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Chapter 6

Today's quote is: "The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.

Tomorrow's my birthday, and I'm pretty damn excited. I thought about something, I only have 4 months until graduation so why don't I stay here and finish high school. Then I'm going to move to London and go to college there. Natasha has been very weird, she doesn't insult me and hit me that often and I even think she stopped drinking. Yes, I know, what a shocker. But because I'm going to stay here until school ends I'm going to buy an apartment or something so that I don't have to stay in the same house as the witch. Yes she doesn't bother me that much but you can never be too certain.

About school, everything is fine, Chris is still fabulous, I would still date him if he wasn't gay and life is good. Oh, I forgot about biscut, I mean Pablo! He's still trying to be my friend, I actually talk to him now. I mean, short answers do count right? It's a start. People are still talking about me but moving on, I'm supposed to be paying attention to my history class and I really shouldn't be zoning out, the teacher literally wants to kill me, I swear she does. People think she is just a nice old lady but when I look into her eyes all I see is evil.

"Miss Margaret, can you answer the question?" I literally jump when I hear this, and who is Margaret? At first I don't its headed to me but when I see her staring expectantly at me I realise she in fact asked ME the question.

"Sorry ma'am but my name isn't Margaret" I say.

"I don't care what your name is, I just want the answer" She says with an evil smile in her face, I told you she's evil.

"Ummm Justin Bieber?" And that's when I say the first thing that comes to my mind. Everyone starts to laugh, some are feeling bad for me because they know she is going to explode, but because most of them still hate me the majority is still laughing.

"Penelope you can think about Justin Bieber during detention which you will be staying in this afternoon, you'll stay one hour with Mr Fred after school. Understood?" She says with a creepy smile on her face.

I nod and she continues talking about whatever happened in 1935. I didn't listen. Was too busy thinking about Justin Bieber.

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When I'm sat with Chris at Lunch I tell him what happened with the old rat, he also thinks she is evil. Looks like I'm not the only one with a brain. I'm surprised when I see Pablo stand up from his table and walking over to us with his food.

He sits down and starts eating next to us. Everyone's staring and whispering because even though he talks to us he never sat down with us during lunch. He greets us and starts telling us about his day, saying that he fell asleep during English and that someone tried to punch him in PE, that didn't end well for the kid.

I just zone out when he and Chris start talking about guy stuff, I'm absentmindedly staring at him with a smile on my lips and I realise that I like him, maybe its just a tiny little crush but it's still there. And I surprisingly like it.

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After school I go inside the detention room and I only see 3 people in there, 2 girls are gossiping in the back and there's one guy sleeping in the front.

When I walk inside the classroom the girls make sure to glare at me, the guy is still asleep so I show them the bird and sit down next to the window. The teacher is late so I just put on my headphones and lean against the window. I fall asleep.

I wake up when I the door opens, two people walk in, Pablo and a young man, probably Mr Fred. I'm just surprised to see that Pablo is here, I see the two girls from the corner of my eye, they start to giggle a lot and play with their hair, I almost feel bad for them when Pablo doesn't even look at them, He sits down next to me and my heart flutters.

I was just staring at his lips, his beautiful pink lips. I didn't hear what he said, he said my name twice and I didn't hear him, I only started paying attention when he pinched me in the arm. Hard.

My jump was so high I hit my thigh on the table, I hissed and he looked concerned.

"Are you okay?" He asked, worry clear in his eyes, yup, that's probably going to bruise.

Yeah, I'm fine, you know, the perks of being iron man" I laughed nervously, that was probably the worst thing I could have said, he probably already noticed that something's up with me. I must look beautiful with my face the colour of a tomato.

"Um what? I like you Eloise, you're weird. I like weird" He laughs, my face got redder if that's even possible. But then I noticed, he's probably the only one that calls me Eloise.

" Hey Pablo, now that we're friends you can call me Louise, everyone calls me that. " I said with a small smile on my face.

"But I don't want to be like everyone else, I'll call you El" He said with a giant smile on his face. El..... I like it, no one calls me that. With that we smile at each other and spend the rest of detention talking about everything, but really, I could be talking about poop with Pablo, but I know that I'll never be bored.

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When I got home I saw no evil stepmom and finally, for the first time in forever, I fell asleep with a smile on my face.

Hey guys, I know I haven't updated that often but I just want to say something.

I know this story isn't very famous it isn't popular and I am not popular but I am grateful for it. I know maybe 30 of you read this, probably even less but I am grateful for everything because this small group of 30 people read what I spend my time writing, I love every single one of you guys and hope you remember that.

Bye!