The rest of the day went by relatively fast; I found out that at least Avery was in all of my afternoon classes. Whenever the teachers go off on their own she would come sit with me and talk about problems in her life. I would do the same, and she was surprisingly easy to talk to.
We also talked about our childhoods; I found out that she was deathly afraid of bees because when she was nine she painted a chicken coop with her mom and bees came swarming out and chased her down the hill on their property. I also found out that she was a true country girl, living and working on the farm up until her parents passed away.
The next day in Spanish we were given the rest of class to finish our homework. Avery and I had become inseparable over the last two days and learned enough about each other to where it seemed like we had known each other for our whole lives.
“Are you serious?” She asked me, looking up at me in disbelief.
“Dead serious.” I replied, laughing at her expression.
“How can you have never gone camping? It’s like the second best thing in this world!” She said seriously, throwing her arms around in anger.
“What exactly is the first?” I asked, grabbing her pencil out of her hand so she didn’t stab someone when they walked by. I smiled at her as she calmed down and smiled at me.
“Well the ocean is the best thing in the world; especially when the sun sets over the ocean. It looks like the world ends when you look out into the horizon,” She mumbled as she rested her chin on her hand, gazing up at the picture of the ocean on the wall.
“I actually agree with you on that. But I’ve never seen the ocean before.” Avery stared at me in horror for a moment before laughing and saying she hadn’t seen it before either. “Then how do you know it’s so beautiful if you haven’t seen it before?” I asked.
“Movies.” She stated simply, standing up and grabbing her bag, walking out of the room. I laughed and got up to, running after her.
When we got to the café Hayden, Nicson, Reed, and Landon were already there, drinking the special.
“What’s the special today?” I asked, sliding into the booth next to Nic. Avery hesitantly slid in to and looked around uncomfortably; she hadn’t really been around the guys enough to be comfortable.
“Pumpkin Spice milkshakes. They are amazing!” Reed said, wiping off his face with the back of his hand and looking back up at us. “What?”
“Nothing Reed, don’t need to get your panties in a bunch.” Nic said coolly, reaching across the table and grabbing a lock of Avery’s hair. “I hope you don’t mind me playing with your hair, do you?”
Avery laughed and said no, even going so far as to lean forward and let him play with it more. This made me slightly angry, but I knew Nic was just trying to let Avery feel welcomed.
But playing with her hair was a bit far. I reached across and slapped his hand away discreetly so Avery didn’t know, giving him my death glare. He pulled away, holding his hands up in surrender.
Eventually everyone got tired of talking and decided to take off back to school. Avery told me to wait until everyone left so we could walk back together. I smiled at the thought and waited as she said. Hayden knew of our plan and tried to stay with us, but he got an angry call from Reed about how he left the fridge door open and it was short circuiting.
I waved him away as he stormed out, angry that he was always blamed. I laughed and won a glare from Avery.
“What?” I asked her, instantly sobering up at her seriousness.
