"Estrella Dawn Salas?" The gym coach asked, taking attendance for detention. "Here coach," I mumbled loosely under my breath, but loud enough for Coach Simonds to hear. I still don't know why I was in detention.
"Layla Rose Ay-yad? Layla Rose Ayeed?" Coach asked trying to pronounce whoever's surname right, I know the feeling all to well. "It's Ayad sir, Layla Rose Ayad," The girl from the back of the class said, the one with pretty hair, and an even prettier face might I add.
"All right, you guys know the drill. In this 4 hour detention period you're supposed to do homework, so do that. You can do homework with your friend or whatever and don't make too much noise. Please guys, I'm tryna watch Chicago P.D and enjoy my Friday afternoon." Coach said, opening his laptop and putting in earplugs, getting comfortable to watch Chicago P.D i presume.
If a school shooter walked in right now and started firing at us he wouldn't even hear, pathetic.
What was I going to do for the next 4 hours? I guess I could start on my English assignment, it's only due after Fall Break but I could still give it a go. We have to summarize any fictional book, probably one of the easiest assignments I'm ever going to do.
Snapping me out of my thoughts, I feel a strong grip at the back of my seat, and it being pulled back, closer to Max's desk. "Wanna sneak out and go to my place princess?" He asks with a smirk on his face, and a very disturbing one might I add.
"I'd rather gauge my eyeballs out with gardening scissors than go out with you Ashwell." I retort hoping he'd get the hint that I don't want to talk to him. Before he can answer back, I look up and see Theodore lightly chucking at my snarky remark.
Theodore Zayn Ayad.
He has a really cool name, but not a cool attitude or personality. Well I mean from what I've heard that is. I've never really spoken to him before, he's very quiet and keeps to himself. I don't even know if he has any friends, I've just heard he's a total man-hoe, like full on fucking a new girl every 5-7 business days. I also heard from Trin and Noa that he only hangs out with weird people. Well not weird people per se, just really sketchy stoners basically.
"Oh you think that's funny Ayad?" Max asks, stepping out of his desk and walking over to Theodore's. He scoffs and looks at Max while slouching back in his chair. "Yeah, I do Max. Now go play with your little friend before I hurt your feelings even more." He states, looking over at me.
I don't think I mentioned how insanely attractive Theodore is. He has curly-ish chestnut brown hair, gorgeous hazel eyes, and the most perfect smile with his pearly whites being exposed every time he'd open his mouth. A really cute face.
"Shut up, I don't even care about what you say. Plus you're just jealous cause I can pull a girl like Estrella and you can't." I snap my head in their direction, my eyes widen when I fully process what he just said. Max literally sounds like a fucking 5 year old. Pulling a girl like me? What the hell does that even mean?
"What the fuck did you just say Max? Because if you're bringing me into your little sissy fight leave me out, you little bitch." I said firmly, making sure he understood what I was trying to say as I cross my arms over my chest.
"Estrella stay out of this and maybe keep your mouth next time, and by the wa-" He got cut off by the sound of the girl from the back with sunnies on. "Max you're ruining the smut I'm trying to read right now by the sound of your squeaky ass voice so if you could put a cork in it for 2 seconds so I can get to the part where Tessa and Hardin fuck that would be so kind of you." She says, revealing purple paperback cover of the book 'After We Collided'.
I cackle loudly, covering the bottom half of my face at the mouthful this gorgeous girl just ranted about. Holy shit she was funny. And with that Max returned to the desk behind me and took out his phone. He was obviously embarrassed at the scene that just happened. That asshat definitely deserved it.
As my laughter dies down and everyone goes back to doing their own separate things, either actually doing their homework, scrolling mindlessly through their phones or daydreaming about what lies beneath the Bermuda Triangle, aka me. I was bored out of my mind and decided I needed a quick break for surviving these 30 minutes so far doing absolutely nothing.
I wonder how much the Doritos at the vending machine cost, I thought, hoping I had enough to actually buy them because boy was I starving, I hadn't eaten breakfast because I have horrible stomach issues and eating in the morning makes me shit like crazy, and I just had a sip of Jenny's watered down vodka for lunch, a girl from my History class who gets weed from the same guy as I do, Diego Baxster.
Well technically we don't get our weed from Diego, we get it from his bestfriend who's name I don't even know, he just sells it for really cheap. Diego however is Carmen's boyfriend, they were still together even when the incident with her happened, he was totally broken after it all and isn't the same even today, I guess I can relate to him in that sense.
But apart from him being Carmen's boyfriend, he's like a big brother to me, his been with Carmen since she started collage, being in my life since I was 12 and made me feel like we were actually family, he loved me as if I was his actual sister which always made me feel safe. It made me feel safe from the chaos from my mom, my fucking mother dearest.
But that was a dreadful story for another time, right now I needed to get enough money so I could feed my stomach which slowly started to make soft demonic noises.
Pulling two quarters out of my pocket along with a random lip gloss I rarely use because it taste like fucking burnt plastic, a black hair tie which was holding on for dear life, and my last 2 cigs placing it on the desk in front of me.
How the hell was I going to get at least 5 dollars to buy my precious Doritos? I mean not that they should be 5 fucking dollars, they should be 3 dollars max or else you're just unreasonably overpriced for no actual valid reason.
I turn around facing Max, he didn't have that embarrassed look on his face anymore and was just typing away on his phone, his face emotionless. "Max have I ever told you how good you look in blue?" I question, trying to sweeten him up so he could hand me his wallet so I could buy my Doritos, I was getting hungrier by the second.
He looks up at me flashing me his grotesque blue eyes, I never knew how some girls were head over heels for him when his eyes are one of the scariest most gross things ever. Blue eyes quite literally scare me. "You've never mentioned it before, but keep on going baby." He retorts with a disgusting smirk on his face. If I wasn't as desperate for money right now I would've slammed his face straight into the desk.
I plaster a fake smile on my face, trying to be as convincing as possible, "Oh I definitely will if you could give me like say 10 bucks?" I ask batting my eyes at him, now the girl from earlier heard our conversion from all the way at the back of the classroom.
Max scoffs soon realizing why I was talking to him in the first place, "Oh my god you are such a fake little slu-" He says getting slightly angry at my horrible attempt at getting money out of him, before he can finish his sentence the girl who was inventively watching me miserably try and get money from Max as if it was the most entertaining thing in the world says, "Estrella if you need 10 bucks ya girl's got you." She says lightly smiling at me.
I smirk and nod at her, excited and confused at why she's just offering 10 dollars to a random girl, well maybe not random since she strangely knows my name. Had I met her before? Wait shit what if I met her before and I just forget?
I ignore those intrusive thoughts and just think about the thing my heart has been longing for the most...
I'm finally going to get my Doritos.
AUTHORS NOTE:
Second chapter done yalll, I'm literally struggling so hard rn bc I'm fucking writing this in LOADSHEDDING, iykyk. So anyways this chapter was so like cute, we got more of Estrella, we got more of Max unfortunately and see what a bitch he is, ANDDD we get more of the mystery girl from the back of the classroom, writing her character is honest to God the best thing ever and her and Estrella are so similar, I can't wait til you guys see how much their relationship grows. anyways goodmorning, goodevening, goodnight, and if i don't see u have a good day!!
03/07/2022
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until the dawn
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