Pretty soon, it was lunchtime. The six of us took the seats directly across from the popular table, after collecting our lunches.
"Why are we sitting here?" Kaitlyn whined.
"It's our usual table," Chantel responded. "Why wouldn't we sit here?"
"But the popular table is right there," Kaitlyn whined, motioning to the table with her head.
"Aaaand?" I asked, not really seeing her point.
"Kaitlyn's always been afraid of the 'popular crowd'," Skylar explained, putting air quotes around 'popular crowd'.
"I'm not afraid of them, Sky," Kaitlyn said. She sounded like she had said it a million times. I was proven right when Skylar mouthed the rest of Kaitlyn's sentence. "I just like to avoid drama."
Chantel daintily dipped a fry in ketchup as she asked,
"You guys used to go to the same school?"
"Uh-huh," Skylar affirmed. "All of us."
"I see," I said. It kind of seemed weird that four kids from the same school transferred to our school in the same year. Unless-
"There's some special program going on with our school and yours," Skylar explained, seemingly reading my mind.
"'A Year over Yonder'?" Chantel asked.
"Yeah. How'd you know? Isn't it some kind of secret thing?"
"They had been considering sending my sister and me," I told them.
"Why didn't they?" Jake asked, curiously.
"My sister and I don't exactly have the cleanest track record," Chantel said with a smile.
"So we've made friends with trouble-makers?" Kyle said with fake dismay.
"We aren't trouble-makers per say," Chantel said slowly.
"Trouble just seems to find us," I finished.
"Often," Chantel added, shooting a wicked glance in my direction.
"Very often," I amended.
It was then that I noticed that the 'popular crowd' had been shooting daggers at my table. Not that I was surprised. The popular girls and my sister and I tended to get in disagreements from time to time. And disagreements is putting it mildly. The girls were dressed in the red and white cheerleading uniform of Ashford Academy. Cliché right? The popular girls being cheerleaders. I saw Bianca- their leader- survey my new group of friends. Her eyes fell on Jake and settled there. She nudged Ciara, her second in command, and motioned to our table. Ciara looked over and her eyes settled on Kyle. Her eyes narrowed on her prey. She slid her eyes over to Bianca. Bianca looked at Ciara and stood. Ciara followed suit. The rest of their Barbie-posse stood as well, as one body. With one look from Bianca, the posse sat down again. Ciara's eyes locked on Kyle once again and Bianca's on jake.
I looked at my table of friends.
"Oh, it's about to go down," I whispered to myself.
Hey everyone. How are you? Been a while right? Been settling into the first half of my two year senior course of high school. Lots of hard work. Finished my first set of tests yesterday and thought I'd type up another chapter. I love reviews and I try to reply to every single one. Cause I love you guys. Shout out to jellon2000 who picked up on something I surface skimmed on. Kudos to you. In each chapter I try to put a little foreshadowing. See if you can find them Happy hunting.
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