It's along way home

Chapter 3~ How we all Met!

      It all started at Baxtoning middle school.I walked through the hallways with Gwen, we known each other since we were 5. We been there each other since as long as I can remember. Brendon is like an older brother to us . He always helped us with homework, problems and drama. Gwen has a crush on Brendon for some reason, I don't know why he's weirder than me. Dawn and Diego were best friends, Diego finally asked out Dawn in 9th grade. Gwen and I met Jane and Mark in 3rd grade so we all each other pretty well. Mark has a huge crush on Jane but scared to ask her out. Then there's Tim, Gwen says I have a crush on him but I'm not sure. He's a grade above me and a year older than me, so I don't think my aunt would approve of him.

I walked to my class with Gwen as we walked past Tim at his locker. Gwen trips me and Tim catches me. Gwen chuckles and walks into the classroom. "You okay?" Tim looks at me, I nod and stand up. "Good." Tim smiles and picks up his books on the floor. I go to walk away to go into my classroom but he grabs my arm. I look at Tim with an eyebrow raised. "I'm Drake, Tim Drake." He smiles softly and holds out a hand for me to shake. I take it and shake his hand. "Scarlet Benoit." I say as I smile, He looked at me kind of shocked. We both say goodbye and walk to our classrooms.

I walk in and sit with Mark, Jane, and Gwen. "Why did you trip me Gwen!" I'd whisper yell to her sounding pissed off. "Because you are totally falling for him duh!" She whispers back with a cocky smirk on her face. Mark and Jane chuckle over hearing us. "Listen, I just met him and plus he knows my aunt way to well!" I look at the teacher as she tell us what we're doing today. "Well you should totally go out with him, you guys look cute together!" Gwen said smiling like a moron. I shrug and do the assignment for the day. "Who is this person we  are talking about?" Jane asked and looked at the both of us. "Tim Drake." Gwen said smirking at me "Scarlet has a crush on him." My cheeks start to burn as a blush appears on them. Jane chuckles "Tim Drake huh? Mark, what do you think of him?" Mark looked at the table then looked at Jane "He's alright for a guy. I approve." Jane smiles and does the work. Mark and Gwen do the work and we all turned it in for the today. After that, the day went on and we went home on the bus.

It was great going through middle school with Mark, Jane, Gwen, and Tim. I had a lot of fun. Tim sat where him and I could talk, Gwen talked to him as well. Middle school wasn't as tough as I thought it'd be. During my 9th grade year, I had my first fight with Gwen. A girl was saying that I said some stuff behind her back. We worked it out though and that brought us even closer than before. During gym class the 9th and 10th graders got stuck in the same class with 7th graders. Gwen, Jane, Mark, Tim and I got stuck in the same class. The 7th graders all split into their little groups of 6 or 8. The first day of gym was basically a free day, so Gwen and I got a volleyball and hit it back and forward. Tim sat on the bleachers and watched us for mostly the whole period. The ball came over towards him and he hit it back over to us. Gwen got dismissed early for a doctor's appointment. "See ya after school Scarlet." Gwen said as she left. I waved to her as she walked to the locker room to change. Tim finally got up from the bleachers and tapped me on the shoulder. I looked at him with an eyebrow raised.

"Do you want to play one on one volleyball?" He asked, looking right at me. "Sure, why not?" I hand him the ball and we walk over to a volleyball net. We pretty much played each other the whole period. I helped clean up all the nets then went into the locker room to change. I walked to math class with Tim since he had English and the rooms were close to each other. We got to learn more about each other and chuckled at a couple of things. "Gwen was right you two  would make a cute couple." Jane said chuckling. Tim's face got kinda red and I looked  completely away from him. "Jane you ruined it, they were being cute together." Mark said and chuckled. Dawn had Diego's hand in one and her phone in the other. I don't really get how Brendon and Diego put up with her. Personally, I don't like her at all.

