Perfect Strangers

Skylar Jones

I can't feel my face when I'm with you,

But I love it.

Chapter 4
Skylar Jones

How is it even possible? From all the people in one class, I had to be paired up with him to work together with. Of course things like these can only happen to me.

I have to work together with Cam, the boy that I met in the hallway who completely hates me, on this assignment that we got from mister Dick. What a poor guy by the way, why would his parents do this to him?

Cam has been nothing but rude towards me and he's the biggest asshole on earth.

He's a handsome asshole.

I tried to push that thought away with every strength that I had.

I already need to puke when I hear his name.

Okay, that was sadly the biggest lie I ever told someone.

But how am I going to work with him? He is probably going to let me do all the work especially when it comes to those practical exercises. What in the hell does that even mean?

I sighed while looking at the brown haired boy with his stupid beautiful brown eyes which were looking back at me in surprise. I can see that he doubts about his answer.

If he wasn't such an asshole..

But then again, he wouldn't like someone like me and of course he had to be as straight as pencil.

Why always the beautiful and unreachable boys. Cam is surely one of those. It's just so unfair that they always have to be straight.

"What do you mean with 'when' do we start? We're getting our first task next week so there isn't exactly 'something' to do" He says with a hint of irritation in his voice which also makes me grumpy.

"The meaning of the assignment is to get to know each other better so we both can make a good report. I don't care what you're going to make out if it, but I work for good grades compared to people like you so we can better start of right now so we're done with each other as soon as possible." I tried to make my statement and immediately felt a bit more confident about this situation. I finally went against him without stuttering.

Applause for me!

Maybe it's a bit of nonsense and I'm probably overreacting with already starting to get to know him. I just want to be with him even though I don't know why.

His arrogance is the thing that makes me so damn curious about the boy and it attracts me towards him. I want to see through him, I know that he is hiding something. He can't really be that mean. I just don't believe that he would be like that, so..

Dark.

It just can't. It's impossible, everyone has something good inside of them and everyone has that little sparkle of happiness inside them or else they wouldn't live. It's only on you if you're using it for the good or if you're just pushing it away.

On one side I want to go against him and put him in his place because of this. I know that I shouldn't involve myself with this, I'm eventually the one who's new here after all. I'm not that confident to suddenly start changing everything at a whole other school.

It's more that Cam needs to learn that he can't treat everyone like this and talk to them like they're rubbish. Okay, he may be attractive and may be popular and may have this godlike body and then his brown sparkly eyes, but let's go back to my point which is that even if he has all of those things that doesn't mean he can think like he's the king and have this influence on everyone here.

Has someone ever said something about this? There has to be someone that stood up for themselves? I hope that Cam realizes all of this stuff anytime soon and who knows, maybe there will be someone that he will love and actually listens to. Or maybe I'm the lucky one to stand up against him. Who knows.

It's pretty much impossible that he almost isn't happy or excited, that is what I heard from some other random people here. Also about this weird stuff about that he prefers to be called 'Cam'. He will literally ruin you if you won't.

The poor boy.. There was this kid yesterday, a freshman and he asked if he was the 'popular Cameron', you clearly saw that he looked up to Cam as if he was some kind of celebrity. Cam literally saw red and went mental, it eventually ended up with the boy crying and running away from the yelling Cam.

Of course I'm here on a school with cruel people and they all started laughing at the boy. I almost dare to bet that the boy doesn't want to come back to school ever again.

My gaze fell eventually on Cam who already looked at me with this weird face and really dark eyes. How can the colors of his eyes change so fast?

"Okay whatever, tonight there is a party at Jake's. Give me your number and I'll send you the details" He stretched his arm towards me and I give him my phone.

He's busy with it and almost looks innocent with his tongue slightly out of his mouth as he's typing something on my phone.

"Maybe I'll see you tonigh Skylar" For the first time ever he shot me a short smile before giving my phone back as he walked past me.

It wasn't only the smile that made me feel this way.

He remembered my name.