Getting Chances (Chandler Riggs Fanfic)

Chapter 30

Paysons POV
I walk into the classroom in Monday morning and sit next to Melisa.
"Hey how was your weekend? With Chaannnndllerrr?" She asked dragging out his name and nudging me with her elbow.
I rolled my eyes and answered.
"It was.... Eventful?" I say not sure how to put it. I laugh and continue.
"It was fun. How was yours?" I ask.
"Oh, you know.. Boring especially because you didn't go to the acting class!" She makes her eyes wide at the end of the sentence.

"Shit! I'm so sorry! I completely forgot all about that!" I say. God I am so stupid! I was so caught up I'm the date drama that I completely forgot!
"That's okay. I guess. But okay so one of my acting partners, Lauren, she is sooo funny! So we were doing improv and so me and her were on the mini stage and we had to make up this scenario where I was her daughter and I was sneaking my 'boyfriend' in and then it just went on and on! But it was like comedy stuff, not drama." She laughed.
"Remind me this Friday that I HAVE to go, I won't make any plans for Saturday!" I promise her as the bell rings for class to start.

After 3rd period is over, Brett catches up to me in the hallway.
"So hey hey hey Payconator!" He says as he catches up to me.
"Payconator?" I ask and laugh.
"Yeah, you know, mix between Payson and bacon eater?" I can tell he's just making it up as he goes along, so I decide to mess with him.
"I'm vegan." I stop walking. "How could you?" I say pretending to be really hurt.
"Oh I didn't know you were-"
"Kidding. I eat bacon all the time." I shrug and walk past him.
"Oh ha-ha. Very funny." He says and catches back up to me.
"So you still have Mr. Benter for homeroom right?" He asks.
"Is it supposed to change?" I ask loading on the sarcasm.
"Oh you're just filled with sarcasm today aren't you?" He laughs, basically reading my thoughts.
"I guess I am." I laugh and turn into Benter's room.

"You coming to my homeroom today?" I ask when I notice he's walking in here too.
"Yeah I gotta...." He pauses with a thinking face, then smiles. "Nahh. I don't have to do anything, my homeroom is just boring so I'm coming here." He shrugs. I laugh and sit down next to Sam.
"Hey hey hey Sammy Sam Sam's club." I say and punch him on the arm. He laughs, and shakes his head, putting his phone into his pocket.
"Hey hey hey PayPay poo pay." He laughs.
"See! I'm not the only one! Your name is hard to come up with nick names!" Brett says as he sits on my desk.
"What'd you call her?" Sam laughs.
"Payconator." I say and give Sam a death stare and roll my eyes.
"Hey it's not that bad!" Brett defends.
"What does it even mean?" Sam is now laughing hysterically at Brett's stupid nickname.
"Payson, bacon eater." He says through his laughter, and sam laughs too.
"Oh ha-ha." I say and roll my eyes. I pull my phone out to see if Chandler texted me back yet, which he did.

Me: hey so I'm goin to one of Melisa's acting classes this Saturday so we can't hang out.

ChannnChannn: That's okay! 😁 maybe sunday? We can watch the season finale together!?

Me: You already know what happens chandler! 😂😭 no fair!

ChannnChannn: Yeah but I haven't seen it all put together! And I want to watch it with you 😉

Me: Fine, I guess. 😊

I look up and see Brett and Sam just staring at me.
"What?" I ask them, a bit scared now. They both start laughing and I shake my head.
"You guys are mean!" I pout and cross my arms.
"Turn that frown upside down Payson!" I hear Mr. Benter say from his desk, playing with a rubber and ball, his feet up on the desk and slightly swiveling side to side in his chair, which is only about 2 desks away from mine.
I give him the dorkiest, biggest smile ever, scrunching my face, and eyes snapped shut. I shake my head and laugh, happy that I decided to come here, no matter what happens.