'Oh gosh The girl is a dork! She knows nothing about Gavin except for he is a musician, and some of his feelings, blah, blah, blah. She's just a joke. But no way would I ever tell my best friend that, he'd be sure to get angry.' He thinks to myself as he takes his books out, and looks over at the seemingly hippie looking girl, snorting as Tara dropped her school books on the ground. She just blushed and flew down to pick them up. Gabe just rolled his eyes and went over to help her. When they were done picking the last paper off the ground, she looked up at me, than quickly back down to straighten her papers. "Thanks." She mumbled, smiling back towards me, "That was nice of you, Gabe."
He smirks, and looks her straight in the eye, "And I'm usually not?" She looks taken back ,"That's-that's not what I meant. . ."
"Huh, really, than what did you mean?" He asked, walking away from her, grinning to himself about how awesomely smart of a come back he took. "Coward."
"Actually, Gabe, you're right, you are usually not nice, not at all!" She said in a loud firm voice back to him.
He stopped , and turned to look back at her in surprise. She seemed surprised by choice of words also, as she wordlessly closed her locker, and headed the other direction, fumbling a little bit as Gavin came up behind her, and wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
Gabe was still look over at them, when he looked around to see people passing by and staring at him, 'Oh, just great. . .' The bell rang and he walked to his class. His mind wondering onto music, and girls, and than her, the girl who was always quite and shy around him and others had just. . .stood up for herself? "How poetic." He grumbles under his breath, sitting down in his assigned desk. He looked at the girls head behind him. It looked oddly familiar. Than the teacher made the class hand paper back to the people behind them.
Once it got to the girl in front of him, she casually turn around with a small smile to hand them to him.
But they both paused before the dreaded papers touched his hand. It was Tara. And she had that stupid deer in the headlights look that she got when she couldn't believe what was happening. She quickly turned around, holding the papers, and put her head down.
I know we just had one run in, so what was this girls flippin' problem?' Gabe thinks, starting to reach over to her. "Um, Tara, give me the sheets, pretty please?" He asks, him arms touching the tips of her shoulders, as he reach both hands around her to try and grab the papers. She crouches forward though as if trying to not look at him. Gabe than realizes people turning to look and whisper at them. She quickly holds up the papers to his face in one hand, "Huh, here, s-sorry. . ."
He grabbed them quickly out of her hands, and sits back down, "Dude, what the heck is wrong with you?!" he ask sharply.
She turns a little so all he can see is her red hair and a little side of her face. She nods, breathing, "Look, I am really sorry. I-I was just shocked is all." She whispered back, "It won't happen again, I swear. . ."
Gabe nods, 'It better not, this girl is being really strange. But why would she hide her face from me? Cause she was scared of me or something?' He thinks about this ands smiles charmingly to the cute girl behind me, and she looks back with as much enthusiasm as he. He cringe when he realizes she's also one of the girls whom is dating the star quarter back, Fred. 'I'm defiantly not that interested!' Gabe say to himself.
So he justs turns around and ignores the "hottie" for as long as he possibly can. But when he hears her pen drop, he turn around in his seat and look at her. She twirls her long blond hair between her fingers and smiles at me, "Could you get that for me,. . .Pretty please?" He hears her pleading girl voice, and cringes. That was one thing he'd always hated about girls when they wanted you to do something, or make a move, they ended up trying to sound like a frickin' baby. "Yeah, sure, I could." he says sarcastically turning away from her shocked expression.
"Jerk!" she mutters. Than Tara got up, and walked over towards the girls desk, and picked it up.
"Here you go," She says at the blond nicely, and went to go sit back down. The blond girl was smiling too, "What a weirdo." She said under her breath, as she started to take notes. He knew Tara couldn't hear her. But for some reason it bugged him a bit. So he looked back at miss blondie, and smiled, "Not as weird as you just a couple of minutes ago, miss, "Oh please help me with my pen," Pull. Please, just stop embarrassing yourself already. It's called a kind gesture, maybe you should try it sometime." her gasp is heard through out the class, as he turn back to face Tara's back. He highly doubts she has supersonic hearing. So he doubt she had heard.
'Thank the Lord, who knows what big deal she would have made out of it. ' He says inwardly to himself, starting to do his homework.
She was hurt for a second when she heard Charisse call her weird, as if being nice was weird? She'd just felt so bad for how Gabe was treating the girl, that she'd thought she'd be nice, and try to help the situation. Tara had been about ready to go back to work when she heard Gabe tell Charisse off. She was surprised that he stood up for her. But than started to realize that maybe he was just saying what he was thinking about her.
