Cupid Strikes Again

Chapter 2

As the car came to a stop, I opened the door and waited for Nathan to get out. Walking to the front of the car where I waited for him. As he came up next to me, we started walking towards the school in silence, knowing what was about to come seeing as how it happened every morning on school days. A big crowd of hormonal teenage girls came into view, surrounding me and Nathan. But before I could get swallowed by the crowd, I started to stalk off into a different direction.

"You're on your own" I shouted to Nathan. But before I got far, he grabbed my wrists, pulling me back.

"Oh no you don't" he said, "and where do you think you are going?"

"Class" I replied with a shrug of my shoulders.

"Last time I checked, we had first period together" he said while raising his eyebrows. All the girls were now around us, making me feel violated.

"But this is your mess, not mine. So I will go now" I shouted at him trying to be heard over the squeals of the girls. Wrenching my wrists out of his grasp and squeezing through the crowd.

"GOOD LUCK!!" I shouted towards him with a smirk on my face, as I made my way to the schools entrance, he'll be fine. I looked back when I heard my name being shouted, it was Sage. She was running towards me, her bag half open and her hair flying everywhere as well as her papers.

"Slow down" I chuckled,"you look like you've seen a monster and want to get as far away as possible" I said to her as she came to a sudden halt right next to me, her shoulder bumping into mine.

"Well if you consider a big crowd of girls a monster, then yes I did see one and yes I am trying to get far away from it." she said to me

"Sometimes I feel like Nathan needs to change his name and looks and entire life just to have a normal life", "I mean come on, those hormonal monsters act as if they've seen a celebrity, and plus hes really not all that" I said to Sage, just then I heard a voice behind me,

"Who's not all that?" I turned around to see Nathan walking behind us.

"You" I stated simply, he scowled at me

"I'll have you know that if I wanted I could be on the cover of todays hottest magazine" he said.

I rolled my eyes at him and said, "but you're not."

"I gotta go guys" Sage said to us, "I have science right now and you know how Mr. Parker is." she told us as she walked away.

"Bye, see you in lunch" I shouted towards her as me and Nathan made our way history.

"I really am not in the mood to see Mrs. Harper's face" I told Nathan.

"Who is? I mean shes a cranky old lady, correction, a cranky old cat lady who doesn't have a life and her only hobby is yelling at teenagers whenever she has a chance to" I laughed at his statement, my voice echoing through the hall.

"We should really get to class, the bell already rang you know" I told him,

"Well what difference would it make now, we're already late. Right?" he told me with a raise of his eyebrows. He did have a point there. So I walked as slow as I wanted to. When we got to class Mrs.Harper gave me and Nathan detention after school, for being late. Oh well.

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After my first 2 classes Me and Nathan had to part seeing as how we didn't share science together. Weaving my way through the crowd, as I made my way to my locker. Opening my locker and shoving my books in there, only to grab my science textbook and notebook. I slammed my locker closed and waited for the hallway to clear. I hated walking in the hallways when it was crowded, and only did it when I was in a rush. I leaned against my locker and rested my head on it, closing my eyes. When everything quieted down I opened my eyes and looked at the time. I still had 2 minutes before class started, I thought to myself. There was only a couple of people left in the hallway, most of them ignored me, except one.

As I made my way to class keeping my head down, I bumped into someone. He too looked startled, and a little lost. "sorry" I mumbled to him, moving around him to continue walking to class.

"Oh that's OK, but umm could you help me?" He asked, his voice startling me, it was deep and husky, sending shivers down my back.

"Umm, yeah, what do you need?" I didn't intend on sounding mean and harsh but he was kinda wasting my time, and I was gonna be late to class again.

"Sorry, I'm new here and I don't know where my next class is, could you show me?" he said while holding his schedule out for me to look at. I took it from him and scanned it, looking for his next class. I felt him come beside me, a little too close making me feel uncomfortable.

"Uh..umm it looks like you have science, oh well then that means we have class together. Just follow me."

"Ok, thanks" he told me as we made our way to class. We got to class just on time, but to my surprise, the teacher wasn't there. I sat in my usual seat, in the front of the room next to the window.. alone. But not anymore. The new kid... gah remind me to ask him what his name is, came up to me and asked if anyone was sitting beside me. I replied to him with a simple 'no'. So he sat next to me. The teacher still hadn't come so I took this time to doodle in my notebook, ignoring him, which to my relief he let me be. After about 5 minutes i started to feel guilty so I turned to him and said

"Hey I'm Ivory".

"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm gansey" he told me,I hadn't really paid any attention to him so I didn't really notice his features. He had jet black hair, startlingly bright blue eyes, pale skin, and full lips a shade of pink id never seen. He looked soo... intriguing. BRAIN, CAN YOU START THINKING PROPERLY!

"Ivory, are you ok?" he asked, huh? oh, crap. I didn't notice that I was staring at him like a weirdo, ugh he probably thinks I'm weird. Great just great. I started to blush.

"huh? oh yeah, I was just thinking, what kind of name is gansey? ha ha" I lied, but seriously what kind of name is that? I noticed him shy away and turned his face the other way, and he hooked his hand around his neck rubbing it.

"oh yeah, I don't know, Ive asked the same thing to my parents, I guess I'm different" he said looking a bit embarrassed.

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I mean there's nothing wrong with your name, I like it actually..." I trailed off not knowing what to say.

"Oh that's fine, I actually get that a lot, its no biggie." He said smiling. I smiled back.

"Is it normal for the teacher to be late?" he asked

"No, actually its kinda weird, well i guess its your lucky day. You really don't want to meet him."

"Is he that awful?" Not really looking for an answer.

"So what's your next class?" I asked him

"Umm, English"

"Oh cool, that means we have next class together too" I told him.

For the rest of the class we just chatted about randomness, asking each other whatever came into mind. And then there was a certain answer that he gave me that I found weird.

"What are you doing after school today?" He asked me.

"Oh I actually got detention for being late to class, soo yeah." I answered.

"oh" was all he said

"Sorry, if I didn't have detention, I would've showed you around town." I told him.

"oh no that's OK, I was just thinking we could hang out" he said, and then there was silence for a couple minutes, and then he said.

"Well I guess that means I'll have to get detention on my first day of school" he stated as if it was something you do everyday, and I just stared at him my mouth hung open and eyes wide.