But, I lover her.

Chaper 1 When Autumn First meets Zoë

I've had eyes for Zoë from the very beginning, before she ever knew I existed. It was the first day of grade 11 when I first laid eyes on her. we were in Mrs. Kalinsky's English class, when Zoë walked in. looking beautiful with her long black hair cascading down her back. I noticed her right anyway. She was wearing black jeans and a burnt orange coloured flannel, and she wore the biggest smile. I kept my eyes on her as she walked past me, right up until she sat three chairs down from me, Zoë was the new girl and I found her insanely intriguing. Lana Chung leaned over to Zoë and I could faintly hear her whisper "Hey, cool shirt! I'm Lana Chung. Nice to meet you." Lana was a very sweet girl, she moved from China to New York City, New York when she was six years old. I've known my whole life. We used to be really close friends until she dated my brother back in ninth grade and he broke her heart. Damn, Jesse. "Zoë Felix" Zoe replied, I looked away from my book and slyly looked over my shoulder watching as Zoë held out her hand for Lana to shake it. Zoë is beautiful, her green eyes shining and her smile bright. I feel bad for ease dropping so I turn back to my tattered copy of "of mice and men" by John Steinbeck and read for a few minutes before the bell rings. " good morning class welcome to grade 11 English, I would like to introduce our new student Zoë Felix, Zoē please come up to the front of the class and introduce yourself." I look back at Zoë as she stands from her seat, looking red faced and shy, she walks to the front of the class, her army green combat boots surprisingly making no sound "please, tell us a little bit about yourself." Mrs Kolinsky says sweetly " uh hi. My name is Zoë and I just moved here from Connecticut my father is in the army so we move around a lot, but I've always wanted to live in New York so I'm very excited to be here." Zoë tells us. I smile at her. And she smiles back, the class all greets her with "heys" And "hellos" as she walks back to her seat beside Lana, I stop her by placing my hand lightly on her wrist " it's really nice to meet you, I really hope you like it here" I tell her and she smiles at me again, her smile is so right and pretty and all I can think is, I can't wait to make her smile again and I hope I get too. 40 minutes later we've gone over our chapters from last week and got more homework assigned and class is over. As I'm packing up my books into my black messenger bag, I feel a hand tap on my shoulder, I turn and face Zoë " I didn't catch your name." She said, I smile " right, sorry! I'm Autumn Greenberg" I set my bag over my shoulder and Zoë and I head out into the hall way. Hill creek high is packed with students on this Monday morning and we try to make our way to my Locker " I'm by the washroom" I say, pointing to the end of the all hallway "me too!" Zoë says, suddenly someone is blocking our way and I look up and notice that Wesley Grimes is standing in-front of me, not looking very happy " tell your fucking brother I want my money." He says, harshly, his voice booming " what money?" I question, Wesley glances between me and Zoë and whispers " don't play dumb with me, Autumn. You know what money!" I bat my eyelashes sweetly at him and place a hand on his forearm "sure Wesley, Okay." Wesley turns on his heels and chargers away, and Zoë asks " what was that?" I laugh and look at her. We're almost at our lockers now in the crowd is thinning out, everyone heading To second period " honestly? I could get into this whole big story and explain it all." I pause and open my locker and Zoë does the same " but it's not that interesting and it would probably just paint a really bad picture for my brother." I grab my math textbook in my water bottle and close my locker. I lean against my blue locker and glance at Zoë "okay." She says. And I notice she's holding the same text book as me " you have Mr. Hanleys math class next?" I asked surprised " yeah, my guidance counsellor from my last school suggested take a higher up at my new school because the other one was too easy. And autumn, as for your brother and whoever that guy was, you don't need to tell me . if you want to you can. There's no pressure." I don't say anything at first. Because, wow how sweet was that? Kids at this school, if they want information they don't stop until they get it. "Thank you." The second bell rings and we head down to Mr. Hanley's class on the second floor.