But than why would he say the things about kind gesture? She wasn't trying to be kind to get appreciated. Actually, She had a feeling that she would be made fun of for it. But didn't think right in the middle of are Algebra class!
This was just embarrassing. But than Gabe said some nasty stuff to Charisse about how she was the real weirdo. And that started to make Tara feel bad also, because she wasn't that offended by it. "I can stand up for myself.' She thought determinately. It was just that she knew it didn't matter. She wasn't going to be as low as Charisse was going. And anyways, why was Gabe so concerned for her? Was it because she'd been dating Gavin for about a month now? Did he finally realize how important Gavin really is to her? 'Why can't I just focus on my homework?' she asked herself. Because right now she feels emotional, and ready to thank him a million upon millions of times for standing up for her. But from what she'd gathered from Gavin, Gabe is the drama queen of the group, so he's the one that needs everybody else chill around him.
"So he probably wouldn't like me making a big deal of this." She whispers and smiles inspite of herself. He was cool, and so she'd always expected that he was mean. Which he was, but not as much as she'd thought. He might be self-centered, but maybe he had a little more there than she'd thought? Tara turned to look over at him, he had his head down, looking into his homework book like he was truly interested in it. She grinned wanting to say thank you so badly, but just huffed and turned to get back to her studies.
"Hey?" she heard a voice say, tapping her shoulder. Turning around again to look at him, "Yeah?"
"You heard what I said, didn't you?" He asked, a look of annoyance showing up on his face. She felt her cheeks go steamy warm, "Um, yeah I did, thanks." She still didn't appreciate the attitude, so she just turned back to her studying.
"Just-Just don't tell anyone about it, okay."
"Why? she ask him, turning her head a little to ask.
"Because, I don't want people to know I -I, Just don't tell, okay!" She heard his voice getting impatient, and winced.
"No problem, I don't even want to tell anyone, I really don't care." She says simply, and a little frustrated herself. He might have stood up for her, but his temper was causing her to have one towards him.
"Oh. . ." He says, dumbfound.
"No, I mean I do. But I just don't care what others think of me as much anymore. So it wasn't that big of a deal when- . . .Never mind." She says quietly, sighing, wishing this conversation was over. "Thank you."
He chuckles. "Yeah, yeah. You're welcome."
"Am I interrupting something?" The teacher asks, staring pointedly at Gabe and I.
I feel my cheeks turn red again, "No, no, nothing-nothing at all."
The teacher just glared back at her, "Well if I am, than maybe it's best to just separate you two?"
She feels herself panic, "No, really, I'm so sorry, it won't happen again!" she say quickly. Every one stares at Tara, and she rubs the back of her head, chuckling nervously, "Sorry."
"Okay but I want you and Mr LaViolet to stay quite, is that clear Miss Adams?"
Rubbing down to the back of her neck, she nods, the deer look coming back"Um, uh, c-crystal clear ma'am."
"Good, now lets get moving people, but not to quickly that you don't think about the answer, got it?"
Tara nods, and take one last glance at Gabe. He's just nodding. Not really in a disrespectful way. But like he just doesn't really care, "Alrighty, Miss Tingermine." Than he smiles back at Tara, and winks. She groans, and goes back her work.
When the bell rings for lunch, Tara finds Gavin at her locker, waiting for her. "Hey, how's it going?" He asks, grabbing her by the arm and pulling her romantically to him. "Good, but I swear I almost got detention because of Gabe!" He smiles, wide eye, "You, detention, never!" He jokes, kissing her on the cheek. She blushes, "Yea-yeah, I know, right, totally not my scene." She laughs. "But it's not like it was my fault, Gabe just would stop talking to me for a while. . ." She said in a cool voice, crossing her arms, "It was sort of weird." Gavin laughed, "If he did get you in trouble, I know he didn't mean too. Gabe's a nice guy when no ones looking, I'm sure he wasn't trying to cause you any harm." I smile at him, thinking what a great boyfriend I've got, "You know, you are probably right." I say, putting my arms around his shoulders.
He smiles as he wraps his hands around my waist, "Yeah, that's me, mister right." He teases, coming in closer towards her, his breath hot on her neck. "Maybe I shouldn't always be so mister right. . ." he says, looking down at their feet. She feels her smile fade, "What does that mean?" He smiles, "It's just, you know, Gabe is always so awesome at the things he does. Like one time, he ran for hours just so he'd get his music out to one of the biggest record labels manger. He didn't make it in time, so he tried to go into the building. And the way he gets the girls-" Gavin laughs, than sees Tara's face. Worried, aw man he had worried her, "Don't worry, I just wish I was as brave as Gabe sometimes. I guess I'm a little jealous of him."
