I was on my way to math class, but then I ended up trailing down another hallway.

I wasn't sure if Justin had made it to math class or not, but either way I didn't feel like seeing him.

As I trailed through the halls, I ran my hand over the lockers. Before I realized it, I had made a complete circle and ended up at my math teacher's classroom door.

It was closed, so I opened it and walked in. I was 6 minutes late, but I didn't care. Luckily, when I walked in, the teacher wasn't in the room.

I looked to see where there was an open seat. Then I saw him. Justin was sitting next to Katherine in the very back, in the left corner.

He looked up at me and waved me over. Unfortunately, there weren't any other seats open except for the one that was on his right.

I slowly made my way to the back of the room, as everyone else was chit chatting away, not paying one bit of attention to me.

I sat my books down carefully on my desk and took my time sitting down. The longer I didn't talk to him, the better.

But then he blew it.

"Hey Chambers!" He said cheerfully, as if nothing had happened. I faked my best smile.

"Hey. What's up?"

'Of course I would know if you hadn't left me like that.' I said to myself.

"Nothing, just sitting. I see you're doing the same." He laughed, and I tried my hardest to do the same.

Then his face turned into an expression of worry.

"What's wrong?" He asked. I shook my head.

"Nothing. Nothing at all. Really I'm fine." I said, quickly.

Just then the teacher walked into the room.

"Alright, let's just check to see if everybody is here."

She went through the list, and surprisingly, didn't call Justin out this time. Instead, after class she held he & I back to talk to him.

"So is this your first day? I see you have Katie as your guide. Have you gotten your schedule?"

She asked Justin. He smiled and answered her.

"Yeah, I made sure my schedule matched hers. And yes, today is my first day." She nodded.

"Awesome. Where did you move from?"

This was going to be interesting, considering I haven't asked him anything about his background.

"Canada." He said simply. The teacher's face lit up.

"Canada? Wow! Where in Canada?"

"Stratford Ontario. Small town." She nodded.

"You must get a lot of snow up there in the winter."

"Yes ma'am, we sure do."

She gazed at Justin for a few more seconds before saying, "Oh! I'm holding you two up! Here, let me write you a pass!" She handed us the pass and we headed off to our next class. This time, with no interruptions.

After gym class, I walked into the girls' locker room. I overheard Jane and Katherine talking about Justin.

"Yeah, I don't know why he chose her to show her around. What does he see in her?" Jane said.

"I don't know. He must be blind. I managed to pull her away from him for at least 10 minutes. Then after class, they were glued together again." Katherine replied.

I shook my head and quickly headed to the back where my clothes were. I got dressed, grabbed my stuff, and bolted out of the locker room.

I didn't even notice that I passed Justin until he called out to me.

"Hey, Chambers!" he shouted after me. For the first time today, I didn't feel like being with him at all. But I turned around anyway.

Just as I did, Jane and Katherine walked out of the locker room and started to stare and whisper.

"Hey." I said, looking past him and straight at Jane. She was glaring at me. Not long after, Katherine started glaring at me too.

Tears stung my eyes. He made it over to me.

"Whoa, what's wrong Katie?" That was the first time he called me Katie all day. He wiped a tear off of my cheek. I didn't realize that I was crying, or that people had begun to stare.

I watched as people pointed at me, and either started laughing, or whispering. Jane and Katherine were still glaring.

"Hey Katie! You going to just stand there and cry so your little boyfriend can wipe your tears away?"

John, who was Katherine's boyfriend shouted at me. I started to back away, but then Justin turned around, walked over to John, and punched him smack in the nose.

There was blood everywhere. John fell to the ground with his hand gripping his nose, hollering. Soon, there was a crowd of people surrounding him.

Jane and Katherine had stopped staring immediately. I sobbed one last time and started to run in the opposite direction.

"Katie! Wait up!" I didn't stop running. I kept going until I reached the hall that contained Justin and I's lockers.

As soon as I got to where my locker was, he had caught up to me and spun me around.

"Katie, what happened back there?" I just fell into him and cried.