Philophobia

Chapter 3

It's been a week since I last encountered him. I've seen him in class, and he's tried to talk to me but I just blew him off. We're not supposed to be seen together anyways. I don't want to ruin his reputation. Plus, what would we talk about? We have nothing in common, we're both complete opposites. 

I got my chemistry workbook from my locker and then headed out to our spot. Our spot is a wall where us "freaks" like to hang out. We aren't freaks though, we perfer the term punk rock or grunge. When I got there I saw Auburn sitting on the ground with her legs crossed and Damon standing with his back resting against the wall and one of his legs on the wall and the other on the ground. His black hair was messy, but in a good way. Damon is your typical, handsome, bad boy, who stood up for the people he cared for. He had his sunglasses hanging from his shirts' collar. He was wearing a maroon colored V neck shirt, a black jean jacket, some black jeans, and his usual black boots. Yeah...he likes the color black. 

I made my way over to them and sat next to Auburn on the floor. She was looking stunning as always. She was wearing a floral dress, with a jean jacket and a pair of brown boots. She turned to look at me with a huge smile and threw her arm around my shoulder. 

"Hey beautiful, got any smokes?" Damon said to me. The thing you need to know about Damon is that he flirts, with everyone. He says it makes him look "hot and sexy" and that he gets what he wants with it. I for one, think otherwise. 

"No Damon, I don't have any smokes. I havven't been able to buy any." I haven't gone to buy my cigarettes, I've been too busy working. I finally got hired to work at Hot Topic. I applied a month ago with Auburn but she got hired at Spencer's. Therefore I am alone, working with fake people who aren't even punk rock. 

"Well that blows. You were my last hope." He said. "I'm your only hope." He laughed, and then the bell rang, signaling that we had to return to the hell that is school. We got up and started walking to our first block. We arrived and we sat down at the very end of the classroom. Damon sat in the desk in front of me and Auburn sat in the desk next to me. Once class started we pretended to listen then once it ended we got out of there. It went on that way until it was time for lunch. We were open campus, so we were allowed to leave and eat wherever we wanted to. We drove over to our usual favorite place Chick-Fil-A and when we got there we ordered our usual. We went to sit at a booth and started talking while we waited for our food. 

"Hey Auby, where's Cole?" Cole is Auburn's boyfriend. They've been going out for over a year and a half now and it seems like they really care about each other. "He's home sick. Apparenlty he got sick at the camping trip"

"What happened?" I asked. "His friends dared him to jump into the freezing lake. It was a cold night. So...that explains his absence." Damon and I both laughed. Typical Cole, always being an idiot. We heard our order being called so Damon went to pick it up. When he came back we all ate and made jokes. We were laughing, smiling, having fun, we were all happy. I was happy. But then that little evil voice in my head said that all of this doens't last forever. All good things must come to an end. I just wish they didn't have to. 

When our hour of lunch ended we headed back to school. And so the cycle began again; sit, pretend to listen, leave. Every day was the same thing and nothing ever happened to change it. 

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School was finally over, so Damon, Auburn and I headed to an old abandoned train station that wasn't far away from our houses. We always hung out there after school, and just stood around and talked about things. 

"Honestly, nothing is fun without cigarettes." Damon commented. 

"Damon, I don't smoke and I have a lot of fun. Plus you shound't even be smoking. It's not healthy, you can die from that." Auburn snapped at him. She was really against the whole smoking thing. To her, smoking is cancer and death.