Pride and Prejudice and Teenagers.

Chapter 3.

Will's point of view.

"So what do you think of Jane and Elizabeth?" Caroline asks me. For a Tuesday, the day has passed by pretty quickly. Up until now anyway. I look up as Charlie enters the other side of the canteen with Jane at his side. Elizabeth trails behind them, flicking through a planner of some sort. Her school uniform doesn't fit her well at all and is instead too big - hiding any figure she might have beneath all of the material.

I watch them walk across the wide dining hall, stopping to chat with a few friends. "Does it matter?" I ask Caroline, exasperatedly. I've clearly being trying to read for the past ten minutes, with her tiresome conversation starters interrupting me every few moments. I'm usually happy to talk with Caroline and Louisa, but today is really taking it out of me.

She stays quiet for a short while, allowing me to begin to read the page for the third time in a row. "They're both very pretty, aren't they?" She interrupts me again. I grit my teeth and stare at the two girls again.

"Charlie certainly thinks Jane is." I try to appease her by saying. I hear a loud noise and watch Elizabeth drop to the floor to help someone who's things have been dropped. Ever trying to impress. I think to myself. Caroline looks at me and then at where I'm looking and I quickly look away.

"And you agree that she is too?" She asks.

"Who? Jane? She's clearly conventionally-"

"No. Elizabeth Bennet."

"Pfft. You'd catch me calling her friend Beth an intellectual before I called Elizabeth hot." I remark, making Caroline snort and happily get back to eating her lunch. Caroline always becomes quietly contented after someone has been insulted. Perhaps I just need to feed her ego to get her to leave me alone from now on. I return my attention to my book.

I'm torn from the pages in front of me once again when a pen rolls into my hand on the table. I snap my gaze up to Elizabeth who suddenly stands opposite me.

"Sorry." She rushes, retrieving it from in front of me, her cold hand brushing mine. I wait for her to say something else like Caroline always does when I finally think she's going to be quiet - but after I stare at her for a moment, awaiting a question or sentence, she just says: "Don't let me keep you from your book." And sits down silently, pulling out a novel of her own.

Elizabeth's point of view.

As the next two weeks passed by, Jane, Charlotte and I found ourselves more often than not in the company of the 'Bingley&Co.' group Charlotte refers to them by. Jane, ever the shy girl, has forced me into the friendship group because she's too shy to spend so much time with them without having me to be beside her. As I mentioned before, I don't mind, because I love Jane like a sister. It's just unfortunate that half of the group are in a constant state of conceited glory. (That being Caroline and William). I have deduced through the week that Caroline most definitely has a thing for Will. She's constantly trying to impress him by making snide comments to him about everyone and anyone. I can certainly see them as a couple - they're both horribly well matched. Literally.

Jane and Charlie on the other hand, are absolutely the most perfect couple you ever saw. They even look perfect beside each other. I can't imagine my best friend being more suited to anybody else in the school. The only issue I can think of between them is something Charlotte had brought up in one of the classes we share together.

"Charlie obviously likes Jane. But he might not ever develop more feelings for her if she doesn't return the affection." She had said to me quietly.

"She obviously likes him more than any other guy. Sure, she's shy and hard to read, but he must be stupid if he can't see that she's into him." I replied.