Teresa walked with Patrick as they got off the bus and started up the long cement walkway leading up to a bland looking school. Teresa wondered who all would be in her classes. Grace and Wayne were going out now, had been for over two years, so she knew immediately that they would be inseparable. Even Cho (Which is What Kimball had asked everyone to call him after about grade 4) seemed to be doing his own thing lately, he wasn't really romantically involved like the other two, but he seemed to always be reading a book.
"So, how's it been going since I left?" Patrick asked, bringing her out of her thoughts with a jolt.
"It's been okay I guess" Teresa said dismissively, she watched Patrick study her face apprehensively before nodding and smiling.
Teresa studied her brother's as they walked ahead of the two, Darien and Tyler joking around with a couple bubbly girls and Peter walking silently along, avoiding eye contact with anyone.
Patrick seemed to be studying her brother's too, but by Teresa's guess he was taking in a lot more than she was, even in Kindergarten he had been able to do that all the time. She remembered one time when they had been doing a word search together, Patrick had found everything on theirs and Teresa had been mad at him so he had got another one for her too do, but ended up not being able to hold his tongue and practically did that one too.
"Look at you remembering when we were little" Patrick cooed, like as if he was talking to a three month old not a seventeen year old, Teresa rolled her eyes and continued walking towards the office to get the slip with her classes on it, Patrick following her.
As she turned the corner and came into the crowded room she seen her other three friends already standing in line a little bit ahead of them. They seemed to see her too and beckoned her foreword to join them, but as they got nearer their eyes seemed to be looking at the person behind her, not her.
"Patrick?" Grace asked, the first to say what they were undoubtedly all thinking.
"Hi everyone! Long time no see!" Patrick said, beaming at them happily.
"Yeah!" Grace said "Last time I seen you was that time when we all had a food fight on lasagne day" she added thoughtfully, Patrick let out a laugh at the memory.
"No, I think it was the time he brought us all candy and we hid for half of the class in the bushes outside school eating them" Wayne said, correcting his girlfriend.
"Yeah, that was the time" Cho said in his emotionless voice, his lips almost twitched into a smile at the memory (Which is a big thing for Cho)
"Anyways guys" Teresa said, interrupting everyone's trip down memory lane " we still all have to get our classes"
"Me and Cho already got ours, we were just waiting for Grace" Wayne told her, stepping his 6'4 frame to the side to let her pass.
They all waited in line for another couple minutes until they had their slips before going back out into the hallway, crowded with students from the age of thirteen to seventeen.
"We already got our lockers over here, we'll meet you guys later" Wayne said gesturing towards the opposite way her and Patrick were walking, Teresa nodded and waved as the three people walked away towards their lockers.
"Sooo" Patrick said, putting his hands in the pockets of his jeans and grinning.
"I think they missed you too" Teresa said, her voice sounding like a weary sigh. She tried to pretend she didn't know the seventeen year old boy standing beside her wiggling his fingers in front of his face in a mini happy dance.
"Patrick?" Teresa asked under her breath a few seconds later, he stopped and looked at her, still smirking.
"Yes Teresa?" he answered.
"Can you stop acting like were still five?" she said desperately.
"Yes I can, but I don't really want to, I quite like having this little buzzing happiness" Patrick replied.
"You acting like your high" Teresa warned, seriously wondering if he was on some sort of drug or something.
"No, I'm not high Teresa" Patrick said, his little happy cloud seemed to have burst.
"Good" she said, raising an eyebrow in question at his sudden change.
"I started acting mature to please you" he stated, clasping his hands behind his back and walking like the teacher's did when they seen a student skipping or something.
"God help me" Teresa said, glancing up at the roof as if she was praying. But as she went to look back down she ran into someone who was walking towards her.
"Teresa!" the person she had run into said, Teresa stood up and looked who had knocked her down, she came face to face with a brown haired guy with grey eyes, who was looking at her with a smile.
"Move Jeremy" Teresa demanded, glaring at him angrily.
"Make me, Teresa" he sneered, standing up to his full height, at least seven inches above the 5'4 dark haired girl he was trying to intimidate.
Patrick studied the boy for a second before silently putting Teresa behind him and looking into the face of the boy trying to threaten her.
"Oh, your in my way" Patrick said, his voice sounding naïve as he looked over the boys shoulders as if searching for something.
"Could you move?" Patrick asked thoughtfully "Your blocking the only way to mine and Tess's locker"
"Tess?" the guy said, anger and jealousy seeping into his voice. He looked over Patrick's shoulder.
"You let this Bozo call you Tess, but you never let me" Jeremy claimed angrily, Teresa ignored the question, and within a couple seconds Jeremy moved and let the two people walk past, his angry glower following them as they walked up to Teresa's locker.
"He's an ass" Teresa said, opening her locker with the combination she had written in a piece of paper.
"Yes he is, what did you ever see in him?" Patrick asked her, an amused smile on his face.
"Why did you put your stuff in my locker?" Teresa asked when he reached in and grabbed out his binder from her, supposedly just opened locker.
"Were gonna be locker buddies!" Patrick told her cheerfully, handing her the binder and closing the locker with a loud clang.
"Come on, we have our first class together" Patrick told her, ushering the frowning Teresa towards their first class.
A/N - Tell me what you think of it so far, they are all a little OOC…well maybe a lot…but they will start to be more themselves later on.
- Tallie14