Olivia's POV

I pulled into a free car park space and took a deep breath. Everything would be alright...

Despite the fact that Jamie was in the same high school as me he was in a completely separate building so here I was all alone.

I sat on my hands as they began to tremble and watched intently as students rushed back and forth, greeting their friends and huddling together in groups, probably gossiping about something or another. Unfortunately some of them glared at me as they walked past and I could tell that they had already labelled me a snob.

"Damn car," I cursed under my breath. It was hardly conspicuous. Suddenly though a familiar face emerged through the crowd and the feeling of nausea stopped.

I practically jumped out of my car, utterly relieved to see my favourite cousin. "Jane!" I yelled which caused a few passer bys to stare.

"Olivia," she shouted back as she hugged me and we both jumped up and down in our embrace.

I think our excitement had overtaken us because our voices were now so high pitched that I was pretty sure that only dogs could here us now.

"Oh my god I can't believe it! We're going to have so much fun," I squealed as my anxieties evaporated.

" yeah but come up on our we're going to be late," jane pointed out as she led me to our first class. We were both in deep conversation as we made our way towards the entrance of the school.

All of a sudden though I heard Jane shriek and then my feet felt wet. What the… I followed Jane's gaze to an open window on the third floor and saw two guys with their hands full of water balloons. They practically looked like brothers as they had the same cropped, black hair, russet brown skin and both had matching grins on their faces.

"Sorry about that we weren't aiming at you," one of them called out as I glared at the pair of them.

Jane tugged at my arm. "Those two guys are the infamous Paul and Jared and their part of some sort of gang," she informed me.

Gang?... Like a Drug gang?...NO!

The corridors were packed and I could barely move so I had elbow and push my way through the sea of people. Soon I felt Jane steering me into a empty hallway.

"Jesus," I commented as I lowered the book that I had been using as a shield.

"Blasphemy," Jane accused me as she laughed.

"Hey Jane," a deep voice called out of the blue. We both simultaneously turned around to see a group of guys approaching us. It was the one in the middle who had greeted my cousin and I couldn't help but notice her blush.

"Hi Liam," Jane replied, offering him a wave as he walked past. I had to say "Liam" looked like quite the Indie rocker with his tight black jeans and a white t-shirt, with a band on it that probably no one had heard ever of. He had dark black hair and striking blue eyes. That coupled with his lazy smile and the guitar in his hand no wonder Jane was getting all shy.

I turned around slightly to catch Liam's friends shove him and whisper "your whipped. I felt a smile creep across my face. In…ter…esting…

Then the bell rang so Jane and I both entered our class. "So…who's Liam?" I asked as I held back my urge to giggle and just as I had said his name Jane stumbled into a nearby desk

"No…he's…he's," she stuttered as she took her seat at the back of the class.

"Oh my god you totally fancy him!" I squealed, again as I sat beside her and watched as my statement caused her pale ivory skin to become stained in an even deeper shade of red.

"Shhh," she hissed as Liam entered the class but instead of his guitar he had a maths textbook. Once he entered the rest of the class filtered in and the tedious lesson began. I couldn't help but notice how he stole quick glances at Jane throughout the entire lesson yet my cousin was blissfully unaware because she was too absorbed in conquering logarithmic calculations. We are both very academic so her behaviour didn't surprise me.

I pushed a scrap of paper towards Jane with the question "How many classes do you & L have together?" Jane turned the paper over and wrote. "Every single one" and she blushed some more as she watched me read. I quickly tore another paper from my notebook. "What's the longest thing you've said to him?"

She slyly wrote back. "Just Hi"

"What!" I shouted and the entire class turned around to stare at me.

"Is there a problem Miss Johnson," Mr James asked with mild amusement. I just shook my head and he grunted in response whilst the class turned back to their textbooks, some of them disappointed that nothing exciting had happened.

Hmm…time for me to meddle and quite frankly that is what I do best.

"Why are you smiling?" Jane whispered but I didn't answer.

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Period 3

I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm borrred

I was whining internally as I sat at a table at the back of the room, all alone since Jane was not in this class with me. I was so bored that I actually came to realize that these high stools must be made of the worlds hardest wood because my butt was numb. Despite the fact that this was my favourite subject the substitute teacher was driving me mad with his monotonous voice. Plus the incessant clicking of a pen from a girl to my right was driving me so crazy I was surely going to strangle her.

