A Boxers Love

Chapter 5

Lunch was at 12 so there were 2 more classes before lunch. My next class was Eco, so I rushed along as well.

Getting in the class, I looked for an empty seat. I saw one next to a girl. She looked cute, around my height. She had blonde hair that came to her upper back and looked soft, her grey eyes stood in contrast with her hair. She wore a yellow shirt on black denim shorts along with black combat boots.

The seat was next to the window. Oooh, main character moment.

As soon as I sat down, "Hey! You must be the new girl everyone is talking about. I'm Emma! We're gonna be great friends" she squealed.

"Hello" I laughed "I'm Vio-"

"Violet!" she finished "I know. Everyone does. There is word of you going around everywhere. Boys already have crushes on you" she laughed along with me.

"OK CLASS LETS START WITH TODAY'S CLASS" the teacher's voice boomed around the room as all the laughter and talking died down.

Time went by fast and soon it was lunch. I had dreaded this. Lunch was where loners got separated and nerds got bullied.

The cafeteria was huge. It had two kinds of tables. Rectangle ones with joined benches for chairs, they were long and seated 4 people on each side, and circle tables with actual cushioned chairs, 8 at a table as well. I was definitely sitting at the circle tables.

I bought lunch and was walking by a table when I heard Emma's voice "Violet! Over here!". I walked over and saw another girl sitting next to Emma, YAY! they were at the round table. The rest of the chairs were unoccupied.

She was tall, around 5'8, and definitely had a bold sense of fashion. She wore a bright blue wool knot sweater on beige full pants. Her brunette hair was short and it fell just a little shy of her shoulders.

I sat in front of them and smiled at the other girl.

"Violet, this is Mia and Mia, meet Violet" Emma introduced.

"Holy shit- your hot," Mia said as her eyes went up and down.

"Don't bother Mia, I'm pretty sure she is straight and I've also noticed that Lorenzo has taken interest in her" Emma Laughed "He has been staring at her since she walked in".

The three of us turned to look at the same time and she was right. He was looking at me. And if you thought the gaze of three girls would fluster him, you thought wrong.

He continued looking right at me causing Emma and Mia to squeal in excitement. I saw him smirk at me as I turned back around, blushing a deep red.

"He soo is interested in you" Mia laughed along with Emma.

"Th-that is not true. He has spoken only like a sentence to me and was extremely rude with it" I defended myself.

"He's always like that. Extremely confusing" Emma explained before she got interrupted by Mia nudging her towards the door.

All it took Emma was one look in that direction and she started blushing profoundly. I looked there and saw a dude walking in, he went straight to the table where Lorenzo and Leo sat and plopped himself down.

"Who is he?" I teased Emma. Apparently, his name was Louis, he was an exchange student from England and Emma had a HUGE FAT crush on him.

After that, the rest of the day was a blur and I was tired as fuck.

I did remember the car park next to mine though. It was a fucking Porsche. Which high school student owns a Porsche but other than that, I definitely forgot everything.

I got adjusted to my timetable for the rest of the week. The days passed with me spending every mini break with Leo. Lorenzo wasn't around that much though, seems like he was busy. He didn't even attend school for a few days. I also found out that the Porsche was his and that he basically owned those parking spots.

Oops.

I still continued parking there and I would until he would ask me not to. Why did he need 2 spots anyway?

I sat with Emma and Mia during lunch and it surprisingly didn't take a lot of time for me to get close to them. They knew all about me within a few days and so did I. We spent our time gossiping, well it was mostly Emma and Mia who spent her time looking for a hot girl. We went out shopping once, and I was done with it for the rest of the month.

As for my timetable, I had way too many classes with Lorenzo and Leo for my own good. There were only a few classes that didn't include them which were covered by Emma or Mia.

Things at home weren't that good. I avoided that at any cost and had a few encounters with mom which ended in disaster as always. The voices came back every time but I just pushed them away.

I was dealing with it. I did however keep visiting the café near the school.

It had been about a week since I had joined Eastwood and it all was going amazingly. I loved the school, especially my new friends.

"MISS VIOLET" a hand banged on my table. I flinched and looked up to see our English teacher standing over me "do stop daydreaming and stay in class"

"Anyway, there is a new project that has to be done. It will be worth 20% of your final grade so make sure it is done perfectly" he started explaining "I have picked 2 people per group. Each group will be assigned a historically important person and you will have to write a review on it"

"And yes, I will pick the groups. Do understand that by no means is this a history project so keep that in mind while doing the review. It should be about 5 pages.... Per person and you will have to present it after the submission deadline".

He got started by listing the groups and giving them an old deceased person to study.

"Lorenzo and... since this delinquent needs to pass so that I don't have to deal with him the next year... Violet. Please do me a favor and make sure he passes. Your person is... Anne Frank. I wish Violet all the best" he continued on.

"Oooo!" Leo teased while I received a few heated glares from the girls in the class.

Thanks for the bounty on my head, Mr. Walker.

He paired Leo with Louis since apparently, Louis was goon with studies.

"So... where do you want to meet?" I asked Lorenzo.

"Wherever and do whatever you want... I don't care" he replied coldly not meeting his eyes with mine.

Oh...

I averted my eyes to the floor and bile rose up my throat.

Don't mind him. He doesn't know.

'You're so weak. It'll do you better to just be dead' the voices haunted.

I'm not weak. I can deal with any kind of criticism. I only fall short of strength when someone disregards me like I meant nothing to them.

It just hurts when someone does that.

"Vi?" Leo called as I pushed my tears back and gave him a smile "Don't mind him" he comforted me. How did he know?

I nodded and looked at Lorenzo who surprisingly looked concerned and guilty. It looked like he wanted to reach out to say sorry but held it back.

The bell rang and I walked with Leo and Lorenzo to the lockers.

"We have boxing now, Cupcakes" Leo told me and he shoved his English book into his locked which looked like it was about to bust.

"We have a boxing club? How did I not know that?" I asked "And Leo, how many more nicknames?"

"Till I find the right one Muffin," he said thinking about whether it sounded right "MUFFIN! I LIKE IT" he exclaimed with a small jump as I giggled with a shake of my head.

Muffin it is.