Chapter 2
"You must be Jinx," The red head boy as he plopped into his seat.
"I guess your Wally then."
"The one and only,"
He was already cocky, quite probably a play boy, also probably a womaniser and extremely popular.
"Settle down class." Mr Lee demanded, the class was buzzing with excitement, after all, it was just break a few minutes ago.
He went on a out classroom rules, as every teacher does in the first lesson. I was dead bored, so I decided to doodle, quickly, the tomato head next to me snatched my sketch pad from me, and started looking through it.
"Unicorns? Really? Hmm didn't catch you as the unicorn type."
"Give..it..back," I struggled, finally retrieving it.
"Calm down," he said, chuckling.
One of the girls at the back rose up their hand and asked the teacher a question, she asked "Sir, I gave one of my pencils to Wally last period, can I quickly go get it?"
Was she flirting with the teacher? That's disgusting. She strided over to Wally and flashed a quick smile before turning to face me.
"So do you have a boyfriend?"
"What?" I asked.
"Oh come on, it's not that hard- do you have one or not?"
"And why is that importnat?" I asked,
"No reason," she said unconvingly,
"Oh, your afraid I'm going to fall for Mr West over here, you don't need to worry, he's not my type."
"Hm," she sassily walked off again, as I rolled my eyes.
"Not your type huh?" The guy sitting next to me teased,
"Not to be taken personally." I added, and continued doodling. Suddenly Mr Lee caught our attention, after having a go at us for speaking while he talks.
He told us the task we had to do. We were supposed to paint a portrait of ourselves, although most of the lesson had gone by quickly, Mainly because he spent ages on the introduction, possibly half the lesson or more.
I got out of my seat to fetch some paints at the back of the class,
As I was looking through the paints, I felt someone tap at my shoulder, so naturally I turned around. I accidently whacked them in the nose though,
"Victor, oh I'm so sorry,"
"No,no it's fine." He said forcing a laugh. I joined in with a nervous chuckle.
"So is Linda giving you a hard time yet?" He asked,
"Linda?"
"The girl who went over to you and Wally,"
"Oh, I just told her that Wally isn't my type."
"You have a type?"
"No not really, but I could never imagine us being together, or even talking actually. Anyway are they going out or something?"
"Yeah for about a month now."
"Let me guess, Linda is a cheerleader and also really popular."
"Basically yeah."
There was an awkward silence for a bit, and then I realised how long I was spending just getting the paints. I was just about to leave when Victor stopped me.
"Wait, have you heard about the dance?"
"Oh the back to school one? Oh yeah the head teacher was telling me about it, but I don't know, dances aren't really my scene. I'd rather be curled up at home with a bowl of popcorn and Netflix."
"You should come, it'd be fun."
"Oh really?" I asked in a teasing way.
"Yeah," he smiled and then went back to his seat.
I smiled back and made my way back to my seat, almost forgetting the paint brushes. I quickly went back and got them. I don't know why but I felt more happier than I was at the start of the day, probably because I made a new friend. I tried my best to go back to my natural face but I couldn't deny that there was pink rushing up to my cheeks.
Our teacher said that we could use our phones as mirrors, but obviously, we all used them for different purposes, especially Wally who was busy texting.
The teacher was taking no note of what the class was doing as he was busy typing away on his computer. I decided to text Seymour, hoping he'd reply.
Hey Seymour, I'm sorry I keep annoying you and everything I just want to tell you that you were right, I was probably worrying a bit too much, but I have made two new friends. Ones called Terra, who spoke to me first. I still don't know if we are actually friends seeing as I have only spoken to her once, and I've spoke to the other twice, but they both do seem friendly.
I didn't want to tell Seymour about Victor, or he'd be a bit jelous. I don't blame him, I would be secretly envious of Seymour grew close to another girl, so I decided it'd be best if I left Victor out.
After school that day, Terra had came up to me asked me to go to the coffee shop with her, I had nothing better to do, and I needed to make some friends, so I agreed.
"Hey do you know when the back to school dance is?" I asked her, thinking back to mym earlier conversation with Victor.
"Why, are you thinking about going with someone?" She nudged me in a reason manner.
"No, I just want to go, you know see what this shcool has to offer and stuff."
"Hm, it's Friday after school."
"And today's Tuesday right? Do you want to go shopping tomorrow maybe?"
"What, for dresses?" She joked, thinking I wasn't serious. "I have no one to go with," she added, "unless.. You and I go together, as friends obviously." She proposed,
"Well no harm there." I thought out loud, and so it was settled. Me and Terra would go dress shopping tomorrow after school. The dance is only in a few days anyway.