Just Enemies (Original Story)

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Lena got ready for school and as per her usual style of over thinking about everything she was thinking about the collar around Riders neck. But she'd decided that he was only flirting and to drop the issue. He was a good looking guy and loves attention and to flirt. She resolved to move on from the whole issue and to force this crush to end.

Lena's mom was at the hospital and her sister was making breakfast since she had classes later then Lena did since it was a half day. Kat made palacinke and Lena loved putting Nutella in hers. These Croatian styled pancakes were the best and could be dessert or lunch depending on how they are made. Once they both ate and Kat asked her if she had everything. Lena hugged her big sister as she locked up and walked Lena to her stop and got on the public bus to the high school.

Lena watched her go on and loved the high schools uniform with the navy sweater with a v-neck and white v strip along with white strips on the wrists. The high schools logo and the cute kilt which was a blue white and black striped look. Paired with tights and ballet flats. Lena's bus arrived and she turned on her MP3 player and was addicted to skillet these days. Her music recommendations came from anime music videos she saw on YouTube.

At school Lena gave Mr.D her ten dollars and sat in her seat. Things were normal and announcements were starting. Lena felt relief that she wasn't late like the poor kids trapped outside the classrooms with the hall monitor teachers. They made you listen to the announcements and the anthem in the hallway and then all eyes are on you as they let you in class with a warning.

Once the announcements were over and the anthem was as well. Lena smiled at Brandon and before attendance could be taken Rider burst through the door. A woman with a pixie cut and sweater and jeans outfit let him in and told Mr.D he had tried to hide in the bathroom. Lena was glued on the situation like everyone else when she noticed the dog collar on Riders neck. What the hell? She wasn't sure she was seeing it right but when Rider sat down Des tapped him on the shoulder.

"What's with the collar Fido?."

"Looks good. Right."

"Ha..ok Lassie. What kinky weirdo told you that."

Rider looked over at Lena who was begging him to look another direction from her peripheral vision. Then he looked at Max and back to Des and simply said he was bored and switched up his style for the day and Des just joked at least now a girl could get him under control.

"Yeah I guess I just needed a collar."

Lena was distracted the whole day and didn't understand why he bought and wore a collar to school. Was his joke on her at Walmart not over. Did he get a kick out of her feeling like a kid on a roller coaster who ate too many hotdogs and was about to puke. But this was popularity and for some reason everyone loved the collar on Rider . The girls were more overtly aggressive during lunch. Mr D left the class because he didn't think they needed monitoring. But they did or maybe he didn't want to witness this.

Ally sat on Riders lap and asked him if he had a leash to go with the collar and he joked with her about taking a walk. She smiled and just said it would need to be at night. Lena was astounded considering they just started fully alive. Was everyone already having sex. Was she so behind her classmates in social development that she missed the sex memo.

Lena turned to Brandon and he was writing lyrics and erasing them mostly. Considering she loved poetry she asked him what kind of song he was writing.

"Well everyone loves...well love songs but I've never been in love so how am I supposed to write about it."

"Hmm I wish I could help but I haven't been in love either."

"Right and we've got rehearsal tonight and we only have one song that we can play."

Suddenly Desmond was coming over to Lena and Brandon's desks and asked Brandon what time practice was. Brandon gave him the time and place and told him to not miss it this time. Des smiled and then turned to Lena.

"Wanna come to see Brando here play?."

"I..Brandon should be inviting me..it's his house...not yours."

Des and Brandon paused and Des smiled at Lena and said she was ridiculous but to come,that if Brandon was down she is more than welcome. Brandon did end up asking her to come and as lunch ended and Madam was asking people to conjugate the following verbs on the sheet provided. Lena's pencil snapped and she needed to get up and sharpen it because she lent her sharpener and was never getting it back. So she got up and hated how everyone watched anyone who needed their pencil sharpened. Most girls pretended to need to sharpen theirs because they wanted to be looked at. Lena on the other hand got dizzy and short of breath.

The minute she turned she saw Rider was sharpening his pencil and their eyes locked. Not a glance but locked in. Rder had brown creamy and rich dark eyes. The room filled with people melted away it was black and it was just him and his eyes looking in hers. Lena forgot how to breathe and she blinked and he looked away and like that the classroom was back and she raced to the sharpener. He moved to let her sharpen her pencil and a lingering look between them was exchanged. Rider looked confused and Lena was just going as quick as possible with the sharpener so she could get back to her desk.