No copyright intended, I do not own anything but the plot.
Hey guys! Thanks to those of you who reviewed for the preview, I really appreciate it. Well, here's the first chapter, it's a little short and drama-less but that's because in the first few chapters I'm introducing the characters and kind of setting the plot. Anyway, enjoy :)
Chapter 1
Nick subconsciously gasped a bit not fully knowing what the cause was exactly. He didn't know what to call it; he didn't really understand what it meant or why it was happening to him, all he knew is that once she stepped into the classroom his heart stopped for exactly three and a half seconds --yes he counted; it was in his nature to observe such small detail. His eyes followed her as she made her way across the room, obviously searching for any familiar faces; she had no such luck.
Prior to anything else, he noticed her big round, sparkly eyes. They were blue, green, or hazel, he couldn't tell from where he was, all he knew is that he was positive he had never seen anything so...so perfect. After not being able to find a seat on the farthest end of the room, she started making her way toward him, no doubt causing his already pounding heart to accelerate. He noticed that she was wearing a plain white v-neck t-shirt paired up with black skinny jeans and some white and black chucks with her book bag hung over her shoulder. Her outfit hugged her curves giving her a perfect hour glass figure that no straight man would be able to ignore. He had never seen a girl like her. To many guys in at the school she may be just some "hot Bay Side chick" but that was definitely not all he saw. He didn't even know the girl yet he already felt so attached. She must have noticed his staring because she kind of gave him a look so he faced forward and continued with his doodling in his notebook, just as she passed by his desk, leaving her wonderful scent lingering after her. All throughout the class period he tried to get her out of his head, but it was nearly impossible, he even found himself doodling her face in his notebook.
Nick looked hard at the teacher trying to focus on what she was saying in an attempt to get the girl off his mind.
"okay, so the seats you are in are not your assigned seats and since there is only six minutes left of class" Mrs. Lopez, the advanced placement United States History teacher, said as she glanced at the clock behind her, "I will get to that and you can have the rest of the period to catch up on how crazy your summers were." she smiled at the class and turned to head over to the desk.
"Nick! Over here!" Nick turned around and inwardly let out a sigh of relief when he saw Demi, his best friend, no, his only friend, standing near a table with a group of her friends on it. He didn't necessarily consider them his friends, they were more like acquaintances than friends to him, he wouldn't really trust them with his deepest darkest secrets like he trusted Demi, but then again, he had known her since birth, so to him she was practically family.
"Nick" Demi said very excitedly as soon as he reached the table, strangely enough, as he noticed, she was wearing the same exact outfit as the girl from his first period class, only she was wearing black vans instead of chucks. "I need to introduce you to someone I met today"
"yeah?" he asked nonchalantly in his usual manner, but Demi was used to this so she proceeded by saying "yeah, come on" she led him to a tall, dark-haired, good looking guy who looked about three inches taller than him, he could definitely pass as a football player if he wasn't already one.
"Joe, this is my friend Nick; Nick, Joe" Nick nodded at him all the while still observing him.
"Nice to meet you man" Joe said
"Ditto" Nick replied, he knew he should say more but that was not him at all. He hated meeting new people because that meant having to talk about himself and that led to family and background information and that was most definitely not a subject he liked to get into. "Joe's new here, he moved here from New York" Demi added obviously trying to keep the conversation going.
Nick was just about to respond when once again his heart was, for lack of a better word, disturbed, by none other than her again, wow, what he would give for an explanation to why she had that affect on him.
She had made her way over to Nick and his friends' table
"hey Demi you don't mind if I sit with you guys do you? I'm kind of not in the mood for my friends right now"
"of course not, girl, take a seat I haven't talked to you in forever!" Demi said obviously implying that she had known the girl for a while, this surprised Nick a bit he had assumed she was new to the school considering he had never seen her around in previous years.
No matter how hard he tried he couldn't keep his eyes off of her. It was getting ridiculous the affect this girl already had on him. He was Nick freaking Gray for Pete's sake he didn't give a crap about any of these people, except for Demi of course; and that was only because he had known her all his life. It was messed up, but true, if it wasn't for that fact alone, he wouldn't give a crap about her either. That was just who he was, he trusted very few people in his life. And then she comes along and all of a sudden nothing makes sense anymore? Hell no, he wasn't going let that happen.
He noticed she was once again giving him that same creeped out look that she had given him earlier that morning and he quickly looked down at his hands on the table.
Demi noticed the little exchange which to her was strange since as far as she knew they hadn't met yet, which reminded her...
"By the way Miley, this is Selena, Cody, Mitchell..." she pointed to each person as she said their name going around the table. "And this is Nick, my best friend, we've known each other since we were in diapers"
"hey, you're in one of my classes aren't you?" she asked looking at me. As if she didn't know. A little coy aren't we, he thought to himself.
"yup" he replied in his usual indifferent manner. He didn't dare look at her; he knew that would not end well.
"well nice to meet you" she said a little thrown off by his attitude, she looked around the table at everyone else, "nice to meet all of you"
As everyone conversed, Nick decided that was about as much of school as he could handle for a day so he stood up successfully escaping the table unnoticed. He made his way down the hallways of the fancy school and out the main entrance. He knew it was far beyond idiotic to ditch school the first day back but he couldn't take it much longer, things were beginning to fall out of place and he knew one place that would make sense of everything and help him feel whole again. Although he knew there would be some consequences, but he could care less about that at that point.
