"Hey phoebe how was your summer?" Spoke grace. (Grace is 5'3" with long blonde hair. Her normal attire consists of blouses and sweaters usually paired with a matching skirt or tights with the occasional dress.)
"Hey grace, it was ok I didn't do much." (Phoebe is 5'4" with long brown hair that reaches the tip of her spine through she normally wears it in a pony tail. Her attire consists mostly of t-shirts, plaid button ups or sweaters and prefers pants but occasionally gets talked into a dress or skirt by Grace or Kate.)
"O.m.g. it's been totes to long since I've seen you both!" Yelled Kate as she ran toward phoebe and grace engulfing them in a hug. (Kate is 4'11" being the shortest of the group. Her hair and clothes resemble Grace's though for her size she has a much bustier chest while Phoebe and Grace have more of an average chest for there heights.)
"Um Kate, you do realize we're now in high school and your still talking like an eighth grader." Grace said matter of factly.
The bell rings and the three take three seats close together.
"Alright class welcome to first period English I hope you all had a splendid break but now we must get to work." The teacher nearly sang as she entered the room. "Now our first order of business is welcoming a new student. He has just moved here and I expect all of you to make him feel welcome." The door opens and a boy about 5'9" enters. "Everyone this is Zach, please give him a fair welcome. (Zach has short brown hair that never stays flat. His clothing consists of dark t-shirts, dark jeans, and nine out of ten times headphones that never come off until told.)
"Hello who have we here?" Kate whispered just loud enough for phoebe and Grace to hear. The two smiled and phoebe looked up just in time as her and Zach's eyes met and she thought she saw a faint smile cross his lips.
"Let me see, ah you can take the open seat with those girls there." Zach crossed the room taking the seat across from phoebe. As he sat he turned to find Kate in the seat beside him, with a massive smile and flirtatious eyes. He stared a moment before turning to Grace as she introduced everyone in the group of desks. He gave a half hearted smile and took a work sheet as Ms. Robin came around passing them out. Kate complained and by the time she finished talking Zach slid his page to the center finished the page. The three girls stared in disbelief and he just shrugged.
"No way, you're really done?" Asked Grace as phoebe slid hers over Zach's also finished. Zach only nods as he puts an ear bud in. phoebe asks what he's listening to and he offers her the other ear bud. She takes it and puts it in and her eyes widen a bit realizing it's her favorite band. She smiles looking at him and he grins back with real meaning behind it this time. Class ends and the girls split each going to there next class.
Phoebe is surprised to find Zach sitting in her next class. She takes the stool next to him and says two in a row? Zach hands her is schedule and she stares in disbelief as she finds they have all the same classes in the same order with the same teachers. The chem teacher begins his safety lecture and the two sit listening to Zach's music only half listening to the teacher. Once the school day ends the girls begin heading to there bus when phoebe notices Zach heading to the parking lot. She tells her friends she'll meet them on the bus and she hurries after Zach. Once she catches him she asks if he's being picked up since the buses are the other way. Zach flashes another faint smile and for the first time today speaks.
"Actually I rode my bike." Phoebe gives him an odd look and replies.
"School is four miles from the closest houses how did you ride a bike here?" Zach smiles a little bigger and pulls out a set of keys and a motorcycle a few feet away beeps. Phoebe's eyes widen and she asks how old Zach is.
"I'm fourteen but I have special privilege to drive. Would you like a ride home?"
"Oh no I couldn't my father would kill me if he found out."
"Well the offer stands whenever you'd like to use it." Zach begins walking to his bike and Phoebe bites her lip curious and wanting to learn more about the strange new student. So after arguing with her self and against her better judgment she makes a decision.
"Wait. Actually I'll take you up on the offer." Zach hands her a helmet and she gets on behind him wrapping her arms around him a little nervous. Zach slowly eases out of the space and takes the road past the buses toward the exit. Grace and Kate's faces grow shocked as they see Zach and Phoebe pass.
Phoebe answers the door after there's a loud knocking. She finds Grace and Kate with faces that scream questions. They enter asking what she was doing, how they were even doing it, and why was she crazy enough to do it? The two then pause turning there heads looking through the open door to the garage seeing Zach's bike, then turn back to Phoebe with wide eyes.
"Phoebe who is it? It's not nice to keep our guest here alone." Phoebe's mom shouts from the kitchen. Grace and Kate take off toward the kitchen finding Zach quietly doing his homework at the table.
"Oh hello girls have you met Zach yet? He is such a nice boy offering to give Phoebe a ride home." Phoebe quietly passes them and goes back to her homework next to Zach. The girls sit across from them and ask what's going on here. Zach answers.
"We have the same classes together so Mrs. Smith thought it'd be more productive if we worked on it together."
"Oh my god he can talk!" Kate nearly shouts. Phoebe sighs.
"Mom also thought it'd be a good way to get to know him since his family actually moved in across the street." Grace and Kate look at Zach and he nods confirming what Phoebe said.
"And your ok that the new fourteen year old kid rides a motorcycle and that your daughter rode on it Mrs. Smith?"
"Yes I trust Zach he's a good boy."
"It turns out Zach's mom used to go to school with mom and she used to be besties with his mom until his mom had to move away." The girls make an oh motion with there mouths. Then question how he's allowed to drive.
"My father taught me a while back and got me special permission from the police. He works for a branch of the government so he's not home much. Moms a doctor in the next city over so she's not around much either."
"Wait so you basically live alone?" Grace asks curiously. "But your only fourteen right?"
"Yeah but work is work so it's just how it is. Besides I'm used to it by now." The girl's expressions get softer and Mrs. Smith chimes in.
"That's why from now on you're always welcome here and I will check up on you understood?" Zach smiles a little and nods.
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Kurt Adamtime old boy meets girl, except they're wolves. this is a later model of a story concept I've been working on for a while but it's also still a work in progress. so any thoughts, ideas, or advise you have to offer will be very appreciated.
