Just wanna say thanks to all my readers the amount of people who've read my first chapter is overwhelming! Thank you all! Well I know the last two chapters have been just remakes of the episodes but don't worry they're not all like that. This is a flashback episode dedicated to my best friend CaitlinLouise13. She's stuck with me all the way, never let me down and is always there when I need her :) Well hope you like it xx
Chapter 3 - Memories
I lay on my bed. That pain in my chest and stomach slowly creeping back as memories of Ben flashed in my head. There were so many good memories and hardly any bad ones if there were any! I stared at the ceiling thinking about the time when we first met. I've grown up a hell of a lot since then but it always made me both smile and cry at the memory.
(Flashback)
I was shaking slightly. I was so nervous. Being the new girl was never a good thing. But it was the start of the year and maybe I wouldn't be the only newbie. I looked at my timetable. Yep this was the right class. B26. English. Better lesson than any. I breathed in deep and swollowed hard. Ugh I feel sick. I knocked on the door. The taps sounding like crashes to me.
"Come in" I heard a woman call. She sounded nice...
I walked in, the whole classes eyes on me, but I tried not to look at them.
"Hi, um, I'm Kristen. The new girl?" I whispered.
"Oh, yes. Kristen. Well, I'm Miss Johnson. Just have to find a place for you to sit..." she seemed really nice too, but my first impressions have been wrong before.
"You can sit by me" a boy called out "I mean, if you want to"
I looked up at the boy. My heart thudded. Great! Been here two minutes and I already had a crush. His friend had moved across it made me blush and giggle.
The whole class chrorused "Whoooo!"
"Shut up" the boy laughed and so did I.
"Do you mind Kristen?" Miss Johnson asked.
"No, course not" I smiled and she gestured to the seat.
I walked over and sat down. In between two boys ... uh-oh.
"Hey, I'm Ben. Ben Mason" he held out his hand. I shook it firmly. He was actually really good-looking. He had beautiful dark blonde curls with deep sea blue eyes and tanned skin. Unlike me. I always had skin the colour of milk.
"Hi. I'm Kristen Marshall. What about you?" I turned to the other boy.
He looked up a bit surprised "Oh, um, Elijah Stephens"
"This is going to sound random" a girl behind me said "but you have beautiful hair"
I laughed "Thank you"
"I'm Ella. And this is Caitlin and Sally" she gestured to the girls on either side of her. Ella's skin was pretty pale perhaps paler than me but Sally and Caitlin's skin was darker. Ella had totally awesome punky hair, Caitlin had beautiful sleek brown hair whilst Sally's was quite elegant with her blonde ringlet curls.
"Well, at least I already have friends in this place" I joked.
Caitlin signaled for me to come closer so I leaned over the table to she could whisper in my ear.
"Won't be long before you have a boyfriend too" she gestured to Ben with her eyes.
I followed her eyeline and saw Ben looking at me. I blushed and giggled.
"What did you say?" Ben tried to hide the smirk on his lips.
"Me? Nothing" Caitlin pulled an innocent face.
I turned back and started talking to Ben.
"So what are you usually into?" I asked "Strange question, just trying to figure you out"
"Suppose I'm a bit of a bookworm" Ben smiled. Ah god. The way he made me feel already...!
"Really? I love books. Nothing more relaxing to me" I smiled.
His face lit up and I giggled.
"My dad's a university proffesor so I guess I get it from him" he shrugged.
"A University proffesor?" my eyes widened. Wow!
Ben laughed "Yeah. Nothing special"
"Nothing special? That's amazing! I'd love to have a dad who's a University proffesor" I twisted my hair with my fingers.
We spent the lesson talking. Damn! He was so cute! Eventually the bell went and it was dinner time. I hadn't come in 'till 3rd period.
"C'mon, I'll show you around. You can trust me. Just stick with me and you'll be fine" Ben's smile made me go soft.
"Yeah, okay" I nodded lightly.
