Brave & Broken

CHAPTER II

Sofia's POV

Math class flew by incredibly quickly, I happened to notice the few glances from Bella anytime drew spoke to me, every time the teacher looked away drew would poke either my arm or between my ribs. "Is it just me or was Bella trying to kill you with her looks that she was giving you" Drew pointed out with a skeptical look on his face, "yeah I'm honestly not sure why she doesn't like me" I shrug my shoulders.

"Is gym any good or is it just a class most people sit out in?" he asked with a stupid grin "I guess you'll just have to find out hey" I smile knowing he's in for a shock. It's been track practice for the past couple of classes. we arrive at the gymnasium and go our separate ways to get changed, Bella is of course in this class to just my luck. I walk out seeing Abby already dressed and waiting near the bleachers, she comes over with a pep in her step and smiles at me "So I hear a certain new guy has taken an interest in my antisocial friend" she laughs jokingly I shake my head rolling my eyes. I'm not all that surprised that shit has spread through the school that quickly.''There's my bestie" I don't even need to turn to know who said it because the answer draped his big ass arm over my shoulders. I swear he is trying to get me murdered. 

"Not besties you're just an annoying shadow" I lift his arm off me annoyed with how much taller he is. I take a step to the side and see him pouting again, that stupid face looks like a deranged puppy. "Abby this is Drew, Drew this is Abby my actual Bestfriend" Abby puts her hand out for him to shake and they exchange the greeting. "DREW!!!!"Abby and I both look over confused and see some of the Football players coming toward Drew. Oh good more people coming over, love that. I think I recognize them from a few of my classes, I'm pretty sure their names are Josh, Liam, and Connor. 

"Ah I see you've scored the cheer captain and the Dance captain," Josh says punching Drew on the arm, I will never understand boys and their exchanges. "Alright everyone to the track. I want 2 laps of the track it's time to warm up!" Coach comes out and yells at the class to get ready. "ugh I fucking hate Track" Abby complains, she grabs my arm and walks us over to the line, and Drew and the three musketeers follow close behind. "Aw poor Darlin, it's okay girls you can sit this out wouldn't want to mess that pretty hair up now would we," Connor says pouting as he pretends to hold his hair meanwhile Drew and Josh laugh in agreement, Abby looks at me a smirks meanwhile I'm preparing myself

We all line up at the track, Abby is on my left, and Drew was to my right. I crouch down taking a few deep breaths, I block out the world around me and focus on the track *BANG* the gun goes off signalling to go. I take off keeping my head low gradually lifting it, it comes to the first bend and I take it to look at who's near me, Drew was right beside me along with Liam and the lacrosse co-captain. I smirk at Drew picking up my speed while pacing myself, before I know it I was going onto my second lap while some had dropped out and went to sit down. It was neck and neck between me and Drew, Connor was a little distance behind. 

I pick up my speed one last time as the finish line is in sight, I smile to myself pushing further, and cross the finish line right on my heels was Drew meanwhile Connor crossed a good 30 seconds after us. With a puffed breath, I look at Connor "What was that about girls and their hair, pretty sure you just lost to a girl" I mock wiping a tear away with a pouty face "Shut up, you had a head start" he says struggling to breathe. "you're a sore loser, I started when you did" I laugh and walk over to Abby only to be stopped by a very sweaty and muscly set of arms, I yelp squirming around "DREW! PUT ME DOWN!" I yell trying to break free from his grip, I hear his laugh as he places me down I turn and glare at him about to attack him with a whole new world of profanity "Alright class time to pick teams, We're going to finish off with a game of dodgeball".

Some of the class cheer and some of the class groan " Drew and Sofia will be captains, as always ladies first" coach walks to the storage part of the gym to grab dodgeballs leaving us to pick teams. "Abby" I speak straight away, "Connor" Drew smirks at me "Liam" I say giggling as both their faces fall. it came down to Bella being the last one left and she had to go to Drew's team, hehe sucker. We all lined up either. side of the gym and the coach blew the whistle everyone ran to the balls but I stayed back and. watched where balls were being thrown trying to catch as many as possible Drew must've picked up on it as his players slowly started to pile up on the side, he smirked as he started to do the same "COPY CAT!" I call out catching another ball and throwing it at a very distracted Connor.

It comes down to just me, Drew, Abby, and Josh, Abby threw the ball at josh but he caught it. it. not that I expected any less being a football player I hear Abby huff as she. walks away, josh waves goodbye and I take this moment to throw the ball straight at his stomach, I laugh as he looks over like a deer caught in headlights. I mock his wave and focus my attention back on Drew who was throwing a ball straight at me missing by a hair. I pick up a ball as does. he and we both throw. the balls at the. same time hitting each other at the same time "it's a. draw?" the teacher questioned looking a little stunned, but right on cue, the bell rings.

The whole class heads to the showers between bells, one is to signal 15 minutes to get to the next class and the second one is you better be in class, it's only for those that have gym class. You can only hear it if you're in the gym. Abby grabs my hand and we walk to the showers "I think a certain new person has a little crush on you miss" I look up at Abby like she's crazy "Don't look at me like that, he hasn't taken his eyes off you the entire time" I look over and true to her word he was looking at me while talking to the boys. "You're probably just reading too much into a situation. I can guarantee it's because I've been helping him around" I shake my head discarding the conversation.

The steam in the shower rooms is so thick it's like walking through a sauna. "So Friday night you're coming over, no need to bring much we'll be using my wardrobe" now that's a sentence from Abby that scared me. Our taste in clothes was very different "I'm not too sure about that, I prefer my-"Abby cuts me off mid-sentence "I don't care what you prefer you're doing it and that's finale missy, you can't go your whole life in long-ass clothes" she crosses her arms and smiles at me as I close the locker finally back in my normal clothes.

"My clothes are perfectly fine thank you, now let's go before we're late"Abby kept going on about the party and what we're gonna wear I just tuned out as we walked to Art class. I go to the window seat and put my book down, I look up at the board reading today's class tasks. So looks like I'm going to be painting a scene in time, I look out the window seeing the empty table with the tree perfectly portioned over it almost giving it a Hut kind of Vibe. I paint the tree and table from the window but I paint a girl on a swing on the other side of the tree, the clouds grey on. one side and on the other side they're white indicating a storm coming. All my creative classes seemed to be my favorite because I could express what was happening without being questioned or having people pitying me. In art class, I could paint things about how I felt and in dance, I could reenact moments of my life.

I look at my finished painting admiring the detail and colors, it was nearly time for lunch so I quietly start to pack up my stuff to head out. the day has been going by quickly which bothered me a lot because I knew what would be awaiting me the moment I get home, she has hated me since I was born and I never understood why. My dad was the only person I could look to for anything but after the accident, it was like a switch went off in her head to just become worse.