The Bet

chapter 2 - the new boy

All the heads in the classroom shot over to our teacher mr. Simon. "Today we have new student joining us and his name is Peter" I heard some girls already gossiping about him. Typical. "Alright you can come in now Peter" mr. Simon said.

A tall medium builder boy with chestnut hair and blue eyes walked into the room. He was wearing some vans and a striped t shirt. So cute! He was actually quite... Hot. I turned to see Bryce staring at me. He smiled, then he leaned and whispered "Maria you are gorgeous!". He said exaggerating the 'gorgeous' "how could I not of noticed you before?!" I just shrugged and blushed. All the girls in my class were 'oohing' and 'ahhing' and giggling. They all loved the new boy.

"Peter, why don't come up here and tell us about yourself?" Mr Simon asked. Peter, with his hands in his pockets walked over to mr. Simons desk and lent against it. "Sure. Why not" he said with a lazy smile. Mr. Simon stood back and let Peter begin.

"Alright, so I'm Peter tucker I'm 17 like all of you are." As he talked he let his fringe flop onto his face and his eyes scan the room of people. "I'm a bad boy at heart" he said as his eyes stopped at me. I froze. My heart clenched. Me? Me?!Is, is he looking at me??! I thought. He was staring into my eyes as he talked. I couldn't even move all I could do was stare back.

"..I love to skate, surf, play football. And I loooooveee girls" he said as he broke eye contact with me and sent a wink to a group of swooning girls.

"Well. Ahem,thankyou for that...rather interesting story about your life" mr. Simon said uncomfortably. "Why don't you take a seat next to Maria?"

"Gladly" he replied while smiling at me. He walked over to the seat next to mine. He bent down so he was level with my head and whispered flirtily in my ear "may I?" As he pointed to the seat next to him. I tensed and plastered a fake smile on my face "sure" he slid into into the seat next to me. On the other side of me I felt Bryce tense. Oh shit. He had probably seen peters flirting. I ignored Peter for a minute and turned to Bruce with a flirty smile. "Sorry about that" I said. He seemed to brighten up a bit "so..I was wondering if you would have lunch with me?" He asked, and I could even feel his nervousness! I beamed a huge smile "love to" he smiled back and them we both faced back to mr Simon and listened to the lesson.

For a while I was happily jotting down notes when I felt a slight pinch on my arm. I jerked back to see Peter staring ahead like nothing happened, but in his hand he was sliding a note to me.

I rolled my eyes and picked up the note then opened it. Inside it read "so, you have a boyfriend?" I let my mouth hang open in disgust. What buisness is this of his?! We only just met! Scratch that, we haven't even TALKED! I furiously jotted down "what business is that of yours?!" I slid it to him angrily without looking at him.

He opened the note and laughed really loud. All heads snapped towards us. Mr Simon, turned towards us looking a bit irritated "anything funny?" I was about to apologise when Peter just smiled and replied "just a note Maria sent me" I gasped and turned towards him. Why would he tell?! Surprisingly though, mr Simon just sighed and said "don't let it happen again" and turned back to the lesson. He smirked while I angrily sat there. He scribbled something down on another piece of paper and slid it across. I sighed and picked it up. "So do ya?" I let out an aggravated sigh and jotted Down "no! I don't! K?! Why do you want to know anyway??" I slid it towards him. He read to them simply scribbled down a few words ams slid it to me.

It read "your hot" I just gulped, was I hot? I hadn't really thought about it. I guess I was what guys considered 'hot' I mean, my bestfreind Ella was always telling me how pretty I was and when we would go shopping she would always say I should try something different with my look becuase I had the body.

I jotted down a reply and slid it across. "Uh..thanks? But your a playa I'm not falling for it" I slid it to him and he read it and slid across a response to it "oh don't worry you soon will" I scrunched up the piece of paper in my fist. He just sat there smirking.

I had a bad feeling about this guy.

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As the class ended all the students clattered out of the class room and made there way to the cafeteria for lunch. Me and Bryce walked together and entered the cafeteria. "Let's sit over here" Bryce said smiling pointing to the popular people table. I had never sat at the popular table before so this was all very new to me.

We lined up for food and when everything was paid for we went and sat down there. "....and so I said flying chicken!!!!" The whole table burst into luaghter and a couple of the boys had tears coming out they were laughing that hard. That voice though, where had I heard it I leaned over to see who was telling the joke and it was none other than Peter. I dug my nails into my fist "just great" I muttered under my breath. I ended up sitting right in front of Peter as there weren't many seats left, and Bryce just sat next to me. "How ya going?" He said to me while leaning on his arm. "Just fine" I said sarcastically.

"peterrrrrrrrrrr" i heard a high pichted squel that sounded like it came from a 6 year old. molly davis the head cheerleader walked up to our table. "where have you been!?" she screeched. god she was annyoing. "i came to get lunch" peter said with a bored look on his face. molly was wearing a tight and SMALL dress and some platform heals. she let her long blond hair fall over her body. i had to admit she WAS gorgeous, but she looked like a drag queen with all the makeup she was wearing. she jumped on the table and sat so she was just in front of peter and he had no where else to look.

"pete!!! i was going to show you around school roday!!!!!" she hollered with a puppy dog look on her face. pathetic. peter just sighed and said "one, its not 'pete' its peter. two, i spoke to mr simon after class and he said i could CHOOSE who would show me around school." molly jumped off the table and went back to her posse of girls sulking. her right hand ladys, natahsa and melissa were both pretty girsl who in the beginning of highschool were swept into molly and all her dramas. she appointed them her hands maids and said if they wanted to be popular they would be her posse. so, of course they agreed.

they both whisperd encouraging words to her like "he doesnt deserve you" and "your to hot for him!" as she stromed out of the cafeteria.

peter turned his attention back to the table to see all the faces staring at him. "so..." he said awkwardly. "maria" my head shot over to him "hows about being my guide?" he said. i was to shocked to say anything, my mouth hung open. me? me!?

"yes you!" he said luaghing. oops. i had said that aloud.... "why do you want ME!?" i asked confused.

"well, it might be that you ARE the only person ive actually had contact with here" i blushed a little remebering the 'contact we had' aka passing notes. "yea.. thats logicial" i said. not wanting to say anything about what happened earlier.

"plus your smoking hot" i felt bryce tense besides me. i shot peter a dirty look. "hmm, you know what?" i started. "i dont think i can." i said smugly. "well, mr simon did say whoever showed me around would get extra credit... but if you dont want to!" he said. arghhhhh! i really needed that exrta credit!!! "fine" i said huffily "ill...show you around" he smiled - and not a smug smile, it was actually genuine. i found my self returning it.

"ahem" i heard bryce cough besides me. "oh, do you mind bryce?" i asked. "no, no, thats fine" he said. "but.. maybe after you could.. oh i dont know.." he said as he sratched the back of his head. "..come to my house?' he finished. i was beaming now. "id love too!" i said. "great" he said returning my smile. "well, i gotta split but, see you after school?" "sure" i replied.

he got up and took his tray over to the bin and walked out of the cafeteria.

"well!?" i looked over to fine peter looking at me irritated. what did i do!??! could it of been me and bryce? nah. i shake that idea out of my head. "well what?" i reply. "are we gonna start this tour or what?" i sighed. "fine come on" i said getting up he followed behind me. i put my tray in the bin and kept walking, i felt him lean in and then he whispered in my ear "this is going to be LOTS of fun" i sighed.

yep. lots of fun.

A\N

hi guys!! i hope you like the chappy. :) i tried to make it pretty long :\ aha that failed a ltittle bit. anyway PLEASEEEE comment and tell me what you thought! or anyways to improve it!! thnaksssssssssssss