Unnoticed

Chapter 6

I wake up feeling good and I make some crunchy sweet honey loop cereal.
Dads in the shower and Dan comes back from the care home he works nights in. I then start getting ready and walk to school, the cool wind soothing me as it blows through my brown natural messy waves.

Getting by the school gates I lean against the cold rusty rails and wait for Emma as usual while I scroll through Facebook.

I see her walking up to me with a straight face which makes me furrow my eyebrows. Just before I can say hi or ask what's up a girl called Miley from maths starts to talk to her.
"Hi Em."
"Oh hi." Emma blushes crazily. Shes had a crush on Miley since forever and still hasn't asked her out. "Ask her out!" I mouth. She just glares back embarrassed.

Waving her, bye, I turn and start making my way onto the yard by myself. I see lots of people but nobody bothers with me. So I'm left standing on my own like a tree stump, stuck in the ground. Then I see Taylor a girl who I sometimes talk to, walking up towards me. "Finally a fellow loner." she shouts.
"Hey." I grin.
What you been up to?" She asks.
"Being bored you?"
"Doing shitty school work."
I chuckle at her.

Then I look up and catch Jake looking at me from across the yard again! He must have got here before me and then he starts to walk, surprisingly in my direction!
"Hey i'l see ya." whispers Taylor. Before I can ask her to come back her short small shadow is replaced by Jake's tall dark one.

"Hey heard, bout last night are you OK?" He asks gently.
"WHAT, how do you know what happened?" I whisper shout.
"Hey hey I over heard mum on the phone don't bite me head off." he chuckles.
I just glare at him.
"So?"
"What?"
"Are you OK?"
"Why do you care?"
"I don't."
"OK so why are you asking then?"
"Dunno."
"OK well bye." I say sassily.
"Hey wait up." he follows me.
"Why?"
Hes silent for a minute "Look I'm sorry..." he says slowly.
"What for?"
He hesitates.
"I mean um...Nothing, I've, uhh', gotta go." he stutters. He then just turns away leaving a lingering masculine fragrance of men's aftershave. Huh? I think. I then look around to see Emma and Miley in the distance laughing and then exchanging numbers. Finally shes getting somewhere I smile.

But then my smile disappears as I see Jenny, another girl from my year with her friends and with....... Jack! He has his arm draped around her shoulders and is hanging at her side. He then turns her around to him holding her face and then,..... presses his lips against hers! Making my heart sink and my face redden with hurt as jealousy streaks through me.

I look away, pushing the gentle pain to the back of my mind.

The bell then goes and they walk past me. As they do his shoulder brushes mine leaving a permanent burn making the disbelief and hurt I feel grow more.

I then turn to see Emma. "Hi you ready?" I ask.
""Yep, let's go", do we start to walk in to school.

Through out the day so far it has been torture. Jake has been throwing balled up notes at me in class again! I haven't even bothered to open them because they're probably full of shitty comments anyway. Which has made him throw even more at me especially in History.
Its 4th period next which is Science so at least I wont be dealing with him then. I just hope he doesn't change classes and come to mine because last Science lesson our teacher said some of us might be moving classes because of our grades on our last exam. I'm in the grade B class at the moment which is good because that means I'm likely to get a grade B or above and Science is one of my favourite subjects although I'm not too keen on the class itself.

Its lunch time at the moment and I'm sitting on a bench with Emma while she does her English homework which was set a week ago and it's due tomorrow and shes only just started it! Or should I say I've helped her just start it. To be honest shes better at Maths than Science which Maths is my worst subject so fairs I guess.

"Finally I've finished it." she breathes.
"You mean we have finished it." I laugh.
"Hey hey hey, I helped you with your maths so.." she smiles.
"True."
"Wanna eat now?"
"Yer I guess." I say as I get out a ham butty, a yorkie bar and a pack of barbeque crisps.
"Emma has a cheese and bacon panini from the canteen she pre-ordered at break. We finish up and she has a red bull energy drink while I have my favourite drink, monster ultra. Its an energy drink. God I swear I have a addiction I drink between 2 and three a day.

Just before we get talking again the bell rings signalling for Science. "Science next." I smile.
"Ugggh'." she groans." Cant we just skip?"
"Nuuuuu' we might be getting moved anyways so come on." I chuckle.
"Fine." she grumbles half smiling.