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"How was your summer?" Derek asked.

"It was, it was fine, th-thanks," Jude said. She didn't know why she was stuttering, but she was.

"Hey," Jamie said, walking up to the two. He noticed the huge grin on Jude's face, which was odd, considering how Derek managed to get under her skin the year before.

"Hey Jamison!" Derek said. That's been his nickname for Jamie for years. And he hated it now just as much as he did then.

"Are we all in English together?" Jamie asked.

"Looks like it. Another year of fun," Derek said, smirking. That's where he and Jude met. Every year since 7th grade he and Jude had the same English class.

"Yeah, fun," Jude said, smiling. By the end of class, Jude was still unable to wipe the grin off of her face.

"Jude, what was up in there?" Jamie asked as they were walking to her chemistry class. Jamie had physics which was in the same hallway.

"What do you mean?" Jude asked.

"You were all giddy around Derek. You were doing exactly what you hate for girls to do. And you hate Derek," Jamie said.

"I was not," Jude said, blushing.

"But you do hate him?" Jamie asked.

"I never really hated him. He just annoyed me. He liked to disagree with me all the time and argue," Jude said.

"And now?" Jamie asked.

"I really don't wanna talk about this. Hey Speed!" Jude exclaimed.

"Hey, Jude?" Speed said, quizzically.

"Looks like the counselors thought it would be funny to put us together two periods in a row," Derek said into her ear before walking into class.

"Who's he?" Speed asked.

"Only the most hottest guy in school, silly. Well, besides you. Word is, he has this huge thing for Jude," Amanda said, walking up to them.

"You're in here too?" Jude asked.

"Yeah. Hey amazing idea, how about you and Derek pair up and me and Vincent can pair up!" Amanda squealed.

"This class isn't done in pairs. It's done in threes, look," Jude said, pointing inside.

"So you and Derek and someone else, and me and Vincent and someone else," Amanda said.

"I'm sitting with Jude," Speed said.

"So me you and Jude then," Amanda said.

"Come sit with me," Derek said from inside the room.

"Come on Speed," Jude said, grabbing his arm.

"Hey, who's this?" Derek asked.

"This is my neighbor, Vincent Spiederman," Jude said.

"Sup," Speed said. They sat down, Jude in the middle and each guy on either side of her.

"So, what'd you do over the summer?" Derek asked Spiederman.

"I moved here, hung out with a bunch of people, made some new friends," Speed said.

"Oh you're the new kid that I'm hearing so much about," Derek said.

"Everyone's talking about me?" Speed asked.

"Yeah, you're like this musician, you can sing, you're "hott", you're hilarious, every girl in school pretty much wants you, blah, blah, blah," Derek said.

"It's only second period," Speed said, laughing.

"Yeah, well people have been talking ever since you got here and went to that party. I can't stop hearing about you," Derek said.

"That's funny. The girls here, they're rather, wow. They just throw themselves at me," Speed said.

"Yeah, I told you I hate most of the girls here," Jude said, glancing at Amanda.

"If they were like you, it'd be great," Speed said.

"But then there wouldn't be anything special about me," Jude said.

"Ah yes, that's the beauty of Jude. Only one person can be her," Speed said.

"I like it better this way," Jude said.

"So uh I called you this weekend. To see what your English class was. And see if you wanted to do anything," Derek said, interrupting their flirting.

"I got grounded. So I'm using Speed's phone until I get mine back," Jude said.

"What'd you do?" Derek asked.

"Long story short, I had a bunch of people at my house, I didn't know my mom was coming home early, she was already pissed and I made things worse. Well, Speed made things worse. Anywho, I'm grounded for three weeks, and he feels like it was his fault so he gave me his phone," Jude said.

"Oh, so I can call you on this phone?" Derek asked.

"Sure," Jude said, jotting down Speed's number and giving it to Derek.

"Sweet, so what are you doing after school?" Derek asked.

"Nothing," Jude said, smiling. Derek was having a strange effect on her. They usually would have been fighting by then, but now she felt like he was going to ask her on a date. And she was actually happy.

"You are, we wanted to surprise you, but me and Jamie are taking you out," Speed said.

"But I'm grounded," Jude said. She just remembered that.

"Yeah but we thought of an awesome way for your mom to let you out of the house," Speed said.

"Does it have to do with the?" Jude asked.

"Yeah," Speed said.

"With what?" Derek asked.

"Nothing," Jude and Speed said at the same time, laughing afterwards.

"And how long have you two known each other?" Derek asked.

"Since Friday. It's amazing how much you can learn about a person in a few days," Jude said.

"A few hours," Speed said.

"So, Jude, are you and Derek gonna go hang out today?" Amanda asked, turning around.

"No she already has plans with Jamie and Vincent," Derek said.

"Just call me Spiederman or Speed," Speed said.

"You can hang out with those two tomorrow," Amanda said.

"If I don't hang out with them today, I can't go anywhere at all. They know a way to get my mom to let me leave," Jude said.

"Oh yeah, the grounding. Well me and Derek can join you. And Angelica. It could be like…a double date!" Amanda said.

"Me and Jude aren't together," Spiederman said.

"No silly, me and you and Angelica make one date and Derek and Jude make another date," Amanda said.

"And Jamie?" Jude asked.

"Oh yeah. Well bring that Kat chick," Amanda said.

"No!" Speed said.

"Yeah, that girl's annoying. She was at this party with me and a bunch of people complaining about how this guy wouldn't call her," Derek said.

"That would be me," Speed said.

"Why isn't anyone asking me what I wanna do?" Jude asked.

"What do you wanna do," Speed asked.

"I wanna hang with my friends. No offence to you two, but there's a reason behind them taking me out today, and it's really not any of your business," Jude said.

"Oh, okay," Derek said.

"But when I'm not grounded anymore, we can def hang out," Jude said.

"Good. As long as we can be civilized," Derek said, smiling.

"Yeah," Jude said. Speed finally realized what was going on. Derek liked Jude. And he had a feeling Jude didn't know who she liked.

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