The Love Triangle

Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4

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The seconds lasted longer than usual as I watched Mathew and Hannah kiss. Britney and Sydney were trying to busy themselves as they waited. I needed a distraction too.

"Um, Claire?" I gain her attention. She looks at me, "I'm going to get going to my next class."

"Okay," she nods understandingly. "What classes do you have the rest of the day?"

"Uummmm," I wonder as I pull put my schedule. "Next I have english, history, lunch, free period, then cooking class."

"Cool! I have history and lunch with you, but that's it. I guess I'll see you then!" She waves and goes on her way.

I glance at Mathew and Hannah one more time, they're flirting now. I roll my eyes and trudge to my locker. No, I am not jealous! I just wasn't expecting them to be a couple.

I should've seen it coming though. Of course he would have a girlfriend! He has the looks, wittiness, and the popularity.

My train of thought is interrupted when I run into something. I rapidly become aware of my surroundings and notice I've bumped into a guy.

"I'm so sorry!" I exclaim. The dude dropped all his books, and papers are scattered on the floor. Now he's on the ground picking it all up. "It's my fault, I wasn't watching where I was going." I kneel down and start to gather all the papers.

"It's alright. These halls can get really crowded during passing time." I hear him reply.

I laugh nervously as he grabs the papers from my hands. We both stand up. He has brown hair and creamy dark brown eyes. He's tall and pretty muscular. By the way he responded when I rammed into him like that tells me he's kind, too.

"My name's Evelyn. Um, sorry again."

"Don't worry about it. My name's Caleb." He puts out his hand, I shake it. "I better get on my way, I'll see you around." He smiles and walks past me and out of sight.

I proceed to my locker and grab my books for the next class. The rest of my classes today I have with Mathew. Is he planning to tell me about his girlfriend? He didn't tell me about her earlier. Oh well, he can do what he wants I guess.

************Lunch Time*************

Lunch time is really busy. Masses of students were walking around and filling the tables. It smells like salami in here, ew!

There are rectangular tables scattered around and a wall with some windows looking out to the parking lot. The kitchen is across from the windows. There's an opening for the lunch ladies to give out food.

I was currently following Claire through the maze of tables. I was holding a light brown tray with a hamburger on it. She leads me to a table with a few girls and boys sitting at it.

"Guys, this is Evelyn! She's a new student here." Claire says to the people sitting at the table. She links her arm around mine and everyone says hi. We sit down and begin eating. The 30 minutes went by fast.

Claire's friends are awesome. Some of them are funny and kind, and some are sarcastic and loud. Either way they were all friendly, they made me feel welcomed. I can tell Claire is close with them and has fun with them.

Mathew and Lucas sat where I'm guessing is the popular table. In the middle of lunch they came over-despite all the curious stares-and sat with me. I can see the other populars giving us glares, but who cares! They're my friends too, so there. Later they went back to their table though.