A/N: This is my first fanfic, which makes me nervous as heck. Hope you enjoy :)
The end of the world started in… math class.
My name's Katy Pierce. I live with my step-mom, Lucy, and step-sister, Adrianna. I'm fourteen, and my dad left when I was two. Lucy's nice and upbeat and all, but she's always shied away from me a little, flinched away from me a bit more than she has from Adrianna.
Enough about me. Ready for the end of the world to begin? I sure am! Hoooo-rah!
So, anyhow, I was sitting in math. The girl next to me, Gina, got called down to the office and Jack got up to go… wherever Jacks go. Just for the record, it was really awkward there with just me and quiet, smart, Matt at our table. I felt like I should say something since our group is so talkative all the time (tehe.)
"So, um, do you know where Jack went?" I said. I checked the clock. 12:38. Jack had been gone nearly ten minutes, which made me nervous. I didn't know why.
"No," Matt mumbled, not looking up from whatever he was writing on his homework. It occurred to me that his homework was the only worksheet out in our entire group. Oops.
Finally Gina came back and spared me from death by silence. Her gold bangles jingled as she sat down. Jack arrived two minutes later, blue eyes flashing mischievously, and Mrs. Brandt started the lesson.
"Dude, you were gone nearly ten minutes!" I hissed to Jack, trying to pretend I hadn't been worried out of my pants or fantasizing him having fallen down the stairs and me having to save his life or something.
He half-grinned. "I know."
"Where were you?"
"Nurse's office." He smirked. "Did she check the homework?"
"Yeah," Matt chimed in, still writing who-knows-what in red ink on his homework.
Jack's smirk widened into a half-grin and the light caught off his blondish-brownish hair, making it more blond than brown. "My plan worked perfectly."
Well, that had been at the back of my mind, but it was way less dramatic than him having fallen down the stairs or Gina's being called down to the office being because she killed Jack.
"Genius," Gina breathed, and I raised my eyebrows, secretly agreeing with Gina, though I could have easily pulled off a stunt like that. Going down to the nurse's office to skip homework check? It was smart, and gutsy.
I drifted off into dreamland, as usual, of course, paying attention to every detail of what was going on in the room. I noticed that Jack looked nervous. He kept shifting around in his seat, and the minute the bell rang he shot off like a rocket.
"Gina, do we have study now?" I asked, hefting up the textbooks to go put them away.
Gina nodded. "Where do the calculators go?" I was about to point her in the right direction, when she shut her eyes and dropped the calculators. They landed with a clatter of applause.
"Um… sorry, Katy. I… I have to go." Shaking her head, hard, so her long blond hair whipped all over the place, she speed-walked out of the room.
Naturally, as the curious menace I am, I glanced quickly at Matt. He shrugged, but smiled a little as if he caught on to my idea. Without another word, I dashed out after Gina.
A/N: woo, hope you liked it. Not very exciting yet but it'll increase at… some… point.