EQUINOX [ MADELAIN PETSCH ]

Chapter Two

As the bell rings for lunch, I walk out of class and down the hall to the lunch room. I never usually eat school lunch so I walk over to a vending machine that's in the the lunch room, over by the microwaves. I pull my wallet out and grab two dollars from my wallet, A dollar for the chips and a dollar for the drinks. I get a small bag of classic lays chips and a bottle of water, walking to the table Ashton and his friends are sitting.

I sit down in front of a girl with long, curly red hair. She watched me as I open my bag of chips, "Can I help you?" I ask her. She smiled "My name is Abigail Jones, I'm Ashton's younger sister and the captain of the cheerleading team" she tells me. I nod "Okay?" I tell her, her smile quickly went away "It's your turn now. What's your name?" she tells me after rolling her eyes.

"Okay, well, my name is Adrian and I'm the new guy." I tell her. "Oh! You're the guy who's in my brothers math class. He said I might like you." she tells him, I nod slightly. Great, the brother is trying to play match maker for his sister who, I'm guessing, says she got broken hearted by every guy in the school when she was actually the one doing the heart breaking.

"I didn't say that you'll like him, Abigail. I said that you might get all with him." I hear Ashton say. "Whatever, same thing" I hear her say as she looks at me. "So, what school did you come from?" Abigail asked me, I shake my head "Actually, this is my first time being back in school since I was in eighth grade. Some stuff happened and I got expelled and eventually just got kicked out." I explain to them.

"What'd you do?" Ashton asks me. I shake my head "I don't really like talking about it." I tell them, taking a sip of my water. "Come on, tell us." Abigail says, "Abby, he said he doesn't wanna talk about it." I hear Ashton say. I finish eating my chips and say "I'm gonna get going" I say while standing up "Alright man, I'll catch you later ight?" Ashton says to me while I stand. "Yeah" I say while walking away, throwing my empty chip bag in the trash.

I walk out the cafeteria, drinking my water. I wasn't looking where I was going and accidentally ran into a girl. "Oh my god, I'm sorry." I say quickly putting the lid on my water bottle. "It's fine" she tells me while looking down. She had long brownish, blondish straight hair. She looked at me and smiled slightly "Adrian right?" she asked me. I smiled and nodded "Yeah" I tell her.

"I'm Stephanie" She said smiling. I seen her smile quickly fade when I felt a hand hand on my back. I looked to see who it was. It was Abigail, "Come on Adrian. Walk with me to class" she says while starring at Stephanie. "I'll see around" I tell Stephanie, She nods while holding her books close to her chest.

Me and Abigail walk down the hall "Why was you talking to her?" she asked me, I shrugged "I wasn't watching where I was going and accidentally ran into her." I explain to her. "Well, just a heads up, I wouldn't get close with her. She's slept with basically every guy in the football team, including my brother." she tells me.

She stands on her tip toes to places her hand on my shoulder and gets close to my ear "He said she completely awful in bed." she whispers into my ear. "I wasn't planning on sleeping with her? I just met her." I told Abigail, walking into class "Just letting you know" she says while walking in behind me.

I walk to an empty desk and sit down, Abigail follows and sits in an empty seat behind me. "So, are you ever gonna me why you got expelled?" She asks me. I sigh "I was hanging out with the wrong group of friend, alright?" I tell her "Thats all I'm gonna tell you", I hear her sigh.

I'm not gonna come right out and start telling people why I got expelled and then kicked out. I'm not proud of what I did. If I was proud of it, half the school would already know about it. I feel that if you brag about something you did, you're proud of it. Rather that's winning a game, or shoving a kid into a locker.

As class goes on, I find myself day dreaming. Maybe this is my shot at actually changing my life around. Maybe I can actually go out for football team like I've always talked about doing ever since middle school. I could actually make something of myself here at this school. I'm sure that'll make my mom proud. She'll be proud to know that I'm hanging out with a good group of people and made the football team. I could get some good scholarships for college by playing football, if i'm any good of course.