I cautiously walked over to my seat, staring at the boy the whole way. He looked up at me for the first time right as I approached my desk.
"Excuse me, but that is my desk." I explained
"Sorry, but I was told to sit here." He said motioning to our teacher at the front of the room, "What is your name?"
"Carson." I said bitterly. He was amazingly cute, but I really wasn't thrilled about losing my seat beside Chelsea. Chelsea was now seated beside the boy, watching our argument intensely.
"Josh." He said with a smug smile on his face.
"Miss Bridges, please take that seat beside Aaron." Startled, I turned and saw Aaron sitting on the opposite side of the classroom.
"But, I have been sitting beside Chelsea all year." I whined.
"Life isn't fair, Miss Bridges." The teacher said, now pointing to my newly assigned desk.
I turned to scowl at Josh before heading towards the new desk.
"Sorry," he mouthed as I was walking away.
I spent the rest of the period with a large frown on my face. Every once in a while I would sneak a peek at Josh, carefully examining his curly black hair. He had light green eyes also. I figured he was about two inches taller than me, perfect for dancing. But I couldn't like Josh. He stole my seat beside Chelsea, and I wasn't happy about that. I had no one to pass notes to except for Aaron, or Brett, who was seated behind me. The bell rang and I rushed out of class to find Amber.
I spotted the tall brunette shoving through the crowd at the door of math class.
"Amber!" I called, and she whirled around and quickly made her way towards me.
"Hey, Carson, what's up?"
"Have you seen the new boy?" I asked impatiently
"No! What does he look like?" She asked, thrilled now.
"Nothing special, just wondering if you had seen him though." I lied, "have you seen Terrence?"
"Here I am!" Terrence exclaimed as she bounded gleefully toward us, "what's up?"
"I need to talk to you…alone." I pulled her to a corner in the hall, where no one was gathered. Thankfully, Amber had other things to do than be nosey today.
"Have you seen him?" I asked, just as I had with Amber.
"Uh, no, who?"
"The new boy, omigawd, Terrence he is hot!" I said.
"Oh, girl, where is he?" She questioned, her face lighting up with excitement.
"I don't know now. He was in my science class, stole my seat beside Chelsea, and now I am sitting in between Aaron and Brett." I said, exasperated
"Social Suicide, Carson! You need your seat back!"
"Terrence, that is so not what I am worried about! I am crushing on Josh!" I explained a little annoyed now.
"Well, it's not Josh's fault he stole your seat. But you are known for holding grudges. Just let him off the hook, flirt insanely, then pray that he will ask you to the Valentine's Dance next weekend." Terrence schemed. "Oh, I will fill him in with details on you AND the dance." Terrence was overly excited. She loved hooking people up.
"Thanks, Terrence." I sighed with relief.
Lunch the next day with Terrence and Josh:
"So, Josh, who all have you met so far?" Terrence asked, trying to get to the subject of Carson, or the dance.
"A few guys, Chris, Trent, and Michael and these two girls, a bleach blonde, whose name I didn't get. Also, I met this pretty cute girl named Carson, although she seemed to have a little bit of an attitude. And, of course, now you."
"The blonde was Chelsea." Terrence said, with absolutely no interest in her voice. "But, Carson, the Bee-yooh-tiful brunette, right?"
"Um yeah, her."
"Carson is fun, fun once you get to know her. She's a great dancer. The attitude you saw, though. Just wait till you meet Amber or Bree. Carson will look like an angel. which she basically is." Terrence said in her best persuading voice. "I'm guessing you have heard about the dance."
"Yeah, I assumed there was a dance considering all the posters around."
Terrence pulled out her sidekick and text messaged Carson a quick message.
From: Terrence- On the subject of the dance. Trying to persuade him 2 take u.
Terrence hit send, and in less then five seconds, saw Carson pulling out her MotoRokr. From across the cafeteria, Carson gave Terrence a thumbs up.
"Well, Carson loves dances. You should take her."
"I'll definitely think about, cause dang was she hot." Josh said as he was getting up to throw away his trash. Terrence did the same, but returned to her usual seat with Amber, Bree, Chelsea, and Carson.
A/N: Yeah, so this chapter was introducing Josh. I tried to add a little description to a few of the girls. Basically they look like this:
Carson: On the shorter side, brunette, hazel eyes, and hair a little longer than her shoulders
Amber: Tall, brunette, brown eyes, hair to her shoulders
Terrence: Highlighted brown and blonde hair…her hair is thick…and full…brown eyes, tall
Bree: Medium height, black hair, green eyes, long hair…mid back
Chelsea: Blonde, Blonde, Blonde, blue eyes, wavy hair, more of cute features than hot. Med height