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We are introducing 2 more characters into the story.

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Astoria's POV:

"I'm pretty sure I failed that damn math test" Aislinn said sitting down at the lunch table, I set my bottle of water down, "I think we all failed it" I said looking over to her. Aislinn was staring down at her tray of inedible school food, her hair was up in a messy ponytail, she was wearing her team softball sweats and hoodie from last year, and when she looked up, I saw faint purple circles under her eyes. "You look like shit, what time did you get home last night from your game?" I asked, "Um probably around midnight, I was up till one doing homework, and I was too tired to study, and I still had to take a shower. I'm sure I failed that damn thing, and I'm sure that if it drops my grade, my mom is going to kill me" she said.

"Sucks for you" I heard Quil comment, uh-oh, I saw Aislinn turn to look at him, and faster than I could have stopped her, snatched the apple off Jasmine's tray, and chucked it at him. Now, Aislinn being the softball player she is has quite the arm, and her throws are pretty accurate, and I was expecting Quil to get hit square in the face. I was not expecting him to catch it. Aislinn's mouth was hanging unattractively open; I reached over and pushed it back up. "How did you do that?" Aislinn asked and Quil just shrugged and took a bite out of the apple.

"Hey, my apples gone!"

I looked over to see where Jasmine was staring down at her tray, just noticing the apples disappearance. "You're just noticing this?" Aislinn asked but Jasmine didn't look like she heard her, instead, she looked over to Quil who was still eating the apple, "Hey! You took my apple!" She said, "No, I didn't take it, Aislinn took it, I'm just eating it" he said. Jasmine turned to look at Aislinn who was currently stabbing her pizza with a fork, "Why'd you take my apple?" She asked. Aislinn looked up, "Does it matter?" She asked. "No, I wasn't going to eat it anyway" Jasmine said and Aislinn rolled her eyes, and continued stabbing her pizza.

"I'll be right back" Aislinn said suddenly, and beginning to get up, out of her chair. I looked up, "Where are you going?" I asked, "The bathroom" she said bluntly, and turned around to go to the bathroom, but instead rammed into somebody, and caused both of them to fall to the floor. I stood from my seat, and peered over the table, I saw Aislinn sprawled out on the floor, rubbing her head, "Shit that hurt" she mumbled. "You okay?" I asked Aislinn looked up to me, "What do you think?" She asked sarcastically as she got to her feet, and brushed herself off.

Aislinn reached out a hand to help the person off the floor, but just as quickly as the person took her hand, Aislinn let her hand go, and glared at her. I gave Aislinn a look, which she ignored. The person fell right back down on the floor, and looked up to glare at Aislinn. When she looked up, I saw why Aislinn didn't help her up, and I can't say I blame her. The person that Aislinn had collided with was none other than Annabelle Princeton; the preppy, head cheerleader (A/N: No offense to anyone out there who reads this story, and is a cheerleader), one of the main school sluts, and probably the number one person on Aislinn's list of people she hates.

Annabelle glared at Aislinn, who was unfazed, and simply returned her glare with, in my opinion, a much scarier glare. Aislinn's eyes which are normally a bright emerald green were hard, and like razors, Annabelle got to her feet, and brushed herself off, "Way to go Sparrow, you got dirt all over my clothes" Annabelle said in her annoying whiny voice. Aislinn raised an eyebrow at her, "Like I give a shit" Aislinn said plainly. Annabelle glared at her, "Watch it Sparrow, you don't want to mess with me" Annabelle said her eyes narrowed. Aislinn scoffed, "I'm so scared! What're you going to do? Last time we had this conversation, I believe it was you walking away with a busted lip, and broken nose" Aislinn retorted.

I remember that. It was three weeks before the end of our 8th Grade year, and Aislinn had gotten home late from a softball game, and was tired, and on her period so she was very crabby, and was very easy to irritate. It was about lunch time, and we were fixing to go to lunch, and I can't remember what Annabelle said to cause Aislinn to snap, but I do remember when Aislinn lunged at Annabelle, and punched her twice in the face, causing her nose to break, and bust her lip. Aislinn would have punched her again if it hadn't been for our math teacher pulling Aislinn off of her. It was really funny how everyone was giving Aislinn thumbs up, and when the teacher asked if someone would take Annabelle to the nurse, no one would take her willingly, the teacher had to force someone to.

Aislinn's been to the office several times, but in her defense, it has always been someone else that starts it, whether it's a jerk picking on somebody, or Annabelle annoying, and verbally throwing threats she'll never keep at her. Aislinn's been lucky to have principal's that know what a bitch Annabelle is, and know that she lies through her teeth every time she opens her mouth, and believe Aislinn when she tells them that Annabelle started it. "I'm not in the mood to deal with you today, so why don't you go to your fellow Oompa Loompa's" Aislinn said a bored expression on her face. Annabelle glared at her, "Are you going to leave or stare at me some more?" Aislinn asked.