Ben gave me a tour of the school and left the main yard for last. There was loads to this school. The best part to me had to be the amazing art room! Nothing better to me than chilling in the sun with a pen and paper and drawing or writing. They were always the two things I found relaxing. Well, that and the amazingly long, late phonecalls you have with your best friend.
"Hey, guys. This is Kristen. She's new here" Ben introduced me to two of his other friends.
I looked past them and noticed a bunch of older kids playing football. One stood out to me most. He was wearing a black short sleeve shirt with jeans. He was pretty hot, although I could tell definetly not my type.
Ben followed my eyeline and sighed "Of course"
"What?" I asked leaning against a wall.
"All the girls go for my brother" he rolled his eyes.
"Your ... brother?" he left me confused.
"Black shirt" Ben groaned.
"He's your brother?" that I didn't expect. They look hardly anything alike. The boy's hair was jet black and shortish and he was seriously dark.
"Yeah. Hal"
"What made you think I liked him or something?" I smirked. Was he jealous?
"Most girls do" he shrugged.
"I'm not most girls" I pursed my lips.
One of Ben's friends, Kean, looked a bit pissed off.
"What's up with you?" Eli asked him.
"Bad day" Kean kicked a football and we could all see it was headed for the Principal's head.
"Run for it!" Caleb, another of Ben's friends shouted.
Ben grabbed my hand and we ran into the school and split up down the corridors. Me and Ben stopped when we reached the library. We crouched down trying to stay un-noticed and slid down the wall in the back corner of the room. We both laughed quietly.
I looked down at our hands. I'd known him less than a day and it was already like this?
"Oh, sorry" Ben went a bit red. He went to let go but I held on tighter.
"It's fine" I smiled "Hmph, never had a boy best friend before..."
"I'm your best friend" Ben smiled showing his teeth.
I got up and pulled him up with me "So far, yeah"
He stared at me for a second looking as if he was thinking "think it's safe to go back yet?"
"Probably" I shrugged "worth a try anyway"
"Okay" Ben led me back outside and we met up with the others.
I noticed Sally look at our hands as she smirked so I blushed and let go quickly.
"That was too close" Caleb said out of breath.
"What happened?" Caitlin laughed.
"Kean kicked the ball into the principal's head" Ben explained.
The girls laughed and Sally blushed and looked to the floor when her eyes met Eli's. Ah, I wasn't the only one with a high school crush. She looked up at me and a cheeky smile spread across my face. She put her finger to her lips and I laughed.
(Back To Reality)
It took me till morning to realise my flashback was actually a dream.
"Hey, Kristen" Hal whispered peeking through the door "You, uh, decent?"
I laughed and sat up "yeah, come in"
"I finally got a bit of good news" he smiled broadly.
"And that would be...?" I raised both eyebrows. My fringe was getting long.
"We're going to try and rescue Ben. You coming?"
I shot up. Feeling dizzy and my vision going black "Got up too fast" I laughed shaking my head "And of course I'm coming!"
"Come on then!" Hal and I rushed to get my things together and ran outside.
"You look lovely" Tom joked.
"I just woke up don't start on me" I warned him jokily.
"Only now?" Anthony asked.
"Yeah, why? What's the time?" I rubbed by forehead with my index finger.
"1:30 in the afternoon" Karen laughed.
"Oh, God" my eyes widened as my stomach rumbled. Everyone laughed. "Can we just go save my boyfriend, please" I looked at the floor embarrased.
We started walking. I stuck next to Margaret. Felt safer and confident with her.
"So, where are we going? I didn't ask about this at all" my eyebrows creased together.
"A hospital in town. I know the layout and I know where they're keeping Ben and the others" she hardly ever smiled though.
"Ah right. Okay. Least I know what we're doing" I shook my head to get the hair out of my eyes.
"No lecture on if you can trust me?" Margaret asked.
"Nope. I do trust you" I didn't look at her to see her reaction.
"Really? Why?"
"You're asking me why I trust you?" I chuckled.
"Suppose" she shrugged.
"Don't know. I just kinda like you"
She smiled at me and I smiled back in responce.
It was about 40 minutes before the hospital finally came into sight.
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