Chapter 2 – Neublet
Recess today was torture with a capital torture. I had Sophie to hang around with at least, thank god. Maybe he didn't totally hate me… maybe he just liked to pick on me. Sophie was pretty quiet though, I'm pretty sure she'll start talking when she gets to know me better though… probably... maybe… possibly.
I saw Nick around a couple of times; I don't know why I was noticing but suddenly I was. Casey was shooting me some weird looks, well not so weird anymore, it's been two months and it still killed me inside. For an eleven year old I have a lot of drama.
"Why does that girl keep looking at you like that?" Sophie asked me after noticing Casey's looks.
"We used to be friends," I explained.
"What happened?" Sophie asked curiously.
"I don't really know, she just decided last year that she didn't want me to be her friend anymore," I shrugged. I didn't want to go into all of the details. I know I said I wanted Sophie to talk but I was hoping that she wouldn't ask any more questions about Casey.
"Max!" I heard a friendly voice yell.
"Nudge!" I squealed as she practically tackled me.
"How were your holidays?" She demanded.
"Same old, stuck in the house," I moaned.
"Oh that sucks, well I had heaps of fun this hols, I went out with mum a lot and I talked on the phone and I had sleep overs and ate lots of cheese, did you know I like cheese, well if you didn't I like cheese," Nudge rambled.
"Nudge!" I shouted at her and she shut up (surprise, surprise) I normally would just tune Nudge out but I think she was scaring Sophie.
"Sorry, I'm just so excited to be back at school," Nudge grinned.
I hadn't really spoken to Nudge a lot lately, listened a lot but you get what I mean. She popped up to say hi every once in a while, but I had always been so busy with Casey and Sally, look how well that turned out. We'd been really close when we were younger and played netball together but we never hung out in school.
"Ok well I'm going to go now," Nudge replied and in a flash she was gone.
"She's scary," Sophie stated.
"Who, Nudge? Nah she's harmless," I smiled.
"Hey, Neublet," I heard a voice say from behind me. I spun around to come face to face with Nick.
"Huh?" I asked him. I had no idea what a neublet was or why he was calling me it. He gave me a cheeky grin and ran off.
"What was that all about?" Sophie asked me.
"I don't know," I shrugged. I pretended like I didn't care but I was being consumed by the curiosity inside of me by the second.
The rest of recess I was really out of it, I suppose that was because I couldn't get Nick's weird thing out of my head. By the time the bell rang I had finally managed to let my curiosity go. I put my hat in my bag and walked back into class. Nick walked in behind me and ducked down to me.
"Hey, Neublet," he greeted me.
"What is up with that?" I demanded.
"That's for me to know," He grinned.
"And for me to find out?" I guessed.
"Not necessarily," Nick smirked and walked off.
"Is he a friend of yours?" Sophie inquired to me.
"Um, not really a friend, I don't know him all that well. We were in the same class last year, he must be bored or something," I answered her. Why was Nick Ride suddenly talking to me? Why was he calling me a neublet? What was a neublet? How am I a neublet? Would these questions ever leave me alone? I don't think so since for the rest of the day they circled around my head over and over and yep you guessed it and over again.
Finally I couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Nick, why are you calling me a neublet?" I demanded.
"Curiosity killed the cat," was his response.
"Ok, so you're calling me a neublet because your curious cat died?" I asked. I was officially weirded out by now.
"No," He replied and turned away and went back to talking to his friends. I wanted to scream at him, I hated it when people kept things from me and I couldn't convince them to tell me.
It was going to be a very, very long year. See I told you God hates me.
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