Chapter 3" this town...

I starred at him not realizing, he was so tense, I didn't know what to think, there was an empty seat next to me, and one across the classroom, he immediately darted for that seat. I felt some sort of rejection. I turned towards the window and tucked my hair behind my ears. He sat down in the seat and clutched the desk. He starred at the board intently.

"Uh Uh Mr. Parker, today I thought It would be nice of you to get acquainted with the new student, being she's sitting by herself, and you were the last person to come in"

Mr. Perez had a friendly smirk on his face.

"Must it be me Sir?"

He managed to get that out through his teeth, even though it wasn't the most comfortable way to talk, his voice could wake the dead it was so soft and smooth. I could have been deaf and I would have been able to hear him…

"Yes Riley now be nice and go conversant"

Riley, wow his name was a perfect match for his entire person. He slowly got up from the table and weaved through the desks to the one next to me. He stopped and closed and opened his eyes, and slowly sat down.

He sucked in very deep and blinked a handful of times, as if he walked into a room that was quarantined. I wasn't only feeling rejected, I felt insulted. I inspected myself, there didn't seem to be anything wrong with the way I looked. The vents next to me were acting up and they would stop and spurt at air at any given moment. It was quite annoying blowing at my hair. Every time that happened he would tense up and put a hand over his nose, close his eyes and clutch the desk. There was a point in the period where we had to finish a worksheet with our partner. When Mr. Perez assigned this he looked like he had just been assigned a death sentence. What is the matter with him? We were already 30 minutes into the period and I don't exactly have the courage to ask him what his problem is. I'm not the most patient person in the world, and I was getting fed up with this guy, but I was still shy because I couldn't stop looking at his face. I asked Mr. Perez to sign a pass to let me go the bathroom, I get up to go and I stumble over my backpack, and fall up against his side, I grip his arm/shoulder for support and my hair fell in his face, everyone in the classroom was looking. Kill me now please! His arm grew like a rock under my small hand. I looked up at him and found that he wasn't looking back, he just sat in his seat, biting his lips, eyes shut, holding onto the desk as if his life depended on it. I tucked my hair behind my ears, and got on my feet; I straightened out the bottom of my shirt and walked out of the classroom.

The bathroom was a little bit down the hallway, I walked in and there was a girl at the sink. Normal looking. I went over and flipped my hair back to I could wash my face. The girl dried her hands shot me a friendly look and walked out, as she left the door opened again, the small brunet walked in, she stopped short and her eyes rolled in her head. She flipped her hair behind her shoulders, sucked in and slowly walked next to me. She turned on the sink and began washing her hands. She glanced at me every few seconds. I dried my hands and walked past her as I went to go throw the paper in the garbage. She picked up her chest and shivered. I'm so done its ridiculous. I roughly chucked the paper in the trash and stormed out. She was lightly hyperventilating as I was leaving, really now do I smell? I walked back into the classroom and he was still as tense as before. I sat down and waited for the class to be over. I was so frustrated and annoyed that I just wanted to put life on hold and scream at the top of my lungs. Was this what life was going to be like here? I saw his head turn out of the corner of my eye, I looked and lord almighty he was breathtaking. I could finally get a good look at his face now, when he came into the room before I only had a 5 second look at him in the light, and it wasn't enough. Now I could fall deep into his gaze, even though it wasn't the same view on his end, I could tell that much. He has bright crystal blue eyes, with platinum white teeth. He has a clean shave, and his face was chiseled in all the right places. It was as if his face and body had been carved out of the most precious stone in the world. Even the look that he had on his face was luminous, even though on a not so handsome boy it wouldn't look so great. It was very disappointing that looking at a boy so beautiful, I was getting the look I was getting. I've never even seen him before in my life! I was so utterly confused; all I could do was half smile.

He shot his eyes back to the board and shuttered.

I ripped open my notebook and went to a clean page, took out my pan and began to write.

Okay look I don't know what your problem is with me but would you like to let me know?

I passed the notebook to him and slapped the pen on the paper. I was glad that the class was deep into a group discussion, so now I could start my interrogation with out being herd. He shot a look at the paper and his muscles did front flips in his arms, he slowly reached for the pen when the bell rang.

My stomach dropped. I think I'm going to go through just about every emotion today, great.

He pushed past me lightly and sped out of the classroom. I watched in disappointment. I gathered all of my things and went out into the hallway, and meet up with grace. She gave me a little love punch in the shoulder and we walked to the next class together, Study hall.

