My Second kiss

Chapter 14

Chapter Fourteen

"I can't believe you never told me you were friends with Jess Tyler." Drew and I had decided to be partners on an assignment in German class the next day, much to the dismay of the three other girls, who didn't even try to hide their distaste for my presence in their group. Unfortunately, my episode at the lake hadn't so much as given me the sniffles, so I had no excuse to stay home from school. Unlike Jess, who could barely get out of bed that morning. I wasn't too upset about going to school, though. Now that I actually had locker partners and someone to walk down the halls with, school wasn't all that bad.

I pulled a red-coloured pencil out of the color box as I replied, "I didn't know you knew who he was. I didn't think it would matter."

"Of course I know who he is." Drew bit her lip as she scribbled on the paper in front of us. "Everyone knows who Jess Tyler is. I had just never met him before."

"How do you know who he is?" I was waiting for her to further prove my point that Jess was indeed popular.

Drew shrugged. "Girls talk. And my brother goes to school with him, so I hear things. He just has one of those names."

I nodded my head, even though I didn't entirely know what she meant by that.

"Gemma," Drew asked while dropping her coloured pencil back into the box, "who gave you that bracelet?"

I looked at the bracelet. It was on my right hand, and so it dangled as I scribbled over the page with the coloured pencil.

"I told you, it was a Christmas present," I replied.

"Right, from a friend," she said smugly. "Did Jess give it to you?"

"Yes." I shrugged my shoulders like it wasn't a big deal.

She stopped colouring instantly and looked straight at my face. "What is up with you two? Are you a couple or something?"

It was killing her not to know, and there was a part of me that wished I could have smashed her hopes entirely and told her, "Yes! We are a couple, actually, so stay away!" But we weren't, so I couldn't. And so I said, "No. We're just friends."

She paused for a minute, just watching me scribble before picking out a new coloured pencil from the box.

She turned back to her own scribbling then said, "I don't get you, Gemma Mitchell."