Lena's Love

Chemistry

Fortunately I share a few classes with Tiger, which are English, Spanish and gym class, and I have art and design with Maisie. Other then that my schedule is ordinary and boring. Ajax pops up in my mind and wonder if we share any classes, but only because I don't want to be near him of course. 

I am sitting through Spanish on a table opposite Tiger and Noah. Our teacher, the young and attractive Mr Brett, gave us a worksheet to work on and is now at his desk flicking through a magazine. It is no secret that unless I decide to put in some effort I am going to flunk Spanish, as I don't get any of the tenses and my vocabulary is poor to say the least. Maybe Tiger can tutor me, and she and Noah seem to be very adept as they talk to each other in Spanish as if it is their secret language. I gather that it just used to be them on their own sitting here, and I feel a bit like a third wheel placed awkwardly in front of them. Every now and then they remember I'm here and try to include my in their conversation, which I think is something about buying milk. There is obvious chemistry between the two as Noah keeps trying to make Tiger laugh, and when he does he looks like he is on top of the world. 

Although it is obvious and I am quite curious about her clandestine feelings, I haven't asked Tiger about it, as we are not that close yet and obviously her best friend Maisie has a big crush on Noah. Feigning ignorance is the best route, rather then opening that can of worms. 

There is a table of girls behind me who introduced themselves when I first sat down, but I feel largely on my own as there is now an odd number of people in class and I am the spare piece. Once the bell signals that class is over I am relieved, hurriedly scrambling my books together and making my way out of the airy classroom with the crowds. Some short guy with glasses who looks to be egged on by his friends comes up to me and asks if I am dating Ajax which makes me laugh. He smiles nervously and then hurries back to his friends. I simply stride after Tiger who is walking ahead with Noah. 

  "See you later Lena, Tiger." Noah smiles as we pass his English classroom, his eyes hovering on Tiger a second longer then they should. 

We both wave at him and then Tiger directs me to my Chemistry class. I notice a few people staring at me with interest from the queue in the hallways but I just smile briefly and then train my eyes on the boring off-colour carpet which could have been there since the 80s. We make our way up the flights of stairs when we nearly bump into three beautiful girls. 

"Hello Tiger." The girl in the middle who is obviously the leader of the group exclaims with a sweet smile. "And you must be Lena Stone. Ajax told me about you." She hums as she crosses her arms and looks quite intimidating, although she can only be about 5 foot 3. 

I inwardly sigh as I wonder if this is an ambush and I am about to get warned away from Ajax by some of his fan girls. This girl definitely loves to be noticed and is very confident in a leopard print skin tight dress and denim jacket thrown over her shoulders. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I'm sure attention gravitates to her without her needing to try, as she is exotically beautiful with deep cocoa skin and has a chocolate-coloured afro which falls in perfect ringlets to her shoulders. She may be a little chubby, but has incredible curves I would die for. 

She raises her filled-in eyebrows as she looks me up and down making me feel quite self conscious. I know I am no model like her and Tiger, and I really don't want to be dealing with some irate air head that likes to bring other people down. I stare defiantly back at her and cross my arms too, matching her stance. 

"Yes, and?" I question, echoing her slightly judgemental expression. 

"Oh, I'm Kat, Ajax's girlfriend." She giggles and suddenly drops her bitch face to give me a wide dazzling smile. Wow, he certainly pulls well.