Authors Note: Okay guy's this is going to be a multi chap highschool AU fic. It is definitely Bering and Wells all the way. I will hopefully alternate between updating this and Life As We Know It (My other Bering and Wells muti chap) so just stick with me but since we are nearing summer I will have more time to write. Don't forget to review and thanks for reading!
Myka Bering had never been the most popular person at their school. To be honest she was suprised if any of the students actually knew her as anything but 'Pete's Friend'. But she was okay with that. She like it that way. She liked that she could walk from class to class without being bothered by the rumors or small talk that the teenagers around her seemed to thrive on. Except for the few rumors she would hear from Pete during lunch, she was fairly proud of the fact that she managed to stay out of most of it. But she herself had only been the subject of one of these rumors once, last year, when her and Pete started at Regents West High School in Colorado springs.
Pete and Myka had been best friends since the third grade when his family moved to town after his father had died. Although their personalities clashed in many different ways they always seemed to just 'click' and from the moment they met they were inseparable. When they had started their high school careers last year they immediately branched off into separate social groups throughout the school. Pete, being the fun loving jock that he is joined the football team and ended up on the varsity team his freshman year. Making him quite the attention buff ever since. Myka, being her quiet and well, nerdy self, took the more academic route and joined some of the other school clubs such as the academic team. But the two of them still didn't let their differences stop them, they ate lunch together every day and walked home together as well, after football and other clubs.
Their time spent together was the basis of the one rumor she had ever been a part of. That she was dating Pete. She had NEVER thought of Pete in that way and she was fairly certain that he felt the same way about her. They were friends, best friends, but there was no possibility of anything romantic going on there at all. But teenagers will be teenagers and the rumor spread like wildfire until she was getting dirty looks from all of the hopeful cheerleaders. At first she had tried to ignore it but after two months of glares and scoffs, she decided she needed to put an end to it, she just didn't know how. That was until Sam Martino, one of the upperclassmen asked her to a movie after school one day. She had recognized him from the debate team so she said yes, under the heavy persuasion of Pete.
So as she began dating Sam the rumors about her and Pete slowly burned out and her life returned to normal, per the exception of actually having a boyfriend. Sam was one of the more popular kids, not because he was sporty or anything, just because he was kind to everyone. So once she began dating him, her social level went up a bit as well. But she didn't care much for social politics, the only thing she cared about was making it through this damn freshman year and coming out alive.
Which she did, along with meeting two of her other now best friends, Steve Jinks and Abigail Cho, who were both in the same grade as her and Pete. The four of them had several classes together last year, most of the basic courses required by the school for freshman to take, as well as lunch and gym. They would often spend their free afternoons hanging out and talking at the park or going to the mall and walking around since none of them actually had any money. But this year, their sophomore year they met latest person to join their little family, Claudia Donovan. She was only a year behind them but once they met, Steve and Claudia had practically turned into Pete and Myka. Best friends, without any romantic attraction whatsoever.
And that's how this crazy group of friends met, Myka remembered as she laughed along, trying to follow the conversation that Pete and Claudia were having about the possible existence of aliens.
"Yeah, but why wouldn't they look human?" Pete asked with a mouthful of meatball sub.
"Why would they? If they evolve on a different planet than us, with different factors affecting their development and possibly things we don't have…" Claudia paused, taking a bite out of her cheeseburger. "Then there would be no reason for them to look like us." She finished.
"What if some other alien species took them from our planet a long long time ago and put them on other habitable planets?" Pete asked proudly.
"Dude, you need to stop watching Stargate with Myka." Claudia defended, knowing exactly that that's where his theory came from.
"Hey! Stargate is amazing!" Myka defended, finally jumping into the conversation.
"Yeah man, I know, but you can't seriously be letting Pete use that as his basis for our aliens argument."
"Claud's right Pete, you can't use that for your argument, If you think about it, it really doesn't make that much sense anyways…" Myka told him as she took a bite of her caesar salad.
"Oh come on Mykes! I thought you of all people would defend Stargate." Pete pouted.
"I will defend Stargate, just not your argument." Myka smirked, taking the last bites of her salad and opening up her water bottle.
"Fine…" Pete grumbled, also taking the last bites of his lunch.
"This is the third aliens debate you've had this week at lunch guys." Steve finally chimed in since the rest of them had stopped babbling.
"Yeah...and you're point?" Pete retorted.
"Can't you find anything else to argue about?" Steve asked.
"Nope." Both Pete and Claudia answered at once.
"Well Steve, lunch is over in ten minutes anyways…" Myka reminded him.
"Thank god." Steve mumbled, crumpling up his empty bag of chips and throwing it into the trash can a few feet away.
"And remind me again why you're not on the basketball team?" Pete asked sarcastically.
"Because sports aren't fun. It's just a bunch of people getting angry because they can't get a ball in a hoop or something." Steve explained, the same way he had been ever since he'd met Pete.
"Why am I the only one who appreciates sports around here?" Pete asked sarcastically.
"Hey, I'm on the track team remember." Abigail said, tuning in to the conversation from her biology homework.
"Yeah sports are gross… you get all sweaty and stuff… not cool dude." Claudia said as she grabbed out her computer from her backpack.
"Claud, theres only ten minutes left of lunch…and yeah sports aren't really anyone elses thing Pete. You can keep them all to yourself and Abigail over there." Myka said.
