The New Kid

Chapter 4

Justin POV

I hopped into my car and just sat there. I sat there and thought about if I should just leave right now or if I should at least finish the rest of the school day off. Before I knew it, Michael called me. I picked up.

M: Justin

J: Yeah

M: I just got a call from your school

J: Oh yeah?

M: Yes really. Justin why are you skipping already? It is your first day, you don’t want the staff to label you as a bad kid who slacks off

J: Oh my god, you totally guessed my nightmare. I would never want a teacher to think about me in that way

M: Ok Justin, you know what?

J: What?

M: I treated you very kindly knowing what you have gone through but if we’re not going to understand each other, there are going to be some consequences

J: Hahaha are you serious? Don’t make me laugh

M: Yes Justin. I am very serious

J: What will you do? Send me back to Stratford? Hahahaha

M: No Justin. I will take away your car and you will have to walk to school and all the other places you want to get to

J: Alright alright. I’m heading into class right now. Peace

I hung up. I couldn’t risk Michael taking this car away from me. I would have to walk from now on and that’s something that I am not planning on doing so I might as well listen to him.

I hopped out of my car and walked to the smoker’s pit which was relatively close to the school. I popped out a cigarette and placed it in my mouth. Before I could get my lighter out of my back pocket, my cigarette was already lit. I looked up at my cigarette then in front of me. It’s her. It’s the girl from Wal-Mart. She must’ve noticed me. Boy, she was beautiful.

“Hey.” She said.

“Hey.” I replied.

“I remember you from yesterday. Do you remember me?”

I tensed up. She was asking me about yesterday…

“Uhm... I have to get to class.”

I left her standing there and just walked into the school. I didn’t even look back; I just kept walking till I found room 232. I opened the door and walked in. Great, this was just great. The room was full of nerds, and I am not trying to be rude but I actually do mean it when I say nerds. I walked in and took a seat in the back, away from all the eyes. The teacher came in and introduced himself to me and gave me some work to catch up on. I am for sure going to fail this course.

The bell rang and I walked out of class. One more class to go and then I get to go home and sleep. I walked into the class, which was empty for some reason. I took my seat in the back and took out my phone and logged into twitter. I was looking through my feed when people started pouring into the class. The beautiful girl from earlier was also in the class. It is weird how I don’t even know her name yet. Guess I won’t be finding it out anytime soon.

“Ok class. We will be starting a new unit in two weeks. In order for me to give you a final grade on this current unit, you guys are going to be doing a project.” The teacher said.

A bunch of groans were heard from the class. I honestly had no clue what the teacher was talking about so I was just staring out the window to the right of my desk.

“No worries. This time, you guys will be working on this project in pairs.”

My head shot up. We had to work in pairs?! No way, I just got here. Who would want to work with me? I was about to get up to ask the teacher if I could just work alone when he started talking again.

“Okay, I have written all your names to the online group generator. It will mix your names up and tell you who you will be working with for this project.” He said.

“Chris and Anna, Laura and George, Justin and Ariana…”

I was hoping that I would get partnered up with one of those geeky guys who would complete most of the work but once I heard a girl’s name being called as my partner, I knew this was gonna be hard for me..

Ariana POV

After Mr. Anderson called out our partners names I got up and went up to him.

“Mr. Anderson, I do not know who my partner is.” I told him.

“Oh, he is a new student. You see the young man sitting in the back? That’s him.” Mr. Anderson replied.

Oh my god. Am I lucky or what? I wanted to get to know him and I got my wish granted.

I walked up to Justin with my books in my arms. I stood in front of his desk and cleared my throat to get his attention. His head shot up and he looked up at me.

“Hey, I am your partner. My name is Ariana.”

He nodded slowly, not taking his eyes off mine. I pulled a chair and put it next to him. I sat down and set my books on his desk. I looked closely at his tattooed arm. He had really good designs on his arm. I was just staring him down when I locked eyes with his. I quickly removed my glance and looked down.

“So listen. For this project I was thinking if we could work after school hours on it? Because I am sure we won’t get it done if we just work on it in class…” I said.

“Yeah sure.” He mumbled.

“Can I get your number?” I asked him.

“Okay.”

He wrote his number in my phone and I wrote mine in his. I was staring at his eyes, they were just so beautiful. I think he noticed me staring, again, because he got all uneasy. It was almost time to go.

“Let’s do the project at your place today, okay?” I asked him.

“If you don’t mind working in a motel, then sure.” He said while giving out a small smile.

“No, I don’t mind. I guess you can text me the address later today?”

“Yeah, I will.” He said and then left the room.