We the Running

Chapter 8 (POV Leon)

"Oh Than, we're over here!" Amanda calls to me and I believe Quinn too but. We walk over to the table were the rest of our "group" is seated. Tatyana smiles when Quinn sits next to Bentley. I watch Bentley wrap his arm around her shoulder and it makes me a little upset inside. I act like I don't notice them. The only thing is, I show a little discomfort. Bailey notices me against all m will.

"Hey Than what's wrong" she asks and I think quickly.

"I've never been in a cafeteria before, we don't have them in Canada," I tell her. I'm lying I have been in a cafeteria. Canadians don't have them though. "Well at least not like this one."

"Oh right this is very different for you all. I completely forgot," She responds. "What else is weird here in America for you?" Quinn looks at me like she has something to say.

"Well for starters you don't just know French and use it in everyday language," Quinn tells them.

"Ooh cool you know French?" Taylor says to her.

"Can you say something in French?" Tyler asks before Quinn can answer that she knows French.

"Um yes I know French. And yes I'll say something in it. Vous n'avez vraiment aucune idée de ce que je dis," she tells them. Quinn and I both knew french because of many reasons. I wait for her to tell them what she said. In all honesty, saying 'you really have no idea what I'm saying right now' was not a good choice in my book.

"Woah that was sweet, what did you say though?" Tyler says and I laugh. I laughed hard. Tyler looked to me, "what did she say? Was it that bad?"

"Oh she just said I'm saying random things to impress random people," I lie to them. Quinn starts to get salty. I can see it in her face. When she gets this way she actually speaks in French, violently.

"Idiot,ce n'est pas ce que j'ai dit, arrêtez de mentir!" She yells at me. I know she didn't say that though, but she didn't have to call me an idiot.

"Je sais, je faisais une blague," I tell her. The others at our table look at us as we yell at each other in French.

"Tu aurais pu me dire que tu plaisantais!" she shouts at me. Her face gets really red.

"Personne ne se soucie, Britney" I tell her. she gasps and I know she wants to say something but can't think of it.

"Je m'inquiete que tu m'as gene, Leon" she says. As soon as Leon comes out of her mouth, she knows she messed up.

"Ce n'est pas mon nom dans cette école," I tell her. No, not tell. I practically screamed it at her.

"Woah okay okay you can speak French, please stop yelling," Bentley inputs. He is is the middle of the entire thing, so I understand.

"Je te deteste," Quinn mumbles to me. I glare at her.

"Tu m'aimes," I tell her and she flips me the bird.

She does. 

"Let's move on from French all together," Tatyana states, "how was everyone's first day so far?"

"Taty you sound like a teacher," Carly inputs, "but mine was awesome. Garrett Seeds asked me out to the back to school dance on Saturday."

"First, we don't have a back to school dance. Second, Garrett Seeds goes to Pendleton," Bailey adds.

"I know but he's taking me and not someone from his school," Carly says all dreamy.

"Is that even allowed?" Taylor asks.

"I don't know," Zack answers. I have to put my two cents in about the topic, but my french switch hasn't turned off.

"Probablement pas. Je ne pense pas que ce serait," I tell them and I see Bentley roll his eyes. "Sorry, I hadn't turned it off yet in my mind. What I meant to say is Probably not. I really don't think it would be."

"Than I have a question it's kind of personal but Carly and I want to know," Amanda tells me. 

"Um fire away I guess,"I say nervously.

"When you talk dirty to a girl, do you do it in French or English? I feel like French would be more sexy," she asks. My face goes red because she was true about the French thing, but I know what to say.

"Well you'll just have to find out," I say and everyone reacts differently. Some oohs and some OH's. The worst was the slap across my arm from Tatyana.

"Than, that was inappropriate!" she says.

"Aww come on I wasn't that bad," I try to sound like one of the people you see in movies.

"You disgust me," Quinn says to me.

"Tu m'aimes," I tell her.