"You know you like him" my best friend Abby taunted me.
"Shut up ab." I replied with a bitter tone. My best friend and I were standing right in front of our last class which just so happened to be my favorite class, Science. As if on cue all of the football players walked out of the locker room laughing and trying to look hot, as if, while the cheerleaders and other helpless girls sat there and giggled. I rolled my eyes. I turned to Abby and she smirked at me. Abby and I call them the "players" because they can't really help it but to go around going for random girls and then breaking their hearts the next day. I was just about to say something when I saw one of the players going up to one of the freshmen boys. As he got closer the, lets call him a nerd, the nerd tried to look away.
"Ha ha guys come check this out little nerds off to lunch." The player said.
"Leave me alone John I'm hungry," the kid replied trying to seem witty.
"Aww the kids hungry why don't you give him a knuckle sandwich John?" I heard one of the other players say. I watched John raise his fist as the freshman flinched. I couldn't stand to just sit there. I acted on account of nothing, but my heart and ran. I sprinted towards the scene and quickly stood in front of the boy and grabbed John's arm mid swing.
"Leave him alone John," I said out of breath. I quickly saw Johns face change from a smirk to pure shock. So did all of the faces behind him. One of his friends put a hand on his shoulder hinting that they should get out of there, so they did.
Abby and I walked to lunch. Abby could tell that I didn't want to talk about what had just happened so she didn't. That was one of the many reasons that I loved Abby.
"Wanna go to the mall this afternoon?" She asked determined to break the silence. I really did want to go, but I had other plans.
"No sorry I have to tutor tonight." I had been tutoring kids for the past 6 months to get some extra cash. Tonight was a new kid that I had never tutored before, but her parents seemed the think that she needed a lot of help.
We sat down at our usual table, which had its usual 5 people. Abby, Sarah, Julia, Julia's boyfriend, and me, and we didn't need any more. We all liked the quietness that our table offered. We all ate lunch talking about miscellaneous things like new shoes and test grades, nothing too interesting.
Through the entire lunch I couldn't help feel like someone was watching me, no scratch that, staring at me. I look at the players' table and saw him looking at me. It took me a millisecond because that was all I had, but it was definitely enough to tell exactly why he was looking my way. He looked confused and sympathetic t the same time, but I didn't know why. When you think of a player staring at you you think of them throwing invisible daggers your way. Not this time. He saw me and quickly turned back to his friends and so did I. Abby nudged me and I could tell that my face was semi pink. I told myself that I was being an idiot and I think that that calmed me down.
Later that afternoon