𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢'𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮

chapter 6 | rich kids

m a c k e n z i e

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i woke up the next morning and i realized i was in lauren's room. did i really spend the night at their house? wow, i'm psychic because i knew that i would instantly get along with lauren and johnny. i smiled to myself knowing i had made some real friends. i heard footsteps coming toward the room. "kenz you can come down for breakfast." lauren smiles at me. i trudge downstairs. i smell pancakes and see their parents. wow that must be nice, my parents are never home. "hello mackenzie, i'm Meredith Orlando, but you can call me Mer." their mom says smiling at me. i grin back. "hi Mer! i'm mackenzie. lauren's besttttt friend." i say chuckling and looking over at lauren. lauren nods her head quickly while chewing her toast. i sit down next to lauren and start eating.

a little later i come down the stairs wearing a red and white striped tank with some black jeans. i throw my hair in a ponytail and then feel an arm curl around my waist. i jolt my head around to see a boy with bright emerald green eyes. "oh princess your looking wonderful today." john states. i blush at his nickname for me. "oh i'm far from a princess orlando." i smirk at him. "your so wrong." he says chuckling. i feel him lift me up, my feet dangling in the air. next thing i know, i'm on his back and he's running toward the car. i uncontrollably laugh. he doesn't have a clue what he does to me. he makes me feel like i'm invincible. god i love him. oh my god. i love him, i really do.

we walk into school and his arm snakes around my waist. i look up at him smiling. his eyes lock with mine, like we are communicating with our eyes. it felt like we were the only ones in the school hallway. my eyes were saying 'i love you' but i have no idea what his were indicating. i'm not very good at communicating through eye contact. "okay lovebirds, we get it." brynn says, snapping us out of our 'moment'. i look down at my feet, trying to hide my pink tinted cheeks. i look back up and see lauren moving her eyebrows up and down, looking at me then at johnny. i mentally face palm. "so lauren." i start. payback here i come. "weston and you huh?" i say slightly laughing. weston's cheek immediately heat up, as well as lauren's. johnny, brynn, and carson crack up. lauren gave me a playful glare and i raised my eyebrows at her, hinting that it was payback.

(time skip to lunch cuz i'm lazy)

i walked into the cafeteria, noticing none of my friends were there. i looked around, seeing if i noticed anyone. "oh hey!" i heard a girly voice say. i jolted my head around to see a orange ish haired girl. she was skinny and tall. she had a lavender knitted sweater on with black ripped daisy duke shorts. "i'm nadia!" she says excitedly. "oh um hi nadia, i'm mackenzie." i say a little weirded out. she grabs my hand and leads me over to a table with other people at it. it all happened in a rush. she kind of creeped me out, she was so perky and fake. "okay so that's brandon, ashton, ruby, lily, mabel, max, and harvey!" she exclaims. she said it so fast my mind was rushed with names. i was so confused. i kept looking around to find johnny and my friends, but they weren't in the cafeteria. "oh huh this is weird. my friends and i sat at this table yesterday." i said. it's kind of like they stole our table. before anyone could answer me about my ironic situation, nadia whispers something to ruby. ruby passes it on to mabel, mabel to lily, lily to ashton, ashton to brandon, brandon to max, and max to harvey. i lean my ear closer to harvey expecting him to tell me what everyone whispered about. instead he backs away, disgusted. everyone shoots me a weird look. really? they are all going to pass around a secret and then reject me when i want to hear it. now i look like an awkward idiot. i awkwardly bit into my apple looking at down at my feet. "mack!!" i heard someone whisper shout. i turn my head around to see brynn motioning me to come over to her, she was at the entrance of the cafeteria. i furrow my eyebrows at her mouthing 'what'. she motions me to come over to her. "gotta go." i mumble to the group at the table. i grab my lunch tray, and walk over to brynn. "you cannot hang out with those people ever again." she says very seriously. i felt super confused, who are they? brynn drags me over to the bleachers, where the football field is. i spot the whole "crew" and flash johnny a smile. he smirks at me and i let out a small laugh. i throw my lunch tray away and start running toward the bleachers. "kenzieeeee!" brynn whines, i knew she didn't like to run. oh well. i arrived at the bench and johnny welcomed me into his arms. i burst out into laughter and johnny cradles me in his arms. i shiver a bit. "want my jacket princess?" he asks. i hear someone scoff, i'm guessing its hayden. johnny starts to take his jacket off, revealing him wearing a baggy tank top. he slips his warm hoodie on me. it welcomes me with warmth, feeling like i'm next to a warm open fire. "how can you survive in a tank top?! it's literally 62 degrees." i question johnny. he just chuckled and puts his arms around me and cuddling me. "wait kenzie where were you the whole time?" annie asks. "i was looking for you guys in the cafeteria. then this girl named nadia dragged me over to sit with her friends." i started slightly confused. everyone's mouth slightly dropped. i just shook it off, no biggie. "then they all started whispering but left me out of it, it was really weird." i say rolling my eyes. i feel tension throughout the group. what's wrong? johnny immediately storms off, away from the bleachers. "john?" i question. he just walks farther and farther. "kenzie you can NOT hang out with them. they are the rich snotty ass kids." weston informs me. my mouth forms into an 'o' shape, as i realize i'm such a dumb person. "oooo..." i say awkwardly. i look down at my feet. jeez i messed up. i look around to see johnny who sat on a bench. i start to walk over there but he gets up. i start jogging so that i can catch up to him. he starts to walk toward the building. "john! wait up, please!" i shout at him. i finally catch up and i grab his wrist. "johnny, can we talk about this?" i say, trying to get him to turn around. he turns around, his jaw clenched. i can tell he's pretty pissed. "what's there to talk about?" he says, pretending to be clueless. i give him a look. "fine." he says with a pissy attitude. "i didn't know. please john i would have never hung out with them." i assured him. he still didn't look like he believed me. "sure." he said sarcastically. he was about to get up, then i pinned him down by sitting on his lap. "i'm sorry." i say genuinely. he then rests his chin on my shoulder. "you shouldn't be, i'm sorry i was acting so sensitive. it's just you don't know what they are capable of doing, they broke me and my friends. it took a year for me to recover." he explains. i look at him with sympathy and move back to sitting next to him. "do you want to tell me?" i say hinting at it. "nadia turner. she was my first girlfriend that i was absolutely serious about. i actually loved her. she took advantage of that, she was playing me the whole time, she didn't really love me. i saw her one day with her arm around harvey and asked her what was going on. she literally laughed and said 'you didn't think i actually loved you did you?' everyone in her group started cracking up like it was a joke.." he was going to continue but he couldn't. he looked so defeated when he was explaining that. "oh my god." i say staring at john. i just wrap my arms around him giving him a hug. "and they have done so many other terrible things to us. i just don't want you to get involved with them." he said. i gave him a smile. he suddenly hoisted me on his back and started running back to the bleachers. "way to ruin the moment." i managed to say between laughs. i pecked him on the cheek. he started laughing and kept running. "JENZIEEEE!!!" all our friends screamed. maybe jenzie does have a chance.