Flowers and Thorns (Dirk Strider x OC)

How It All Started....

Iris's P.O.V.

      I heard the familiar music of the two-minute warning bell start to ring as I walked to my homeroom. People scurried through the halls to get to class. Most people moved out of my way; probably for one of two reasons. First, I'm a senior, so I practically run the school. Second, I have bright freaking purple hair. Yep. It's dyed obviously, but even so people seem to not be able to help but stare as the throw themselves out of my way. But, yeah, that's me; Iris Stonewall. Iris Stonewall, also known as the resident circus freak. But hey, I'm proud of that title.

      Anyways, I made it to homeroom by the time the final bell rang. I took my usual seat between my two closest friends, Lilly and Amelia. Lilly was a few inches shorter than me, with her beautiful pale brown hair and sparkly, hopeful green eyes. Amelia was tall and willowy with golden blonde hair that seemed to sparkle in the sun and gorgeous blue eyes. I love them both very much, and they love me; we're completely inseparable.

      As the teacher called role, a student walked in late. Dirk Strider. He's the prince of SBURB High. I didn't know him very well, but some of the things he got away with really pissed me off- especially being able to walk into a class whenever he damn well pleased. If I tried that, I'd be in detention for weeks. But meh, whatever, what he does isn't really important to me; like I said, I don't really know him. Even though, my darling friend Amelia actually did care about what he did. She'd had a crush on Mr. Anime Shades himself since the beginning our junior year.

      The fact that the sweet Amelia had a crush on Señor Stoic himself astonished me. I really didn't see what there was to get so worked up over, but whatever, as long as she was happy I was happy. Anyways, her crush on the prince was painfully obvious. She was always sneaking looks at him in class and sighing dreamily. She told me and Lilly yesterday that today was going to be the day. The day she would confess- via note that is.

      As the prince sat down, Lilly and I kept wiggling our eyebrows at Amelia and snickering. Her face turned a bright shade of red, and she waved us off. Then she gave us a look that told us that she was about to hand him the note. We held our breath as she timidly tapped Dirk on the shoulder and quickly handed him the note.We watched with a growing anxiety as he looked over the note. We watched as he scribbled something in orange pen on the note before handing it back to Amelia without a word.