How it all started: The Dare Friends

Disagreements and threats

Noah's POV

For the first day of school most of us were curious about the new girl and being the observant one in the group, I was the first one to notice that nothing changed during today's roll call so I asked Mireya if there was a change in their dormitory but she replied with' "Everything was normal".

"Earth to Noey", Zoe said as she waved her hand in front of my face. "You were in dreamland again so I, being the nice person I am, saved you from potentially bumping into a wall" she continued while walking backwards in front of me.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about the new girl" I replied absentmindedly, forgetting that I have friends who tend to turn almost everything they hear dodgy,

"Olly, did you hear that? You have competition, it seems the new girl is already in Noah's mind before she even set foot in the schoolyard." Stella said, knowing that I hated it when she said such stupid things about Olly and me.

"Rafa don't patronize me," I said to Stella knowing that she didn't like her second name.

"This why I love you," Olly said to me as she side hugged me, "You know how to keep Stella on a leash," she said that and we laughed together. To say Stella was pissed was an understatement but she couldn't stay angry at me for a long time.

"Guys, I'm hungry so can you please hurry" that was Scarlett so we increased our pace to the dining hall. The school had two dining halls, a formal dining hall where us scholars ate on school hours and one in each residence where dinner was served on school days and the rest of the meals are served. When we got inside we found a table and placed our stationary and went to the buffet for breakfast and I took only a bowl of yoghurt as I didn't feel like eating.

"Noah, are you only eating that?" Stella asked as she was my food buddy. We were the two people who were not concerned about what we eat so we ate as much as we wanted, whenever we wanted.

"Yeah, I'm not really hungry," I said as I made my way through the crowd of high schoolers and went to the round table we were gonna sit on. As soon as I sat down the others soon followed.

"You sure?" she asked me again as she was concerned about me-bless her poor soul. I nodded and began eating my yoghurt in peace. The dining hall was suddenly filled with laughter, and I recognized it to be Yolanda's laugh. We all turned back, as we weren't facing them, and I was suddenly filled with dread. I quickly turned to look at Scarlet, and I saw that look of anger that came across her face. She stood up and was making her way towards Yolanda's table. One of her friends must have alerted her because she turned, and just smirked. That made Scarlet angrier because she walked quicker. I ran up to her and dragged her outside instead. "Weak" Yolanda said as we made our way outside.

"Why did you stop me, Noah?" Scarlet asked as soon as we got out the door. One could clearly see she was angry but I wasn't scared because I knew this was her normal reaction to me stopping her from going berserk.

"Scar, calm down," I said with the softest tone I could at that moment. I was pretty frustrated myself but I could control my emotions better than Scar,"You know confronting Yolanda is not going to help you with anything, you'll just relapse if you let go of yourself just once."

"I don't care about that right now, I just want to strangle Yolanda and..." "And what Scar?" I asked with a little anger directed at her. I was getting angry at her because she was letting her emotions control her. " You think you are the one who suffers when you are out of control and we have to always be wary of your every move?" Scarlet just looked down, realizing her mistake.

"You know what Scar?" I said then took a deep breath. "I thin..nevermind, I'll ask Oliver to accompany you to sickbay," I said then went inside. I didn't know how to feel because I felt like I was too harsh but also thought she needed to calm down. I quickly took a deep breath the walked over to our table with my best poker face.

"Ol.."

"What happened to Scar, Noah?" Zoe asked before I could say anything.

"I really don't know" I replied cleaning up my dishes even though I hadn't eaten much.

"Noah you are being weird," Stella said as she noticed my actions

" No, I'm not being weird and Oliver please take Scarlett to sickbay, she's waiting for you outside. See ya in class guys." I said as fast as I could while avoiding eye contact. I knew this would cause suspicion but I had no choice as I felt slightly guilty. I quickly made my way outside and then finally allowed myself a moment to take a breath before looking for a hiding place because the library was not gonna cut it as it is obvious to everyone that if I'm not in my room I'm in the library. I thought of going to the roof but soon realized that they would also figure it out quite easily.

Running away from them is not gonna help me but I just didn't feel like seeing Zoella 'cause she won't let this go, disadvantages of sharing classes with your friends. It would be better if I had accounting because I share it with Stella and she is chilled and lets me be until I'm ready to talk but sadly it just had to be visual art, the class I share with two of my friends. With a sigh and a little prayer, I headed to the art class. 

I left the dining hall early so I had some time to myself when I got to the class so I just looked around the half-finished drawings of cityscapes and was, as always, captivated by the beauty of the artworks. We were drawing the cities we wished to see in the future and it was pretty amazing how my classmates imagined the weirdest things. As I was smiling by myself, a voice I knew too well was getting close to the class. 

"Who knew I'd find you here, Noah?" 

"To be honest, I'm not surprised you did. I'm not even sure if you are stalking me to making it seem like your mind is not always preoccupied with Scarlet" I said to Yolanda nonchalantly, making sure I provoked her before she did because I knew her enough not to play the defensive game.

"Back at it again, aren't we. You still think I'm into Scarlet when I got what I wanted from her centuries ago" she answered clearly seeing what I was doing.

"Then, in that case, I'm glad beca..." 

"Yolonda would you care to explain what you are doing here?" Zoe asked with a menacing glare, different from her bubbly self. 

Yolanda smirked and took a few steps closer to me and came very close to my ear, whispered and kissed my cheeks then left the class. I was frozen on my spot, her words replaying in my mind.

"You are next on my list"

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We are really sorry for not updating but it was all because exams and later on we had to go to different places and couldn't really do much because we were celebrating Christmas with our families. We hope the chapter was good enough and you enjoyed the first month of 2018.

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