W.A.T.D

Chapter 1 Meeting & Background - his perspective

Estimated reading time - 4 minutes

He had lived in this town his whole life, he knew almost everyone at his school, and they knew him but he never talked to them. He kept to himself besides the occasional fight with anyone who dared to insult him. He definitely had anger issues but he never addressed them, he kept his emotions buried under his hard exterior. On the outside he was blunt and rude, however he was very observant and thoughtful. But he would never let anyone learn that about him.

I was spacing out hard, I haven't really been paying attention recently.
This is stupid, I already know all his shit, but whatever. I'd rather suffer through this than be one of those special smart kids, fuck being special.
I don't even know why I come here any more to be fully honest. I'm looking around the classroom, looking at all the people in my class. How can these people have so much energy so early in the morning? I don't think I'll ever know.
Eventually, my eyes fall on the back of the new girl's head, she didn't get here very long ago but she's already made an impression on pretty much everyone. I don't know how much she knows but she has tons of guys drooling over her despite her never saying a word to anyone. It's kind of funny that no one here has really heard her voice, and she hasn't even interacted with anyone and there are already people who hate her, mostly other girls being jealous that their precious boyfriends dare to glance her way.
High school drama is so fucking stupid, that's the main reason I stay on my own, I don't want to get caught up in this juvenile shit. It doesn't help that everyone knows who I am, sometimes people just talk to me like they are my friend. Guess that's what I get for living here for so long.
I suddenly get snapped out of my thoughts by the teacher calling me up to the front, I didn't even hear her talking about a project but I guess I missed the pair-up. There are three people without partners, one of those people being me. It makes sense that new girl is up here, but it also doesn't, I thought at least someone would ask her. Guess I was wrong.
Then the teacher told me that I'd be with new girl. Fuck. i'd rather be with the other dumb girl, now people are going to be talking shit about me for being near her. She seems annoyed too, at least it's mutual.
She walked back to her seat, yeah no way am I sitting in the front we are sitting at my seat and she doesn't get to choose. "No way in hell am I sitting in the front" I said as I walked past her, going to my seat in the back again and watching her get her things and walk over.
She rolled her eyes at me, at least I know she has guts. I could bash her face in and here she is, rolling her eyes at me. She came and sat next to me, then the teacher said some shit about getting to know each other, and I took the opportunity, I was just about to ask her what her deal is when she put her finger to my lips gesturing for me to shut up, rude but i'll let it slide for now.
"Look I don't want to learn about you, I don't want to get to know you. Stay out of my way and I'll do the project myself" She said to me, well that's what her voice sounds like, not bad but sort of disappointing. All this build-up just to have a regular voice, and a bitchy tone at that, kind of obvious she doesn't like me very much.
I don't like her being so condescending, she doesn't even know me? What is her problem? "Don't. Touch. Me" I snap back, grabbing her wrist and pulling it away from my face.
Damn, her skin is really soft.
What am I thinking? I'm trying to intimidate her why am I thinking about this? Why is she laughing?
Shit, she has a really nice smile... Im just going to hold her tighter so she knows I'm not fucking around here.
"And I'm not letting you do it yourself your going to fuck it up. I'm not ruining my GPA just because you think you're too good to talk to me" I don't really know if she is stupid, but at this point, I just assume everyone is dumb, and most of the time I'm not wrong. She doesn't seem happy with this, but that's too damn bad.
I'd do it myself if she wasn't so stubborn "You just going to sit there?" I watch her stare at nothing, she seems lost in thought, guess she's more like me than I thought.
I wave my hand in front of her face "Earth to Eliza?" seems she didn't hear me but that gets her attention, she tilts her head like a dog at my words, it is kind of cute if I'm being honest, but she doesn't need to know that. "How do you know my name?" there is that bitchy tone again, guess she doesn't know how popular she really is, and if she insists on being a bitch she can find that out on her own.
"It's all over your shit, just assumed" that was a lie, everyone has known her name since she got here, but I gesture to her notebook that has her name written to prove what I said.
This is definitely going to be an interesting couple of weeks.