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"Glad you're back, bitch." I held up my middle finger, while I screamed at Lara from across the parking lot. She returned the gesture and came running towards me.
She leaped onto my back and almost toppled me over.
"Get off me!" I pushed her off and we started for the building.
"Where's Ethan, thought he would want to see me after a whole week. Guess not though! What an asshole!"
"I don't know, I haven't been able to talk to him. Except during school." I shrugged off the thought.
"Damn, your mom is so strict. I can't believe she took your phone away. I didn't get any punishment."
"Lucky you. Imagine what would have happened if I was the one who got in the fight. I would be grounded for life." We walked through the doors and still didn't see Ethan anywhere.
"Where the fuck is he? His car is here." I opened my locker up and Lara opened hers. A little note flew out of my locker and I hesitantly picked it up.
Skipping the first couple hours with a group of people. Would have asked you but you didn't have your phone and it was last minute. Didn't think you would want to come anyway :) -Ethan
I crumpled up the note and stuck it in a pocket of my back pack. I couldn't be mad, I didn't have a phone to where he could tell me. I told Lara and she crossed her arms.
"He could've asked me!"
"He probably didn't want to leave me alone. Seems like a lot of people are gone." We looked around the hallway and we didn't see a lot of familiar faces we usually see.
M Y B G F
I didn't expect for Ethan to be gone all day, All of them were gone. I was left alone with Lara and people I barely talk to.
I was walking down the hall, when suddenly, my binder for chemistry was on the floor and I was face to face with a guy I had never seen before. He pulled his hoodie off his head and bent down to pick up my binder.
"Sorry... I'm kind of clumsy." I laugh and he looks into my eyes and smiles. He hands me my binder and puts his hands In his pockets.
"It's fine. I can be clumsy sometimes too. Where is your next class, maybe you could help me find mine. I'm new here, I started yesterday."
"Oh, totally! By the way, my name is Payton."
"My name is Biscuits, cheese biscuits!"
I looked at him confused and he erupted into laughter, making people furrow their brows. He looked back at me and gave a softening look.
"It's a joke, my name is Cogan."
"I like that name... anyways, my next class is chemistry. What's yours?" I grabbed his schedule from his hand and read the sixth hour class.
"Wow, chemistry II, just like me! Let's go."
We walk into the almost empty classroom, and Lara gives me a look. She then wiggles her eyebrows and shimmies her shoulders. I roll my eyes at her and gesture for her to come over. She gets off the table and walks up to me and Cogan.
"Hi, I'm Lara! And you are smoking hot, watcha doing here?" Lara gives him a flirtatious smile and he laughs.
"Well, I'm new. And my name is Cogan." We followed Lara to go sit down and start class. Chemistry was so boring. You'd think we would do experiments, but Mr. jones is so lazy! We really just sit and talk, easy A, but I kind of wish we learned sometimes.
"Where is everybody, I noticed a lot more people here yesterday."
"A bunch of them skipped."
"Why didn't you and Lara?"
"Not much of a skipper. Also because I don't have my phone and couldn't be asked to tag along."
"Mhm, I see." He gave me a mischievous grin and looked down at my hands. "You have a tattoo?" He pointed to the diamond tattoo on my middle finger.
"Yeah, actually. I have four." I pulled up my sleeve and revealed my wrist.
"What do they all mean? Usually tattoos have meanings."
"Well, I have a diamond on both of my middle fingers, because I'm queen. When I flip people off they see it. The heart stands for my grandpa, when he passed I got it to remember him. The anchor is to remember that everybody is going to try and pull you down, but you have to keep trying to stay up."
I smiled and looked at my wrist. I looked up to see a goofy smile plastered across his face. My cheeks turned red and I looked down at the table.
"I like your style. You remind me of myself, except girl form."
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