Chapter 1 - Reunited

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Hayley's POV

I sit on the bus blasting my headphones.

"God I cannot wait to get a license." I thought to myself.

After the bus driver picks up the rest of everyone, we make it to the school and I walk through the building with looks upon looks.

"Oh god." I thought to myself as I made my way to my Film and Photography elective class.

I walk in and look for my name on a desk (A/N- I know it sounds like 2nd grade, but in high school, they still do it to me.)

I find my name and sit in the desk and I pull out my phone. Then someone sits to the right of me and I glance.

It's Mitchell Hughes.

Then someone sits to the left of me.

It's Jerome Aceti.

I roll my eyes in disgust. "Hey, do I know you?" a voice asks me. It's Mitch's voice.

I turn to answer but the bell saves me and the teacher begins to take roll call. She begins to call names.

"...Mitchell Hughes?"

He raises his hand, "Call me Mitch." The teacher nods and smiles. "Hayley Johnson?"

I raise my hand and I hear whispers around the classroom as she finishes roll call.

"Okay my name is Mrs. Williams and I am your Film and Photography teacher. To start of the school year, we will be doing a project that will take a few weeks. It will require time out of school so make plans and exchange phone numbers, Part 1 of the project is due Friday which is in 3 days. I know there are some new students so I will put you into groups."

I groan. She starts to call off the groups, but they are going in alphabetical order.

Wait a minute...

"Mitch Hughes and Hayley Johnson will be a group." Mrs. Williams says.

Oh. Hell. No.

I feel Mitch's eyes on me and I shift uncomfortably in my seat. After she calls off the rest of the groups, she tells us to get together to plan.

I turn to face Mitch.

"I couldn't tell that was you Hayley..."

"Yeah, you know, ex-best friends don't talk after all that shit happened."

"Loo-"

"I don't want to hear it, right now just work on the damn project."

"Damn, you changed."

I gave him an annoyed look. "Really? I couldn't tell." He laughed.

I'm supposed to be mad at him, not try and socialize. But I couldn't help myself but to laugh as well.

I look around and see eyes move towards our way. I shift uncomfortably in my seat and Mitch eyes my shifting.

"They are probably just looking at you in shock. Don't let them get to you."

"I really can't when your girlfriend keeps giving me dirty looks."

Yeah, along with me being out of his life, he got a stuck-up bitch of a girlfriend named Kelsey.

"Just ignore her and help me with this project. Part 1 is due Friday remember? Speaking of, how about you come home with me to work on it?"

"How about no?" I thought to myself.

"Sure, my 7th hour is Math."

"So is mine!" He says laughing.

Great.

I politely smile and draw up a rough sketch of our movie we have to film.

"So I know you are good with cameras. Care to teach me?"

Hayley, you hate him. Stop.

"Sure, I wouldn't mind if you teach me how to draw." He says looking through my sketch book.

I take it out of his hands. "Fine, I think it's fair."

"You still hate me don't you?"

"Yup." I say as the bell rings and I walk to Language Arts.

(skip till end of the day.)

Hayley's POV

I walk out of Math with Mitch getting more stares in the hallways. I walk to my locker and grab my bag as well as he does and we walk to his car.

I sit in the passenger awkwardly. We pull up to Mitch's house, and it is exactly how I remember it.

"Hi! Who is this Mitch?" Mitch's mom asks as we walk in.

"Remember Hayley?"

"Oh my goodness you have changed quite a bit!" She says.

I smile. "Thanks."

"We will be in the basement. We have a project to work on." He grabs my hand and leads me to his basement.

I look around and see his recording equipment.

"Will you ever warm up to me? I am sorry for what I did."

I look at him.

My smart mind tells me no.
My forgiving heart tells me yes.

"I guess we can start over."

He sticks his hand towards me. "My name is Mitchell Hughes, what's yours?"

I laugh. "Hayley Johnson." I put my hand in his and shake it.

We work on the project for an hour and get most of it done. I show him a few ways to draw a few things and he shows me his recording things.

"You wanna record with me?"

"Sure." I say grabbing a controller and sitting on his couch. He sits next to me really close to me. We decided on Modern Warfare 3.

We join a map and Mitch begins his intro. "What's going on doods, its Mitch or BajanCanadian here with some 1v1 on Modern Warfare 3 with Hayley!"

"Hey doods, you don't know who I am." I laugh.

"Nah, she's a cool chick. I've known her for a while now."

"Thanks dood." I say sticking my tongue out towards him.

I destroy him 26-4 and once the final kill cam is played, Mitch and I are literally screaming.

"I got destroyed by a chick!" He says laughing

"Boom!" I say laughing as well.

"Well, thanks for watching doods, I'll see you next time!" He ends the recording and we sit back on the couch.

"You were obliterated. By me." I say proudly.

He laughs and it became silent.

He looked at me and I looked back smiling.

And out of the heat of the moment, both our faces jolted towards each other

And we kissed.
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Hopefully you like it so far!

This story will be a little bit shorter, maybe, idk honestly

Thanks for Reading!

Much Love<3

-Emily

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