Imperfect

Chapter Three

As soon as she entered her Calculus class with her new look,she could feel the eyes of boys staring at her appreciatively and she couldn't help the smile that curved her lips. Ever since she could remember,her sister had always been the pretty one,the one who caught everyone's attention and everyone wanted to know. If felt good to finally be the one people liked and appreciated. It was as if she was finally being pulled out from her sister's shadow.

KC however,sat on the other side of the room watching as boys,boys who had never given Claire a first glance before today,crowding around her chair and giving her flirty smiles. It made him sick to his stomach. They were looking at his friend like she was a piece of meat. Claire seemed oblivious to it though,something that he was worried would get her in trouble.

Alli saw the glares KC was shooting at them and she smirked,scribbling on a piece of paper,"You are so blatantly jealous!" and passing it up to him. She saw his brow furrow and his eyes narrow,pouting a bit,then write something before passing the note back to her sneakily. Taking the note,bangle bracelets clinking together,she unfolded it and read, "Am Not!!" she sighed,rolling her eyes up torwards the ceiling and shaking her dark head. Then she hid the note in her purse,not wanting to get caught with it. It was obvious that KC had feelings for Claire. She looked at her friend,smiling at how happy and confident her friend seemed now that she was out of her school uniform and in regular,teenage girl clothes. Her smile turned into a frown however,when she saw how the guys were leering at her. She swallowed hard and watched as Claire giggled at something one of the boys said and twirled a ringlet of hair around her slender finger. Alli knew that Claire wasn't quite an expert on boys and it worried her. Sure her friend enjoyed the attention they were giving her but she didn't think her friend knew what boys expected. After all, Claire hadn't even known what a vibrator was when they found one in Mr.Simpson's house. She bit her lip. Perhaps she should talk to her friend about that.

Claire was completely oblivious to the fact that KC and Claire were worried for her as she started on her work. To her,the day couldn't have turned out better. She finally figured out that she could still be herself and yet dress attractively.

A few hours later,in the cafeteria during her lunch period,Derek Haig,a senior and football player,someone who had been mean to her in the past,walked over to her table and began to talk to her. He even asked her to come to a party he was throwing,he tore of a piece of flyer paper from the billboard in the cafeteria,writing down his address and handing it to her. He gave her a wink and told her she could bring her friends if she desired to before he sauntered back over to his own lunch table.

KC was staring down at his food,poking at it but not really eating,a frowning tucking down the corners of his mouth. He wondered what exactly a senior was doing asking a freshman girl to a party that mostly seniors were going to. It couldn't be good,he suspected. After all,no other Freshman was cordially asked.