Cold Hearts

Part title

I left the Shake Shack after James Paid for my bill, I did try to pay for it myself but James wouldn't take no for an answer. When I was finally home the clock on my phone read 10:30pm, mom is going to kill me for sure. I pulled into my driveway, grabbed my things and headed inside.
Once I walked in I took off my shoes and was about to head up the stairs but I was spotted by my mom but since the lights were off in the hall I could tell she couldn't tell it was me.
"Clair is that you?" why would she think I was Clair when she was already home? Or at least I thought she was. "no mom it's Kay" my mom came towards me and once she was close enough I could see the tear stains on her cheeks, my instinct was to give her a tight hug so I did.
"Mom what's wrong?" she pulled away from my embrace; she looked so broken... it was as if, if I even gave her the tiniest of a squeeze she would crumble to the floor in pieces. "Clair hasn't come home yet and I think something is wrong... what if something terrible happened to her? You saw her at school... did she look ok did she seem off to you?" I frowned my brows in confusion and shook my head.
"No she seemed fine at school... maybe she is still at her friend's house, she just must of lost track of time" I knew I couldn't tell her she was out with a boy... mom would have freaked out even more. For once I was going to try and be the cool sister and cover for her, I knew she wouldn't just leave my mom hanging, she would come home eventually.
"Then why isn't she answering her phone?!?!" it took me a minute to come up with answer but I finally found the right one to answer with. "Maybe her phone died, and is waiting for it to charge? Like come on mom this is Clair she would never ignore your texts on purpose, and maybe since it's late she decided to stay at her friend's house for the night, I think she told me she was working on a project with Allison" wow I'm actually surprised I came up with that and I made it sound so convincing.
"yea you're right, I'm just being a nervous, crazy mom... ok well make sure when you see her tomorrow to text me so I know she is ok" I nodded my head and after that my mom went up the stairs and went to bed. I can't believe she actually bought that... god I'm such a smooth criminal.
Before heading to my room I pull out my phone and shoot Clair a quick text. : You owe me big time Clair:
I let out a deep sigh as I head up the stair and into my room, I changed into my pj's and went straight to bed. 
~ Next Day ~
*beep* *beep* *bee-. Groaning at my alarm was always a part of my morning routine, I sit up and rest my back on my head board as I rub my eyes to take away the sleep from my eyes. I look over to my alarm clock and it read 6:30am... why must school be so early? No better question why must school be a thing?
I slowly get up and put my clothes together to plan out my look for the day my phone buzzed, I looked over to where it was sitting on my bed and saw Clair's name pop up on the screen signaling that she sent me a text, a wave of relief washed over me, I pick up the phone to read her message, what I saw shocked me. : I owe you nothing : um okay I had two options here I could text her back a snide remark or I could just ignore her for now and wait to talk to her in person... I went with waiting since I don't feel like typing. I guess I'm going to have a talk with her when I get to school.
Once I was finally ready I grabbed my lunch and headed to school. The ride to school was a bit boring and quiet so I turned on the radio and hum to the tune of the song that was playing, which slowly built up to me blasting the volume and singing at the top of my lungs to the song "Play that song the one that makes me go all night long... the one that makes me think of you, that's all you gotta doooo!"
Once I pull up to the school I park my car near the far end of the parking lot, I turn off the car and grab my bag from the passenger's side and head towards the school entrance. I enter the school and all I could here was the crowed halls gossip chatter, classes haven't started yet so most people are either in the cafeteria or standing around the main hall. I looked around to see it I could find any of my friends or even Clair but the only person I recognized was James and his gang of friends, a small few of them I knew and weren't rude people but others were what the parent's called the riff raff of the town.
I lean against the white bricked wall on the left side of the main doors and watched him and his friends laugh at something one of the guys said which made me wonder what they were talking about, little did I notice James was staring right back at me with a sideways grin on his face. What got me to notice was when he started walking towards me, I looked him up and down; he looked really good today with his leather jacket over his plain white t-shirt and blue skinny jeans. 
"It's not polite to stare you know even if the view is breath taking" he gave me a smug grin as he spoke, I roll my eyes, god why did he have to ruin those good looks with his personality?
"I wasn't staring I was merely questioning why someone like you could have quite a pretty face but no personality to go with it" I shrug my shoulders and smiled while James had a hurt expression on his face but it was gone and replaced with a smirk.
