Make it Through

3

Home room. This is the only constant thing in this school all year long. The people in this class are here to stay for the rest of the year, and if you don't have friends in it.. you're screwed.

I walk into Spanish and take a quick look around, My group of friends are in the back talking loudly as I walk towards them. Not only do I have my boyfriend in this class but I have a huge group of friends, including one of my good friends, Carly.

"Hey! Katie, over here!" She smiles and waves towards the seat next to her. Jeremy walks over and sits with his annoying friends and smiles back at me as we both take our seats away from each other.

Our relationship is perfect. We spend just the right amount of time with each other and when it comes to our friends we spend the right amount of time with them as well. I couldn't ask for a better relationship.

I place my back pack on the open desk next to my desk and catch Carly up on my summer. I feel a hand rest on my shoulder and jump at the feel of it.

"Woah there killer, it's just me." Tattooed boy. Great.

"Can I help you?" I ask and he laughs.

"Just wondering if you could move your shit so I can sit here." He says and motions to my back pack sitting on the chair to the open desk. I look back up at him without replying, hoping he'll take the hint. "Please." He adds. He didn't.

"That seat is actually taken." I say and turn my focus back on Carly until he interrupts again.

"By who?" He questions and looks around the room.

"My boyfriend. Any more questions?" I ask and he smirks again and leans down closer to me and whispers.

"I don't mean to be rude love, but your boyfriend has found another seat." He whispers and tilts his head towards Jeremy's direction. I sigh in defeat and turn around to grab my back pack off the seat and throw it onto the floor beside me.

"Thanks." He says and sits down next to me just as morning announcements come on.

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"Homework due mañana, don't forget!" Señora Pierce says for the fifth time as we all pack up our bags to head to second period.

"I'll see you at Lunch, Carls." I say as I grab my bag and head toward Jeremy.

"Hey, red!" I hear from behind me and debate if I want to turn around or not. No one has called me that since the incident last summer. I stop in my tracks and face the last person I want to see.. ever again.

"Don't call me that!" I say and he laughs.

"Ease up, Red. It's just a nickname." He says and walks towards me.

"I'm aware of what it is, call me Katie." I say and he smiles at me.

"I knew I would get your name one way or another." He says and I roll my eyes. "Trust me, it was a lot easier for you to tell me than for me to sneak into the main office and try and find your files." He says and I turn to walk away. This kid has turned from rude to stalker in less than an hour.

"I'm joking, Katie!" He says while running up behind me to catch up.

"What do you want?" I ask as he begins to walk beside me. I walk out into the hall in search of Jeremy but he is no where in sight.

"Why do you hate me? You just met me." He asks and I stop to finally look at him.

"Listen. I have my friends, I don't need some new kid marching in here trying to be my friend. Or stalker, whichever you're trying to be." I say and he actually looks offended. About damn time.

"I'm just trying to be friendly and am trying to actually find someone in this hell hole to talk to." He says while brushing his bushy hair out of his eyes.

"I'm not your girl, I'm sorry. I need to get to class." I say and walk past him.

"Give me a chance, Red." He yells and I keep walking while mumbling "never in a million years."

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Harry's POV

New school, same me. This has been a reoccurring thing every since my parents divorce. Mum finds a new boyfriend, we move in with him, I changed schools, get kicked out, and then the story keeps going in a loop.

This is my seventh school in three years, and I have not made one single friend in those seven schools. But this school is different. Katie, or Red as I call her, has something about her that makes me want in. I just don't know yet if I want into her or into her pants. I'll figure that out with time.

It's now lunch hour. I have no friends, per usual, so I decide to skip and wonder out to the garden at the back of the school.

No one is out here as I push through the heavy school doors and make my way to the single picnic table located in the middle of the school garden. I see posters plastered all around school about the gardening club and how hard they work each year to make this garden perfect, shame no one comes out here. For their sake anyways.

As I sit down and pull out my journal I hear the door to the garden open and shut. I look up to find that red haired girl staring at me like I've killed someone.

"Here? Really?" She says and she walks towards me and throws her book bag onto the table.

"Pardon?" I ask, thoroughly confused by her question.

"This is the one place I can come to in school where no one bothers me, and here you are." She laughs. Just as I'm about to speak up she starts again. "What do you want from me? Seriously, why me?" She asks and huffs while sitting down across from me. She lays her head in her hands and I am at a complete loss for words.

Come on, Harry! Say something...

"I'll leave." I say and stand to pack all of my stuff. "I didn't know, I just didn't want to go to lunch and sit at a table by myself. Not my thing." I say and shove my journal back into my bag.

"Your thing? What, to look like a loner? Is it weird for you to not have any friends?" She asks and I'm taken back by her rudeness.

"No, it's not my thing to have friends. Period." I say and start to walk away.

"Harry." She whispers. I barely hear her, but it's enough for me to stop dead in my tracks and listen to her. For a minute I hear nothing, but soon I hear her footsteps walk up behind me so I turn around.

"I'm sorry." She says and walks past me and back into the school. I stand and wait there until the rings, I have no fucking idea what just happened.

But, she's clearly warming up to me.

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(A/N)

Cocky bastard! gotta love Harry. (: comment and vote pwease. love y'all! The picture for this chapter is Elijah Wood! He plays Jeremy, Katie's boyfriend!