Speechless

chapter two •the bet•

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I was having a relatively good day at the new school. The people Liam and Ronan, but mostly Liam, introduced me too were all quite nice. They were also all part of the popular crowd I soon learned.

I was never really in that sort of crowd before. And I kind of never really wanted to be to be truthful. It didn't appeal to me much. All that attention isnt something I would really like to have. Plus its a bit hard to make friends when you never really talk to anyone. In my last school I just entered high school with everyone knowing that I wasn't really going to talk to them so I kind of didn't have too many friends.

Here, however, I managed to kind of get into the "in" crowd. I found that ridiculously nerve racking and exciting at the same time. I was scared of just being some sort of charity case they took on. Liam especially. I couldn't tell if he was purposely being super nice and making sure I was okay or he was just naturally like that. It would be a beautiful thing if that was just his personality. It's a a stark contrast to Ronan.

Ronan was probably one of the worlds biggest jerks. The boy never had a second thought about anything he ever said regardless if it was mean or rude. He was completely apathetic towards anyone who didn't peak his interest.

I noticed in the hall when he would walk me to our classes, we had 1st, 3rd-6th period together,

that he was definitely at the top of every single girl's "to do" list.

Almost every girl would stop,stare, and lust for him in the hall. A few brave souls walked up to him and tried to flirt. I learned he was a very physical appearance person during these encounters. Most girls he would ignore or give a sly smile to however when a particularly gorgeous girl would try to talk to him, immediately he was on her and flirting up a storm as I tried not to be as awkward as possible. It didn't work out. Ronan kind of really sickened me out by that. How shallow could a guy be. How could this dickwad be best friends with sweet ol Liam. It made me question life really.

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It was 5th period and we were sitting in the cafeteria for lunch at the apparent "popular" table.

Many of the girls from other tables kept glaring at me probably wondering who I was and why I was sitting at the table and more specifically next to Ronan.

Sometimes when he wasn't laughing or talking to his friends he would ask me something. If I was doing alright mostly. I guess it was nice for him to check up on me but I was a bit fed up with him by then. Particularly after he and a couple other guys in the group started rating girls who passed bye.

I scoffed. I then listened in to what the group of girls to the left of me were talking about. It was about someone's skirt and how her boyfriend will absolutely love it. I could see why I suppose. Half of her ass was hanging out so I mean congrats to that dude for having a poorly dressed girlfriend.

Disgusted by both conversations going on around me I mainly focused on my food until I felt a nudge in my side.

Immediate I whipped my head around to see one of Ronan's sick smiles. The smile he'd use when flirting with a girl and trying to get in her pants.

He just kept staring at me with that smile until I finally spoke up.

"What?" I asked annoyed.

"Ooh. Feisty Daisy. Calm down, love." He smiled a bit bigger and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Don't call me that." I rolled my eyes toward him.

"I get it" he responded.

I gave him a quizzical look. What did he get?

Ronan continued, " You don't like me very much. You think I'm some shallow jerk that just tries to sleep with girls."

I nodded my head and slyly smiled. He was on point.

"But that's okay. You'll fall for me eventually." He grinned smugly again.

Sensing my skepticism he continued " Besides, we'll be spending loads of time together since we have practically the same schedule. So that gives me a load of time to break your record."

I rolled my eyes again. That again. I couldn't believe he was serious about trying to break me.

"Alright so I just need you to say 20 words to me to break the record." Ronan tried to affirm.

I shook head. I dived into my bag and pulled out a notebook and pen. Then I began to write down in the notebook what he had to do.

~You have to get me say more than 20 words to you in one session. Like in a sentence or two in one answer. I can't say simple one word answers 20 times to you in a day. That's not how it works. ~

I passed him the notebook to let him read.

He first found it weird that I wouldn't talk but I'd write and text people but I didn't bother explaining my mindset to him at the time.

"Wait all in one reply? That's insane? How the hell am I gonna do that?" He panicked a bit.

I took back the notebook to reply.

You just replied with 15 words if it makes you feel better but point is you're not supposed to break it so just let it go.

He looked down and read it. "But what's the fun in giving up." He smiled slyly. "Besides its even more fun since you don't like me."

The corner if my mouth twitched and I nodded in agreement.

"But this is no fun for you is it. How about we make it a bet."

I motioned for him to wait a sec as I wrote.

-Whoever wins has gets to ask the loser two things that the loser must answer honestly and he or she must must do one thing the winner tells them to do no matter what the request.

"This is gonna be fun." He smirked cheekily. " So by homecoming at the end if next month I manage to break your record, I can ask you anything thing I want and tell you to do one thing. Anything at all."

I quickly wrote in the notebook.

-Im not going to sleep with you.-

He read it and smirked. "Sure you won't babe." He winked. "But thats not what I what from you. Just get prepared to dish out your secrets at the end of the

I quickly became very worried. He looked very determined to crack me. I knew he just wanted to know why I was the way I was. What happened that made this little energetic talkative little girl so quiet. And I wasn't ready for anyone to know that just yet...or ever.

Still, my pride was in the way. Plus, I figured there was no way he could do it. I thought I had this one in the bag.

"You're on."

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A/N : god this story sucks and this chapter was so short wow omg I'm so sorry. I don't know who I'm saying I'm sorry to though since no one reads this story but its whatever. At least I'm not pressed for updates woo.