The little blue bug screeched into the parking lot at Monstone High at approximately 7:18. The first period bell rang at 7:30. I had ten minutes to do; nothing. Great. If we Candi was with me she'd scurry off to go meet with her teachers to make sure she still had above a ninety-five in their class. She was SUCH a teacher's pet. I barely even tried and I held solid Bs. Candi was a perfectionist and would flip out if her grade slipped below a ninety-five. As I pulled into the driveway I saw my best friend Jazzlyn locking her Camry and walking into the building. I honked the horn at her as I drove by. She turned and flipped me off, until she registered it was me. She stuck her tongue out at me and walked to the edge of the sidewalk. I pulled up next to her."For a moment there, I thought you were Jamie Phillips." She said with an eye roll. Jamie was the player of the school. Always with a different girl and flirting and sleeping around with everyone. But me of course. Yeah, pretty sure I'm the only one who hasn't slept with him. Point is he's a pig and Jazzlyn and I hated him.
“Ew that piece of shit? Never.”
“I’m glad. Now park so we can be fashionably late to U.S. history. Because you know how much I love to piss off Mr. Kingsmen.” I smiled. I really loved Jazzlyn. She was such a bitch. But I loved her for it.
I pulled into my parking spot and strolled up to the sidewalk to join my best friend.
***
By the time we reached our class we were ten minutes late; three minutes more then yesterday. Jazzlyn and I strolled into the classroom and grabbed seats right next to each other.
“Jazzlyn, Samantha. Do you know what time it is?” The boring, lifeless voice of Mr. Kingsmen said.
“Time for you to get a watch.” Jazzlyn said without skipping a beat. Then we did our secret handshake. It consisted of a fist bump, finger link, a snap followed by a high-five.
“If I only had a cent for every time I heard that one...” He mused under his breath. “How does detention sound?”
“Whatever. Nothing new.” I said shrugging. I rolled my eyes. Then all of the sudden I heard a throat clear from across the room. I looked up to see this gorgeous dark haired boy smiling at me. I immediately felt my cheeks flare as I quickly looked down at my text book. Who is that? I thought. I snuck a quick look back up in his direction to see that he was still looking at me.
“Jazzlyn,” I whispered. “Who the hell is that?” I said gesturing.
“Who?” She said looking. When she saw him her eyes got huge. “Oh, him? I don’t know. Let’s ask him! He’s gorgeous!” She was literally just about to scream across the room and ask him before I stopped her.
“What the hell are you doing!” I whispered.
“I’m going to ask him who he is.”
“Are you crazy! You can’t just ask that in the middle of class!”
“Sure I can!” and before I could stop her she jumped up out of her seat and slid into the seat right next to him and started talking to him. Mr. Kingsmen didn’t seem to notice. I was mortified. I was blushing so bad. I opened up my book and tried to hide in it. I only looked up when i felt her come back and sit next to me again.
“I hate you.” I said.
“Relax. His name’s Aaron. He just moved here from Queens.” She said, doodling on her worksheet.
Aaron.
I said. I love that name, so strong and sexy. No! What the hell was I thinking! Like he’d ever have interest in me. But whatever. Candi will probably have him by the end of the week anyway.
“I think he likes you.”
“Oh, wicked funny Jazzlyn.” I said sarcastically.
“I’m serious.” she said looking up at me.
“And why do you think this?”
“I don’t think, I know.” I stuck my tongue out at her and wrote down the notes on the board.
When we could finally escape from that class it was time for Phycology. I loved that class a lot. I thought everything was so interesting. But Jazzlyn however, hated it. She basically hated everything.
“I hate psycho class.”
“Funny.” I said, spinning the dial on my locker.
“Oh, look.” I looked up and saw what i knew was going to happen. My sister was standing next to Aaron twirling her hair and touching his biceps. Obviously flirting. I did hear earlier that she dumped her boyfriend. They we’re deep in conversation. I almost wanted to cry. I threw open my locker and shoved my books in my bag.
“Oh. My. God.” She said shockingly.
“What?” I said annoyed. But when I looked up a knew what she meant. Aaron had turned away from Candi. He looked totally normal. But my sister, she looked completely stunned. What? He obviously knew where he was going to do next. It looked like he was heading towards; me. Before I knew it he was right next to me.
“Hi,” He said to me. “I’m Aaron.” I almost died right then and there.
“Umm...hi.” I said to him. I was tongue tied. He was just standing there staring at me. “Oh! I’m Samantha.”
“Samantha,” He said. He said it so wonderfully. “Nice to meet you.” he said. And that was it. He left me there stunned as he walked away.