Tara put her hand gently up to Gavin's face, "I'll tell you one thing that he doesn't got." She says, smiling lovingly up at him, "Something only you have, and I'd hope you'd think it's more than pretty cool." He grins,"And what would that be."
Tara's heart beats out of her chest, "He hasn't got my heart like you have. I-I love you, Gavin."
Gavin's eyes go blank, "Oh, . . .thank you, I mean. . ." Tara starts to feel her hear being ripped out of her chest.
Than suddenly someone grabs her, and kisses her. She tries to push away from the warmth of their mouth moving on hers, but the arms wrapped around her wouldn't let her, and she moans a little from the tingles she is receiving from the after math on her lips, and accidentally starts to respond back with kissing them back, but they start to let go.
She opens her eyes as she sees it's. . .Gabe? What the heck?! GABE!
She is finally able to push him away, and shoves him again , "Why would you do that?!" She yells, her face full of horror, as a blush shows up on her face. Gabe shrugs, "Cause I wanted too." He says simply, smirking. "So I did."
Than she sees Gavin coming towards him. And the next thing you know Gabe is punched out onto the ground. He just starts to stand back up when Gavin punches him again, "Gabe, what is wrong with you, huh?!" He said darkly, "Why would you do that man!"
Tara is by Gavin in a flash, "Gavin! Stop this right now! This isn't the way to deal with him!" She says, looking down at Gabe, she goes down towards him, but Gavin takes her arm, "Tara, don't-" he is cut of by her sympathetic face, "Gavin, you just punched someone. Because you were jealous. I told you I love you, at least trust me enough to help someone whose just gotten hit twice." He nods, looking like he was cooling down as he released her.
"Okay, I'm sorry but could you help him? I need to cool down a bit." Gavin says, grabbing one of the reliable band mates, "Hey, would you please help Tara with Gabe. I would, but I think I need to breathe before I kill him." he asks, and the guy nods his head, "Sure thing man." the band mate says, patting him on the back, and giving a stern fatherly look at Gabe.
"What? Am I on freakin' trial here or something?" Gabe asks, accepting Tara's hand, and she helps pull him up, and he falls forwards a little bit, that she has to grab him with both arms.
He smiles at her, "Thanks, I'm feeling a little light headed."
She snorted, "Yeah, Gabe, I-I'm sure you are."
Gavin stared at the two of them, "Watch him like a hawk, Trent. Watch him like a hawk!"
Trent just chuckles, "Aye, aye, captain." Gavin frowns, walking way to the school doors.
"Hey, he can't just leave, we have to talk about what just happened. I was going to tell him-" Gabe saw Tara's expression, "You were going to tell him what?" She asked, studying his face. He stared down at hers, "Th- that . . ." he didn't say anything. He just kept staring at her, as she stared back, waiting, "Well?" She said.
Gabe looked away from her, "Um, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. It's not like I kissed you because I liked it anyways." he replied, "So are we going to the nurses office, or what?"
She closed her eye, and shook her head, letting go of him sharply and backing away, "If you are going to be like that, Gabe, than you can take yourself since you're such a big talker, okay. Have fun." than she walked away from him, mad.
He turned around to watch her go, leaning against the lockers for support.
"She just walked away without a care in the world for me." He murmured, watching her, silently wishing he hadn't said what he did. He put his head back against the locker, "Crap, what did I do!"
"You messed up man, you really just messed up." Trent said, helping him.
"That's for sure." He grumbled, rubbing his temple. Trying to help her out, and than end up actually liking the kis- "Oh, I think I need a cold ice pack." He sighed, closing his eyes, and rubbing his head.
"Sure thing, bro."
Gabe smiled, "Thanks man." Than he slowly was helped to the nurses office. But the worst thing was it that he knew the nurse couldn't fix the feelings he had begun to have.
"I'm seriously screwed.", he sighed, as the woman patted his eye with some sort of med thing for his black eye that was starting to show up.
"I can't like it! That is totally messed up!" He sighed, and laughed to himself, "You are just dreaming, this is all one weird dream, and you'll wake up."
But the pain in his eye told him that he already was, just as much as his lips still felt hers.
"Crud!"
The nurse just gave him a weird look, "You okay kid?" she asked.
He shook his head, "Yeah, I'm just peachy!" he said, filling his words with sarcasm.
"Wow, sorry I asked." She said, walking out into her office.
"Yeah, me too, lady, me too." he muttered, laying back on the nursing bed, his hand gently laid over his head as he groaned, "Because I thought I didn't even have to ask myself."