Kim

Everybody turned towards the shouts in the cafeteria, Tiffany sat down in her chair and looked at Jared, surprised, while he glared at her like he wanted to rip her head off. All the other guys that sat at the popular table got out their seats, pulling him away from harming her, but it only made his normally menacing appearance seem more vicious and scary.

Jared started shaking.

"I think it would be better for all of us if you went outside, man. Go cool off a bit, alright?" Brenden spoke to Jared, his voice slightly wavering. I would be scared of Jared too.

I saw Jared nod at Brenden before storming out the cafeteria, bursting through the cafeteria doors. Poor doors. It seemed like with any more force, Jared would have broke the two doors off its hinges.

"What's happening?" I heard everyone whisper to each other. All the students began to gossip to their friends in whispers, even my own friends were starting to whisper about Jared in quiet tones, glancing at me to smile sympathetically every now and then.

"Aw, Kim. Stop frowning." Jennifer finally spoke. "Don't overthink it too much. Maybe Jared had a little disagreement with Brenden or the other guys. You know how they are, always making stupid bets with each other." She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah. It's not a big deal," Miles shrugged. "Maybe they're just worried about the big game coming up."

"Totally." Katie added. "But hey, why don't we just forget about it? No worries, right? I say that we all take our minds off this. Anybody up for pizza after school at my place?"

"I'm in!" Andrew shouted as soon as he heard anything about food. "I'm tired of this cafeteria food. It gives me a stomach ache every time I eat it."

"Then why eat it?" Jennifer rolled her eyes again. She always did that when someone did something stupid. "I'm totally in! The parents won't even be home tonight, something about working late or whatever. I'm pretty sure Louis could drive my car back home." She said, referring to her younger brother, Louis-only a year younger-and a grade below us.

"Great! Seems like most of us are in. Miles? Kim?" She pouted at us.

"Aw man. I don't know. I could use some pizza, but I don't know about Serena." Miles hesitated.

"Miles! Come on!" The three of them whined.

"I don't know. I gotta make up with her. You guys know how she is, she'll be mad at me forever. That girl can sure hold a grudge."

"Miles!" Andrew shook his head. "Come on, man. She's blind if she can't see how much you like her. And she's obviously not worth it if she doesn't forgive you, it was her fault anyways. You were just trying to stand up for Kim." That's right. Miles had a major crush on Serena, practically the same time I started having a crush on Jared.

If anything, Miles understood how I felt the most, out of everyone. The only difference between us was, Jared didn't even know I existed, but Serena didn't even bother to acknowledge Miles as anything more than a guy that sat at the same lunch table. It wasn't being friend-zoned, but it wasn't all that romantic either. Still, it was better than what I got. Hell, I would accept anything from Jared as long as he noticed me-whether it was friends, classmates, or just seeing me as a random nerdy girl to copy homework from-anything.