Me and Popularity

Cafeteria troubles

After I was embarrassed in math, all I needed was 1 more class and then LUNCH! My next class was Home Ec. I knew that class was gonna be amazing because I LOVED cooking! When we got there, our teacher introduced herself. Hi,my name is Mrs.Janett and I'm your Home Ec teacher. Today we're going to be baking cookies. You will be paired up with a person in this room. I looked around the room and Luke was standing there waving at me. I waved back and she chose our partners. Samuel and Rebecca,Max and Christi,Luke and please say my name please say my name, I thought. May. I did a little happy dance in my head and then she finished calling names. We paired up with our partners then she said," you can bake any kind of cookies you want, I will be judging you by taste and effort." Mrs.Janett said. Hey May! Hey Luke! We started and ended up baking double chocolate chip cookies. After we were done, we took them out of the oven and Mrs.Janett came over to taste them. She took a bite out of it,nodded, then wrote something on her note pad. She walked away and me and Luke high fived each other. He looked into my eyes and I stared back. The bell rang and we walked to lunch together. I had brought my own lunch since I still didn't have an account for lunch. Turns out, he was a football player and we sat with his football friends. They kept staring at me and I knew that they liked me and knew who I was. It was so awkward, I liked Luke not them! He didn't know that yet though. At lunch they all talked about football and were showing off their skills. They were trying to impress me. Luke didn't brag about any of his skills though and that's another reason that I liked him. In the middle of lunch a group of 3 girls came over to our table. 2 were blonde and the other had dark brown hair like me. One of the blondes was flirting with the football players. The other blond was staring into space. The dark headed one was "apparently" their leader. She had no sense of style when I looked at her clothes. Almost everyone in the cafeteria was staring at them. The dark headed girl asked the football players," Who's this and why is she sitting with you guys?" All of the football players said in a dreamy voice," May Burch." I blushed and looked at Luke. Well, May Burch, your in MY spot. Oh I'm sorry I.. Luke interrupted me. Well I'm sorry Elisha you'll have to sit somewhere else! I looked at Luke. "Thanks" I said. They walked away and I asked Luke," Who are THEY?" Luke answered. They are the "plastics" the most hated, and beloved people in school. The dark headed one is Elisha the leader of the group. The blonde staring off into space is Crystal, she's not the brightest knife in the drawer. The other blonde is Paige, she REALLY likes guys. So yeah, those are the "plastics." Wow! I commented back. He stared into my eyes and looked down at my hands. He slowly reached toward them without looking away, and held my hand. We sat there with our fingers intertwined until the bell rang to release us to our next classes. He let go of my hand and said," Bye, May Burch!" I smiled at him and he smiled back. And then, we went to our next classes until the end of the day.