Chapter 3 - Friends?
(Flora's POV)
The bell goes for the end of science and the beginning of my next lesson which is history, there I end up sitting next to a girl called Aisha Andros, she's really nice and we become great friends throughout the lesson. Despite the fact that Aisha never said it I can tell that she's one of the cheerleaders like Tecna and Musa and I think she also hangs out with them along with the boys that I currently know which are Helia, Timmy and Sky because I can tell they're jocks. "Do you want to sit with me and my friends at lunch?" Aisha asks me as the bell goes.
"Umm... I don't know, I don't usually hang out with the popular group or any group to be honest." I reply nervously. She looks a bit surprised.
"How did you know I was in the popular group?" She asks me confused.
"Lucky guess." I reply with a smirk. Aisha laughs and grabs my hand dragging me out of the room, I barely have enough time to grab my things first but I manage. She drags me to the cafeteria and to a table where all her friends are sitting. I groan quietly causing her to laugh.
"Everyone this is Flora she'll be sitting with us today." Aisha says and I can't help but sigh as I have no say in this whatsoever. "Come on lets get some food." Aisha says about to drag me to the line for food but I shake my head.
"No thanks I'm not very hungry right now." I reply. She nods as she goes to line up to get herself lunch.
"Flora why did you avoid us earlier on?" Helia asks me curiously. I sigh but I don't reply. "Flora?" Helia asks again.
"It doesn't matter, anyway are any of you going to introduce yourselves as I know some of you Tecna, Timmy, Musa, Helia, Sky and Aisha but not the rest of you." I say as I look at the rest of them slightly curiously.
"Well I'm Nabu." A boy with long brown hair in plaits, violet eyes and tan skin tells me. "I'm also Aisha's boyfriend." He adds. I just nod in reply. Aisha walks over and sits next to him as she gives him a small kiss on the cheek.
"I'm Bloom, Sky's girlfriend." A girl with fair skin, blue eyes and long ginger hair introduces herself, I then realize that she and Sky are holding hands. "Don't forget that he's mine." Bloom adds playfully as she lets go of his hand and wraps her arms around him instead causing all of us to laugh.
"Bloom don't be silly it's obvious that Flora and Helia are going to be together." A girl with long blonde hair, fair skin and hazel coloured eyes says, I shake my head a little and roll my eyes but I can't stop my cheeks from turning light pink. "Oh I'm Stella by the way." She then adds as she realizes she never introduced herself to me.
"I'm Brandon-" A boy with tan skin, brown eyes and brown hair starts but I cut him off.
"Don't tell me, you're Stella's boyfriend." I say stopping him. He nods.
"I'm Riven and sorry if I'm not as friendly as all the others." A boy with spiky magenta hair, violet eyes and fair skin tells me. Musa gently hits him and shoots his a small glare.
"Sorry about my boyfriend here, he can be like that." Musa apologizes to me before saying something quietly to Riven.
"I understand loosing a parent can have an effect like it has had on both of you." I tell them. Everyone turns to me with a look of shock.
"Who told her about what happened?" Musa asks obviously pissed. No one says anything.
"Calm down Musa no one told me but I can tell, I don't think anyone would be completely fine if they lost one of heir parents." I tell Musa. She just stares for a minuet or two before finally nodding in agreement to what I had just said. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything.
"Anyway changing the subject, how has everyone's day been so far?" Timmy asks trying to lighten the mood a little. Everyone nods as we all murmur replies. I sit in the only available seat which is between Helia and Aisha. We start a small conversation but it soon gets interrupted by a girl with fair skin, long pink hair and light green eyes.
"Hey you're in my seat so move." She snaps at me. I see the others rolling their eyes. I begin to get up but Aisha and Helia instantly pull me down. "Are you deaf! I told you to move!" She snaps harshly. I can't help but flinch a slight bit as she does. I feel someone take my hand in there's so I turn to see that it's Helia who's doing it. An amused smile comes across his face as he thinks of something, probably something to get rid of her.
"Crystal can you please stop harassing my girlfriend, it's her first day here and I want her to feel welcome." Helia says forcing an innocent smile on his face as he wraps an arm around me. My eyes widen slightly as a look of shock and horror appears on Crystal's face.
"What!" She shrieks loudly causing all of us to cover our ears and many others to turn to face our table obviously curious to see what's going on.
"Flora this is Crystal, Crystal this is Helia's girlfriend Flora." Musa introduces us nicely and I can see that she's trying hard not to laugh.
