no matter what, no matter where

Chapter 9: the names bond, james bond

In front of me, stood the most gorgeous room I ever laid my eyes on. A buffet.

Silver plates, big and small, cakes of every kind, ice creams and jams. Cheeses, steaks, burgers, seafood and rice. Pasta, soup and vegetables (ew). My eyes become wide at the chocolate fountain, all I want to do is eat and eat and eat an-

"Oh sorry, wrong room."

I glare at Jack, who is chuckling nervously.

"What?"

"The bowling room is over there."

"Bu-"

"Come on" he drags me away from all that food and brings me into the right room. We change our shoes and choose our lane. I go first and hit 8 pins, I go again and the rest of them fall over. I smile at myself and take a seat. I used to play back in Spain, I'd go with Mateo and other team members; Alvaro, Hugo, Marc and Isabella. Isabella used to be the only girl that I was friends with, don't ask me why, because I'll never know.

Jack, Nate and Alexa all play, Sarah stays here with us, mostly chatting with Alexa and flirting with Jack and Nate.

It's Nates turn and he hits a strike, then it's Nates and he almost hits all of them. Alexa isn't that good and hers hits two. We continue like this for the next 25 minutes. We finish the first game, with Nate in 1st place, Jack in 2nd and me in 3rd  all of us scoring really close to each other and then there is Alexa, far, far away in last place.

A guy stumbles in and waves at the guys, alcohol reeks off him.

"Hey dudes, what's up?" He slurs. "Jack! My man!"

Jack hugs him and sits him down. "Too much to drink?" He smirks.

"Nahh, the usual bro." Drunk guy laughs loudly. He sees me and stands up again.

"Wow, who do we have here?"

"No one." Nate pulls me closer to him.

"Awww come on Nate."

"You better move Adam."

"You can't tell me what to do. You don't own the place." He smirks, and then points at Jack. "He does."

Whaattt? I look at Jack, appalled, he smiles at me and winks.

"Go and sleep it of Adam, we're showing the place to Rachel." At the mention of my name, the guy turns to me again.

Thank you Jack. Again.

"I'm Adam," he smirks, "you are?"

Didn't Jack just say my name?

"The name is Bond, James Bond" I return his smirk with one of my own.

"What, really?" Ok so this guy is just stupid. I can't even-

"Okay, that's it, we have to go or we'll be late for school." I look at Nate gratefully. He pushes me out before we can even say bye to the rude girls or the drunk boy. 

I slump myself into the car.

"So how did you like the Black Night?"

I smile at Nate. "It was so cool."

"Yeah?"

"So cool."

He grins. "I knew you'd like it."

As I look at the time, I start to feel my anxiety starting to build up, we are not going to make it, we are not going to make it. I sigh in relief when I see the school. I jump out of the car as soon as Nate parks, leaving them behind. I enter the busy hallways and I see that we still have 4 minutes left. Thank god. I turn to see that Nate and Jack have catched up with me. I look at them worriedly as a pair of teacher pass by us.