Annabelle huffed, knowing that she probably wasn't going to win this round—like she's won any, and glared at Aislinn one last time, and turned around to leave. Aislinn rolled her eyes at her, and turned to head to the bathroom once again, when Annabelle stopped walking away, and turned back around, a smirk on her face. I suddenly got a sinking feeling in my stomach, "I forgot to tell you, Holden came over during the weekend, we had a great time, turns out that he's always liked me" she said. I felt my eyes widen, and I looked over to where Charlie sat, and I met her eyes. How did Annabelle know about Holden? We never told anybody. I quickly turned my attention to Aislinn who had stopped walking. "Aislinn…" I said as Aislinn turned around to face Annabelle who was smirking victoriously.

Aislinn looked at Annabelle, ignoring me, "Oh really? That's nice, but answer me this, did you understand why he gave you money afterwards? I don't think he was just giving you money to make sure he didn't lose it, I'm just saying" she said and turned on her heel, and walked off. I would have laughed at Annabelle's expression, if I wasn't worried about Aislinn at the moment. "Charlie, I think we better…" I trailed off and Charlie nodded getting out of her seat. I waited for Charlie to push her seat back in, and we took off to the bathrooms.

When we walked into the girl's bathroom, we found Aislinn washing her hands. I can't say I expected much else, I sure didn't expect Aislinn to be sitting on the floor crying her eyes out, if anything I might have expected her to be punching the wall. "You guys didn't have to follow me, I'm perfectly fine" Aislinn said rinsing all the soap off her hands. "We just wanted to make sure, that was a pretty low blow if you ask me" Charlie said. Aislinn turned off the water, and walked over to the paper towel dispenser, and began drying her hands. Aislinn shrugged, "I don't really care, I had a stupid little crush, it's not like I was madly in love with him, c'mon guys, I'm not going to get all upset over guy that's stupid enough to do anything with Annabelle" she said throwing the paper towels in the garbage.

"Still I'm sorry, if he's that stupid then he's not worth it" I said and Aislinn just shrugged, "I don't care. I'm hungry, let's go" Aislinn said, "Fatty" I taunted and Aislinn just laughed, "I know" she said. We walked out of the girl's bathroom, Charlie and I were a little behind Aislinn as we walked out. When Aislinn walked out of the bathroom, it all happened so fast. Annabelle had been waiting outside the bathroom, and as soon as Aislinn walked out, Annabelle smacked Aislinn right across the face. "You bitch!" Annabelle yelled. Aislinn reached up, and touched the red mark where Annabelle's hand had slapped her.

"Oh shit" I breathed, and I quickly grabbed one of Aislinn's arms, and Charlie grabbed the other. Aislinn began squirming against our hold, and I was pretty sure we weren't going to be able to hold her for long. "Let me go!" Aislinn yelled, "No! Do you want to go to the office again?" I asked struggling to keep my grip on her arm. "I don't care!" Aislinn yelled, "What about volleyball?" Charlie asked struggling to keep a hold on Aislinn's other arm. "So I'll sit out for a game, now let me go!" Aislinn yelled and roughly pulled her arms out of our holds. Annabelle's eyes widened and her smirk disappeared when Aislinn's fist connected with her face causing her to stumble backwards, and hit her back against a wall. Annabelle was clutching her nose, and Aislinn was about to punch her again when suddenly, Aislinn was lifted off the ground.

I looked up to see Paul holding Aislinn from around the waist, holding her just a few inches above the ground. He backed up a bit, and Aislinn squirmed in his arms, but he looked like she wasn't even putting up much of a fight. "Oh hey Paul, what brings you to this side of the school?" I asked, "I was taking some papers to a teacher, and I saw Aislinn deck someone so I thought I'd intervene" he answered. Aislinn had quite struggling by now, and simply crossed her arms over her chest.

"What happened?"

We looked up to see Jasmine, Collin, Seth, Brady, Jacob, Embry, and Quil—basically almost everyone from our table standing there looking at the scene. You had Annabelle leaning against the wall clutching her bleeding nose, Paul holding Aislinn who looked pissed, and then there was me and Charlie standing here on the sidelines. "Bitch got what was coming to her" Aislinn huffed "You can put me down now; I've got to head to the office anyway". Paul let Aislinn go, and watched her carefully as she walked away towards the office.

