By The Water | Stephew

Chapter three: You don't even know me

A/N: Hello again, it took me a lot of time to publish this chapter but I'm trying my best to take the time and think about a good chapter, that would be much better than write a bad chapter in a shirt amount of time. Hope you'll like this one, I thought hard on it. ❤

Disclaimer: the idea to Stephanie's background story was inspired by a soap opera from Argentina named "Casi Angeles", or in English, "Almost Angeles." I'm saying this so people won't think that it was entirely my idea, because it's not.
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Previously on By The Water:
Much to Matthew's surprise, Stephanie is not what he assumed her to be. She's mean towards students and likes to party, drink and make out with strangers. Was he too quick to judge her for a nice person?
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It's a brand new day at "underwater "High school, and all the students were at the cafeteria so they can eat breakfast before the school day starts. Matthew, who just got his plate full of weird looking yet edible cafeteria food, joined Mark and Nate at their table. He sat down with a smile and started to eat his food, just when he heard a voice.

The voice of the girl that he thought he once knew.

"Matthew, hey!" She called him and walked his way. Matthew's eyes grew wide. In a rush, he pushed his tray away from him and stood up. "I'm not very hungry today,and I have to go to the library to finish off my English homework, see you at first period." He said and walked away quickly, making Mark and Nate to exchange questioning glares as Stephanie just stopped by their table.

"Where did he go in such a rush?" She asked the boys in wonder. "To the library. He said he had to finish off his homework." Nate said and Stephanie smiled in return before exiting the cafeteria and going to the library. She started walking to the library, just when she saw him leaning on his locker with a little bit of sadness showing on his face.

"Hey Matthew, are you ok?" She asked kindly, but instead all he did was roll his eyes in annoyance and turn to the other way. Stephanie, who was a little taken by his actions, took his arm and turned him so he was facing her. "What's wrong? Did I do anything? Tell me." She said, trying to make him say the reasons to his behavior. "Go away Stephanie, if your real name is indeed Stephanie."

"What? What are you talking about?" Stephanie asked him in disbelief. "You know, I thought that I knew you. I thought that you were really nice and good, but then you take money from and innocent girl and making out with random douchbags at a party! Now I just realized how much I was wrong about you Stephanie." He said and then shook her grip on his arm away.

Stephanie looked at him in disbelief before yelling at him with teary eyes:"I can't believe you Matthew Patrick! You don't even know me! You don't know who I really am, so don't judge me before knowing me!" Matthew stopped in his tracks and looked behind him. He could hear stephanie crying even though she was running outside. Matthew sighed heavily as he turned around and started to get back to the cafeteria.
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It's the last lesson of the day, and it's also Matthew's least favorite subject: water sports. It's because of this lesson that he gets rush a low average, Even though he is considered smart and intelligent. Everyone were in the water, swimming and surfing, while he was sitting on the beach and playing in the sand. He looked at his friends, making themselves look like fools when they try to impress Kylie and Morgan and fail miserably.

That's when he noticed, that Stephanie was nowhere to be seen. "How could it be? She loves this stuff. Is she not here because of...me?" He asked himself in his head and his eyebrows met each other as he frowned in wonder. "Matthew...Matthew....Matthew!" He heard his teacher shout, breaking his train of thoughts and bringing him back to the real world. "The principal is calling you." The teacher said in a serious tone, and matthew sighed heavily as he got up from the sand and walked into the school building.