stardust|completed

ten|alone

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"i'll hold your hand when you are feeling mad at me, yeah when the monsters they won't go and your windows won't close. i'll pretend to see what you see."

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Surprisingly, Leo and I both made it to our respective schools on time and incident free.

I was twenty minutes in to the history lecture when I began to regret the decision to return to school. Sighing, I took out my notebook and began scribbling notes about the Civil War.

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Three 90 minute classes later, the school's population was free for lunch. Although this was my second year attending Cherokee High I had no friends, hell I didn't even remotely know anyone.

Usually this is the part where the "popular girls" bump into me and we have a heated confrontation. The Queen Bee would threaten me and demand that I stay away from Orion. And I, in turn, would either throw a few beautifully crafted comebacks in her face or cower in fear and scamper away.

But that didn't happen.

Instead, I weaved in and out of the packs of students and headed for my truck.

All in all being friendless sucked. It was a hot and itchy feeling when the teacher announces that you can choose your partner for a class project. It was moments of sitting alone in the library surrounded by empty seats. It was feeling unwanted and on edge. Making friends wasn't simple. People never walked up to the new student and offered to show them around. Friends were never an easy achievement for me. If I wanted them I had to work for them. I had to push past my crippling anxiety and roaring insecurities. And even then rejection could hit me square in the face.

So I stopped trying, my only goal was to finish high school with good grades and get out of this town.

Sitting in my truck in the parking lot I let Foster the People leak from my speakers. I was humming along and happily munching on a granola bar I found in the glove compartment.

Just when I started to sing along, the passenger door opened.

I jumped in surprise and studied the person who had started to make themselves comfortable in the seat next to mine.

It was Orion. Who else would it be?

"Nice song choice," he commented propping his Converse clad feet on my dashboard.

I looked over at him like he was ludicrous and hummed in response.

"Start driving, we've got another adventure to attend to." He spoke excitedly.

I didn't move, just looked at him. He was sitting next to me with bright grey eyes, and messy ebony hair.

I knew I had little right to be, but I was mad at him for the whole getting arrested incident. It was in no way shape or form his fault but, the way he left me alone in the cell was cold.

And the kiss? That was a whole other thing.

I didn't want to be one of those girls who made a big deal out of nothing. So instead of giving him the cold shoulder or demanding to know "what we were now", I looked away and put the car in drive.

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A/N
I know it's kind of short and basic, but I'm trying to upload more. feel free to leave comments. have a wondrous day.
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