Hottie and the Beast

Chapter 2

( PIC OF ALEX ------------>)

“Hi...” he muttered.

By the look on his face, I could tell he did not want to be here. He didn’t seem very social.

“Come sit!” Stefanie said. Even though she didn’t know why I called him over here, she probably just wanted to be nice. She also broke the awkward moment.

'I'm Stefanie, this is my boyfriend Jake and this is Alex" she quickly added. 

“We were just talking about our classes! What classes do you have?” She asked.

“ Math first period, History second period and I can’t remember the rest” he said with a very deep sexy voice.

He had the same classes I had in the morning, but why didn’t he go to history, second period? I wondered to myself. Suddenly, me being my stupid self, I asked him why he wasn’t there in history.

“Oh.. I didn’t see you in history. I’m also in that class. Why didn’t you go?” I asked.

He shrugged and kept on eating his food. The rest of lunch was very awkward and I waited until the bell. The minutes felt like hours. I still didn’t know anything about Darren. Why was he so quiet? Was he shy... or was it because he didn’t like me? All these thoughts came to my head.

Then, I heard the bell ring. I got out of my seat, and Darren said bye. He left very quickly and I could see that he was also waiting for the bell. I got to my class, but I couldn’t concentrate. All I kept on thinking was about Darren. His personality shocked me.

After school, me, Stefanie, and Jake got into the bus and headed home. Jake was coming to my house to work on the little homework that we had and to talk about school. I knew he would ask about Darren, or at least Stefanie would.

“Hi dad! I’m home!” I yelled. My dad answered back and I told him that Stefanie and Jake were also here.

I went upsairs to my room and plopped onto my bed.

“So... Who’s that Darren guy?”asked Jake.

“I don’t know.. he seems very weird though..I just felt bad for him sitting alone and I wasn’t thinking before I invited him over to our table” I said.

“It was really awkward. He’s not very social.” Stefanie said.

“Maybe he’s just shy. I mean I was like that the first day of high school too.”I said.

The rest of the afternoon, we talked about the rest of the day in school and our classes. Jake was in one of my classes. We did our homework, and then Stefanie and Jake left.

 I couldn’t stop thinking about Darren. There was so much that I wanted to know about him. I wanted to know why he acted so weird. He seemed to disappear and be late for classes. I wanted to become closer to him and talk to him. I walked over to my bucket list and quickly added; Try to be Friends with Darren Jones. 

I wanted to be Darren Jones’ friend, and by the next two weeks that was my task.

I, Alex,  would become Darren’s friend, and I wouldn’t stop at anything.