"Ouch I'm wounded truly but would you rather ponder on that question by yourself or with my friends and I over there?" he nodded his head in the direction of his friends, was he really inviting me to come and chat with his friends? No way was I going to go talk to them I'd rather not like to stick out.
"Um I think I'll ponder alone thank wouldn't want to stick out like a sore thumb" instead of getting a reply back James grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me over to his group of friends. I tried to pull away but he was way stronger than me.
As we stood in front of the group I bowed my head in shyness... I hate meeting new people and even though my eyes were glued to the floor I could feel them staring at me probably judging me and nitpicking every little detail of my being.
"Alright guys and gals this is Kayrin, and Kayrin, this is the gang" I looked up at them and saw a few smile at me but I did receive a few glares from the girl with long blond hair as she looked down at James and I, I followed her gaze and saw she was glaring at James's hand still gently grasped around my wrist so I pulled my hand away and looked back up to lock eyes with a guy with jet black hair that was shaved at the sides he gave me a devilish smirk, which cause me to break eye contact and focus on James. I gave them all a small wave and smiled as James named them all one by one.
"That guy there is Cal" the guy with bright hazel eyes and ashy coloured hair smiled at me and waved his hand. "That's Jewel" a girl with a bright smile that went with her twinkling brown eyes and long wavy brown hair. 
"These are the twins, Sam and Jessie" James pointed to Sam first, his was blond and his hair was slicked back, James then pointed to Jessie, he on the other hand had most of his face covered with his fringe. Both of them did have the same feature but had different hair colours while Sam had blond hair, Jessie had brown hair, I gave them a nod as they smiled towards me.
"This is Mel, Kassi, and Blake" Mel gave me a sweet smile while pushing a strand of her strawberry blond hair out of her face. Kassi nodded her head as she folded her arms across her chest. As my attention shifts to Blake, I was intently wrapped in a tight bear hug. "It's very nice to meet you" her smile was warm and welcoming and I knew out of everyone she was going to be my friend.
"And last but not least these two are Vince and Chelsey" both of them look as if they were on high alert, very stiff and no emotion except for the glare Chelsey was giving me, I gave them a small smile and all I got in return was a smirk from Vince, just by the way he looked at me made me feel uneasy maybe it was just his image? He was the one who smirked at me earlier but I decided not to dwell on it I mean it's just a smile.
"Well it's very nice to meet you all" I gave them all the best smile I could muster which was hard since I can be super awkward when it comes to new people.
A few minutes later the bell rings for first period, as I was about to leave for class I was pulled away by someone grabbing my hand "Where are you trying to escape to?" his eyes pierced into my soul as he stared into my eyes. "Well there is this thing called class I have to get to... I don't want to miss my date with Napoleon" James held a funny expression "who the hell is Napoleon?" I gave him my best 'are you really that dumb' face before answering.
"He is a very angry short French man in history, we are learning about him in my history class, but I'm quite shocked you didn't know that since t" e two of you have something in common" James smirk as he gave my hand a light squeeze "and what would that be?" I rolled my eyes and moved closer to him so we were only inches apart, I poked his head "causes both of you are small minded" I let out a loud laugh as James's expression changed to an almost annoyed look. It took me a few minutes to recover from my outburst but once I did James spoke up.
"Haha very funny, anyways let me escort you to your date with my twin" I let out a light giggle at his joke and I agreed for his to walk me to class since I didn't want to argue. As we walked down the halls James still had a hold on my hand, I tried to tug it away but his grip would only tighten every time I tried, I couldn't really understand why he was holding my hand... why did he even want to? Wasn't holding hands a thing couples do? Since I kept asking myself these questions and not being able to answer my big mouth thought it would be a good idea to ask James instead of my mind just staying in the unknown.
"James" he looked down at me with a smile and nodded for me to continue "Um why are you holding my hand?" instead of answering my question like a normal person, James decided to just pull his stare away from me and back focusing on the hallway... I mentally groan, it was such a simple question! Why on earth couldn't he give me an answer?!
Now we were in front of my class's door and James rubbed his thumb over my knuckles before letting go of my hand, the whole time I just watched his eyes look down at our hands and as they separated he slowly brought his gaze to meet my own. So I decided to ask him my question again.
