Is it meant to be ?

Part 2

8th grade year

  First day of 8th grade. Yay 😓. The bullying didn't stop but it did lighten up as I got prettier. Sadly, I still couldn't stand up for myself. As I'm off to class I feel an arm gaze against mine. He said, "sorry" and smiled at me. He was perfect in my eyes, 5'10 darkskin and had pretty white teeth. He asked me what my name was I stuttered a little and he laughed as I was about to say my name he stopped me. He told me to smile more it makes me look good. I gave him a smirk and he smiled at me and walked me to class funny thing was we were in the same class.
As we were looking for our seats I noticed he sat on the other side with the kids who've been picking on me since the sixth grade. He seemed to get along with them until they started throwing paper at me and missing. He told them to stop but they gave him a very dirty stank look and said no. So he got up and came to sit in the empty seat beside me to try and protect me from the paper balls. I had water in my eyes he said to me "don't let them control your feelings". After he told me that they stopped throwing the paper at us and turned to the front. As the teacher came into the classroom she said "good morning" and me and this boy were the only people who said good morning back. When she started to teach he put a note on my desk that said " My name is Zachery but you can call me Zach" when I finished reading the note I smiled and wrote back " My name is Jakayla but you can call me Kayla".

Do you think Kayla and Zach's friendship will ever take a turn?