Living next door to Mr Popular

A luch time to remeber

"So tell me everything, I want every little detail!" Ash shouted into my ear, while we walked into the cafeteria, I took a seat at the table next to Harry
"Fine, but there's really not much to tell" I sighed "I met his sister though"
"I didn't know he had a sister" Ash said taking a bite out of her lunch
"She adopted.--" I was quickly cut off when someone shouted my name across the cafeteria, I tuned to see who it was a found myself looking at the popular table where Alex was waving at me with a very pissed off Cassidy sitting next to him.
"Stalk-" he started before I cut him off with a glare, "Brooklyn, come sit here" he said pointing at the space next to him, I tuned to look at my friends
"Go, it's not like you get called to sit with the 'populars' everyday is it?" Harry said looking at me
"He's right" Bella said nudging me towards the popular table "go, have fun" she said winking at me as I made my way closer to the popular table. As soon as I neared the popular table slid closer to Alex and wrapped pulled him close for a kiss, at this my face scrunched up in disgust as I did not want to have to sit next to that. Not knowing what to do I just stood there with my tray waiting for their PDA to end
"Brooke" Emmett called out to me "come sit here" he said pointing to the vacant spot next to him, I hurried over and sat down quickly so not to draw as much attention to myself. As I sat down Emmett turned away from a blonde, preppy cheerleader to give me a warm smile which instantly made me relax " so, I guess this is an honour for you huh?" He said placing his arm and my shoulders "to get to sit with the 'populars as you like to call them"
"Yeah, I supposed" I said turning to look back at my friends with a pleading look, only to have them send me a thumbs up and continue eating their lunch,
"So are you Emmett's girlfriend or something" the blonde cheerleader asked me, this seemed to have caught everyone's attention around the table because even Alex and stopped their make out session and turned around to give us their full attention
"So are you?" The cheerleader spoke up once again leaning over the table towards us, much like everyone else at the table. I just sat there looking at their expectant faces waiting for an answer, Emmett cleared his throat
"No, she's not" he said looking around awkwardly at me.
"Oh, but you want her to be don't you eh Emmett?" One of the boys spoke up around the table smilingly do winking at Emmett, my face suddenly became as red as a tomato from the embarrassment of the situation I was in, this was obvious and, surprisingly, Cassidy came to my rescue
"Girls" she said getting up from the table as the remaining girls around the table stood up to follow her, I followed their example and stood up trying to get away from the situation as quickly as possible. I had no idea were I was headed but it had to be better than sitting at the table with people I barely knew turning red with embarrassment at the slightest thing. As I followed Cassidy out of the cafeteria we passed my friends sitting at their table as they sent me confused looks, I just shrugged in reply as I was led away from them.

I followed the gaggle of girls into the toilets where they all charged for the mirrors shooing anyone who wasn't part of their group out of there. Cassidy started to apply some more of lip gloss while keeping her gaze on me the whole time,
"So" she said turning to look at me, leaning against the sink " you and Emmett. Tell me everything"
"I, u hmmm--" I hadn't ever been in a situation like this and was glad to see Ash and Bella walk into the toilets, a group of girls suddenly flocked towards them trying to get them to leave until they were stopped by Cassidy.
"Stop, they can stay" she said nodding the Ash and Bella,
"Thank you your royal highness" Ash said rolling her eyes as she walked over so she was standing next to me, Cassidy scoffed but soon turned back to me.
"So, you and Emmett --"
"We're just friends " I quickly said cutting her off
"Well I think he wants it to be a lot more than that"
"I don't see why" one of the cheerleader piped up "I mean you're not even that pretty" she sad looking me up and down. I followed her gaze, and the looked at myself in the mirror. I wasn't especially tall, I had medium length hair that was a light brown, and I wasn't especially skinny, but I wasn't fat either. The cheerleader, who I found out to be called Summer, was right, I wasn't pretty so why would Cassidy say that he was interested in me when I knew he wasn't.
"Summer" Cassidy said turning to her "don't be such a b**ch! Just because you've had a crush on Emmet ever since you were 12 doesn't mean that you can be so rude to my new friend" she said smiling at me, a smile I knew was fake. Suddenly the bell went and everyone filled out into the corridor behind Cassidy which immediately walked up to Alex and planted a kiss on his lips before heading off to class, which left me alone with the boys
"So enjoy your lunch with us?" Alex asked
"Yeah, it was something" I said "see you later" I said to the rest if the guys, which included Connor,the boy which had embarrassed me in front of everyone at the table, as I walked down the corridor to class.

Alex's P.O.V
Emmett, Dylan Connor and I watched as Brooke said goodbye and walked off to class leaving us in the corridor deciding if we were going to skive the next class or not. We decided to skive and were on our way to my car when Connor spoke up,
"God, that Brooke sure is hot" he said to no one in particular " I bet she's an easy lay" he said as he nudged me in the ribs as he tried to get me to laugh with him, I looked down as I clenched my jaw and my fists balled into fists. "If you don't want her I'll have her" he said turning to face me, suddenly I just saw red and swung my fist in his direction, out of the corner of my eyes I saw the horror in Emmett's and Dylan's eyes as my fist connected with his jaw making him fly back into the lockers. Connor suddenly punched me in the stomach and made me stumble backwards into the corridor, Dylan and Emmett were suddenly by my side as they held me back and stopped me from lunging at Connor who was stood in front of me taunting me.
"Well, who the hell are you, her dad?" He shouted at me while I struggled against Dylan and Emmett's grasp,
"You just stay away from her, understand?" I spat at him
"Yeah, yeah" he said as he pushed past me and began walking down the corridor away from me. As soon as he was out of sight Dylan and Emmett loosened their grasp on my arms
"Get off me" I said
"Where are you going?" Dylan shouted after me
"To get some air" I said as I shut the door behind me. I didn't know where I was gong but I knew I had to get away from here fast, but the question that kept nagging at me was 'why did I get so protective of Brooke? I didn't even know her that well, why did I feel like she meant a lot to me? What was she to me?'