"so now are you going to tell me why you were holding my hand?" James remained silent so I continued to speak "ok well if you're not going to tell me then I'd rather you not hold my hand since people will get the wrong idea" James then moved closer to me and spoke " and what kind of idea would they get?" as he held she gaze to mind I felt a bit flustered under his stare, did he really not know what I was hinting at?
"Um... you know..." I didn't want to say it since I thought it was pretty clear what I was hinting at, James shook his head "No I don't know what you mean" he moved even closer to me as he waited for me to answer his question, I was about to speak but I was interrupted.
"well hello miss Ryland how nice of you to join us! Now could you come take your seat so I can start my lesson, you can talk to your boyfriend later and Mr. Westfall I believe you have your own class to get to" my face heated up, I was probably as red as a tomato, and James chuckled at my embarrassment "Yes sir you're right... seeya later Kayrin" he gave me a wink before heading down the hallway as I was pulled into my class room, what made things worse is that the whole class was giggling and watched the whole thing... great.
I took my seat and got my stuff out for class.
As Mr. Wells talked about history I was more focused on the people whispering around me, I could tell they were talking about James and I which just made everything about earlier even worse
"I can't believe he went for someone like her" "I know right he could do way better, like me" the girls behind me snicker, I rest my head on my desk as I hear them talk about how James could do so much better, I mean was I that bad? I mean I know I'm not popular but was I not pretty enough or are the girls just jealous that James isn't with them? Wait what am I saying? I'm not even with James nor do I want to be... I think, I mean he was acting different today, he wasn't being the usual douchebag like he was the other day...
My thoughts were interrupted by the bell; thank god I rush to put my stuff away and head to my gym class. I push my way through the crowd to make it to my gym class in time. Gym was actually one of my favourite classes, I might not look like I'm in the best of shape but I loved sports and I loved to win. Once I got to the gym and went straight to the change room. I change into my black shorts and my blue tank top and tie up my running shoes before heading out of the room ready for class.
Mrs. Kankson or Mrs. K as everyone calls her came in with her whistle in hand giving it a blow which caused the sound to echo around the room. "Alright everyone start with warm up then after we are playing dough ball." I look around to see Zera since she is the only one I share this class with but she was nowhere to be found. Whelp I guess I'm doing my warm up by myself; I sit on the floor and start to stretch.
"Hey do you need someone to stretch with?" I snap my head up to see a tall guy standing above me, I stand up but his height still towered over mine. "Um yea sure, I'm Kay" I stretch my hand out in front of him, the guy chuckled "what?" I looked to him confused, he shook his head still smiling as he gave my hand a shake "oh nothing I just thought a hand shake was kinda formal for a teen" I crack a smile as I broke the handshake "well I'll have you know I'm not like most teens" he nodded his head "Oh I'm Drake by the way, today is actually my first day here" as he spoke I took this as my opportunity to get a good look at him; he had light brown hair that was a bit shaggy but not a complete mess and his eyes were a soft brown, he had a very defined jaw line and quite the nice body, he was totally my type.
"oh well welcome to the school" I gave him a small smile and after that we started doing out stretches. Haft way through stretching the main gym doors were pushed open and in came James and his group of guy friends; I guess this is where they hung out on there spare. I could feel his stare on me as I stretched with Drake.
"Alright everyone time to pick teams" everyone got up from their spots and formed a line in front of Mrs. K. we all stood there waiting for her to pick the team captions.
"Ok let's go with the new kid and Sara" I nudge Drake to stand on the other side of the line so he was now beside Mrs. K and Sara. So our teacher let Drake pick first and he picked me since I was the only one he knew in the class, I walk over and as I do I hear wolf whistles coming from the bleachers, I roll my eyes knowing its James and his friends. I stand beside Drake and helped him pick out the rest of his team. 
Once everyone was placed on a team we each went to different sides of the floor and waited as our teacher placed the balls in the middle, she ran to the side of the court and shouted "READY, SET..." And then blew her whistle causing haft of the people to run for the balls in the middle, I hung back instead and just waited for a ball to get thrown my way. The balls were flying everywhere, I wasn't shocked that our team was losing since Sara and most of her team was filled with the most athletic people in this class. There were only five of us left on our side while they had eight on theirs... we were screwed.
