Ramona's POV
School had ended and finally I make my way home. I enter the house to see my mom sitting on the couch with her computer probably working.
"Hi sweetie, how was your first day?" she asks as she sets her laptop down
"It was okay" I shrug
"Did you make any new friends? " she asks excitedly
"A few I guess"
"That's great hunny , see I told you, you'd make friends quickly. This move won't be so bad right" she asks
"I miss my old friends" I confess
"I know sweetie, but you can visit them" she tries to console me
"I know but it's not the same"
"Don't worry sweetie, you'll grow to love it here" she says
I highly doubt thats true
"Okay mom" I say simply and then make my way upstairs
I enter my room and plug my phone to my speakers and blast my 1D playlist
A few moments later Jackson walks into my room and heads straight to my phone and turns it off
"Hey, I was listening to that!"
"Well I can hear it all the way from my room and I'm trying to study" he says and leaves the room
I wait a moment and then grab my phone and plug it in again and I turn the volume all the way up.
A moment later comes back in and he does not look happy
"TURN IT OFF" he shouts
"WHAT?" I shout out pretending I don't hear him
He goes to turn it off
"I said to turn it off"
"I heard you I just don't have to listen to you" I smirk.
"I'm trying to do my homework" he repeats
"Then put on headphones" I suggest
"why don't you" he argues back
We begin to argue and our moms must have heard us because soon they were at the door
"What's going on?" my mom asks
"I'm trying to do my homework and she keeps bugging me" Jackson accuses
"Me?, your the one who keeps coming in here and disturbing me" I shout
"Enough, can't you too try and get along?" Dj asks
"NO" we both say at the same time
Our moms sigh
"You guys are going to be living in the same house, you guys are going to have to find a way to make it work" DJ says as before she and my mom leave us.
"Our moms actually think we can get along?" I ask
"They're delusional" Jackson says
"Finally something we agree on, what a shock" I say
Jackson simply rolls his eyes as he leaves the room
A couple of days have passed since mom since me moved in and I'll admit things weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be
Dj and Steph are pretty cool
Max makes me laugh and he's so smart
and Tommy is just so adorable
And Jackson well...
We're still staying out of each others lives and pretending that we don't know each other.
Which is totally fine by me, believe me. The less I see of him the better.
At school we're just two strangers who don't know each other.
School also wasn't so bad, Ally and her group have become my new friends.
Yep it looked like everything was going okay except for today, Unfortunately for me I had caught a cold and was now in bed sick.
I had texted Ally to let her know I wouldn't be there, she texted back if I wanted her to bring me my work, I said yes and texted her my address.
Hopefully she wouldn't see Jackson and I won't have to explain why we lived in the same house
Soon it was the afternoon, I was on instagram when I hear a knock at my door and I see Ally standing at the doorway
"Hey" she says stepping in
"Hey thanks for bringing me my work" I tell her
"No problem, thats what friends do" she says smiling
I smile at her and then look through the stuff she had handed me
"So what did I miss in English?" I suddenly ask her
"We have to do a project in partners, we read a book and then do a summary in front of the class" she explains
"That's cool, so are we partners?" I ask
"Uh actually no, Shannon asked me to be her partner, and i felt bad saying no , sorry" she says and looks at me apologetically
"It's okay really, I wasn't there so you picked someone who was" I assure her not holding it against her
"So, who am I partners with" I ask
"Well since you weren't there and there was only one person in class with no partner the teacher just put you together" she explains
"Oh okay, so who's my partner?" I ask
"Jackson Fuller"
My eyes widen "WHAT?"
This could not be happening
"Are you sure?" I ask her. This had to be a mistake
"He didn't have a partner so the teacher told him he'd be your partner since you didn't have one either" she explained.
"Why can't I be your partner" I start begging her
"Mona, I already have a partner, plus whats the big deal?" she asks me
"Nothing it's just I'd rather work with you" I tell her
"Well for the next project we'll work together, I promise"
Well that doesn't help me now, does it?
"Okay" I sigh
"Plus Jackson can't be that bad, he's a pretty nice guy from what I know about him" she tries to assure me.
Jackson? Nice? yeah right
"Yeah I guess" I mumble
"Well I just came to drop off your homework, my mom wants me home by 4"
"Okay, well thanks for bring it" I tell her
"No problem. Will you be at school tomorrow?"
I nod "Yeah I'm feeling much better"
"Good, well see you tomorrow" she says and then turns and leaves the room
I lay back down sighing . This is horrible now not only do I have to see him here at home but now I have to actually talk to him. And to top it off my grade depends on it.
This should be fun...NOT
"Say hello to your new partner"
I look up to see Jackson leaning on my doorframe with his arms crossed.
"I know, I already got the bad news" I inform him
He simply rolls his eyes as he pushes himself off the frame and walks over to stand by my bed
"Look I don't like this anymore than you, but unfortunately my friends ditched me to work together and now I'm stuck with you"
I roll my eyes
"Oh like I'm thrilled about working with you" I ask him
"Look, for the sake of our grade lets just get this thing done and then we can get back to ignoring each other, deal?"
Fine by me
"Deal"
"Good" he says and then he turns and leaves.
I lay back down
I hate my life
