extreme opposites.☽ rucas

02. pia longates and her monstrous friends

Riley POV

I furiously wrote down the last of my science notes before the bell rings, signaling the time to go to period four, which is my math class. I gather all my belongings and scurry down the hall to attempt to get a good seat in class. On the way, I barely - actually I don't even think I touched - Pia Longates' shoulder.

Pia Longates was the queen bee of the school. You know, the one that if you're caught even looking at her with the tiniest amount of disgust, you could drop to the bottom of the social rank.

Pia shrieked. "OH MY GOSH, IT TOUCHED ME." She started gasping to her slightly less (but still dangerous) friends, Willa Ikan and Murna Ty-Oll. Although they were too busy texting on their phones like there was no tomorrow, they still glanced up, contorted their faces into anger, then went back to their phones. Unfortunately, Pia turned back to me, scowling.

"You! Don't ever touch me again, I bet you did that on purpose just to get me infected by your nerd-germs."

I began to stutter and push my glasses up my slightly sweaty nose. 

"I didn't - I-I don't -"

She jabbed her finger in my chest, causing me to stumble backwards a little.

"Shut it, you little freak. Your stuttering makes me vomit in the mouth, literally. Better watch what you say around me. If you do so much as step within five feet of me, I swear I'll-"

As she was about to finish my social-death threat, somebody stepped in.

"Hey, don't talk to her like that. Or you'll have big problems with me when I take over the world." Farkle Minkus, the genius of the school that was constantly urging the teacher to stay on topic, appeared out of nowhere and stepped between us. 

"Excuse me? And who are you? Another genius freakshow who wants to 'take over the world'?" Pia spat, now focusing her attention on Farkle.

"Farkle Minkus, nice to meet you." He said, reaching out his hand for a hand shake which only resulted in Pia and her friends backing away.
"And I believe you are #265, Pia Longates? It appears to me that you were making fun of Riley Matthews, #7, who happens to fall on a higher number on my interest scale. So, unless you want to be stuck on clone machine washing duty in the future, I suggest you back off."

Pia, Willa, and Murna all walked away with disgusted looks on their faces, muttering things along the lines of "freak" and "weirdo".

I let out a breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding in. I turned to Farkle to thank him, but all I saw was a note on the floor. Then, realizing the bell would ring any second, I jammed the note in my pocket and dashed to my math class. I made it in right as the bell had rung, but the only seats left were a seat next to Lucas and Stinky Sam. Not wanting to be used as a human tissue, I blushed the deepest scarlet red you could imagine and bowed my head down as I walked to the seat next to Lucas. I set down my stuff next to him and sat down.

As the teacher talked, I remembered the note Farkle had given me. I reached into my jean pocket and read it.

To #7,

I'm assuming you wanted to thank me for the commotion earlier. Well, no problem. You're also probably wondering how I wrote this note so fast. That, however, shall remain a secret. If you'd like to thank me again in person, meet me at the third tree during lunch. 

F.M.

I looked up from the note to see that the teacher had assigned us 4 pages of work. I got to work, and within 20 minutes, I realized that I had finished. I put it on the teacher's desk and went back to my seat while taking out a book to read.

"Wow, you're fast." Lucas whispered to me. I turned to look at him, but immediately avoided eye contact, knowing I'd make some weird face. 

"Oh, u-um, yeah."

He focused back to his worksheets, and I silently squealed in my head.

For the rest of the period, we never spoke.

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