Before I could even reacted I was taken out by Sara and made my way to the bench to sit and watch the rest of the game, once I sat down I saw in the corner of my eyes James walking over to my bench. He sat beside me but I paid no attention to him since I was more focused on who was going to win the game.
"You know we never got to finish our conversation earlier" of course he wanted to talk about this now... I mentally groan, I really didn't want to continue that conversation. "Oh yea such a shame" I pretend to be nonchalant about it as I kept my eyes on the game.
James decided to bug me even more by saying "so what exactly were you going to say back there? You know before we got interrupted" oh my god really why is he doing this to me? He can't actually be that clueless!
"Are you truly that dense? I think it was pretty clear what I was going to say" I turn and look at him giving him a 'are you really that dumb' look which only cause him to laugh "well I wouldn't say I'm dense but I want to hear you say it" I knew he was just doing it to bug me! But I knew he would never give up so I caved in and said it "ok fine... I was going to say people are going to think that you're my boyfriend" he let out a chuckle before answering "but I am your boyfriend" um what? No, when in the hell did that become a thing? I felt so flustered and wasn't quite sure what to say.
"Come on Kayrin don't you get it I'm your friend who is a boy last time I checked" he wiggled his eyebrows at me and I only get annoyed "I am going to kill you! That's not what I meant you ass hat! I meant like a couple" I smack his arm, at first he was shocked but then he grew a grin and busted out laughing.
"Ass hat huh? Never heard that one before" I roll my eyes as he continued to laugh, I'm at the point where I think my eyes are going to pop out at how many times I roll my eyes at him. After that I join in on his laughter "well stick around kid cause there is more where that came from" I gave him a cringy wink and shoot out two finger guns while I made a clicking noise. Once he let out another laugh my heart swelled and now knew my favourite part of today was his laugh alone being able to make him laugh was like music to my ears, no matter what I'd say I would be able to brighten his day and knowing that made my day a little brighter.
James and I ended up have light banter throughout the rest of the game and now everyone was heading to the change rooms to get out of their sweaty gym gear, as I got up ready to go get changed James spoke.
"I'm going to take you out to lunch" well that came out of nowhere "um last time I checked you're supposed to ask me first not just assume I'll come with you" James playfully rolled his eyes "ok fine Kayrin will you do me the honor of joining me for lunch?" he held one hand to his chest while the other grabbed my hand, my face heated up at the touch of his hand.
"fine... I mean yes you may take me out to lunch but this time I'm paying for my own food" he smiled at my answer "nope I can't make any promises I mean I'm still haunted by the fact that I proved you wrong" James gave me a wink as he let go of my hand, I shook my head and giggled but it faded once Drake came over to us.
"Hey Kay do you have any plans for lunch?" I was about it give my answer but James answered for me, but what he said shocked me as he wrapped an arm around me "yea, no sorry jockstrap she has plans with me right babe?" BABE?!?! Are you kidding me right now? I was too shocked for words, Drake held a look of disappointment while James held a cocky smirk.
"Oh ok... well have fun... seeya around Kay" as he walked away he hung his head low as he went to the boys change room. Not saying anything I smacked James in the arm once again but this time a little bit harder "Ouch!"
"Why are you like this?!" "Why did you hit me?!" he barked back as he rubbed his arm to sooth the pain. "Because you are a fuck nugget! That's why!" James rolled his eye "Oh come on what were you gonna say? 'oh no sorry I already made plans to go out for lunch with my friend even though I don't want to just be his friend because he is the most beautiful guy I've ever met'" he batted his eyelashes like a bugs bunny in that one episode of looney toon's where he was a Viking lady riding on a fat white horse, he also tried to pull off a high pitched voice which sounded nothing like any girl on this planet.
"I DON'T SOUND LIKE THAT!" I lightly punch his arm but it was playful. "ouch man you must really like me... since you keep hitting on me" oh my that was just awful "you should be put behind bars with that pun cause you are nowhere close to being puny" I giggle as I walk away to the girls change room before James could say anything more.
Once the bell rang I was walking out of the change room to find the gym empty except for James standing near the exit, I walk over to where he was standing which caused him to look down at me "Ready to go?" I simply nodded my head and followed him out into the hall, which were completely packed with teens heading to the cafeteria; James grabbed my hand and pulled me through the crowd. Instead of arguing about him holding my hand I let it slide since I didn't want to lose him in the swarm of people. The down factor was since I let James hold my hand, I could feel the people staring at us as we walked down the halls, my cheeks began to burn I hated being stared at it makes me feel like there is something wrong with me...
