The Alpha's Favour

IV

"I heard you almost got killed by the populars."

Kat and I turned around to see our friend, Christopher, who had taken a seat next to Kat. We were in the school hall, where everyone was gathering for our assembly. We had our assembly every Monday of the week to get briefed on anything important that was happening in the school.

Kat leaned back on the chair she sat on, putting her feet up on the chair in front of her. She had long enough legs to comfortably do such things. And we did have a lot of room in the back roll. People tend to steer clear of the outcasts.

"I think you mean they almost got their butts handed to them." She threw an arm over my shoulder. "Cryss and I totally had it under control."

I threw Kat's arm away. "Speak for yourself. I was so close to peeing my pants." I hissed, shooting her a glare to show that I wasn't okay with her little stunt from earlier.

Kat rolled her eyes. "You, my dearest cousin, need to grow a pair."

"No, you, need to learn some self control." I retaliated.

"Ladies, ladies." Chris spoke up. "No need to get, catty." He grinned and looked at us expecting us to laugh at his joke.

Kat just blinked at him and turned to face me. "Anyway... seriously Cryss, perhaps you should aspire to be less like Chris and actually consider taking some more practical classes this semester."

"Hey!" Chris yelled taking offence to Kat's words. "I'll have you know that... Er... um..."

He reached over and shook my shoulder. "Help me out here, Cryss."

Chris is also a halfling like me. And honestly he's the sweetest guy I know but he can clap back with a witty comeback to anything, any day, any time. Except when dealing with Kat. Yep, he has a little, kind of obvious crush on her. Well obvious to everyone except Kat. I don't say anything about it to either of them because honestly, I don't know if it would work out.

I mean, they're so different. Kat is athletic, and to be honest, kind of intense. I'm afraid that she'll eat poor, kind of shy and nerdy Chris alive.

"We do take practical classes, might I remind you that we are in the nature club and the sciences we take require lots of experiments."

"You tell her, girl!" Chris yelled and we high fived.

Kat rolled her eyes. "Geeks." She muttered.

"We prefer the term, 'nerds'." Chris retaliated.

"Yeah." I nodded my head. What could I say? Chris was my fellow outcast. Us freaks gotta stick together.

At that moment, Courtney, Bea and the twins walked in. They always looked like they owned the place with the way they strode in. Well, they kind of did but still...

I knew which one Josh was now, he was the one wearing one of the P.E shirts, I guess he had to change his shirt. His arm was slung over his girlfriend, Bea's shoulder. Courtney and Michael followed behind.

They walked right by us and Courtney shot us a glare, I was expecting Michael to ignore us like he usually did but he surprised me by staring right at me again. His blue-green eyes caught the light and well maybe it was my imagination but did he... did he just smile at me?

My eyes followed him until he settled down with his friends.

I looked at Kat and Chris to see if they had noticed. But Kat was busy on her phone and Chris was busy gawking at her.
So I guess they hadn't noticed or maybe it was just my imagination.