Survival [completed]

Lunch

The first day of school is anything but fun, I meet Tristan's other friends and they are the total opposite of the guys I saw earlier. These guys are a little more normal, they weren't all buff and strong and confident, they seemed like normal teenagers. Tristan was more relaxed around them though he was still tense. I think things would have been harder if it wasn't for Tristan. He was right, this school was dangerous. There were really mean guys and guys that were only looking to screw any desperate girl. They picked on girls and the girls were equally mean. Word had spread that I was the 'new girl' and I was with Tristan Shaw. So pretty much everyone we walked by stared at us. Tristan never left me alone and sat or walked next to me all day. If anyone tried to do anything funny, he'd be there to stare them down. His stare was scary and real, it scared me too. I'd never want to mess with him then. He had given me that stare once when I took his pokemon cards and threatened to burn them if he didn't play a game I wanted to play. He gave me the look and I handed him back the cards almost instantly. That look really was scary. 

Lunch wsa easier, or harder. It was easier cause I didn't have to go through that awkward first-day-of-school-where-should-I-sit thing, Tristan just brought me to sit with his friends. The normal ones. They were nice guys. There were a couple of girls in this group too but they were together with the guys in the group. I hadn't bothered to remember their names cause I had completely no intention of being friends with them. Mid lunch, the whole process became harder, cause Tristan being the popular footballer that he has had enemies too. And this guy looked just like a footballer, he was buff, strong and completely full of himself. 

"Well, well, well, we've got a new fish" The guy with a rough nasal voice commented. 

The hair in the back of my neck prickled, his voice was annoying. I saw the muscles on Tristan's arm tighten.

"What do you want Luke?" He asked turning to face him standing up.

The whole cafeteria was silent. I looked up and saw the footballers looking up, some had stood up ready to run over if Tristan needed help. I turned around to see that Luke had his own gang they were in punk clothes and biker clothes. They all looked scary. Jasper came up to me and stood next to me. 

Luke looked at him "What's your name, hottie?" He asked me. 

"Don't call her that," Tristan says coldly putting himself in front of me. 

I looked at him fearfully, "Er-" 

"None-of-your-business-" Jasper said 

"What's your deal?" Luke asked annoyed with Jasper

"She's my sister, so how about you screw off?" Jasper says fiercely at Luke. Gosh, I have never seen either of them look this scary. Tristan and Jasper had a completely different side at this school. It was so weird. 

"You have just become a very valuable little girl," Luke said looking at me then he looked at Tristan.

"Stay away from her or I promise you I will kill you" Tristan threatens Luke and he actually seemed like he meant it.

"I will have you on a platter." Jasper threatened. 

My eyes bulged at the open threats that the two kind and funny people I had known all my life throw at this guy. Not that I felt bad for him. I was starting to hate him myself. 

"Bring it, you get bored of these two, come to me, I can keep you happy," Luke says to me smiling. I wanted to gag. 

"I think, I'm good," I say the confidence coming from nowhere. Even I was surprised. 

"Fiesty, I like, see your hot stuff," Luke said and turned to leave. 

"You okay?" Jasper asked me after that. 

"Yeah, I'm fine" I smile at him. 

He winks at me and walks off 

There was silence and tension in the air after that. Then people started chatting and everything went back to normal, they were all talking about what happened just a few seconds ago. My heart was racing and I wanted to hide. This was why it was hard, usually, I'd spend my lunch in the toilet or in the library for the rest of the year. With Tristan around, I had to spend it with him at the cafeteria. His friends were discussing what just happened but I could hardly be bothered. 

"Excuse me," I say and walk out without bothering to answer Tristan. I had seen a toilet when we were walking here. That was where I was going. I'll just hide out there. I walked with my hair falling around me and close to the lockers. I duck into the toilet and lock myself inside one of the cubicles. I think was only in there for a few minutes before a girl called my name, 

"Yeah?" I asked curiously, who is she and how did she know my name

"Your boyfriend's outside, he's looking for you," She told me over the door.

"Right, I'll be right out, thanks," I say and flush the toilet and walk out, I still wasn't used to having people refer to Tristan as my boyfriend. 

"I am so sorry," He says the minute I walk out. 

"Why are you sorry for?" I asked him. I don't think I was pissed at him, I was more upset at the fact that I couldn't spend my time alone. I preferred it that way. 

"For what happened earlier?" He says as he takes my hand and leads me to a classroom. 

"I'm not pissed about that...Tristan, I don't do the whole socialising thing. I'm surprised you even stuck around. Haven't you noticed? I don't have friends. I didn't at school three or four or five, I don't plan on having it now too...It's not that your friends suck or anything it's just me." I tell him nervously. He wasn't at the wrong at all. I never shared with them about my previous schools at all. We only met on the weekends or if we went running. But that was it. If he needed something, I'd be the first person there for him. 

"I know, I know, that's why I was thinking, maybe from now on we spend lunch somewhere quiet...." he says looking at me hopefully.

"I can't ask you to leave your friends. That's stupid." I tell him. "Look, I can be alone for a while, I'll hang out at the library or something. Seriously you don't have to take care of me. I'm fine on my own." 

"I don't care about them at all. I swear. I'm only in the football team cause of my dad and well, Danny and the guys are just a few people I kinda like hanging with, but I'd rather hang out with you any day." He tells me. He semes so sincere and honest, I almost think he might like me. 

I push that thought out of my head cause he can never like me, I'm ugly. "I guess if that's what you really want..." I tell him shyly. 

"Then the library has become our new hang out spot," Tristan says smiling at me. 

I smile back at him. He was so adorable.