"Helia why are you going out with... with that!" Crystal exclaims as she motions to me. I look down in embarrassment knowing that everyone heard not just our table. I quickly glance up to see Crystal with a satisfied smirk on her face while everyone else is looking in shock. It's dead silent.
"I'm going out with Flora because she's absolutely gorgeous in every way possible." Helia replies as he pulls me closer to him, I can't help but blush a bit. Crystal stomps her foot in annoyance before storming off. Helia lifts my head up and smirks. "Looks like someone is blushing." He teases me playfully.
"S-shut up." I stutter causing everyone on our table to laugh as everyone else goes back to their own conversations as the drama is over. "Just let go of me." I tell Helia he smirks and lets go allowing me to sit up.
"Did you see Crystal's face when you said you and Flora were dating?" Stella asks before we all start laughing, even I laugh a little.
"Yeah, thanks for making me a new enemy on my first day, I don't even know who she is." I say making the first bit sarcastic. Helia smirks at me.
"You've guessed about most of us so I think you can guess about her." Helia tells me.
"Cheerleader, a popular girl for whatever reason I'm guessing bullying people as well and for some reason has a huge crush on Helia." I say getting revenge for what Helia did to get rid of her. The girls start laughing while Helia shoots me a look. He's not angry at me but I can tell he's surprised.
"You're completely right Flora." Sky tells me.
"She'll be trying to kill you now for the rest of your time here." Tecna adds jokingly but I don't doubt that she will. The others laugh a little but I don't as she probably will be. "Guys I wasn't actually joking I swear she's going to be in prison soon." Tecna tells all of us with a straight face, her voice dead serious. All the others fall silent as all of us our in deep thought about it. We all turn to watch Crystal with her friends or group or whatever. She's still obviously pissed about what happened and what Helia was saying I can tell by the way she's acting and how people are reacting to her as well as her facial expression. I'm dead.
"I know this is a sudden change of subject but girls I'm having a sleepover at my house and all of you are to come." Stella suddenly announces. All the girls nod in agreement. "That includes you Flora." Stella adds seeing that I didn't reply.
"Sorry Stella but I can't, I don't know where you live and even if I did I can't get there." I tell her apologetically. Stella smirks before laughing a little.
"I'm assuming you walk here?" Stella asks me. I nod. "I'll wait here while the others go home and get their stuff and you can quickly go home before meeting me back here and you can come home with me." Stella explains. I smile, I can't believe that she's willing to do that for me.
"Thanks Stella." I thank her. The rest of lunch flies by quickly and soon we're all in our next lessons. I have maths and I'm sitting between Helia and Aisha but unfortunately Crystal is sitting in front of me and I think she keeps slipping notes into my bag which is under the desk in front of my seat but no one else seems to notice. Who am I kidding I'm probably just being paranoid! Once maths is over I have my last lesson which is Art. We sit in twos. I'm next to Helia and I can see Stella and Brandon sitting together but they're at the other end of the classroom.
"Looks like we'll be seeing a lot of each other during lessons." Helia tells me playfully. Deciding to mess with him a little I sigh.
"Oh great just my luck." I say sarcastically but in the end I can't keep a straight face and we both end up laughing. The teacher says some stuff before letting us get on with our work, we have to paint a picture of a natural environment basically. Me and Helia finish around the same time before most other people and our work is fantastic if I do say so myself.
"Flora." Helia says gently. I nod as I turn to face him and as I do he paints a small dot on the side of my cheek in green which is barely visible luckily for him. I roll my eyes and paint a small dot in red on his hand but it's slightly bigger then the one he did on my face because I only put it on his hand. Before we can do any more the teacher begins talking once again saying everyone who hasn't finished will have to complete it for homework but it's fine for me and Helia since we've already finished. Once art is finished Helia goes with Brandon saying they have football practise while I quickly run home. I tall my grandmother what's happening before grabbing clothes for school tomorrow and pyjamas as well as everything I need before running back to school with my stuff.
"You were quick." Stella tells me as I reach her. I laugh.
"No I wasn't but you were too busy making out with Brandon to realize when I left." I tell her causing her to blush a fade pink. I then go with her in her own car as she drives to her house which isn't really a house as it's more like a mansion! "Wow!" Is the only thing I can say once we get there much to Stella's amusement.
A/N Sorry it took me so long to post I'll try and be more organised and get the next chapter posted sooner but I'm sorry if I don't I just have a lot to do especially with my audition for a play coming up any time from Monday! Well anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter.