The Secret

Chapter 2

I sat across from Grace as she scarfed down her food. I looked around to see if anyone was watching even though that was rather stupid of me since no one ever watches us. I could sit here naked and nobody will notice. Well, maybe someone will. I poked at my food, I didn't know how Grace allowed herself to eat this. It didn't look or smell edible. But that was Grace, my disgusting, smart, annoying, fun to be around friend. She looked up from her food and smiled, showing me everything inside her mouth. 

"You're disgusting," I said scowling at her. She swallowed what was in her mouth before taking a big gulp of her water bottle and letting out a small sigh of content. 

"Well, the only one here to try to impress is you and I don't need to do that. I can be myself at home and here, this is great," she said before filling her mouth once more. I grimaced in disgust. She was soo.... words didn't quite describe her. This is what being at the bottom did to people. "So why did Barbie drag you away? I know you're not sick."

"She wants me to befriend her boyfriend. I'm going into lion territory Grace and I don't know if I will survive," I said looking down at my food. Rebecca and her stupid tear had me doing this. Now, that I think about it I've never see someone cry with just one tear before. 

"The hell they want you for?" Grace said through a mouthful of food. If I looked at her any more I will puke.

"Because I'm not known and it has to be someone Daniel doesn't know or it won't work. I'm perfectly imperfect and Daniel wouldn't fall for me because I'm nothing to look at," I said in my best Kaitlyn voice and Grace laughed at my failed attempt. Hey, at least I tried. 

"Well, that makes sense. She wouldn't want someone as a threat to her relationship," she said once she finished laughing. Another reason I love Grace: she didn't lie and say I was the prettiest girl in the school. Like I said, we were plain. 

"Come on, the whole plan is just fatuous. Why would he open up to a complete stranger? Why doesn't she just talk to him? The plan is going to be a disaster," I said rolling my eyes. I finally decided to try the food on my tray. I picked up what I thought was mashed potatoes with a fork and stuffed it in my mouth. I spit it out as soon as it touched my taste buds. This was disgusting. "How can you eat this? It's nasty."

"Whatever, why didn't you ask all these questions when you were facing them? Obviously, I can't answer your questions. So did you say you were going to do it?" 

"I was in the heat of the moment. They were constantly insulting me and then expected me to just agree. I said screw your plan but Rebecca's lone tear made me say yes," I said holding my head in shame. "I'm suppose to lay low, well lower than I already am, until they can fix me up enough so that he will actually talk to me. I've dishonored you," I said holding back a smirk. I heard her laugh and the fork scraping against her tray.

"Shut up Aura. I don't think your so ugly that he wouldn't talk to you as you are. You're not even ugly! You're not Barbie level but you're also not Louise Nerdoff," she said referring to the Victorious episode. I smiled at the compliment.

"Why thank you, you're not a Louise Nerdoff either. Well if you had her nose, I could see a resemblance," I said and she hit me from across the table. I laughed as I stood up.

"I hate you," she said pouting. 

"Yeah, I know. I'll see you later. I have to go to my locker for my project and get it to class before the swarms storm the hallway!" I said running out of the cafeteria. I made it to my locker and took out my toothpick diorama of Big Ben. I closed my locker and smashed into someones chest which completely ruined my project.

"What the hell! You ruined my project dumbass, you better go to Mr. Thomas and-" I stopped when I saw the person I bumped into was Daniel and he was holding up his hands as if surrendering. I was still fuming but Rebecca's nagging voice kept bothering me. So much for laying it low.

"Woah! Calm down, I'm sorry. I'll go to your Mr. Thomas and explain everything. Don't worry, he likes me I bet I can get you more time to make it up," he said smiling. Daniel was the type of guy that every girl just swooned for. Well, all except me since it was just a waste of time. He had curly copper hair that was not too long and stopped before his shoulders. He had piercing green eyes that always seemed to sparkle and an innocent smile which completed his perfect look. 

"Whatever, you don't have to do anything. You've done enough," I said pushing past him. I had to make an escape, he wasn't suppose to meet me yet and this could ruin the already stupid plan. He held out his hand to stop me and I groaned with frustration. Why couldn't he just let me escape? Doesn't he know I'm a secret spy?! Wait, he doesn't.

"Let me fix this, I couldn't live with myself if I knew you failed because of me," he said pouting which made him look really adorable. It was so adorable it was sickening. The fact that I couldn't find any flaws made him a little creepy. 

"Well, get ready to die because that's exactly what's going to happen," I replied rolling my eyes. Shut up Aura! You're not suppose to be here!

"But I don't want to die. I haven't even finished high school yet. I'm going to follow you to class so you better just say yes," he said smiling at me. And Rebecca said he wouldn't talk to me because of my appearance. Ha! I'm proving her wrong right now. Maybe I could start her little plan right now instead of letting her change me for what I feel would be for the worst. 

"Stalker much?" I said teasingly. He laughed and it was such a sweet sound. Once again, creepy.

"Yes, and if you don't let me help you it's going to get worse. You might even end up dead." 

"You're going to end up dead first since I'm going to fail before your stalking becomes that serious," I teased. I didn't how when the conversation became so relaxed especially since I was on the verge of failing my project. 

"Damn, then I might as well help you. After you," he said opening my classroom door. I didn't even realize that we had been walking and he looked amused at my surprised expression. 

"How do you know this is my class?" 

"This is the only class Mr. Thomas is in. Are you new here?" he asked and I thought about my answer. Yes or no, that's the question. What would Rebecca want me to say. I imagined her in my head but no words followed her image. Oh, what the hell.

"Yes, I'm new here. My name is Aura, and you are?" I lied, holding out one hand while balancing my ruined project with the other one.

"Daniel," he said grasping my hand and shaking it. I gave him a friendly smile and he released my hand. 

"Well it was nice to meet you Daniel," I said walking into my classroom. The bell didn't ring yet so the only other person in the classroom was Mr. Thomas. I glanced back and saw that Daniel also entered the room. 

"I told you I was going to explain. No one fails if I have anything to do with it," he said smiling widely and I rolled my eyes. What could this guy be possibly hiding? He seemed perfectly fine to me. Maybe Rebecca was just being paranoid. It was understandable. It wouldn't be hard to play the new girl. People already didn't know who I was. Maybe this could actually be fun. Or maybe not.