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Chapter 10

Noah

"Doctor appointment at twelve o'clock? Got it," Veronica repeated, "Go to school, I'll send you a message with what the doctor said."

"Thank you." She smiled and closed the door behind her. Zoey was making a lot of progress, so hopefully the doctor will let her go back to school in a few weeks, I know how terribly she misses her friends. They stop by a lot on weekends, I hear them giggling on Zoey's room all the time. God, how innocent we all were in middle school.

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The bell rang and I sighed. Mr. Karte, my science teacher, had decided to surprise us with a surprise test, to see if we had learned anything in the first week or if we were still clinging onto summer. I'm sure that I'll have a D with good luck. Yeah, it was that bad.

As I walked down the hall, I passed Amanda talking to her multicolored haired friend by her locker, who looked up and nudged her in the ribs when she saw me, murmuring into her ear. Amanda whispered something in return, obviously embarrassed since her cheeks turned into a bright, pink shade. Her friend giggled as Amanda adjusted her red bomber jacket with white sleeves and started playing with one of the rips of her blue jeans. Today she was wearing a pair of white converse and had changed all of the hoops in her ears to little white, pink and red different sized fake pearls. Her hair was tied up into a dutch braid and she was not wearing makeup.

I just shot her a smirk and made my way towards the cafeteria. I didn't really like eating here, but Jack wanted me to eat with him today, and I was not in the mood to fight with him, so I agreed. I bought a simple sandwich that didn't even look like one and a bottle of water. Jack was sitting on a table near the microwaves with Caleb, Alex, and Shane, the guys from the diner. I walked over to them and sat down.

"Um, what is that?" Jack asked, looking at my food.

"That," I stated, "Is supposed to be a sandwich."

"That's disgusting," Caleb said, adjusting his black glasses on top of his nose.

"Are we still talking about the lame sandwich that isn't even a sandwich?" Shane asked, totally bored about this conversation.

"I don't know," Jack said. Suddenly, a loud ringing interrupted us. Alex jumped and took out his phone from his pocket.

"Shit, it's Kayla," he said.

"You two broke up again?" Shane asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure she wants to make up," he said, "I better take this." He stood up and went outside into the hall as he answered the call.

"Anyway," Caleb said, "How did you do on the science test, Noah?" I had forgotten he was in my science class, I'm sure he aced it, he liked science. Or that's what I thought because he participated a lot.

"Horrible, I'm sure of it," I replied as I opened the sandwich that didn't look like a sandwich and took a bite.

"I think I did pretty well." I quickly grabbed a napkin from the dispenser and spit the sandwich out of my mouth without anyone seeing me do it.

"Ew," Shane said.

"That doesn't even taste like a sandwich!" I stated, still gagging.

"It doesn't even look like a sandwich," Jack reminded me.

"I'm never eating cafeteria food again," I said, "What is this made of anyway?" Caleb grabbed the sandwich with the wrap still around it and looked inside.

"Dude, that cheese looks like it's thirty years old," he said, tossing the sandwich into a nearby bin.

"Disgusting," Shane said. Thanks for your one-word opinions, I thought. That's when Alex came back and sat down, face in his hands.