Until I Found You

Chapter 1

"Miles Anderson!" Mr. Fletcher yells and I immediately jump up. 

Did I fall asleep in class!? The second month into my junior year and I'm already embarrassing myself? 

"Sorry Sir won't happen again" I reply. He nods and continues his lesson about who knows what. Don't get me wrong I like Mr. Fletcher, well at least from what I can tell, but his history class sure can get boring.

"Ok class since we are approaching the second month of school, I have decided to kick things into full gear with a partner project!" he says excitingly. The faces around the class did not look impressed, but we all held in our complaints. 

"Since this is our first project, I will be assigning the pairs as you all should become familiar with one another" he states while looking down at what I assume to be his pairs sheet. "Jack you will be with Charlie, Taylor with Thomas........." he continues to ramble on a bunch of different pairs, still not hearing my name in any of them. "And Miles...you will be with Elijah" he barely gets out before an audible groan escapes Elijah's mouth.

I roll my eyes in protest to his groan but before Mr. Fletcher can say anything the bell rings. "Alright class, don't forget to get in touch with your partners, you have two weeks to complete this project!" He practically yells while people started fleeing the room, including my partner who I have no way of contacting. I try to catch up to him but he's too fast and soon the hallway is to crowded to even attempt finding him. I sigh and resort to my next class.

Soon lunch rolls around in which I know I will see Elijah there at the cool table where everyone known to man in this school wants to sit. Elijah is what you call the popular kid, the star quarterback of the football team, you know the guy every girl is practically hanging on. I see him sitting there with all his friends and all the cheerleaders, one Vanessa in particular who has her arm around his shoulder. 

A few seats down I see my brother, yup my twin brother gobbling down a sandwich with not a care in the world. You see my twin, could not be any more opposite of me, he is a fraternal twin after all. 

While I have dirty blonde hair, green eyes, relatively short and am scrawny with no athletic ability at all. 

My brother Asher has brunet hair, blue eyes, well built in muscle, tall, and a part of the varsity football team. Making him one of the popular kids by default. Not wanting to mess up his star status at school he has disowned me as a brother to the point hardly anyone at the school even knows we are even related.

"Earth to Miles" I hear to my right. "Oh sorry, Callie, I totally spaced out" I say looking to her on my right. 

Callie is one of my best friends, has been for years. She's short, red headed, tons of freckles, and overall, very pretty. 

"Were you even listening to what I was saying?" she asks with a questioning look. I can't help but look guilty in which she just laughs "sooo what has your mind so preoccupied?" she asks intriguingly. 

"I have a stupid project to do with Elijah Quinn and I'm dreading having to go ask him for his number for it" I say groaning in the process. 

"Oh shit, can't you just ask your brother for it or something?" Oliver asks glancing over at the table. Oliver is another one of my best friends, he has black hair, brown eyes, around 5' 10 or so and is multiracial. 

"I mean Asher's cool and all, but I don't even think he has Elijah's number" I respond looking back over to the group.

"Really they don't have like some football group chat?" Callie asks looking back at me. 

"I mean I think the main star players do and then the rest of them just better get the information somehow. Asher's always complaining about how he never knows the plans till last minute because they forget to forward the message." I tell them while they nod. 

"Well, that sucks, you'd think the team would be more involved with each other" Callie laughs knowing that team couldn't be any more separated from each other.

"Wish me luck" I say finally getting up from the table to head to approach Elijah. When I get to the table, I can practically see Asher go pale as we have a very strict no interaction policy at school. 

Everyone at the table turns to me, making me shiver and lose my focus for a minute before I jump back into action. "Elijah, I need your number for the history project" I state firmly making direct eye contact. 

He sighs and holds out his hand with an annoyed expression. I look at him and then his hand before he says, "the phone?" in annoyed expression. 

"Oh right of course" I say stumbling to get my phone out of my pocket before opening contacts and pressing create new contact. I hand my phone to him, and he types something in before handing it back to me. "thanks" I say before quickly heading back to my table.

"I did it!" I practically squeal to my friends when I get back to the table taking my seat. 

"You survived!" Callie says in excitement.

"It wasn't looking too good for you there for a minute" Oliver laughs. 

I look down at my phone only to see that he wrote his name in my phone as "Eli"instead of Elijah. Is this what he went by? I had only ever heard him be referred to as Elijah or Quinn, but it is possible, it's not like I hang around with him. I brush it off and continue my lunch with my friends. 

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I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter, getting to know the characters a little bit. I wrote 1000 words which doesn't look like a lot on the computer so hopefully on whatever device you are reading this on, it has entertained you for a little while.