Open Doors

Chapter 3

Rory dragged her feet as she walked into the

cafeteria: this school sucks. She already had three

projects and a paper due in two weeks and she only had four

classes that morning. Rory had to get through another

three classes to be free for the day.

Rory searched the cafeteria for Tristan. He had led

her to all of her classes this morning and sat next to her

during the classes he had with her. From what she knew

about him he seemed really sweet. He had introduced her to

Lane Kim, who introduced her to Audrey and Ashley. They

were nice girls, who insisted that she come over and hang

with them this weekend.

She finally spotted Tristan sitting in the middle of a

very crowded table. There were no seats left but she

decided to try and find somewhere to sit near them.

She was walking towards them when Tristan noticed her

and waved her over to the table. Every person at the table

had punked up their uniform as much as they could, and it

was the most welcoming thing Rory had seen all day: people

like her.

"Hey everybody, if you haven't met her, this is Rory."

Tristan introduced her to the rest of the table. Everybody

waved or nodded in her direction. Rory decided it would be

better if she sat somewhere else, she started to walk away

when Tristan grabbed her arm and pulled her down on his

lap.

"Tristan! What are you doing."

"I'm eating lunch, now with you on my lap." Rory blushed a

little bit, but finally decided to deal with it. Rory took

a fry off of Tristan's plate and popped it into her mouth.

Tristan gave her a look that only saud never do that

again, and so Rory grabbed three more fries giving him a

sweet smile before taking a bite.