Locker 104

Chapter 1

I take a breath of cold air as I walk into the dreaded building people call "school". The halls are crowded as I push myself through a sea of high school students till I get to my locker. As I do my combination I have this weird feeling that someone is watching me. I turn my head slightly and see Ethan Bryant leaning on his locker arms crossed and is looking straight at me. I quickly look away in embarrassment then open my locker and tried to focus on getting the right books out of it. When suddenly, from the corner of my eye I see Ethan start to walk in my direction. He stops walking when he gets to my locker.

I pretend I don't see him and continue to gather my things. When suddenly after a while he speaks to me.

"Do you need some help with your books," he asks.

I look up at him and notice that he's asking me a question.

"Oh umm, no I got it thanks," I smile at him then go back to getting my stuff out of my locker.

I feel my face get a little warmer as I thought about how he actually spoke to me.

I couldn't help but wonder why is the schools biggest bad boy talking to me. I couldn't help but wonder why isn't Ethan off flirting with some Barbie Girl or something. I was so confused. I shut the door to my locker and turned to leave when I bumped right into Ethan's chest.

Why was he still here?

I blushed as I took a few steps back noticing how close we were. I brushed my dark brown hair out of my face.

"Can I help you with something?"

He opens his mouth to answer me when Mark Fillips walks up behind Ethan and sets his hand on his shoulder.

"See you at the party tonight Ethan,"
Mark says in an exited kind if tone.

I've heard about Mark's parties.
He plans them every time his parents go out of town on a business trip. I've never been invited to one but from what I've heard, it involves a bunch of stupid teenagers getting drunk and making out with people they've never even met before then end up finding out they're pregnant or they made someone pregnant later that same year.

"Okay, starts and 9:00 right?"

"Yeah, I'm starting the party a little earlier this time."

Nine o'clock at night is early? I wondered in my head.

Mark begins to walk aways from us when he stops mid-step and briefly looks over his shoulder.

"Oh and you can bring her", he nods at me," to the party if you want."

And with that he walks away and disappears into a bunch of students that were passing by. A few looked almost as confused as I was when they saw who Ethan was standing with.

"So, that party...."

I turn my attention back to him.

He rubs the back of his neck nervously then goes on with his sentence.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go with me?"

Was Ethan serious? What's he thinking. I'm just some random girl that he's probably never even noticed until a few moments ago. What's he doing asking me to attend this late night high school party with him?

"Umm...I'm not sure if I'm going," I say lowly as I make a move to leave.

Ethan steps in front of me and I nearly crash into his chest again. I blush little as I try to put some space between us.

"Can I take that as a yes," he asks me as a smile begins to creep up onto his face.

As he spoke to me I kept feeling like he wasn't telling me everything. I wanted to find out what he's hiding from me.