disconnected ➸ [l.h]

three

"Babe!" Michael, please fall off a cliff. I shake my head as I pull my binder out of my locker. "Go away." He leaned against the locker to my left, crossing his arms smiling. "Awe, don't be like that, baby." he pouted. I shove the binder into my glaring at him. "Don't call me that." I say, pulling the bag on my shoulder, "Like babe better?" he asked. I slam my locker close and he flinched, "If you would like to have kids, then I would shut up if I were you." I smile. He furrowed his eyebrows together, "What are you talking about?" he was confused. I cross my arms annoyed. "Call me babe, baby, or any other name besides my name; you won't be able to have kids." I explain.

"Ba-" I cut him off by kicking him in the balls, "Ah fuck." he quickly grabbed onto his private area falling against the lockers. He slowly fell to the ground, "Warned you." I step over him walking towards Alex who just entered the school. "Why is Michael on the floor by your locker?" she asked. "Kick him." I shrug, "Jesse." she groaned, walking past me. "I warned him." I say following her. "You can't kick people just because they annoy you." she sighed. I cross my arms as she helps Michael up. Calum walks over looking at Michael then at me. "Michael, what did you do now?" he asked. I smile before walking down the hall to my first class. I walk into class, going to the back of the room to my desk.

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"Jessica!" I quickly lift my head up from the desk, "Hmm yea?" I ask pushing some hair out of my face. "Sleeping again." he sighed. "I'm resting my mind." I give me a lazy smile, sitting back in my chair. "You can rest your head after school, at detention." Mr. Eden turned toward the board continuing what he was before.

"Did he just call you Jessica?" I look back seeing Calum. I didn't even know he was in my class. "Yeah." I turn forward. "I thought your full name was Jesse." It is. Eden just doesn't remember that. "Mr. Eden?" I ask, leaning forward in the desk. "Yes, Jessica?" he sighed. "My name isn't Jessica. It's Jesse, full name." I say, adjusting the pencil on my desk.

"Of course, we can discuss that at detention. You have two hours." I drop my jaw, "I was j-" he set the dry erase marker on his desk before crossing his arms. "Would you like to make it three?" few people in class chuckled. "No." I bite my lip before saying anything else that would get me into more trouble. "Great, now, what is the gravity difference between Saturn and Earth?" I hate you so much. "Seven hundred ninety-seven million, seven hundred forty thousand mile difference." I say, sitting back in my seat.

Mr. Eden looked up from the papers on his desk, "Calculator?" he asked. I shake my head, "Answers?" I have nothing on my desk. "She has nothing out." Calum laughed. Everyone looked back at me; Mr. Eden nodded before clearing his throat. "Jesse, diameter of the smallest planet in our solar system?" Easy. "Mercury and it's four thousand eight hundred seventy-nine kilometers along the equator. Pluto was considered the smallest until it was named a dwarf planet on September thirteenth in twenty o'six."

"Radius of Jupiter?"
"Forty-three thousand, four hundred forty-one miles."

"When was the last time you studied in science?" Mr. Eden asked sitting down at his desk. I bite my lip looking up at the ceiling, "Three years ago." I was always very good in science. Earth Science was my best topic though. "And one more question, how many days in a regular year?" several people quickly raised their hands. "Three hundred sixty five point two five days." I cross my arms over my chest.

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"So, because I went to the nurse, I missed you telling off Eden?" Calum told Alex what she missed in science since she went to the nurse because she had a headache. I shrug, opening my locker, "I didn't really tell him off." I put my bag inside my locker, grabbing my math binder and money from my bag. "You made him look like an idiot. It was amazing." Calum laughed. I smile shaking my head, "Again? Just like you corrected him last year about a planet or something." Alex shrugged. "Oh, I can't go over your house, got detention." I tell Alex closing my locker, "For what?" she sighed. "Sleeping."

It was normal for me to sleep in class now. I never did before, but now I do. I don't get much sleep anymore. In science, I normally sleep.

"I hate you." Alex was planning on going to the mall and dragging me there. I normally just spend my time in Hot Topic, waiting for Alex to be done shopping. "Sorry." I was pretty happy about it, no shopping with Alex. We all started walking towards the cafeteria. "Wait a minute." Alex said, walking in front of us, walking backwards.

"How do you guys know about Luke and Jesse?" Alex pointed at Calum, confused. "We don't know much, Liz told us. Luke was all moody during practice and he kept starring at his phone. Ashton asked Liz what's up with him, basically said you guys were really close but ended things pretty badly." Calum said nodding at me.

Luke probably never told his mum what really happened, the only one that knows is Michael. I nod as we enter the lunch room, "I would say you can sit with us but, you know." Calum looked over at their table. Kenzie was sitting in Luke's lap and he was on his phone, not paying attention to her.

"It's fine, see you later." Alex said, grabbing my arm, pulling me over to our table. We didn't have a huge group of people, but it was still nice. First, , who never told us her full name and just said to call her Andy, then , who Alex has wanted me to date ever since I've known her. He's the captain of the football team but ditched the popular table because they are a bunch of fakes, and lastly the only couple, and . They are the only ones dating of our little group and, sometimes, it's disgusting.

Like today, I walk up to the table seeing them making out. I slam my binder on the table, "Oi! I would like to eat today and not lose my appetite." I sit down on the bench next to Jason, "It was beginning to be an awkward third wheel moment." he pulled his face in disgust. Alex sat on the other side of the table next to Kate.

"I'm serious what I said yesterday. Date." Alex said, looking between me and Jason.

"And I'm serious what I said yesterday too. Jump off a cliff."

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