Friendzoned

Chapter 5

Ryder

            The first day of school always sucks. Everyone always says that eighth grade should be the best year because you are at the top of the school, but that’s a lie. I have to admit though, being the top jock does have its benefits. I heard we had a new girl in our class. I hope she’s hot. I could use a new girl this year. All the other girls know me too well. As I pull my phone out of my pocket before the bell rings, I see that I have 4 new text messages. All of them are from girls who I hooked up with over the summer.

            “Morning Sunshine!” This chick said to me as she walked through the door. She was tall, blonde, and skinny. But I got to admit, the first thing I realized when she walked into the room was how big her boobs were. Damn. She was definitely working those tight short-shorts and v-neck. I looked across to where Alex was sitting. I kicked him in the side and told him to move out of the way. When he shot me a dirty look, I just winked. When he finally got up I shouted over to the new girl,

            “Hey! There is a free seat over here” I said with my best smile. She turned around to see who was talking, when she saw it was me she smiled and walked over. She sat down and put her bag over the back of the chair.

            “The name’s Ryder.” I said with a wink.

            “Brittany.” She flashed me her million dollar smile as she puffed out her chest. Just then, the teacher walked in and told us to take out a blank sheet of paper. I got out two and wrote my number on one of them. Then I slid it over to Brittany. She winked at me. After class, I was walking down the hallway with Brittany when we passed Rae. I noticed her glancing over at us. I put my arm around Brittany and made sure that Rae saw it. She actually looked very pretty. But I had to remind myself that I moved on and that I was into girls like Brittany for example. Besides, I don’t want to be with a girl who runs away because I kissed her. When I kissed Rae in fifth grade I was just trying to show her that I liked her. She ran away without letting me explain though. Plus using a girl is a lot easier then trusting one. We haven’t exactly talked since that day and as soon as I went up to my room, I ripped off the bracelet she gave me and threw it in a drawer. I haven’t put it on since.

            Personality wise, I don’t really like Brittany. At all. She is actually very annoying and bitchy! She loves to talk about how much prettier she is than everyone else in our class. I totally agree that she is smokin’ hot, but she doesn’t have to be a bitch about it. As I have learned over the past few days though, she is a great kisser! She must have a lot of experience, which I am fine with. She doesn’t need a whole bunch of commitment either. She is very easy going. She is really smart too.

            “That’s wrong Ryder” I heard her say over my shoulder as she pointed to my math problem. She can be a real smartass sometimes. At least Rae never used to point out when I got a question wrong. She would just let me get counted off for it. Ok, I really need to stop thinking about Rae.

            3 boring hours later. I walked into my next class. History, fun! I sit in the far right back corner. I always sit as close to this spot as I can so I can keep an eye on everyone around me. Right before the bell rang, Rae ran into the classroom and sat down in the front of the class. Fifteen minutes after class started the teacher started asking review questions from last year. Rae’s hand shot up for every single question. She always knows the answer to everything. School has always been her focus. Ever since she was little, school has been really important to her. Her grades are important now more than ever because if she ever hopes on getting into college, she has to get a scholarship of some kind and she has never been athletic. School for me on the other hand has never been my main focus.

            This place is crazy. It’s the first day of school and they are already giving us projects? The teacher just assigned groups and you will never guess who is in my group…. Rae.

            “So you have to pick something in history that has left an impact on the country.” I heard my teacher say.

            “Anybody have any ideas?” This girl named Jasmine said. She kind of hates my guts because I dumped her after a week. She was the worst kisser ever. I had to end that fast. There is also the freakiest nerd kid named Jared in my group. He is always talking about Titanic and how amazing it is. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is what our group ended up doing our project on.

            “Titanic!” He yelled. Bingo.

            “Why would we do it on Titanic? It’s just some dumb old ship that sinks and then everybody dies. Big deal. What if we did it on the history on lipstick?” Jasmine said. Wow I didn’t think anybody could come up with an idea dumber than Titanic.

            “Na I am with Jared on this one.” I said there was no way I was doing a project on lipstick. Rae stayed quiet through this whole conversation.

            “Rae, you have to participate in the discussion. Jeez.” Jared said. He was in the middle of begging her to vote on Titanic.

            “Hey, I have an idea! Why don’t we do Titanic and for our project we can just act out the sinking!” I suggested, sounding as excited as I could. “Rae, you can be Rose and I can be Jack. Jasmine, you can be the iceberg and Jared, you can be the ship.”

            “Why would Rae be Rose? She is supposed to be like pretty.” Jasmine said with an attitude. Ouch! That was mean.

            “That’s my point! Rose is the pretty one and the iceberg is the, well uh other one.” I said smiling. After saying that, I turned to Rae and winked. She didn’t look too happy. I guess I was getting the cold shoulder.

            “Oh um technically Jack and Rose aren’t in the true history of Titanic.” Jared said trying to steer us off the topic of the skit.

            “Well I think we should add it in to make our project more interesting. Like Jasmine said, no one wants to hear about a dumb old ship that sunk and killed people. How about you write a paper on all you know about Titanic and you can’t leave out any details.” I said trying to make this more interesting for Jared. “And then Rae, Jasmine, and I can work on the skit” I thought my offer was pretty good.

            “Well that’s sounds good. Plus, I think I would work better alone.” Jared then turned around and started writing on a piece of paper. Wow that project wasn’t even due until the end of the year and he was already starting? What a loser. So back to our little play.

            “Considering I am nothing important in this dumb thing I guess I could write the thing.” Then Jasmine turned around and started texting on her phone I could tell she wasn’t going to get started on it anytime soon. Then I turned to Rae.

            “So since there is so much lip locking in Titanic how about we start practicing now?” I said jokingly. But man, she totally took that the wrong way.

            “Whatever.” She said as she rolled her eyes and turned back to her desk. Well if I do say so myself, this was a very successful class.