Caught Between the Greys

3."I see you have chosen a side."

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I woke up the following day a little earlier than usual and had some extra time to do my makeup. After feeling satisfied with my look, I hopped into my Q50 and made my way to school. During first period, I decided to go to the restroom since I could barely keep my eyes open.

As I was walking in the main hallway, I heard some yelling and me being my curious self decided to check it out. In the back, I saw Sebastian arguing with two other guys that were dressed in blue. As the argument got more heated, I saw a fight break out and I immediately ran to stop it.

The two guys were on the ground from all the hits they took by the time I got there. I ran to stop Sebastian from killing them. When I grabbed his arm to pull him back, the two guys ran away. He faced me with an annoyed look on his face.

"What are you doing! You could have killed them!" I cried.

A smirk tugged on his face.

"Well thank you. I'm glad you think so highly of my fighting skills." He responded back with a cocky tone.

"Ugh. you're sick." I spat as I started to walk away.

Before I knew it, his hand grabbed my arm and he pushed me up against a locker. His face was so close to mine, that I could feel his cool, minty breath mixed with the scent of cigarettes against my skin. My breathing became shallow and as he leaned even closer. I got goosebumps as he whispered in my ear. "Don't go looking for trouble, darling." while he released his grasp on me and started walking away.

I stood there paralyzed watching him disappear into a classroom.

"What the hell is wrong with this school?" I said to myself as I slowly made my way towards class.

The rest of the day went by like a blur until I reached my art class. I got my supplies out and saw Anthony walk in late again. He sat down in his seat and I tried to avoid making conversation with him. It wasn't until a couple minutes into our class time that I felt someone tapping on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Anthony smiling at me.

"I'm sorry for bitching at you yesterday." He said.

"Oh, don't worry about it. We all have our days" I said with a smile on my face.

"I'm Anthony, by the way" while reaching out his hand as an invitation for me to shake it.

"I'm Scarlett," I said as I shook his hand. I realized that he was wearing all black and didn't have any type of blue clothing on him, meaning he was probably from the West Wing.

For the remainder of class we talked about the school, the whole gang situation, and the friends we made here. Turns out that I was correct about my guess and he invited me to have lunch with him tomorrow. We exchanged snapchat usernames and continued talking throughout the whole day.

I was happy that I was actually able to become friends with someone that wasn't heavily involved with the gangs at our school. Plus he was really easy to talk to and we had the same type of humor.

That night I had stayed up all night talking to Anthony about random things. I didn't even realize it was 5 am until I looked at the time. Oh shoot. I decided to go take a shower as an effort to wake me up. When I came out, I started feeling the effects of no sleep. I had to stop by Starbucks before school today.

As I pulled out from my driveway, I put some old Kanye West songs to get me in the mood. I arrived at the Starbucks near my house and was surprised to see that there was only one guy in line. I picked out a bagel and then ordered a plain iced coffee because I can't stand hot coffee. As I was taking out money to pay, the same guy that was in front of me came and offered his money to the barista.

"Don't worry I'll cover the cost for you." He said with a smile.

"No, wait." I tried to intervene, but he already paid.

As I was trying to pay him back, he interrupted me and insisted on it being it his gift to me.

"I've seen you around school. You're the new girl right?" he asked.

"Oh yeah, I guess," I replied.

"Oh pardon me for not introducing myself. I'm Zach. I'm Hunter's second in command." he said.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I do think I remember seeing him sitting at the East Wing surrounded by the rest of the members.

"Nice to meet you Zach, I'm Scarlett."

"I've noticed you already met Lily and Jade too," Zach said as we were heading towards the exit.

"Yeah, they introduced me to the whole East and West wing situation. I've gotten close to them in these past couple of days."

"Um, how is Lily? Did she ever mention me?" He said. I could see he was nervous when he mentioned Lily.

"Um, ya she's good. And no I don't think so, why?" I asked.

"Uh, don't worry about it. I guess I'll see you at school. Tell her I said Hi." He said as he started walking towards his car.

"Ok, bye." I said and started heading towards my car.

"Hey Lily. Hey Jade." I greeted as I walked towards them.

"Hey girl. What's up." Lily asked

"Not much. Oh, before I forget to tell you, this guy Zach told me to say hi to you this morning." I said.

"Wait. How do you know Zach?" Jade asked looking concerned for Lily.

"I just ran into him at a Starbucks and he paid for my order and asked about you guys."I replied

Jade and Lily looked at each other with weird looks on each other's faces. Shortly after, Lily excused herself and headed to class early.

"Was it something I said? Did I upset her?" I asked Jade

"No, don't worry. It has to do with Zach. They used to date last year but the whole gang situation split them up." Jade replied

I didn't think that my comment would affect her so much. I hope she was doing all right.

I excused myself and then walked myself to class. Once it got to lunch, I remembered Anthony's invitation to sit with him, so for the first time, I headed towards the West Wing. Once I sat next to Anthony, I saw Sebastian with a satisfied look on his face. I hope he didn't think I chose a side or anything. I wasn't going to make that decision until later. To be honest, lunch was pretty fun, but I couldn't stand the glares I got from people sitting in the East Wing.

Anthony noticed how uncomfortable the situation was and tried to get me to forget about the people staring. In my last two classes, I got to secretly take naps because the coffee was not working. When the last bell rang, I went to the school library to pick up some book for my history class.

By the time I left the library the student parking lot was empty with the exception of the infamous Dodge Challenger and Hunter standing next to it.

"I see you have chosen a side."
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