Here and Now

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

After a class period of anger and sulking, I decided I would forget about CJ. What was the purpose of trying with a lost cause? There was none. And I was easily persuaded to forget her.  I made my way towards the lunch room and towards the back table where I always sat and just sat down. I was hangry, but I wasn't feeling those lines. I then spent the remainder of the time that I waited on my friends, glaring at the table in front of me.

Brandon slid into the seat across from me. "Glaring is not going to win her over." Brandon said in his usual cheeky manor. A wide smirk on his face. "I don't care what Casey says, she's hot, and if she ever gave me the go on getting her, I wouldn't give it a second thought." I saw his eyes glaze over as if imagining it. I didn't want him with her.

"Just leave her alone, will you?" I grumbled out. His eyebrow popped up in question and I quickly added, "I want this one." It was a lame excuse but it was true. Even if I had just given up on her a few minutes before. He just nodded and started in on his lunch.

"Maybe we could do like a movie night or something, and then a game night?" Casey and Gemma were in their own little world and conversation.

"Casey, that is the lamest thing I have ever heard! She's going to be staying with us for 2 days and all you can think of is a movie night and a game night? You are an idiot." Gemma rolled her eyes and sat one seat down from me. They were obviously arguing about something to do with CJ, because they were trying to not say her name. Just the thought of them still trying to keep me from her, made me angry and I stomped out of the cafeteria like a five year old who can't get something that he really wants. And I was exactly that.

As soon as the doors to the cafeteria were shut, I turned to look into the giant room. I peered over the student, just trying to find the girl with the strawberry blonde hair. With no such luck I racked my brain for places she would eat lunch. My first stop was outside, under a cluster of trees, but she wasn't there. My second stop was the girls bathroom. I asked some freshmen to go in there and check all the stalls for her. She almost fainted when I asked her to do it, but I got a bigger reaction when I told her I was looking for CJ. "And look to see if CJ is in there, wait, do you know who CJ is?"

"Oh my gosh! Yes! Of corse I know who CJ is!!" She squealed. "She's like the prettiest, most popular, most mysterious girl in the whole school!" This little freshmen is too cliché. And, how the crap does everyone know her except me.

I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hurry along and come back and tell me if she's in there." She ran into the bathroom and within 30 seconds she was back out batting her eyelashes.

"She wasn't in there. Is there anything else you need." She took a step closer and placed her hand on the lower part of my stomach. I quickly turned around and walked away without giving her any reply. I stalked towards the last place she could be. The library. I honestly hadn't been to the library since my freshmen year, and that was just to get a girl. I slipped in as quiet as I could. I searched around the whole library until I got to the farthest, most secluded corner. I should have known.

"So I hear you have been trying to avoid me." I let me voice come out smooth and playful but I really felt quite offended. She whipped her head around to meet me with her eyes wide and her mouth agape. I looked to see a book in her hands and glasses set on her nose. Usually I'm repulsed by girls with glasses but when I see the glasses on her, I couldn't help but grin. Glasses just made her look more hot.

She quickly gained her composure and turned back to her book, trying to ignore me. I slid to sit in the seat next her and read over her shoulder, jokingly, hoping to get a reaction. "What are you doing?" She asked breathlessly, I suppose still reeling from my scare.