the new girl

Chapter 8

As we get to the park, V childishly runs to the slide. I laugh quietly as I make my way to the swings, sitting down I look up at the sky. It's a really bright day...I prefer rainy, cloudy days but being in the sun is way better than sitting in algebra.

V sits beside me and asks, "Whatcha thinking about?" "Algebra." I reply. He looks at me saying, "The whole point of skipping school, is to get out of doing work. Why are you doing algebra in your head?"

I laugh, "I'm not doing algebra! I'm thinking about how awful it is!" He grins saying, "It is pretty bad. I think I'm failing that class, I can't do math." I sigh, "Can anyone actually enjoy doing fractions? No." I swing lightly back and forth before v stands up and gets behind me.

I curiously look at him, getting ready to ask him what he's doing, before he starts pushing my swing, "V. Stop." He laughs saying, "No!" He pushes my swing with more force, almost making me fall out of the swing.

I squeal and yell, " V! PLEASE STOP!! I'M GOING TO FALL!" "Hold on tighter!!" I squeal a bit more as I hear him laugh before he stops the swing completely, pushes me off and sits on the swing.

I pull myself off of the ground and dust my knees off, I turn around and glare at him as he laughs. He looks at me expectantly before saying, "Well?" "Well what?" I snap. He grins widely as he says, "Aren't  you going to push me?!"

I groan, quickly walking behind him to push the swing. He didn't go nearly as high as I did but he seemed to be enjoying himself. He jumps out of the swing and looks at his phone, "It's 11:05! Fifty five minutes until we have to go back, it took us ten minutes to walk from school to the ice cream shop, fifteen minutes to walk from the ice cream shop to here. All together that's a twenty five minute walk from here to school, which means we only have thirty minutes to do whatever before we have to go back to school."

"Is there anywhere you want to go?" I ask. He looks at me before saying, "Wanna go get lunch? I don't want to eat the crap in the cafeteria today." I nod my head before asking, "Where to?" He grabs my wrist for the second time this day and drags me out of the park. "We're going to a coffee shop!" He says walking towards the direction the school was in.

We open the door and all at once, he smell of freshly brewed coffee hit us. "OK Taylor!! You go find a seat, I'll get you something really good! Trust me!" I nod and make my way to the very back. I sit in a spot away from the window and close to the bathroom.

After waiting about ten minutes, I see V walking cover to the table with two Bagel's. He plops down in front of me and hands me one, "Woah," I start, " These are huge!" "....like my dick.." he whispers. I look at him strangely before he says, "...sorry. I'm used to hanging out with the guys and we all joke arou-nevermind! Eat."

I take a bite of my bagel as he awkwardly shifts in his seat. Looking at him I ask, "Aren't you going to eat?" He grabs his bagel and practically shoves it down his throat.

After we get done eating, I look at v asking, "What time is it?" "11:25." He replies then quickly adds, "Five minutes!" I grab my wallet from my purse, "Taylor, I already paid..." "I know, I'm getting Kiley some hot chocolate."

He smiles saying, " Aw! You really care for your friends!" I laugh, "No. I mean, I do care! But the hot chocolate is just so that she forgives me for leaving her with random guys for four hours. We live with each other, so I won't hear the end of it if I don't do this."

"You guys live together?" V questions as I hand the cashier four dollars for the hot chocolate, "Yes. We do." I reply, then add, "She came yesterday. I didn't even know she was moving in until she was literally at my door." The cashier hands me the hot chocolate and v walk up to the door and holds it open for me.

As we walked back to school, a peaceful silence falls over us.