unexpected | gbd

one

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

"UGH!" I wake up from my peaceful slumber and tap randomly at my phone, trying to get the annoying alarm ring tone to shut the fuck up so I can fall back asleep.

"Brooke don't you dare fall back asleep!"my hovering step mother Karen opens my door and yells at me.

"You're not my mom, leave me alone." I grumble and roll over.

"What was that?" she says, cupping her ear with her long ass witch fingers. I roll my eyes. "That's what I thought." she says with a smug smile that I want to slap off her face. 

I get up and walk to the door.

"Out." I say, pointing. She stands still, shocked that I would even dare to talk back to her with my father cherishing the ground she walks on. 

"Out." I say more firmly, and she takes a step back, surprised. I smile sweetly and slam the door in her face.

"Okay. Now, school." I roll my eyes and turn back towards my bed running my hands through the tangled mess on the top of my head. I step into my bathroom, flicking on the light and cringe at the sight that faces me. I quickly brush my teeth and brush my nasty hair into a bun. I then slap on the basic makeup so that my teenager acne looks somewhat less intense? Satisfied with what's in the mirror, I step out of the bathroom and change into the basic teenager apparel, black jeans and a 1975 band tee. Average.

I tie on my white converse and rush out of the house, grabbing my keys and backpack on the way. Alright, now for prison. I really should just drop out and become a stripper. 

"I think not!" I hear my dad call from the couch. Shit, did I say that out loud? Fuck it. I walk out of the door and into my beautiful black jeep I saved up for since I was 13. I love my Kimmy. Yes, I named my car. Deal with it.

I hop in and drive the short ride to my best friend Gi's house. 

"What's up girlfriend!" she calls as she fake-struts over to the car, wearing her skinny jeans and a black crop top.

"Look at you lookin like a snack as always!" I reply, laughing. "No homo though."

"Of course. No homo you sexy beast." she winks dramatically and laughs as she slides in to the seat next to me. I give her a quick hug and pull out of the driveway.

"Starbs?" I ask, keeping my eyes on the road. I glance over to her and she gives me a look that says, "Do you even have to ask?"

"So." she starts as I pull out of the Starbucks drive-thru. "Prom is coming up," and I groan. "You need a date." she finishes.

"Gianna. Prom is literally in four months." I glare at her as I reach the school parking lot.

"So? I mean, I'm obviously going with Matt, you need a date. And to get a date, we need time. Lots of it." she laughs as I roll my eyes at her, smiling and get out of the car. 

We fall into step with each other as we go inside Long Valley High's crowded hallway. We push past the basic high school stereotypes filling the space. The stoners, the jocks, the mean girls, the emos, the nerds, the geeks, the band kids, until we finally reach my people. 

"Hey guys." I say and open up my locker, grabbing my books as they stare at me, shocked.

"What?" I question, zipping up my bag. They all stare open mouthed until I realize that it's not me they're looking out, but something behind me. I turn around and there he is.

"Cole." I roll my eyes and he stands up straight.

"Um, Brooke? Introduce us to your friend!" Nick says. He's my GBF, (gay best friend) and I can tell that he thinks Cole is hot.

"He's not my friend." I reply curtly, turning back to Cole. "What do you want." I say shortly.

"Would it be cheesy to say 'you'?" he smirks as I slam my locker door shut, walking away.

"I'm not interested Cole. Get that through your head." I reach my homeroom class, and turn back to him. "Goodbye now." I walk in, shaking my head. Fuckboy.

"I won't give up babygirl." I hear him call. I roll my eyes and walk to my seat. 

"Miss Hunter?" I hear crusty dusty Mrs. Lee call. I put on my best innocent smile, knowing she'll make me throw away my coffee.

"Yes Mrs. Lee?" I turn around and smile fakely.

"beverage please!" she beckons annoyingly and I hand her my $5 coffee. RIP caramel macchiato. You will forever be missed. I go back to my seat and slide in. 

"Okay class, today we will be switching seats around." Mrs. Lee starts and I groan loudly. I had finally managed to get a seat by myself and now stupid crusty dusty Mrs. Lee wants do give me a crusty dusty new lab partner? Yeah, I think not.

"Is there a problem Miss Hunter?" she questions, making the center of attention on me. I feel my face slowly heat up as everyone in the class turns back to face me.

"No." I say, embarrassed.

"Good." she returns to talking to the class. "Okay, the pairs will be this-" Mrs. Lee is interrupted when Grayson Dolan walks into the class. He's alright, he moved here with his family in 7th grade but we've never really crossed paths. He and his twin brother Ethan have girls falling all over them, but they don't give in usually. I respect that. Most guys in this school would've fucked for a bit, then moved on.

"Hi, I just got transferred into this class." he hands her the pink pass that he was holding and shuffles his feet.

"Okay, Mr. Dolan. We're actually moving seats today, so you can sit with..." she scans the list in her hands. "Brooke in the back." 

Ugh. I really would've rather sat by myself. Fuck Mrs. Lee with her crusty dusty ass. I give Grayson a small smile as he walks towards the back where I'm sitting. He's wearing black ripped jeans and a 1975 tee. Great. We're twinning.

"Hey." he says, placing his stuff down and sitting on the stool next to me. "Nice outfit." he winks.

"I could say the same to you." I say, winking back. Does this classify as flirting? Gi would shit herself if she saw me sitting with Grayson. She's thought Ethan was hot since 7th grade, even when he had bleached hair.

"Mrs. Lee seems a little..." he says.

"Like a crusty dusty bitch who constantly has a stick up her ass?" I mumble not meaning for him to hear me, but I can tell he does when I see him smirk out of the corner of my eye. I feel the heat rushing up my neck and I bury my head in my arms and tune out the noise of Mrs. Lee speaking. I feel my phone buzz in my back pocket and it's from Gi.

Gi <3: GIRL I SEE YOU WITH GRAYSON FUCKING DOLAN

I look at the door but I don't see her there.

I hear Grayson laugh a little and I turn towards him and his face is bright red. He was looking at my phone. Does he think that-

"It's not what you think." I say quickly.

"Mhm." He says, awkwardly laughing. 

"I'm serious. It's your brother she likes not you-" Shit I wasn't supposed to say that. Gi is actually going to rip my head off.

"Give me your phone." he says.

"Um, no?" I say, confused but he grabs it anyway. "Dude." I reach over him but he's already in contacts adding himself.

"You could've just asked me to slide in your text messages." I smirk.

"Shut up." he laughs awkwardly.

"You do want me to slide in them DM's!" I laugh. Wait. This is literally the first time I've spoken to him and I have his number? A bunch of girls at this school would literally kill to have his number but I honestly don't see him that way. The bell rings and I leave Bio feeling giddy, but I don't know why.

Guess we'll see what happens later.