Chapter 2: The Chess Club
I accepted to join the Chess Club, to have friends. Sarah and Nicole told me that they were also nervous when they came the first time to Massachusetts high school.
I sat with my new friends at lunch. Wade Walker was there staring at me. I looked at him and he smiled, then he slowly looked away.
I felt uncomfortable when he looked at me. His eyes were intense and dark. Why did he smile at me? He was a jerk. He called me nun, just because I read the Bible.
I drank a sip of orange juice and I continued a long conversation about chess movements.
"Who is she?", Mona Hatchet-Face asked. She was facially disfigured and blonde.
"She is the new girl. She is in the Chess Club. We are the Drapes, we are the opposite of what is she", Cry-Baby answered her.
" I'm not stupid, Cry-Baby. She is the dangerous one, worse than the squares. Mr and Mrs Hackett are like the new girl. You know, Milton's religious parents" Hatchet-Face said and looked at the vegetable soup with a sad expression. " I hate vegetables. This is not a good lunch", she complained.
" I have seen her angry. It was awesome", Cry-Baby smiled and looked at me.
" She is like a tornado, she will destroy you in one second, she is the Goody-two-shoes, so be careful and stay away from her" Mona Hatchet-Face advised.
" She won't destroy me, I don't think so. Do you want some rice? I have. Eat my lunch, I'm not hungry" Wade Walker said and then he left.
" You were looking at the drapes, weren't you? They are the rockabilly group of this high school", Sarah noticed.
" Yes... well... I was curious. They wear leather jackets" , I just said.
" I have heard that they're a group of delinquents", Nicole commented.
He was bad. I intuited that immediately the first time I saw him. However, I couldn't take my eyes off him, I couldn't feel indifference.
" Is that true? How do you know that they are...delinquents?", I asked.
" Malnorowski 's parents sell cigarettes to students", Nicole responded me.
" Really?" , I said with a surprised tone.
" Yes, Charlotte. Mona Malnorowski is the blonde facially disfigured girl with leather jacket" , Nicole said. I looked at Mona, her face was scary.
" Walker is the leader of the group. People call him Cry-Baby because he has the ability to shed a single tear. I have heard that he sings", Sarah added.
" I have to pick up my books from the locker. I talk with you later", I said them.
" We'll see you in class", Sarah told me.
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Wade Walker was outside smoking a cigarette.
" Singing is the only positive thing that you do. You sing, don't you?", I teased him.
He turned and laughed.
" Who told you I did?", he inquired.
" Rumors fly ", I just said.
He laughed.
" You're in the Chess Club. I saw you" , Walker said.
" So you admit that you watch me", I said, laughing. I took the cigarette from his mouth and I trampled it. He looked at me with his eyes wide open.
" What will you do? Cry? ", I mocked.
He shed a tear and then gave me that malicious smile.
" Well done, Char. You are not boring, after all", he said me.
I left with a smile in my face and he followed me.
" I have to pick up my books, so don't try to calm me nun again"
" I won't ", he said, laughing.
I opened the locker. I picked up my books. He smelled my hair. My breath became faster when I felt he was near to me. I stood still.
" I-I must go now because I am already late for my class" I stuttered when he kissed my hair. He tempted me or tested me. He saw how difficult I was.
He left me and I started to breathe again. I ran fast and I entered in class.
