Love In The Third Degree

Chapter 5: His break through

The next couple weeks were uneventful. The only thing being snarky remarks from Karmin became more constant. I got to know Markus and Megan better. Megan and I are practically bestfriends now. It was Algebra class ,and I was talking with Megan. "Uh, this class is so boring," I said leaning back on my chair stretching.

"Yeah, Mrs. Winters is cool though so it's fine. Right Mrs. Winters?" Megan asked.

"Yup," She smiled. Mrs. Winters was a fairly young teacher. She had long bleached blonde hair and a nose ring. I hated her class ,but she herself was chill. Alot of the guys in class drooled over her. I think it was because she was young relatable ,and pretty. She is definitely one of my favorite teachers. She wasn't hard on me like the English teacher Mr. Thompson and wasn't as serious as the chem teacher Mr. Neil. She also liked alot of the same music as Megan and me.

"Thank God today is Friday," I cheered.

"Thank God, next period is lunch," Megan sighed," I'm hungry."

"You're always hungry," I say writing down the last answer on the worksheet. We were working with y-intercept form.

"Why do you always finish the assignment early?" Megan asked.

" So I get the rest of the period to relax," I replied. I got up out of my seat ,and handed my paper to Mrs. Winters.

"Thank you Abigail," she said. I smiled and went back to my seat.

"Yo, Abs wanna go to the mall after school?" Megan asked.

"Depends who's going?" I answered her question with a question. I didn't want to go if Karmin was going. He was starting to get on my nerves.

"Me, Markus, and Karmin," Megan stated,"Look I know you don't want to go because of Karmin ,but we could just ignore him ,and if he bothers you I could beat him up," She smiled waving her fists in the air.

I laughed,"Sure, what do I have to loose if you are my body guard?" The bell rang and I started packing my bag up. Megan did the same. We made our way out of the class and down the hall for lunch. It kinda sucked because we didn't have the same lunch as Markus ,and Karmin hung around our table.

"Why don't you just sleep over tonight Abs," Megan asked," My parents say they want to meet you because I finally made another female friend."

"Sure, My parents are out of town anyway," I said. My parents were out of town yet again for business. When this happens I was usually left alone. They would give me money for food and such so it didn't really bother me. We made our way to the lunch room ,and sat at our table in the back.

"So what's the cassette of the day Abs?" Megan asked. I grabbed my walkmen out of my bag ,and pulled out a tape.

"Appetite for Destruction by this band called Guns n' Roses," I replied.

"I heard of them. They are blowing up alot lately,"Megan smiled. Just then Karmin sat at the very edge of the table with a lunch tray. "You know you don't have to act like we are the pleague," Megan said.

"Well you make it real easy," he said glaring at Megan.

"We don't bite," Megan said. Markus forced her to be nicer to him ,or she wasn't getting a ride to and from school.

"Yes you do. You bit when I tried eating the pizza you ordered from that show one time," He replied cringing at the memory.

"Look you don't like me ,and I don't like you ,but my brother wants us to be better friends ,so come and socialize," Megan smiled. She looked more scary than happy. He scooted closer next Megan.

"Hi," he said coldly.

"Hi," I said avoiding eye contact. I'd been avoiding him alot that week. When I did see him he would usually scoff and make a remark.

"Markus, wants us to talk things out," he said,"he say oh it's just not a coincidence that faith brought you guys togeather again." He mimicked Markus making circle glasses with his hands. Megan laughed. I was keeping a poker face because I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of making me laugh to reform our old friendship.

"I have nothing to say to you," I said pulling out my sacked lunch. I put my headphones in and blasted the cassette. I pulled out my sandwich and proceeded to eat it. I looked over at him he was saying something I couldn't hear because Axl Rose was yelling Welcome To The Jungle in my ears. I looked over at Megan who was just laughing at Karmin. The rest of the lunch period went on in silence. I eventually gave Megan an ear bud to listen to the album with me which we happily did in silence. Megan would hum the different Melodies as she happily ate her chinese food in silence. Karmin eventually stormed off an angry look on his face.

"I got nothing to say to you," Megan said with a mouth full of teriyaki noodles mimicking my British accent.

I laughed simply. The rest of the day went by real quick the next thing I know I'm standing in front of the black Honda that gave me rides to and from school. Me and Megan were making small talk. When two arms grabbed my shoulders pulling me back.

"So a little birdy told me that Ms. Knight over here had my favorite album Appitite for Destruction," Markus said over my shoulder.

"Yup that would be true," I lightly chuckled. I turned around to be greeted by a Karmin glaring at me.

"Sorry Karmin. Markus is cheating on you," Megan laughed.

"Sorry honey-bunny you had to find out this way," Karmin sighed dramatically putting his hand on his head.

"You people need professional help," Karmin said getting in the passenger seat. Markus just rolled his eyes and got in the driver seat. Megan and I took our rightful places in the back.

"Yo Markus before we head to the mall can I get some stuff from my house? I'm sleeping over," I asked.

"Sure thing," Markus smiled. Karmin just grunted.

"Thanks," I said.