After school Gwen and I had soccer practice and Brendon stayed after school with us. We had soccer game coming up with in 3 or so weeks and we were playing a tough team. So, we practiced until 6 pm. I saw the football players and wrestlers running laps around the parking a lot. I walked back to the school and sat on the stairs until my uncle picked us up. "How was practice Scarlet?" My uncle said finally breaking the silence. "It was okay I guess." I said looking out the window all the way home. Mark and Jane were over at Jane's house playing video games all night, since it was the week end. Gwen was packing for the weekend since she's spending the whole weekend at my house. I'm surprised Dawn's not with Diego, I thought she would be glued to his side like at all times. Gwen arrived at my house about 7 ish. We watched horror movies all night with my aunt and uncle. Gwen and I made the popcorn while my aunt picked the movie. We switched rolls a couple of times.

My aunt and uncle fell asleep on the floor so we grabbed colored sharpies and drew on their  faces. Gwen was a way better drawer than I was so I just gave my uncle a uni-brow and a mustache. Gwen drew a kitty face on my aunt, it kinda looked cute on her. I took a picture of them and sent them to her so we could print it out and put it on their doors. I know they'll be pissed off at us but oh well, they know not to mess with us to much or I'll get my cousin in on the prank war. My aunt started to wake up, Gwen and I bolted up to my room and locked the door behind us. We stayed in my room the rest of the night and watched TV. The last time I looked at the clock it was 5:12 AM, then it all went black. Gwen was pasted out on my floor and I was half on and half off my bed. They go the sharpie off of their faces and checked in on us. My uncle picked up Gwen, putting her in the extra bed in my room then my aunt rolled me on my bed. They both left the room and went down stairs to make breakfast for us before we woke up. Gwen and I both woke up at almost noon, it was thunder storming out side. My aunt were cooking down stairs by the time we walked down and sat on the couch. "Morning girls." My aunt said cooking pancakes, waffles, bacon and eggs. My uncle was getting the table set.

"Morning." Gwen and I said at the same time, watching the morning news. Gwen changed the TV to sponge bob and got on her phone, to text her father. I played on my phone until I got a message from Jane saying ~"Hey I won't be at school for a couple of weeks I'm going to Disney World with Mark!"~ I show Gwen the text and she smiled. I texted back ~"K! Have fun and see you when you get back!"~ "We should all go on the trip in the beginning of the summer." Gwen said putting the breakfast on plates at the table. "That's sounds like a good idea." I got up and walked to the table with me. We both sat across form each other and ate. My aunt and uncle ate half of everything, fighting over who gets what. "Where will we go though?" I said shoving the last of the eggs in my mouth. Gwen shrugs "We're still in the school year so no need to think about it now." Gwen and I nod and finish eating. We take our plates ,and my aunts and uncle's plates, to the sink and wash the dishes for them. I put on some music while we do the dishes and my aunt and uncle went to their room. 

They played video games up in his room all day. The only time we seen them is when they were getting food. Gwen and I watched horror movies all day and had the lights off as well. My aunt and uncle were at work all day, not coming home until midnight or 1 am. We switched to the news at 6 pm and saw something about clowns on the news. "Not this again!" Gwen said hugging a pillow. "I hate clowns..." I said looking at my phone scrolling through Facebook. I got up and made all us peanut butter Oreo milkshakes. "I love your milkshakes." Gwen said drinking hers almost in a heart beat. "Thanks." I said to her as I filled up her cup again. Gwen and I sat back on the couch, continuing to watch The Silence of the Lambs. "This movie is kind of creep with the lights off." I said, sipping the rest of my milkshake. "Yeah, plus its storming out side." Gwen said, looking out the window at the sky. "The clouds are darker than normal aren't they?" I asked looking at them as well. 

"Yeah but isn't it getting dark out?" She said looking at me. "No, it's only 5:30. I'll tell my aunt in case something happens outside." I said, getting up. "Okay," Gwen said watching outside. I go up to my aunt's room and knock on her door. "It's open!" She yelled over my uncle talking. "Hey aunt Hannah... the clouds are darker then normal and it kinda freaks us out." I said looking at her, once I open the door. "We'll be down in a second, Okay?" My aunt said with a caring smile on her face. "Okay." I leave her door open and walk back down stairs to Gwen. "They'll be down in a second." I said sitting by her. "Okay." She said still looking out side. My aunt and uncle came down stairs and sat on the floor in front of us looking out the window, at the clouds. The clouds were a dark gray mixed with black. Thunder boomed louder than before. Lighting strike close to our house. We all sat there waiting.