To Write On My Shoes

Chapter 5 ~ Caleb

Hello!!

Didn't really have a great chapter name so... yeah, you have a name as a chapter. 

This chapter will let you get to know Caleb little more. Feel free to comment...

~Madison~

Alexia's POV

I sat at my desk angrily. I really hated Joel, and he did this all the time. I honestly couldn't believe that I had ever dated that no good, jerky guy.

"Hey!" I look up from my phone and see Caleb. He slid into the desk beside me. 

"Hello." I greet him with no emotion in my voice.

"You okay?" He asks me. Before I can answer the teacher begins the class. 

"Alright, everyone roll call." Mrs. Whitread is kinda old, and she doesn't have the best memory for names. So she continues to do the roll call while my other teachers have learned our names by now."

I drown her voice out until I hear mine. 

"Alexa Montgomery." She mispronounces my name.

"Present. And my name is Alexia." I stress the ia in my name. 

"Of course. I'm sorry, Janet Nicker?" She moves on to the next name. She'll get it right for the rest of the week, but when Monday shows up once again Mrs. Witread will make the same mistake. 

Oh well... another reason to hate Mondays.

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Finally, lunch is here, and unlike the movies where you sit in your station like the following: Nerd, Jock, Popular, Musician, and other unnecessary ways to define people. You sit with whoever you're friends with. 

My table if I must define it has Kenzie (popular rebel who doesn't skip classes), Caleb (a jokey athletic guy), Thalia (the cheerleader heartthrob that is in love with Caleb), Mikey (The gaming hacker nerd), James (musician and varsity guy), and me (sarcastic nerdy converse loving girl), so yup. That's my table, definitely not just one clique. I'm really not even friends with Thalia, or James, they sit here for Caleb. We are honestly pretty diverse group.

"So what was wrong earlier?" Caleb sits by my side. 

"It was just Joel. I hate that guy." I tell him. 

"So do I!" Kenzie sits on my other side. She then looks over at the table where Nick is sitting. "He is such a flirt!" Nick is telling a bunch of girls at his table things, and they are flirtingly laughing.

"Why do you even care?" Mikey asks Kenzie as he, Thalia, and James sit down. "You don't even like him."

"I know..." Kenzie tells all of us at the table. "He's my neighbor, so I can be upset when he's annoying." I can tell she's lying, I know she has a crush on him. If she feels like she has to lie though, I'm not going to confront her.

"Anyway." Thalia tries to get a conversation with Caleb, but before she can even officially address him. Caleb turns to me.

"What exactly did Joel do?" I clench my fists. As sweet as Caleb is I don't really want to talk about it.

"Same old stuff," I tell him. "It doesn't really matter." Caleb smiles at me.

"Well, it's a good thing your dating me now." He whispers to me. 

"For sure. I don't know what I would do without you." I sarcastically whisper back. Caleb always can make me smile. We both laugh before continuing on with lunch. 

I glance over at Nick and see that he's staring at Kenzie who is playfully bantering with James and Mikey. I thought for sure I saw jealousy in his eyes before he turned back to the girls.

"So what are you guys talking about?" I turn back to the table. 

"James was talking about the game he has this Saturday." Kenzie looked at me. 

"My birthday's this Friday," Caleb tells everyone at the table. 

"I know! You've told us like a hundred times!" I laugh. 

"For real no one cares." Kenzie jokes with him. 

"I care." Thalia volunteers. Caleb chokes on his food as she says this. Mikey, James, Kenzie and I all try to hold in our snickers.

"Thanks," Caleb tells Thalia. She smiles brightly at him. "All of my grandparents are coming to visit. My grandpa and grandfather are really good friends. We're going to pick out a car maybe!"

"That'll be cool!" I smile at him, he smiles back and for a brief moment my heart flutters.

Sooo... what do you think??

Let me know in the comment section below! Also, feel free to vote!

~Madison~