Chapter 2

A disturbance in the Fork

Authors note: The chapter title has nothing to do with the chapter itself; it's just something I found funny

One of the most amazing things stood before my eyes. I noticed every guy's eyes on her, her dark brown hair loosely flowing down to just passed her shoulders. She stood there, green eyes surveying the classroom, looking anxious, and maybe a little scared. That just added to the amount of focus nearly the whole class had on her. But then, as will always happen, the world snapped back into reality. "Now, you are one and a half minutes late, miss Villington, now take a seat where you want to and we will start class as normal." Exclaimed Misses Fouly, clearly agitated about her oh-so-important class being interrupted.

To my surprise, and everyone else's for that matter, she sat in the empty seat beside Ray. Ray, looking completely shocked and red faced, still staring at her, mumbled awkwardly, "H-hell-Hi!" For the rest of class all the boy's faces kept on dreamily glancing at her, making her blush and look extremely shy, not to mention creeped out by the way Ray had been staring at her for nearly fifteen minutes.

After a very long, rather dull day of high school, I met up with Ray at a park a little ways away from school. It wasn't a very pleasant day, and the sky just looked as if a crack of lightning would appear any second, but never the less, we went anyways.

I'm not sure if you can actually call it a park anymore, there hasn't been any maintenance for years, and everything in it was either broken or rusty. But it was the perfect place if you wanted some privacy, surrounded by dense trees and the only practical way in a small dirt trail leading to the main road, we didn't usually get a lot of visitors here.

Sitting on an old rickety park bench I found Ray, waiting patiently whilst looking into the forest.

"Hey!" I yelled across the broken playground, "Think you stared at the new girl long enough today?" I teased him.

"Well when someone voluntarily sits beside me, it's something to be astonished about!" He said, with a hint of enthusiasm in his voice.

"How was detention with the Foul?" I asked him, smirking. It was his first detention he got without my help, and quite frankly, I was pretty proud of him for it.

"As awful as ever, had to write lines again, with her looking over my shoulder at every word I wrote, not the happiest memory I've ever had." He said, "Also, she smelled as if something is rotting, it was discusting!"

"Like something was rotting?" I asked, bewildered, "Maybe her cut is just infected…"

"Yea, or maybe it's just that she hasn't showered since Burger King was a prince." We both laughed, we always joked about how old she was, and I know, it's not exactly the nicest thing to say, but if you had ever met this lady, you wouldn't be all that fond of her either.

"Hey what did you think of the new girl today?" Asked Ray, "I may have drooled a little."

"That's nice, enlighten me why you've never had a girlfriend." I laughed.

"Haha so funny," he said sarcastically, "I just meant that she was really, really hot."

"Personality matters too you know." I said, just for the sake of conversation.

"Oh so you don't think that she's hot?" He asked, clearly shocked.

"I never said that, she's beautiful, it's just that peoples personalities matter as well."

"Yea, whatever, I'm going to go do homework, talk to you later." He said as he got up. I watched him walk off, he was never a really deep person, rather shallow as a matter of fact, but never the less, he was pretty much the only friend I'd ever had, and I am thankful for that.

A couple minutes after Ray left me, I decided there wasn't a point of dwelling on peoples faults anymore, and started off towards my house, which was a few minutes away. I was walking along the dirt path to the main road, something peculiar happened.

"Hey!" Said a voice from behind me, which made me jump.

I spun around quickly, only to come face to face with the new girl, "Umm, hi?" I said, shocked and a little curious, "How did you get behind… Wait-did you hear our conversation?"

Her face flushed, "Well-I… yea kinda…"

"So you heard what I-" I said, completely flushed myself.

"Well I was just going there just to explore, you see," she said quickly, "And well I found you two there… and your friend said something about a new girl… I'm really sorry, I should probably go home..." She said as she turned around to walk away.

"No, wait!" I said surprising myself, "Don't worry about it, I shouldn't have really been talking about anyone without them knowing it, and it's not like I said anything completely shocking, I mean, you must here that you are beautiful all the time…" I stopped myself.

She turned around and smiled, "Thank you, but no, I can't say I hear that often." She said softly.

I smiled back, about to do something I never would have expected possible of myself, "Would you mind if I walked you home?"

"Yea, I would like that." She said blushing.

"Great." I said, relieved that she said yes.

"I'm Sarah." She exclaimed as we started off down the dirt path.

"Mark," I said happily.