Even the fluorescent glare of the lighting annoyed me as it made me sleepy. I could feel my eyes droop shut. Damn I feel like I haven't slept in weeks.

See the thing is is that I have never been able to sleep if I'm stressed. For example if there's a storm or an exam the next day or if I'm going for a job interview or in the case of last night, starting a new school. Yes sleep is good and now I felt peaceful as my eyes closed fully and Mr Fogiel's speech of how urine is produced turned into nothing more than a faint hum.

Then suddenly the door flew open and so did my eyes as the class was interrupted by the most…well in want of a better word the most handsome guy I had ever seen.

"Ahh… Mr Call, late as usual, I have assigned you a seat next to Miss Johnson," Mr Fogiel said without even looking away from the board.

Crap!

My heart began to thump wildly against my rib cage as he ran his fingers through his black, matted hair. He wore a loose pair of denim jeans, a pair of converses and a tight grey t- shirt

WOW! Is it just me or can anyone else see his abs through his top

I violently shook my head at my thoughts but a surge of blood rocketed had already rocketed to my cheeks. Yet i continued to admire Embry and the more I did the more my mouth felt like sawdust.

Unfortunately I hadn't anticipated that he would raise his head therefore our eyes unexpectedly met and locked; his hazel brown eyes seemed to hold so much depth to them and I couldn't seem to look away. It was as if everything had disappeared - my fellow pupils, the teacher even the classroom and all I could see was him.

Embry looked a bit spaced out but all his attention was fixed on me.

It felt weirdly nice because having two parents who are doctors, their jobs demanded a lot of their time. I mean don't get me wrong they are the most loving, coolest parents that any child could want but by also having two brothers and a sister their already stretched attention was spread even more thinly.

As my mind went off on this tangent I realised that I was still staring at the mysterious boy. I tore my eyes away as I tried extremely hard to focus past "Mr Call" to the board which was already covered in a scrawl of notes which I had to copy down. Yet the fire returned in my cheeks as the chair beside me was now occupied by the stranger, whom I wished I would get to know. Wow... he really was well built and stood at 6 feet. It was only now that considered that I must look awfully dainty next to him; me, who was only 5 foot 4. [ I measured myself about 2 days ago because I was hoping that I had grown - I hate being small]

I kept my gaze firmly on the detailed drawing of a nephron in the kidneys.

"Breathe, Breathe, focus, calm yourself," I chanted as I felt his eyes boring into the side of my face.

He cleared his throat. "Hi, I'm Embry Call are you new here?" he asked as he extended his hand which I automatically took.

I tilted my head to face him. "Yeah I'm new." I replied, practically choking on my words as I met his intense gaze.

Embry nodded and flashed me a grin which show cased his perfectly, white teeth and I felt like I might just died.

Oh your such an idiot, your meant to introduce yourself. I rubbed my free hand down my jeans. Damn my palms are sweaty.

"Emm…I'm Olivia…Olivia Johnson," I told Embry.

"Well its nice to meet you Olivia Olivia Johnson," he teased, grinning like a fool which he defiantly wasn't. Oh how I loathe myself!

Riiiinnnggggggg

Luckily the annoying bell was what saved me from any further embarrassment but I found myself torn, between wanting to leave and wanting to stay behind so I could talk to him. However the rest of the class had already bolted and were literally fighting through the narrow door to taste the sweet freedom which always came when you escaped the confines of a stuffy classroom.

I gathered my wits about me as well as my Human Biology textbook and slung my side bag over my shoulder. I too followed the dust that was left by my classmates.

I paused at the door though turning as I heard Mr Fogiel. "Mr Call please stay behind," he practically ordered.

"But….sir…I…," Embry started as he looked at me, his eyes showing desperation.

The Biology dragon then turned on me. "Please Miss Johnson hurry along to your next class." I nodded at the evil substitute teacher before stealing a quick glance at Embry and without even thinking about it I smiled at him.

Why? I'm not quite sure. Perhaps to ease the pain that is so clearly etched on his face.

"No sir…you don't understand… seriously I have to go," his tortured voice echoed down the corridor but was immediately interrupted by Mr Fogiel as he to started scolding Embry about his poor attendance.

Whoa Embry must have somewhere really important to go.

I pondered on this for a minute as I walked through the front entrance of the school.