Thank you so much for the nice reviews, I think this story has a lot of potential. Here goes another chapter, hope you enjoy.
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Robert gripped his pencil so hard that it snapped, "Well that's just fucking brilliant" he mumbled as he dug through his pack for another. He didn't dare look back at anyone behind him for fear he would see Belle and his expression give him away to Killian.
He looked around the room as the teacher talked about assignments and wrote a few things down on the dry erase board, her voice fading into the background as he watched the kids around him. He noticed one kid who sat in the front row a little to the left of him. He sat straight as a board and listened intently to the teacher talking as if she spoke only for him. He had dark hair cut short and he wore, Robert noticed, clothes and shoes that looked expensive. It wasn't hard to tell that he was the rich kid, he reminded Robert a lot of Jefferson, who obviously had money as well.
A girl sat a few chairs behind the rich kid, a blonde. She looked tough, sitting there looking bored in a red leather jacket, twirling her pen between her fingers. She caught Robert staring at her out of the corner of her eye and turned toward him with a glare as if he had somehow invaded her privacy, Robert quickly looked away, trying to act is if he hadn't been staring as he turned to face the front once more.
To his right sat a small, red-haired boy with glasses. Every once in a while Robert would catch a glimpse of the boy wipe at his nose with a handkerchief. He was your typical nerd as he sat there looking forlorn, listening to the teacher half heartedly, looking as if he wished that the class would just end and he could get out of there as much as Robert did.
The teacher said something that Robert hadn't caught and suddenly a girl raised her hand to answer. Robert watched as the teacher called on her. "Alright Ruby, you have the answer?" The teacher looked at the girl expectantly.
"No, I just needed to go to the bathroom."
The whole room snickered as the face of the teacher clearly fell. "Fine, but take the pass with you, and come straight back, that pass does not give you permission to go visit your friends in other classes Ruby, Don't make me send someone after you again."
"Yes Mrs. Haycraft" the girl responded before getting up and going over to the desk to get the pass and walk out the door. Robert heard a wolf whistle coming from behind him as Ruby was on her way out. He knew that it had come from Killian, How dare he do that in the presence of his girlfriend Robert thought, what a disrespectful pig.
Ruby was dressed about as scantily as one could get away with in school and not be sent home for indecent exposure. Her skirt was way too short and her shirt was way too tight, no wonder all the boys in the room watched her walk out, even the stiff kid sitting in the front was staring at her go. Robert noticed that she had a large streak of red dye in her long brown hair. 'Crazy' he thought as he watched her close the door behind her before blowing a kiss at someone behind her, must be one of those lost kids of Killian's.
Thank God that class passed by quickly but he noticed that Ruby didn't come back right away, it was obviously she had skipped around the halls doing exactly what the teacher had told her not to do. Next was lunch, it was about time too, Robert heard his stomach growl as he entered the cafeteria.
The lunch room was big and full of tables that held loud, talking kids. Each table seemed to hold a different click. The geeks all sat at one table, trying to eat and work at the same time, Robert noticed the sniffly kid from his last class there. Another table housed a gang of kids all dressed in leather, Robert noticed the chick in the red leather jacket sitting there, she eye balled him fearlessly as he walked past her on his way to the table where Jefferson and a few other kids Robert had yet to meet sat.
He wasn't surprised to see the stiff kid from his last class sitting there with Jefferson.
"Gold, this is August," The stiff kid raised his chin in greeting at Robert who took a seat across the table from him.
Robert gave him a half-smile before he scanned the room looking for any sign of Belle, trying to look like he was not looking for her.
He looked out the metal and glass doors to see a large group of kids standing outside smoking. Jefferson saw him looking out there. "You want to get in line for something to eat? It taco Monday, they're pretty good." August nodded in agreement and the three boys headed for the long line that took them into a Convair belt of food items set out on a large metal contraption where they could pick out whatever they wanted, complete with a fat lunch lady perched on a stool by a cash register waiting for them at the end of the line.
They all returned to their seats, but when they were walking back Robert noticed that there were two new kids at their table. A small dark-haired girl with her hair cut short, and a boy with blonde hair. He had his arm around the girl, they were obviously a couple. The girl stole a glance up at Robert and smiled before returning her eyes to the boy beside her.
"This is Mary Margaret and James" Jefferson announced as he sat his tray down. He nodded toward Robert, "This is Gold."
Robert Rolled his eyes at his new nickname from Jefferson, "Actually it's Robert."
"It's good to meet you Gold." The blonde kid answered.
'Crap' Robert thought, the first day and he was already branded as Gold... fabulous.
Robert sighed as he sat down his tray and opened his can of coke.
"Where are you from?" the small dark-haired girl spoke for the first time.
Robert sipped his drink, "Scotland, we moved here a few months ago."
Mary Margaret nodded her head. "There are a couple of girls that go here, who are from Australia."
Her mention of the land down under caught Robert's attention immediately.
"Do you mean Belle?" Mary Margaret nodded, "Her and her sister have lived in Maine for years now, so they really don't have much of an accent...Well, not as much as you do, but I like it, your's is cool."
Robert gave a short laugh, "Only when it's not coming out of your mouth."
"Why'd you move here, I mean what would posses your parents to come to nowhere Maine?" Robert looked at James as he thought about his question, James waited for his answer.
"Well, for starters it only me and my Father, my mother left a long time ago." Mary Margaret looked sympathetic at him. Her Mother had been killed in a car accident some years back and it was only her and her dad as well.
"He's a big time lawyer and he could make a lot more money in the states I guess, all I know is that I live in no where Maine these days, till My father decides to move back or untill I can find my own way back there." Robert took a bite out of his taco as he listened to Jefferson and August banter back and forth about soccer try-outs.
"I'm going man, I love that shit. I can still join the calculus team and it won't interfere with any county meets we have." August was telling Jefferson.
"When are the try-outs" Robert broke in, both boys turned to look at him.
"Today at three, right after school in the gym, are you thinking about trying out?" Jefferson looked like he might consider it if Robert was thinking about it too.
"You any good?" August asked as he chewed his food.
"Fair I guess." Robert said , but as he spoke, a girl with a pony-tail caught his eye from outside in the smoking area. She passed by so quickly that he hardly caught it but it was the same color as Belle's and he wondered if she might be out there. He hadn't caught sight of Killian anywhere though, or anyone from his gang.
"What are you looking at, did you see someone you know out there?" Jefferson strained his head to see if he could pick out who Robert was looking so hard at, he turned back to his new friend.
"Wanna go outside after we get done eating, I don't smoke but there are a few places out there we can sit and watch all the idiots give theirselves cancer."
"Sure, I'm almost done, let's walk outside." Robert finished his taco and disposed of his tray with Jefferson and August. He was nervous that Belle would be out there, he almost felt a little sick in the pit of his stomach, there was a small part of him that hoped she wasn't, especially if she was with Killian.
