Oh Ellie!

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

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The bell rang signaling the end of class and the start of lunch. I sighed and packed my bag and headed out of the classroom.

On the way to the cafeteria, Kim caught up to me. "Oh God I'm so hungry I can eat up an elephant."

"Would you really? Because that sounds so appetizing." I said sarcastically.

"shut up. You know what I mean."

Well she is right. You could call Kim an eating machine with two legs and a big mouth to fit in large portions of food that she eats. Actually, food is the reason we met in primary school.

Me and Marie have been friends since we were in diapers as our parents were friends. On the first day of our primary school, during lunch break, as we both were eating our lunch, a boy came up to us and said aggressively "Give me your lunch boxes."

We being the shy girls got scared and started to give him our lunch. Though before we could, a girl with pigtails came. "if you touch their lunch Robbie, I will tell the teacher that you were bullying people again."

Needless to say, Robbie went off and we went from being a duo to a trio. We have been best friends since.

We reached the cafeteria and lined up to get food. At least I did. Kim prefers to eat homemade meals. She thinks school people puts some drugs in our lunch so that we eventually become zombies that can only study. Weird, I know.

When I reached our table with food, Marie was already sitting there. She too had brought sandwiches from home.

"so..." Marie dragged on. We both looked at her questioningly.

"what?" asked Kim.

"Well. I saw Miss Ellie here talking to Mr Hot shot in the corridor earlier this morning."

"What?" kim exclaimed.

"Yea Ellie. What were you two talking about? Making babies?" Marie said wriggling her eyebrows suggestively.

"Yea. You caught me." I said raising my hands in surrender.

"What!!"Kim exclaimed yet again.

"For gods sake Kim stop saying that word and lower your voice." Marie said. "You did that Ellie? Im so proud of you. My little Ellie is finally growing up." Kim cried wiping fake tears from her eyes.

"I'm ignoring you guys." I said taking a bite of Marie's sandwich.

"But seriously, what did he want?" "He wanted notes for English. Mr. Samuel told him to take notes from me. That's it. Now I'm gonna go buy myself chocolate milk. You guys want some?" I said

Marie didn't want anything and Kim wanted a soda so I went to the vending machine to get myself a yummy chocolate milk. Concentrating very hard to not bump into someone again today. I had my quota of falling down for one day.

"Hey! Leave me alone." My attention was diverted from the vending machine to the poor boy who was trying very hard to get his glasses back from the two guys who were bullying him. He was a freshman I guess. The boys bullying him were the stupid jocks who don't have anything better to do with their lives.

In my quest to see what I am not supposed to see I forgot to see ahead. And collided with a wall. Quite literally. Not like in the books where the girl says she collided with a wall which was actually a hard chest of a very handsome young man. No. this was actually a wall.

"Ouch." I groaned rubbing my forehead where I feel a bump forming. "Here take my hand." A voice said.

I looked up to see Gabriel offering his hand to me. "thanks" I said taking his hand. "you are quite clumsy, aren't you?"

One would think I was a tomato with hand and legs by the way I was blushing. I laughed sheepishly at the ground.

"You know this is our third meeting and we haven't been introduced properly." Gabriel said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Ah yes you are right, I guess."

"I am Gabriel." He said sticking out his hand for me to shake.

"and I am Ellie." I said accepting his hand.

"Where do you sit? During lunch I mean." I asked.

"nowhere. I was just buying something from the vending machine. I came here just now." He quickly explained when I looked at him quizzically .

"Why don't you sit with us?" I asked shyly.

"ok. I guess." He said smiling. I lead him to our table and we sat down. Kim and Marie were staring at Gabriel like he was a piece of meat. I cleared my throat and they both snapped out of it. "So, Gabriel these are my crazy best friends Kim and Marie. If they say anything stupid, please ignore them."

"Nice to meet you guys." Gabriel said. "Did you and Ellie talk about making babies? Because if you did, your kids would be super cute." Blurted Kim. Marie burst out laughing at that.

My eyes widened and I buried my face in my hands to cover my blush. "Forget anything I said about them being my best friends. They are NOT!"

Gabriel chuckled "You guys are funny. Its.."

He was cut short by the loud bang that came from the cafeteria doors.

And in came the King of Gefferson High.