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Chapter Two : Girl

                                                  -The next day-

CRAP! She had forgotten that there was school today. "7:42, I guess I'll have a little time with my friends.." She swooped her straight black hair to one side, and decided that was ready enough. She was fine now, and over her and Abbey's break-up. Now to treat her as a just-friend. That seemed easy, since their relationship was a little weird. All that had changed was their title. They never really acted differently. She entered school with a smile, ready to see her friends again, but she didn't. 'Well, shit' she thought, a little upset. 'Did they have to come late today?' she sat against the cold wall and rummaged through her backpack for her sketchbook. 'At least my second-favorite thing is here.' She smiled as she started to push her pencil to the light paper. She stopped for a second, as she realised she was drawing wavy hair, and ignored her senses to stop. She continued to move her pencil from the top to the bottom of the portrait page. She slowly started to curl the line back up, to the hairline. "There we go.." she soon got her marker bag- A black bag with band pins on the back of it- and got out a brown marker. "Ok, that sort of looks like it.." she said to herself as a melodic voice suddenly sounded. "What're you drawing?" it was the girl she was hurt by, she'd been pining for about a year or more, sending signals, confessed three times(rejected all), and finally made it, to be heartbroken. How did she respond to the careless girl that summoned her tears for a week? "Oh, just another one of my portraits. I'm drawing an original this time." She lied. And... they were friends again. Of course.

She walked into homeroom, as the teacher said aloud, "We're changing seats today, so keep your stuff and stand over there" she pointed to the whiteboard. Jessica rolled her eyes and stood over by Lisa, Amy, Riley, and the girl with the spotlight, Abbey. She waited as their teacher asigned new seats to everyone, when she called "Jessica Conway." Jessica looked up. "You're in the same seat." "Yes!" she silently said to herself, walking back to her corner. "Abbey Harrison." The teacher called. Jessica was confusing herself a bit, she didn't know if she wanted Abbey to be right next to her, or as far as possible. Well, Jessica wrote cheesy love poems, so far. But she wanted to be caught reading them, and for Abbey to take her back, so next to. "You sit by Conway." Jessica cursed under her breath. Abbey sat in front of Jessica. Jessica put on a smile and said "Hey, Abbey". Abbey replied happily with a "Hi! It's cool I get to be by you, anyone else would have been so boring!" Jessica didn't understand. Yes, they were friends now, but how did she act like nothing happened so easily? Did she forget about their past, or did she not care? Jessica finally sat down in the chair, and put her head down in attempt to calm herself. She didn't know why she still cared. "I need to focus on someone else.." she thought as her best friend, Charlie Smith ran over to sit next to her. "Hey, Jess!" Jessica brightened, she was glad her best friend was finally there. "Charlie!" she smiled. She could use some help with girls.