The Record Breaker

Chapter 2 : Nope

We spent the whole period talking about how we're doing the project. Each passing minute I feel the walls that I've built slipping away that easily, I was becoming more and more vulnerable, and I did not like that one bit, I was itching to go and leave this suffocating classroom.

"Alright, my house." I start packing up my things and getting ready to leave, "Uh, what?" Forrest looks at me with confusion as he lays his chin on his palm.

"I mean, we meet up at my house, you know? For the project." The bell rang as I abruptly stood up, not wasting a second more, I slipped on my backpack straps and walked towards the door. Thankfully Thea was there, "Hey man, how was class?" Since Thea's first class was Art, she didn't know what actually happened.

"Yea it was awful, paint was spilled from the last class before ours, so that was fun." I spoke out.

"That sounds like disaster—" Thea's eyes widened with disbelief, "Yup it is." I cut her off. "So." Thea looks at me while walking, "So?" I raised my eyebrow at her, "Well, who'd you get as a partner for the project?" Thea smiled at me mischievously, "Don't get too excited, it was Forrest." I chuckled.

"Cool, I got Kennedy Jenkinsss—'' Thea told me with a sing-song tone. "Damn, now I know who's gonna pass with flying colours." I spoke up, stopping by the vending machine.

I took out my wallet and entered the money in the machine, carefully looking at the items on the screen, "What theme did you guys get?" Thea started getting her wallet out to buy herself something too, "According to Forrest, we got 'friendship'." How ironic.

I pressed some buttons on the vending machine and punched in the item's code number.

"Maybe it's a sign to start growing a bond with him." Thea patted my back as she waited for me to retrieve my can of Sprite.

I scoff at Thea's theory, "That sounds like bullshit—" I snap open my can and take a sip of the beverage. "Well, you never know, maybe he's your long-lost soulmate." Thea entered her money in the machine and did the same procedure I did, and she ended up getting Root beer.

"Oh c'mon, you really believe that?" Thea opened up the can as I stood there and questioned her beliefs.

"Yes— Yes, I do, now come on let's go meet up with the others. We have a free period today after all." Thea jogs away from me while talking a massive sip from her can. "Wait up you little shit— I'm gonna spill my can!" Thea's laughter was heard from the empty hall, I ran past her and ran through the halls of the school.

We reached the lounge area of the school, surprisingly they were already there, "FAWN! It's been a hot minute since I've seen you—" Pierson runs up to hug me, 'Huh?" A hotdog got shoved down my throat as soon as I opened it. "JESUS BARKER MIND YOUR MANNERS HE MIGHT CHOKE—" Thea immediately scolds him like a child, in which Ferris just laughs like a fucking seagull.

I slowly take a bite of the hotdog that's been left inside my mouth and chewed it, "God I needed a bite— I was fucking starving!" I groan out as I take a hold of the hotdog, "But we literally just had lunch a class period ago?" Herb said out loud while Zehra just laughed along with Pierson.

"What the fuck, I disappear for a minute and all hell breaks loose—" Forrest walks up with a hotdog in hand, "We have like a period left and then we can head out to mine." Ferris reminds us.

"Nah, Ferris just wants to introduce Precy to Fawn." Ferris just rolls his eyes playfully at what Zehra just admitted. "Okay, okay you caught me, hAeYE haAE haE—" He just says while cackling and Zehra just straight up playfully slaps his shoulder.

"Lol, what could've been, should've been—" Herb spoke out, looking surprised at his phone.

"What happened—"

"What is it—"

"Oh my God, spill the tea sis."

"Look at this video." Herb faced the phone towards us and proceeded to explain the context, "A new student transferee, they just announced it on the school insta." Herb retrieved the phone once he's done explaining, "So like who is it? Are they hot?!!" Thea immediately responds with stars in her eyes, "Well they don't know yet since they posted a shadow figure tryna act like 'wHO's ThAt poKEmOn?!' making it all suspenseful" Pierson said it while waving his arms out like a lunatic— in which he does.

God who might that person be, I mean I don't care who might they be, I just hope they won't be someone that will bother me.

The bell rang through the student-filled halls indicating that the next class was about to start, "Yea guys i'll go head to class again, nice hanging with you all." Herbert waved out to the group, walking with Pierson towards their next class, we waved back and started walking to their next class, which is Home Eco.

"OH SHIT FAWN—" Thea shouts out to me as we were walking in the halls making a few students look at us, "Jesus Thea— what is it??" Ofcourse, I got startled, making me stop in my tracks, "Is the deadline for the maths thingy??" Thea freaks out kneeling down to rummage through her bag. I stare at her with eyes of disbelief, "You mean the Financial maths problems?" Thea nods frantically at my statement, "Girl, you better stand up we're gonna be late, besides the homework isn't due until next week Monday." Thea hurriedly stands up from the ground.

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"So class make sure you include those in your studies since it won't be easy relying on 'active recall' during the exams this quarter–" I sigh as Mr. Maverick points out something on the board, man if I can just sneak out and— "psst, I know what you're thinking about Fawn, I ain't lettin' ya-" Thea just outright reads my damn mind, in which I just groan at. Don't get me wrong, I like Home Eco. I'm obsessed with financial stability and all that shit, but God I just wanna lay down and relax.

The bell finally rang as everyone started packing up so I yawned and started packing my things too. It's now 4pm so me and Thea strutted towards the school entrance where the group stood and waited for us, "Theaaaa!—" Zehra goes in for a hug as if they haven't met for a millennia, I stared at Forrest as I walked towards them, both of us stared into eachothers eyes until one of us broke eye contact, spoiler alert I was the one who broke eye contact.

"So uh...—" I initiated a conversation with him using a question "—Connor, where's Herb?", I decided to ask Forrest since Pierson was too busy leaning against the wall, "Bringing the car around—"

HOOOOOOOONK—

Forrest gets cut off as Herb honks really loudly, "Get in losers we're going—! Uh— SHOPPING!"

Zehra shouts out "STOP QUOTING THAT MEAN GIRLS MOVIE LINE!" while running towards the car, "SHOTGUN!" Pierson screams at Zehra and rushes in front, "No fair!" Zehra slaps Pierson's shoulder while laughing and getting in the back, Zehra and Thea sit beside each other while Forrest just sighs and gets in. "So where do I sit?" I question them while raising my eyebrow at them.

"On the roof–"

"In the trunk"

"On the engine–"

"In me–"

"On someone's lap"

"Yea he could do that." Pierson answers back, "Do what exactly?" I questioned him, "Like you know, sit on someone's lap— Not it!" Pierson shouts silently and Zehra shouts back, "Well I guess you don't have a choice, Fawn." Herb sighs, bites his lip and winks at me jokingly while doing a Chad face, "Get on top of Forrest, we're losing daylight—" Herb acts out dramatically and everyone chuckles.

My eyes widen as I look up at Forrest sitting.

"Oh god no–"

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