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Chapter 4

Walking through the halls Tuesday morning I looked for my locker through the sea of people.

Stopping in front of the bright colored locker I put in my combination and took out the books that I would need for the next three classes.

Closing the locker door I was shocked to see a red head standing next to it.

"Surprised to see me," Bell joked as she smiled. Returning the smile in greeting I started my walk to class hoping she would follow.

"So what class do you have next?" Bell asked as she kept up with my slow pace.

Pulling my math notebook on top of my other books I showed it to her.

"Ohhh math cool cool. I got...." Bell trailed off as she searched for something in her bags pockets.

After a moment or two she finally pulled out a paper that was in her bag. Uncrumbling the crumbled paper she looked it over.

"English!" Bell exclaimed.

Laughing lightly I pulled out my schedule that was in my binder and handed it to her so she could compare it.

"Okay... We have gym, tech, and U.S. together. Oh and lunch," Bell stated as she looked between both papers.

Hearing the bell ring I looked around and noticed I was two classrooms down from my class.

"Oh I got to go, don't want to be late on my second day, see you in gym," Bell rushed as she hurriedly handed me back my schedule before running down the hall.

Picking up my slow pace myself I walked into class along with a couple other students.

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"Emilie! Emilie over here!"  I heard a loud familiar shout. Looking towards the sound I noticed Bell sitting on top of the bleachers.

I walked up the bleachers avoiding people's bags as I went to meet her.

"This is a big gym isn't it?" Bell said as she looked around with an amazed look on her face.

Looking around myself I thought about it.

I guess it was big. I haven't really seen any other gym except this one and two others. But I guess since she came from a different high school she would see a difference.

Shrugging in response to her question I pulled out the spiraled notebook she gave me.

"Hey you see that boy over there," Bell asked after a few minutes of silence.

Looking up I followed Bells eyes to a certain direction of the gym.

There was a semi big group of kids over there chatting but only one was sitting silently with ear plugs in his ears. Austin.

"The one with the blue eyes and black hair," Bell continued. Taking my eyes off of the brown eyed boy I looked towards the one with blue eyes that was a few feet away from Austin.

I nodded my head in answer.

"I met him while you were in the nurses office yesterday. We talked a little and you could even say flirted but since then we haven't really crossed paths," Bell explained not taking her eyes off of the boy with blue eyes.

"Do you think you could come with me to talk to him?" Bell asked turning to look at me.

Taking a pen out of my bag I wrote in the notebook, 'Sure, why not' and showed it to her.

Bell smiled before grabbing my hand and dragging my down the bleachers. I barley had time to pick up my bag that was sitting down next to me.

"You obviously don't need to talk all I need is someone to be there for me and give me a hint to tell me that I'm making a fool out of myself," Bell said as she twiddled with her fingers.