I stopped dead in my tracks, turned around and looked him in the eyes.
"Go to hell, Jax."
"Sorry, princesa, I don't know where that is." He said cocky and with a smile. I laugh sarcastically.
"Oh yes, ok then, I'll give you directions on where to...
We talk for the rest of the period. Once the bell rings we gather our things and start to walk out of the classroom. I tell Maddie to just save me a seat because I had to stop at my locker. I'm walking out of the classroom when Jax stands in front of me. I try to walk around him, but he keeps stepping in front of me.
"What do you want Jax?"
"You." He smirks at me while I stand there not surprised at all. He steps closer and I back up.
"Um, excuse me," I say while holding my hand up gesturing for him not to come any closer, "but go and get a girl that wants to give up her dignity." He takes a step back almost like he was offended.
"You really can't take a joke, can you? I didn't mean it. But you do interest me. Your feisty, but your sweet at the same ti-"
"Stop," I cut him off. "I already know what you're doing and it's not going to work." Suddenly his smile melts and his face is unreadable. I'm usually really good with people and can pick up on how they feel, but with him I couldn't tell at all.
"Fine then if you wanna be rude, by all means leave. Go ahead. I just wanted to talk." He clenches his jaw which makes it look sharper than it is.
I don't say a word and start to walk but stop when I feel a strong, steady hand wrapped around my arm. He looks me deep in the eyes as I look back so deep that it makes my stomach feel uneasy. Once he lets go and I quickly walk out of the room.
What the hell just happened? I mean like he... I... but I can't... I'm so confused. As I grab my things from my locker, I rethink about what had just happened, and head to lunch. I find Maddie sitting down with another guy.
"Averie, where have you been? It doesn't matter I would like you to meet my bestest friend before I met you today. His name is Lucas. We grew up together." Her smile radiates from her and has an effect on me. I smile back and sit down.
"Hi, I'm Averie."
"I know, Maddie has been talking non stop since she found me." He laughs while saying this.
"Maddie, can I talk to you about Jax?"
"Sure, but not around him."
"Maddie, you are above him you know if you say something I wouldn't tell him." Lucas gives Maddie a serious look.
"Ok Lucas I trust you, but still I don't want talk about him in front of you."
"I'm not even that close friends with him, since he started hanging out with them."
"Lucas, please not right now. I said I don't want to talk about it in front of you."
"Alright then, I'll leave." Lucas picks up his things and leaves without saying another word or even looking at Maddie. She looks at me and rolls her eyes.
"He'll get over it. Sooooo, tell me what happened." I tell what happened with Jax after she had left the classroom to the very last detail, expect the feeling that it gave me.
"That's so weird. I want to know what he really wanted."
"Well, I guess we will find out soon." She nods her head. For the rest of lunch we refrained from talking about Jax. She asked me some questions about my life before I came to Malibu, so I had to come up with something quick and believable. I can't believe I forgot to prepare myself for this.
Lunch ends and we say our goodbyes as we leave.
"Hey Averie, wait up. What do you have next?" I look up to see Noah.
"Uh," I look at the schedule in my hand to see what I have. "I have free period now, why?"
"Same. Wanna hang out?"
"I mean, yeah sure, who else would I hang out with." I laugh nervously and internally slap myself because that wasn't at all funny.
"Alright, well we're all sitting over here." He laughs a little while saying this. He points to where his friends are sitting; shit. Jax is a part of that group. Shit he just saw me, shit, shit, shitttt.
Aw well now, it's too late. If I walk away now I will look like a coward. Almost as if I'm avoiding him. Which I'm not, I mean, I am... but I don't want him to know that.
"Guys this is Averie." Noah introduces me to everyone once we arrive.
"Averie, you already know me, this is Mason, Brandon, Ashton, his girlfriend Natalie, and Jax."
"Hi." I wave my hand nervously at everyone. Noah sits down and motions me to sit down next to him.
"Heyyy." Natalie says to me.
"Hi" I smile back.
"How's South Coast High treating you?"
"Um, good. I guess." I laugh at my sudden inability to communicate.
"You moved here right?"
"Yea."
"Why'd you move?" Natalie looked at me curiously, along with all of the other guys at the table.
"New beginnings I guess."
"That's good, we should hang out sometime. Soon?" She asks as she pulls out her phone. I nod in agreement and look at Noah.
"Hey, Noah? I really do have a test coming up, so I think I'm just going to go to the library to study." I say, and he frowns in disagreement but ends up nodding. I give him a hug and walk away as quickly as I can. I walk into the library and exhale the breath that I didn't realize that I was holding in.
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I'm sitting in my last period class when the bell finally rings. Everyone gets up and heads out. I'm one of the last to stand up and start walking away when I hear my English teacher call after me. I turn on my heel to face him.
"Yes Mr. Berlo?" I say nervously.
"Miss.Kingston I looked at your records from your previous schools and I just wanted to let you know that I am booting you up to the Honors English Program." My eyes widen, and I guess he notices because he continues. "But don't worry dear, you will have plenty of time to catch up to everyone else and as far as I can tell with your grades and skills it will all just be a review for you."
"Um, thank you for the opportunity bu-"
"No ifs, ands, or buts.. your doing it Averie. You have an amazing skill and you should challenge that skill and see how far you can go. Who knows maybe one day you will become a writer." If only he had known about my life....
"Have a good day Miss. Kingston see you first thing tomorrow." He says as he heads out the door. Greattt....
I once again, internally facepalm myself and head to my locker. I get my stuff and walk out to the parking lot, there aren't many cars left here which tells me that I was hung back for a while. I look for my car, that's weird I can't find it. Where the hell is my car??
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