot-headed temper. Evan alone is enough for me. Bye." He says walking away.

Evan and I look at eachother at the same time. The look on his face isn't the disgusted one he gave me earlier today. This one is hard, but I can read that he is a little bit amused by what happened.

"I guess I will see you around." He said, before he walked away.

I stood there stunned.

The bell ran, making me hurry to  my next class.

Art went over really fast and before I realised it, it was time for science.

I got seated and packed my notes. Suddenly someone got seated next to me. I recognised the southern boy as Marco Amiro. He looked at me and gave me a heartwarming smile. I smiled back and focused on the teacher who was starting his lesson.

"Okay class, today were going to do some basic experiments to get used to it again. You are all going to work together with the person seated next to you." 

I look up at Marco who just smiles. We get to work and he starts talking to me.

"You know that you made everyone curious right?" I shrug not knowing what he is talking about. "First you arrive on your motorcycle, which everyone has seen and is actually pretty cool, then you befriend Alexa, Theo helps you out, Dean asks you to talk to him during lunch and even Evan is interested in you. Not forgetting to mention that he is never interested in a girl." He answers.

"You mentioned technically the whole school first and then all of your friends one by one except yourself." I state.

"You know, we are normal students too. The name we got is the name people gave us. We never asked for it. It started off with Evan, Alexa and Dean, who are all childhood bestfriends. I got to know Theo during middle school and a year later we 'combined' our friendgroups. Nothing special. People think we are mysterious because we mind our own bussiness, while we are not special at all." 

"I can see that." I say and he lifts his eyebrow. "It's true. No hard feelings or anything, but I just want to graduate without any trouble."

"I can see that." he repeats

We start with the assignment and I get to know more about Marco. His mothers side is Spanish and his fathers side id Portugese. Before middle school he lived in Portugal. He plays in a band and is a crazy surf-addict, but it runs trough his blood, he says.

"I started when I was 7. It's been a while though." He sighs when I activated the bunzenburner. 

I tell him more about me and my complicated family situation.

"So you have never seen your brother?" 

I nod, making him gasp. "I don't even know his name."

"Well I know some guy with a similar story. He is called Jean Durand, but he goes by JD. He's really chill and laid back. You guys could be siblings..."

"Nah. Even if he is my brother, there is a reason why we didn't get to see eachother. There must be. Dad never talked about him and I don't want to make a mess out of his life."

"I understand."

We continued working and it was really nice getting to know him. 

The bell rings and I say goodbye to Marco, ready to head to PE, but he stops me.

"There is an open mic in the pub in town. Me and my band are performing. It would be nice if you would be there."

I nod and head towards the locker room. 

The locker room is full of girls, gossiping around and when I enter their conversations stop abruptly. They all stare at me with big, curious eyes.

"Okay, yes I am new. My name is Iris, now you can go back to minding your own bussiness." I give them a bow and make my way towards an empty locker.

Everyone keeps quiet while getting dressed and a few girls glance at me.

This is going to be one hell of a long hour.