Seth walked over to me, "Are you okay?" He asked sounding concerned, I nodded my head, "Yeah, I'm fine; it's Annabelle that's going to be hurting. She got what she deserved though" I said."What'd she do?" He asked, "We were walking out of the bathroom and as soon as Aislinn walked out, Annabelle smacked her right across the face. Charlie and I tried to stop Aislinn, but she pulled away, and punched her. She would have punched her again if Paul hadn't stopped her" I said. "Will Aislinn get in trouble?" Embry asked standing with the others, I shook my head, "Probably not, Aislinn didn't lay a hand on Annabelle until she slapped her, she probably won't get to play a game or two, but other than that, no" I said. "Well this has been an eventful lunch" Jacob commented.

****Time Skip*****

Aislinn's POV:

I sighed and pushed open the gym doors, the cooler air rushing into the always hotter than the rest of the school gym. My legs were tired, sweat covered my face, my arms, my legs, and it caused the hairs to stick to the back of my neck. I felt gross, and wanted a shower. Coach was told about the whole Annabelle thing, and made me run for the first hour of practice, and then she made us scrimmage each other. The scrimmaging was fun, the running sucked, but it's not like I regret punching Annabelle, she asked for it when she slapped me. I reached up and touched my left cheek. No doubt I was going to have a bruise tomorrow.

"Hey, you're out, about time"

I looked over to see Story closing her Algebra book, and shoving it back in her backpack. "Hey, has Mom pulled up yet?" I asked walking over the bench she sat on, "No, I've been watching for her car, but it hasn't pulled up yet, has she sent you any texts about being late?" Story asked. I dropped my duffel bag, and pulled my backpack off my shoulders, and reached into a front pocket. I turned my phone on, and saw that I had no messages from anyone. I shook my head, and put my phone back, "Nope, I don't have any texts, she might be running late at the office" I said dropping my backpack by my duffel, and sitting down beside Story on the bench.

"What I wouldn't give to be able to drive" Story said leaning her head against the wall. "I've only got a year before I can start" I said smiling, Story looked over at me, and smacked me playfully in the arm, "Shut up" she said. "So I thought Jasmine was going to come over so we could help her with her Algebra" I said looking around for her. "She was, until Collin asked her if she wanted to go hang out after school" Story said, "Oh really now? Her mom's not going to be too happy to find out that instead of working to get her C in Algebra up, she went to go hang out with Collin. Not that Collin's a bad guy" I said. "I hope she at least remembers to call or text her mom and tell her that she's not going to be over at your house" Story said.

"Pfft, please, Jasmine's not going to remember, when we get home, we should probably call her mom and tell her" I said. "That's true; Jasmine can't even remember how old her sisters are" Story said, I just rolled my eyes, only Jasmine, even I remember how old Garrett is. "Mom called me the other day and told me that they're going to be gone a little while longer" Story said changing the subject, I looked over at her, "Dang, they've been gone for a long time now" I said pushing a sweaty strand of hair out of my face. "I know, pretty soon I'm going to have to go grocery shopping because we're running out of stuff" Story said. "I'll ask Mom to get you some groceries, just give her the emergency money your parents leave for you, and she'll go buy stuff" I said.

Story nodded her head, and then I saw her eyes widen. I gave her a questioning look, and she just pointed behind me. My face scrunched up in confusion, and turned around, and I felt myself want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly. There, standing on the far side of the room, was the Creeper. There's a reason we refer to him as the 'Creeper'. Let's just say we've only talked to him a total of maybe five times, and because of that, he thought we were suddenly his girlfriends, and well, to put it shortly, we've had several….run ins with him that were just…uncomfortable.

Like the time that Story rode the bus—before she started riding with me after practice—and he sat with her and forcefully held her hand, even though she told him to let go, and tried pulling her hand away. Or like the time where I came out of the girl's bathroom and he was standing outside of it, staring at me. Or the time where he tried to hug Story, or the many times where he would be standing outside the girl's bathroom whenever we went in. Then there was the time when we realized he had the same lunch period as us, and he moved to the table close by ours, he wouldn't talk with anyone at the table, he would just eat his lunch, and occasionally glance at us.

It got to the point where I couldn't take much more of it, and I told him to leave us alone, but he doesn't listen. I'm not sure how many times it's going to take for him to get the hint; I don't want to resort to punching him in the face just yet. We haven't had another run in for awhile now—until now. I turned back around, facing Story, "Great" I muttered, "He keeps staring at us" Story mumbled as she played with a zipper on her backpack. "He better not walk over here, I've already punched Annabelle today, I'll punch him too. Paul's not around to stop me now" I mumbled, "I know, but please try to not punch him" Story said giving me a look. I gave her a look, "Why not? If I do, he might leave us alone" I said.