James didn't seem to notice the stares or he just didn't care, I admired that about him that he didn't care about what others thought, I wish I could be like that... deep down I always seem to care what others think when it comes down to how I act or what I say or even the way I part my hair. Once we made it out of the school I felt like I could finally breathe, James was leading me to his motorcycle but I stopped when I saw Clair walking with that boy from last night.
"Clair! Come here for a second!" she turns her head to look at me from afar and gave me a look of disgust and started to walk away, I let go of James's hand and march over to her, once I reach her I grab her by the shoulder and spin her around to face me.
"What do you think you're doing?!" her eyes were full of rage as she looked at me with a glare, my eyes grew wide as we came face to face, she looked different, her hair was all teased up with some strips of black and green, she was wearing black eye shadow and dark red lipstick, all her clothes were torn up with fish nets all underneath, who on earth was this girl?
"What do you mean? Last time I checked you were my sister and I can talk to you if I please!" she crossed her arms over her chest as she held a look of hatred "Well I'm busy so back off" I looked at her confused she has never acted like this towards me before, we've always been close... I don't understand did I do something to hurt her? No, that can't be it; James made his way over to me probably wondering why I'm taking so long. The boy who was with Clair just stayed quite beside her not uttering a word.
"Is everything okay over here?" James asked out of concern, he grabbed a hold of my hand and gave it a light squeeze. "Yea this bitch won't step off" I felt a pang in my heart... why is she being so rude to me? I didn't want to show I was hurt so I barked back at her.
"Who the hell are you?! And what have you done to my sister? Because you are defiantly not her... and who is this random kid you've started hanging around?" my voice was starting to raise up, I was pretty much yelling at her as I did James would squeeze my hand to calm me down but it didn't help much.
"This is who I've always been you dumb piece of trash and this is my boyfriend Izaiah not that you need to know golden girl anyways I'm done talking to you so go have fun getting knocked up by your bad boy and leave me alone" my body filled up with rage and sadness, I could feel the tears swell up in my eyes.
"I hope you know once mom finds out she is going to be heartbroken to find out what has become of her favourite! I can't believe I even covered for you last night when I should've just ratted you out!" out of nowhere she raised her hand and slapped me, my cheek stung and I knew it was turning red. I can't believe she actually slapped me, she was about to walk away but James stopped her "you're not going anywhere until you say sorry to your sister" his voice was deep and stern, Clair let out a laugh and walked back over to us.
"Ya you're right... I'm sorry Kay to think that a sack of crap like you could ever get knocked up by a hot rod like James! There happy I said I was sorry..." as she was walking away she spoke "Oh and Kay tell mom I won't be coming back home, I'm moving in with my boyfriend or you can just cover for me like the good little mama's girl that you are..." she walked away as the tears began to fall, I couldn't hold it in anymore, she was so evil... I let her walk away this time, I looked up at James and he held anger in his gaze, I could tell he was about to do something and I was proven right once he looked down at me and saw my tears which only made his expression harden, he let go of my hand and started to march over to her but I ran to him and wrapped my arms around his waist to stop him and held him close to my chest.
He turned and looked at me; I squeezed him tight as my tears started to stain his jacket. "Just let her go... please" I let go of him, my voice was small and my body trembled. He shifted his body so he was fully facing me; he shook his head "No! You don't deserve to be treated like that!" I was starting to feel afraid as he shouted at me, I bowed my head down not wanting to look up and see disappointment, I heard him let out a deep sigh and before I knew it my body was engulfed by James as he embraced me.
James held me close as I buried my head into his chest and cried, I let out everything I was holding in, it was like he broke down all my walls with just a simple gesture. James pulled away slightly "Hey come on shorty lets go get some lunch... and I'm for sure paying for your meal" he gave me a sweet smile as I looked up at him while my arms were still tightly wrapped around him.
"But I said I was paying for my-" James interrupted me and pressed a finger to my lips to stop me from talking. "No but's it's my treat" he whipped away one of my stray tears and had one arm draping my shoulders as he guided me to his car.