The vanquished girl and the perfect boy

Don't touch me.

Tesha's POV:

Roaming the hallways, it's a daily routine for me. Everyone roams the halls during school hours, but not like I do. I roam them alone, everyone else has someone, I'm not a loner it's just that all of my friend's classes are on the opposite sides of the school. So when that daunting bell goes, I suddenly become lonely. I have a lot of friends, and I'm popular. But not in the sense that, everyone likes me, more in the sense of everyone knows me. 

I enter the class, sit down and take my notebooks out. The teacher starts to go on a boring rant about our upcoming assessment in Spanish. I regret taking it as a GCSE, I can't get out of it now. While Mrs Abril was going on about our assessments, my attention slightly drifted off to Lennon. Lennon is my classmate, and friend I suppose. He has earth brown, 5'4. Everyone knows him and loves him, honestly. All the boys are friends with him, though in Tech. Which is one of his GCSE options. The boys are always telling him that I like him, but I don't. 

''Tesha?'' a high-pitched, voice coated with a slightly annoyed tone says. ''Tesha, are you listening? Staring at Lennon won't help you pass your Spanish assessments, listen please."

An echo of ''ooh'' followed through the classroom after Mrs Abril said that, I could feel my cheeks were burning in embarrassment. I glanced at Lennon, to see his reaction. He had a slight smile on his face and was looking down at his paper. 

The bell for lunch finally ran, after what felt like hours. I was packing up my things and Lennon was standing next to my desk waiting for me. 

''Tesh?'' Lennon said, Tesh was a nickname he called me. I don't know why but I loved when he called me a nickname instead of my full name. 

''Yeah?'' I respond after a moment.

''Why were you staring at me? Is something going on at home again? Did you need my attention or something? Are you okay?'' Lennon, filled with concern, asked.

''Oh, no. I just zoned out and it happened to be in your direction, I'm sorry Mrs. Abril pointed it out, and I'm sorry I zoned out in that direction.'' I respond while walking out of the building toward where we hang out.

As I was walking, I felt a hand touch my shoulder with a firm grip. I stop instantly.

''Hey.'' A male voice says with a slight growing confidence, and a disgusted smile painted across his face. It was my Ex, Callum. 

''Get off of me.'' I state, in a firm assertive voice. 

''And if I don't?'' He said in a joking way.

Before I could even reply, I heard a loud bang. Callum was on the floor crying in pain, while Lennon stood over him. Lennon had punched Callum. 

''Don't touch her again, bastard'' Lennon spits.