"Shit" Story said glancing up, "What?" I asked hoping what I think she's going to say isn't what she's going to say. "He's walking over" She said. Well damn, she said what I hoped she wasn't going to. "Damn" I swore, I was not in the mood to deal with this, I was sweaty, tried, and just wanted a shower.

"Hey Astoria, Aislinn"

I saw Story look up at him, "Uh, hi" she said, I gave her a look that said 'don't talk to him! Ignore him!' but she didn't see it. I turned around and saw the Creeper looking at me expectantly, like I'm going to tell him anything other than to get lost or he's going to end up like Annabelle. "So what are you guys doing?" He asked, "Sitting" I replied bluntly, a harsh edge to my voice. "Mind if I sit with you?" He asked, "Yes" I said, and you know what he did? He ignored me and sat down beside me anyway. I opened my mouth to tell him to move it, when I felt him put his arm around me. "Listen here buddy! Remove your arm before I move it for you!" I said glaring at him.

He didn't move his arm, and I reached up, and grabbed his arm, and removed it from around my shoulders. You know what he did then? He grabbed my hand. I began pulling my hand back trying to get it away, and after many attempts I finally snatched it back, "Okay, we're leaving!" I said standing up, and going over to grab my backpack and duffel bag. Story grabbed her backpack and stood up, and we rushed out of the school doors. "Your mom's not here yet, where do we go?" Story asked, "Anywhere away from him" I said "Shit, he's coming outside!" I grabbed Story's hand, and pulled her behind a large bush. I peaked around the bush and saw as the Creeper stood there looking around before sitting himself on a bench outside.

"What are two doing?"

We turned around to see Seth and Brady looking down at us, Story's cheeks were bright red, and I gave her a curious look, until I saw what Seth and Brady were wearing—well, more like what they weren't wearing. Like the time I was standing outside the school the day of the sleepover, they only had on khaki shorts, but no tennis shoes this time, and no shirt.

"Astoria, Aislinn, are you guys over there?"

Shit.

Story and I quickly grabbed Seth and Brady's hands and pulled them down beside us behind the bush. I tried to ignore the fact that Brady was right beside me. I could feel the heat from his body; he was really close; our legs and my left arm, and his right arm were touching. Then I realized I was still holding his hand, which was really warm, and calloused—no! Bad Aislinn! Stop that!

I quickly let go of his hand, and busied myself by peaking around the bush again, still trying to ignore Brady who was really close beside me. Today's just not my day.

Astoria's POV:

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Breathe in.

Breathe Out.

I continued my little chant in my head. My cheeks felt really hot—damn my pale skin, and how easily I blush. Of course Seth and Brady would just have to show up and shirtless too. I wish I wouldn't blush so easily. Oh my God I'm still holding his hand! I felt my cheeks heat up even more, I looked down to our hands. My pale skin looked even whiter next to Seth's dark, perfect, russet colored skin. I noticed Seth looking at our hands as well, and I pulled my hand away, my cheeks burning, "Sorry" I mutter and look away.

"What are we doing?" I heard Brady ask, "We're hiding from the Creeper, now be quiet!" Aislinn answered. "Who?" Seth asked beside me, "I don't remember his name, I wasn't really paying attention, but we call him the Creeper because he…how should I put this?...annoys us, and kind of creeps us out" Aislinn said. "What does he do?" Seth asked a certain tone to his voice, "Let's see….stands outside the girl's bathroom if we're ever in it, holds our hand and won't let go, puts his arm around us, stares at us, you know" Aislinn said.

"What're you guys doing?"

"Shit" I heard Aislinn swear. We all turned around and saw the Creeper looking down at us. We stood up, and I could have laughed at the Creeper's face when Seth and Brady towered over him. "Astoria, Aislinn, we should go…" The Creeper said reaching a hand out towards us, Seth and Brady—well mostly Seth took a step in front of us, almost like shielding us from him. "I don't think the girl's want to go anywhere with you" Seth said towering over the Creeper.

The Creeper opened his mouth to say something when the sound of car horn interrupted him. We turned to see Aislinn's mom pulling up. "Oh hey, Mom's here, let's go" Aislinn said grabbing her stuff, and grabbing my hand, and leading me to the car. I climbed into the backseat, and Aislinn climbed into the front, when we were in the car, her mom began driving off. "So how was your day?" Mrs. Sparrow asked, "Oh it was fine" Aislinn answered nonchalantly, "Mmhm, so why'd I get a call from the school telling me that you punched Annabelle Princeton?" She asked. "She asked for it" Aislinn said crossing her arms over her chest, Mrs. Sparrow just shook her head, "What am I going to do with you?" She asked.

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So those were the 2 new characters. They won't be main characters, but you'll need to remember them for later chapters.

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