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Chapter 3
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When we arrived at the cafeteria, she brought me right over to her lunch table that she sat at every year. Another girl showed up as well.
She had long, curly brown hair that perfectly complimented her golden-brown skin. Her eyes were brown and she gave off a very welcoming vibe.
"Hey, I'm Savanah," she said in a really laid back tone.
"Crystal," I replied and sat down. All lunch we just talked and I got to know them a lot better.
Savanah seemed very cool and super chill, in contrast to Scarlett's preppy and hyper self. Scarlett told Savanah about my encounter and she was just as surprised as Scarlett was.
After lunch, we went our separate ways (after exchanging numbers of course). When I got to fifth period I look around at my class.
I recognized that one of the boys who was in the group with Ashton was there. When he saw me his face lit up and he waved at me.
I looked behind me to make sure that he wasn't smiling at someone else, but there was no one else there. I walked over to him confused.
"You're the girl from the hall! That was pretty sick by the way," he said, digging through his bag for a pen.
"Um, thanks..." I said and sat down at a desk a couple away from his. Then he moved seats and sat right next to me. "What are you doing?" I ask him.
"The name's Kevin. And you are?"
"Crystal." I replied.
"How about Crys?" he asked and I looked at him.
"Crys?" I asked harshly and he nodded. "No. Crystal," I said then took my notebook out.
"Crys it is," he said as the teacher walked in the room and introduced himself as Mr. Budge.
The rest of the class was also spent learning the class rules and then at the end he gave us some free time to talk.
"So," Kevin began, "how's life?" He turned to face me with a big, goofy smile. It was honestly kind of hard to see him as a player.
"Why are you being so nice to me? Shouldn't you be like hating me or something?" I asked and chuckled.
"Well I think you're cool. We don't all have one mind in our group. We have three." He said and I got confused.
"I thought there were 4 of you,"
"Well I don't have a brain so," he said and we laughed. I guess I was wrong to assume that all of them were as much of a jerk as Ashton.
When the bell rang I looked at my schedule. I had a free period, and I mentally decided to go to the library and use my laptop.
On my way to the library, I stopped by my locker to grab my laptop, and when I closed it someone startled me. I gasped and almost shrieked, then I realized that it was Savanah.
"Wow, okay. I didn't think you got scared that easily," she said laughing and I smiled in relief.
"Well I do. Do you have a free period right now?" I asked and she nodded her head.
"Ya. I was just heading down to the library,"
"So was I," I added and she smiled at me. We talked as we were walking to the library.
When we got there we sat at a table. When we started talking again we quickly got hushed by the librarian and giggled. Being around Savanah and Scarlett made me want to keep that happy feeling in my chest.
"You know, the group isn't completely horrible, I don't think so anyway..." Savanah said and I shot her a skeptical look.
"They seem kind of horrible to me,"
"Only Ashton is a true asshole, the others are just asswipes," she explained and I chuckled silently.
"That Kevin guy seems fun," I said, hoping to get a response that would tell me if he's actually a douche or not.
"Yeah, Kevin's a goof. He's still a player though. Eli throws really good parties, but I'm pretty sure he just throws them to hook up with girls," she told me.
"And George doesn't really do anything... To be honest I don't even think that they like him that much," she told me, receiving another hush from the librarian, who kind of reminded me of the slug woman from Monsters Inc...
Savanah and I held in our laughter and resumed with our conversation.
"Why do you say that?" I whispered.
"You can just kind of tell, you know? They just are always sending him looks like he's done something wrong," she explained and I nodded understandingly.
"What do you have next?" I asked her, knowing that she wouldn't be in my class considering my luck.
"English. You?"
"AP Biology," I said and she looked disappointed.
We talked about the school for the rest of the free period- the apparently very strict hierarchy, the teachers, and even the best places to hide in the school if you wanted to ditch.
When the bell rang we sighed and got up. We went our separate ways to our lockers.
When I walked into biology, I froze in my place. I locked eyes with the same dusk blue ones as earlier. Ashton.
His face was straight, clearly lacking the ability to express emotion. Although I had a feeling that if I could read his face, it would show pure hatred.
I tried to swallow the lump swelling in my throat, to no avail. The feeling that I had in my chest from hanging out with Savanah had completely sunk back own into the depths of my heart.
While he looked like a freaking Abercrombie model sitting at his desk, I looked for the farthest desk from him. I broke our gazed when I looked towards the back of the room, where I spotted an empty desk and walked briskly to it.
I didn't dare look back over at Ashton as I sat down and waited for the teacher to come in. I felt his eyes upon me.
Seconds later, the teacher walked in, saving me from almost looking back up at Ashton.
"Good afternoon, class. I hope that you all had a good summer. My name in Mr. Gletzo and I will be your Biology teacher this year," he said and smiled around the room.
Why did the teachers keep saying what subject they were going to teach? Apparently we students weren't smart enough to figure out what our schedule said...
He continued, "And although I know that you guys must like sitting next to your friends and all, I'm afraid that I must assign seats," he said and everyone let out a groan.
Shit. I started to get nervous when he made us all stand up. "Crystal Summers... there." He said, pointing to the back left corner desk.
I went and sat down at the two person desk, waiting anxiously to find out who my desk partner would be.
He called out a couple names before finally calling, "Ashton Monroe." I assumed he pointed to a seat as I looked down at my desk, hoping that he didn't sit in the chair next to me.
I let go a breath of relief that I didn't know I was holding when Mr. Gletzo moved onto the next name. "Jack Collins, there." As he finished saying that, I heard someone sit in the seat next to me.
I moved my head up to see what Jack looked like, only to find myself choking on air. Sitting next to me was a pretty pissed off and slightly blue Ashton, glaring down at the desk.
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Hey guys!
Hope you all are enjoying it so far, your comments on the teachers' names have me chuckling cuz they're all the names of teachers I've had in the past bahahah.
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