Becoming The Alpha

Chapter 6

The bell rang, I stood up and I was walking out the class.
"Caroline, I hope by tomorrow you'll be ready to play Ode to Joy."
"Yea, I think I'll be ready by tomorrow." I looked down and I kept on walking.

Alright, well now I head to my science class, and it's all the way up to the third floor. I don't know how I do it in less then five minutes to get there. I absolutely love science class, not only because after that period I have lunch but because the teacher is awesome. Maybe awesome is a little exaggerated but he's the type of teacher who will let you use your phone during class. I don't ever take out my phone, only when I'm allowed to.

As I got to the third floor I went to my locker to get some loose leaf paper. In my locker I had a lot of post it notes that have my moms little notes that she would put in my back pack. She would sometimes put inspiring quotes on them like, "When one puts you down, you get back up with your head held high." That's one of my favorite quotes, my mom kind of forgot to write me these notes. Not exactly forgot, but with the baby here... my mom is just busy with the baby in which I understand.

As I got my loose leaf paper I saw this one particular guy, and he's just really something. I have him for science class, and his name is Toby. I would sometimes see him walk down the hall and I think I like him. I think... I shouldn't be getting into relationships either way.

He never really looks to my side, well at least he won't see me looking at him cause then that would be very awkward.

I closed my locker and I walked to my class. I took a seat and Mr.White looked at me with a worried face, I think he saw my cheek and so did Toby. I put my head down quickly so they won't look at my face. Mr.White then clears his throat and says, "How has your day been guys? Thumbs up or Thumbs Down."

I put my hand on the table and kept my thumb out on the table showing how my day has been, and that would be a halfway from a really bad day. Trust me, I've had way more worst days then today.

"Okay, that's great." He says with an enthusiastic voice. "Alright, let's get the lesson started." He opens the science book and starts handing out worksheets. I look down at the worksheet and it's about the Solar System. I kind of like learning about the Solar System, but I love to learn more about stars.

All I can remember from that class is me just glancing at Toby, his brown eyes and brown hair. He has the fuck boy haircut, but I don't think he's one. Whe he smiles he has really deep dimples, and his laugh gets to me. I don't really talk to him, I just talk to the girl who sits next to me I call her K short for Kassie.

She's always getting into trouble, and usually I let her copy my homework and that's because I feel bad for her. I think high school is just not for her. At least Kelly accepted her, but she has to work hard to pass. From the looks of it she's not exactly working hard and she's already failing all of her classes.

I took out my phone and I decided to listen to some music that I have downloaded. I've recently downloaded some music from my computer. One thing I downloaded that is the most amazing thing that I have found was the whole album from Of Monsters and Men that has recently came out. It's an hour and six minutes long, and I listen to every second of it.

The bell rang and before I turned in my paper I checked K's worksheet to see if she finished copying me.
"Are you all done?" I asked.
"Um, yea." She stood up and walked over to Mr.White's desk to turn in her paper.
I sigh, "Well alright then... your welcome by the way." I say in a low voice.

I got up and I turned in my paper, "Have a good day Mr.White."
"You to Caroline." He looks up to take a glimpse of me and looks back down at his iPad.

Toby was right in front of me, should I say something to him? As I put my hand out to touch his shoulder, I saw Chelsey. Oh no, she can't see who I'm interested in. I put my hand back down and I walked very slowly, and Toby turned to the right to get to his locker and Chelsey went after him. I walked passed Toby's locker and I saw a glimpse of Chelsey and Toby making out. How many people is Chelsey seeing?

What do guys see in Chelsey? Is it just because she's popular, what is it?

You know for one day I would like to see myself be popular. Ha, c'mon! Me? Popular? Oh please, kill me now. I'd rather stick with smarts, and it's pretty much the only thing I'm mostly good at.

I headed back to the first floor in which I have lunch. I have no one to sit with, so I just sometimes go to the library and I read a book.

This time I'm going downstairs and I'm going to eat some gross pizza. Yea, seems like a great idea.

I waited in line, got my pizza, and I got my ID scanned. Once I got my ID scanned I looked over at the lunch tables. Right away I can tell the different groups that there are, like the popular kids that are just simply good looking, there's a group that has the school volleyball team shirts on, and then I see geeks but the nerds are on the other side of the room.

Where to sit? Well the popular table is not even an option. Maybe I can sit with the nerds. I made my way to the table there was a big empty space, and I took a seat.
"Hey." A guy with big thick black glasses slides towards me.
"Hey." I say with food in my mouth.
"So what's your name?" He folds his hands.
"Caroline, and yours?" I swallow my food and I clear my throat.
"Joel." He puts his head down.
"Oh, awesome..." I looked down at his face and I whisper close to his ear, "is there something wrong?" He didn't respond.
I looked back up to see what might have bothered him and it was Rick.
I put my head back down and I got close to his ear and I could feel his curly brown hair on my face, "Is it Rick?" He nods his head.

What the hell is it with Rick, does he think that he owns this school or something? Is he the "alpha" of the pack? I'm really getting of tired of Rick,
I really want to do something about him.

Rick looks at me as he's walking towards his table, "Hey, Caroline."
He makes his head go up a little and brings it back down.
I rolled my eyes and sighed. I looked back at Joel and he looks up at me, "Are you friends with Rick?"
"What? No. I hate that guy." Truth.

"Did he try to get at you?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"He told me that he wanted me to hack into your phone..." Okay hold up, what?

"Why would he want to do that? Wait a second... can you actually do that?" I looked at him with a serious face, because honestly he needs to teach me his ways.

"Yes I can." He whispers.
"Oh, so are you going to or have you already hacked my phone?" I whispered and I took a bite from my pizza.
"Of course not." He says out loud and looks at his plate.

"Why haven't you?" I moved my head towards him so he would look at me.
"Cause it's wrong, even though he would hurt me if I decided not to do what he tells me to do." Woah. He looked at me straight in the eyes, his blue eyes show that he was worried.

I looked back down to my plate, "How many times does he come to you and ask you these things?" Just wondering.
"To be honest with you, this is the only time he's asked me." He tilted his head to my side and looked down.
"What do you know about him?"
"Nothing." LIE! I turned to look at him for a bit and then I looked down at my plate and oh look I finished my pizza.
"Caroline, what do you have against him?"
"Nothing, it's not like I'm going to tell someone."
"Oh, so it is something..."
I applaud gently like a fancy rich man.
"Oh indeed sir." I puckered my lips and I giggled.
"Caroline don't mess with Rick." He says in a serious tone.
"Okay, and what is he going to do?"
"Remember like two minutes ago I told you about the hacking, yea."
"Oh right."

Well I'm fucked, what can I do to protect myself from Rick. He's not even a freshmen.

"Joel, will you help me out?"
"What kind of help would you need from me?"
"I just need your smart head of yours. Duh." I rolled my eyes and I smiled.