We walked in and got a table in the back. We sat down and grace took out a yogurt and began eating.

"So grace um can I ask you something?"

"Sure what up"

"Why are those kids we saw before bad news?"

"Oh, it's just a long thing with our families, they never got along, its not something you should dwell on though"

"Oh I was just wondering"

"Yeah I can understand that, CRAP I lost my book!! Ugh it was brand new I just got it from the bookstore this morning!"

"I was supposed to go the bookstore with Kaleb yesterday but he bailed last minute, it was really weird."

"Yeah well we can leave school property during lunch and study hall so you want to go head over their?"

"Yes defiantly! There is a book that I was going to get and I want to take a look at it"

"Alright then let's go"

We took Grace's car to the book store; all 3 of them had an individual key to the car, so it wasn't a problem just going.

We drove along the winding green road listening to music VERY loud. Well come to fun time with Grace.

Windows down speakers up all the way into town, not even lowering it one marker. We got out and went inside. Grace went over and said hey to the cashier who she knew and I went down to find my book.

"The Silent Ages"

I took a deep breathe and took the dusty book off the shelf. It was a crimson color with a black leather spine, no author, and creepy looking thing, very thick to. I flipped through the old worn pages and started walking to the back to go sit. Grace turned the corner before I could leave the isle.

"Hey did you find..."

She stared at the book and the delightful look washed from her face. Oh no, she was going to kill me wasn't she. I closed the book and put it behind my back.

"Where did you get that book Anna?"

"Um over there"

I pointed to the shelf I had gotten it from. She grabbed her head in her hand and sat down in one of the seats. She seemed very deep in thought for a few moments and then sat up and let out a deep breath. I walked forward and sat in the seat next to her.

"Are you really that interested in the book?"

"Um…yes"

"Okay well ill tell you what it's about"

She grabbed the notebook out of my hand, got up and started walking up to the front.

I got up and followed her. She went up to the cashier and slammed the book on the counter

"Dan, how did this book get here?"

"Um it came in a box like 9 months ago, so we just decided to put it on the shelves, it seemed like a good scary story"

"Well can you please dispose of it? Its garbage"

"Why would I get rid of it?"

"Fine then I'm taking it"

"Okay then let me ring it up…"

I waited behind Grace sheepishly. What was so bad about that story?

"Here you go"

"Thanks."

We walked out and go into the car.

We drove in silence for about 10 minutes before she spoke. I was shaking a little; she is just so aggressive that I felt so over powered by her. I sat with my hands intertwined staring down at the floor. We were running out of time to get back to the school, so Grace was going fast.

"Listen, I'm sorry about this, but really lets be honest this book is stupid."

"Okay, but I don't understand what's wrong with it."

"Just forget it, promise me you won't worry about it?"

"Only if you tell me why"

"All you need to know is, it has nothing to do with you, and it shouldn't have ever happened. Its all terrible and those stupid kids…"

"Okay you defiantly lost me Grace"

"Just stay away from the book, and stay away from those kids got it?"

"Fine"

I folded my arms and stared out of the window. We pulled into the parking lot just in time for the bell to ring. We got out and walked into the school. She wasn't mad at me, but she really wanted me to leave this book thing alone. I had art next and then lunch; my whole grade was in my lunch period. I already plan on sitting with Kaleb, Grace and Emma. Grace and I said our goodbyes and that we would see each other in lunch. I went downstairs to Mr. Lessee's room. I walked in and there were only 8 people tops in the room, very small, very quiet, and perfect. I sat down at one of the long tables in the back by myself, and waited for the teacher who wasn't in the room yet. I took out a notebook and started doodling. A few minutes later a woman walked into the classroom in faded jeans, boots, and a big denim shirt with paint all over it. She had fiery hair like girl I had seen this morning. Then I remembered him… Ugh. Whatever, I'll deal with him tomorrow.

"Okay well class good afternoon my name is Miss. Parker and welcome to studio art"

Parker? Like as in Riley Parker?! Were they related? Wow small town, small school, strange EVERYTHING. She was so beautiful. She has the same crystal blue eyes as riley did, with a kind smile that matched her artistic facade. She seemed like the most likeable person in the world. I got out a pen from my bag when I saw a note fall out of my bag.

Hey Anna, um I just wanted to tell you that theirs a spot at our table for you. Hopefully you'll be their -Kaleb