Freshman Year

Chapter 11

It has been five days since I was at Peter's house. That meant it was a week since the project had been assigned. In that week Peter and I had actually become fairly close. I wasn't as shy around him anymore. I still had my tongue tied moments every now and then but aside from that it was like we had been friends forever. Also since Peter and I had been working on the project after school everyday during the week, the football team also knew a decent amount about me.

There was one day when I sat through another one of Peter's practices and some of the guys made an effort to talk to me. It was funny because they were all sophmores and juniors and I had no issues talking to them. Normally I would have been completely silent. I guess being friends with Peter was building my confidence?

Well anyway Jennie was thrilled about this. She kept telling me to ask Peter out but I refused. We were only friends! She continuously pestered me about the topic but I ignored her every time she brought it up. I was fine with only being friends.

Jack and I hadn't been talking as much either because I was constantly at school working on the project. I think he kind of gave up on trying to play basketball with me seeing as I continuously shot him down. I didn't mean to and he knew this though so he wasn't angry about it.

Anyway so today is Monday. Peter and I had texted over the weekend but we both agreed not to work on the project since we still had another two weeks to work on it. We had three of the seven requirements finished and we both agreed we didn't need to waste our weekend time on it. So today I was planning to go to his practice again but I convinced him to come back to my house this time since we were at his house last time.

I walked out to the bus dreading the day of school. I knew that history would be boring along with biology this morning. History would at least be okay since Peter was in the class with me. I knew we had a biology test today and I was not planning on doing well. Then I wasn't sure what we were doing the rest of the day. I was kind of excited for the practice though. The football team was actually pretty cool. Cooler then I had though at first anyway.

"V? Vanessa? VANESSA?!" Jennie yelled to get my attention. I snapped out of my thoughts and back into reality.

"huh..? Sorry I zoned out." I told her. I mean it wasn't a complete lie...

"yea and were thinking about Peter and the rest of his football studs." she laughed. I didn't argue since there was really no point.

"so what, I do have to put some thought into the hugely weighted project that we have to finish!" I pointed out. She shrugged and complied for the moment. Then we pulled up to school. I must've been zoned out for a while.

We walked into school and people were as tired as they usually were on a Monday. I laughed to myself at the depressing scene of people walking past me. I got to my locker and got out all the important stuff for history so I wouldn't have to make a trip after class as well.

When Jennie and I walked into class everyone was studying and cramming in the last minute information. I wasn't too worried. I had a decent grade in the class and so I wasn't going to stress over getting an A+ on one test. We took our seats and relaxed for the remaining time of homeroom.

Once the bell rang the test was handed out and all talked ceased to exist. I looked down at the thick packet of multiple choice questions. I sighed and got started. Thankfully it was fairly easy and I knew most of the answers. I wasn't getting an A+ but I also wouldn't get below a C. I was fairly confident in my answers as I went to hand in the test. I sat in my seat for the rest of the period until the bell rang that freed us from this hell.

"so how do you think you did on the test?" Jennie asked me. I shrugged.

"I don't know like a B, B+ maybe? How about you?" I asked her. She said she did about the same.