"Hey, you're in fencing though!" Pete remembered and shouted out.
"Was...I was in fencing, Pete. Not anymore." Myka clarified "Plus that's not really the same as football or basketball...there isn't really a team involved." she finished.
"That still counts as a sport though." Pete pointed out.
"Whatever...did you finish your project for Ms. Johnsons' class?" Myka asked, changing the subject.
"Nope." Pete said nonchalantly.
"Pete it's due today." Myka reminded him.
"Yes, but I do not understand anything about 'Antony and Cleopatra' it makes no sense." Pete whined.
"I would have helped you." Myka told him.
"Yeah, but you can't help me forever Mykes…" Pete said, getting quieter.
"Pete…" Myka trailed off, knowing exactly where he was going "I could have helped you understand the book, and i'll always be here to help you." She finished.
"Thanks." Pete said with a huff.
They sat in silence for the remainder of the lunch period until the bell rang before branching off to their separate classes and beginning the afternoon. Myka sat in her Pre-Calc class jotting down the notes on the board when, barely paying any attention at all. Pete was in history, sleeping of course. Claudia was in some computer class while Steve and Abigail were in the same English class reading The Odyssey. After all of those classes were done Pete met Myka by her locker so they could walk to their English class together, like they always did.
"Pete you have to do your projects or you're gonna fail this class." Myka reminded him as she grabbed out her textbooks and closed her locker.
"I know...I Know...it's just all so confusing and big words and stuff." Pete complained as they began their short walk to the next floor.
"Seriously Pete, I'll help you...you know that." Myka told him.
"I know… I just feel stupid when I don't know what they're talking about in the book." Pete confessed.
"Pete Lattimer you are not stupid." Myka said, stopping and looking straight at him "You are smart and strong and you have your own strengths...Classic literature isn't for most people, and it's okay if you don't understand it." She finished, beginning to walk forward again.
"Whatever...fine...I'll do the stupid project tonight, and I'll text you if I have any questions, Kay?" Pete relented.
"Okay."
They walked to rest of the way in a bit of strained silence until they parted ways to go to their assigned seats in the classroom.
Ms. Johnson started her lesson after reminding them that their projects should be turned in by the end of the hour. She started clicking through her powerpoint about Romeo and Juliet, which Myka had read probably one hundred times already. Once she had finished with the basic character traits of the each of the main characters she handed out the numbered books and assigned silent reading for the remainder of the hour. About five minutes to the end of the class she told the students to hand in their projects and afterwards they could talk for the remaining time. Myka turned hers in and then went and talked to Pete for a while, then once they heard the bell ring they went to their last hour gym class together. After they finished their class, they said their goodbyes for the night since Pete had football practice and Myka had to get home to work in her parents bookstore. So instead of walking home with Pete she walked home with Abigail and Claudia, seeing as though Steve lived in the other direction.
"So Myka, how ya doin?" Abigail asked once they were a significant distance from the school grounds.
"Fine…" Myka trailed off, knowing where the conversation was going.
"Oh hey guy's, I heard we're getting a new student!" Claudia blurted out, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, I think it's a girl. She's a sophomore too… I'm giving her a tour tomorrow since I'm part of the welcoming committee." Myka told them.
"Sweet… Get all the good scoopage and tell us about her at lunch." Claudia said excitedly.
"I will not." Myka retorted.
"O come on. I just want to know what she's like. It's not every day that we get a new student!" Claudia whined.
"Actually it's about once a month." Myka corrected her.
"Whatever. Adios mi amigas!" Claudia shouted as she ran across the street and into her house.
Abigail and Myka walked in silence for the rest of the way to Abigails house, which was about a block from Claudias. They exchanged small goodbyes and Myka slowly made her way home and into the front doors of her parents bookstore.
"Hey dad, I'm home!" Myka shouted as she dropped her backpack near the front register.
"Good. Good...you can help me sort through this new shipment of books." Her father said as she approached him in the back of the store.
"Okay." Myka said, sitting down next to the pile.
Myka and her father sat in silence for an two hours, the only noise being a customer here or there that her father would help before returning to the stack. They managed to sort through most of it when her mother had called them up for dinner. She ate quickly then dismissed herself from the table saying she had a lot of homework to do. Which she did. Once she got in her room she started doing her homework and finished somewhere around eleven o'clock before she decided she should go to bed. She quickly changed into her pajamas and washed her face before setting the alarm on her phone and snuggling up in her bed.
Her alarm woke her up promptly at five thirty and she showered, ate a quick breakfast and through on some clean clothes before running out of the house at around six fortyfive so she could meet the rest of the gang at their normal meeting spot at the gas station down the street. As soon as everyone was there at around seven they tiredly walked the rest of the way to school. After arriving at the building they went their separate ways again, each having a different home room. Except Myka went to Student Services, dreading the tour that she was about to have to give.
She pushed open the door to the offices and immediately turned to the secretary who told her to sit down on the couches and wait for a few moments, as the new student was just finishing up with her counselor.
Myka sat, looking at the clock as the time ticked away until she heard a door from behind her open and a stunningly beautiful girl with raven black hair walk out of the smaller office, followed by one of the counselors Myka knew.
"This is who will be giving you the tour Ms. Wells." The counselor said, motioning toward Myka, who then stood up.
"Hello, I'm Helena." The girl said with a british accent, holding out her hand.
Myka grabbed her hand, gave it quick shake and said "I'm Myka."