One Boy, One Chance, One Shot

Chapter 6

"Ash! Ash!" I heard a voice cry behind me. I then felt a hand bump into my shoulder.

"Hey Lesley! What's up?" I said, trying to sound as interested as possible. I swear, I had the most terrible time this morning trying to find aspirin, my head hurting more than ever. I skipped my early classes though. Turned out Ms Petinia wasn't there anyways.

"Baaaad news." She said with a scowled face.

"Ok, what happened now." I said, putting a hand on my hip, just to get myself a bit more comfortable. I wasn't planning on really paying attention since Lesley's jibber jabber is always about Jasper, and as soon as she finished I would run straight to the nurses room.

"We'll, it's the new guy." She said, "I think his name is Kess?"

"Jess." I said almost instantly, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, right." She shook her head. "Anyways, bad business that guy. He got in trouble by stealing the deans car yesterday."

I crossed my arms across my chest and rolled my eyes. Ok, hot guy just got dumb. Jess hasn't changed after all.

"Yeah, well, what's it gotta do with me?" I said, flipping my bag back on one of my shoulders and starting to walk to my locker. The hallway was jazzed with thousands of them, and I still had some trouble finding mine, but I guess the big numbers on them helped. I swear, I was gonna go and buy thousands of those aspirins, my headache pounded just from hearing about him. I scrunched my eyes in pain.

"He's not new les," I said, hurtfully putting a hand to my burning fore head, "he's Jess. You know," I faced her, and rolled my eyes, " that Jess."

"What!" She screamed. Luckily, everybody was already in class, and we were running late. "You mean, the Jess that got you expelled? The Jess that went to prison?"

"Yes dummy, that Jess." I swear, sometimes Lesley is completely clueless. I don't really hang out with her a lot, but when I can, she seems to forget her brain home.

"Hey, you know I have a really bad memory." She said, her eyes longing the floor. "I can't even remember what I ate this morning."

"Cereal wheats with milk darling," I said, "with a bit of sugar. I told you to stop putting it in," I chuckled, "you never listen."

"Stop reading me!" She squealed. I couldn't stop myself, it was too darn obvious: there was a dust of sugar next to her right lip corner, and a drop splash of milk on her pants. The wheat cereal I just figured out, she eats them all the time. And if it were another type of cereal, there would be no point into putting sugar in the bowl.

"Well, remember what happened last time? That guys trouble." She said in almost a whisper. I rolled my eyes again and put in my three number code. 1-2-8. Drat I shouldn't have said that. Anyways...  

I fished in to take my trigonometry notes.

"Look, it's not like I'm gonna fall for him or anything." I said, closing my locker.

"You did last time." She said, looping her hand around mine, "many others did too."

"Yeah, but I'm not going to do it again." I said firmly, not believing myself, "besides, I did it once, which turned out worse than bad. I got suspended for 5 months. I'm not going there again Les. Believe me, I'm done."

"Whatever you say cap'n." she cooed. "Look, all I'm saying is that you gotta be careful. That guy has a thing for you, and he's gonna act on it. I can feel it."

"Don't give me one of your karma talks Les, you know I don't believe in them things."

"Hey," she said, holding her hands up in the air, stopping our walk. "I'm only trying to help you here."

We waltzed into the trigonometry class. As usual, cheerleaders sat on their desks, making out with jocks as nerdies laughed while pointing at comic books. Some were just talking over the phone, and some jerks tried hacking into the teachers computer. Real mature. Sometimes I even wonder if they even know they were 18.

I sat down in the second row to the right, as Lesley sat in the seat just behind me. She had excellent vision, but she also never really paid any attention in class. I opened my all too full trigo book, and turned to a blank page.

"Oh and Ash," Lesley poked at me, "not believing in karma is bad karma." She said with a wink.

A/N: Thats Lesley in the photo box ;) (Rachel Hurd-Wood)  What do you think will happen with Jess? Comment/Vote/Share? :)