The boy Kim met online

Friday night. 9:30 pm.

crawfordxox16: how do these things work? ;z
hater21: you have to talk dirty to me
the_ry_guy: Its a chat room crawfordxox16 .. you chat. ;)
crawfordxox16: well no duh. I knew that the_ry_guy
the_ry_guy: just letting you know ;)
DoubleD_Donna: hater21 PM me i'll talk to you ;)
hater21: ?
DoubleD_Donna: Private message me silly! ;)
hater21: o_o sweet!

-hater21 has left the chat room-
-DoubleD_Donna has left the chat room-

crawfordxox16: guess its just us 2 :)
the_ry_guy: yeah, I guess so :)
crawfordxox16: I c that ur interests are seaford. U live there ?
the_ry_guy: yeah, u?
crawfordxox16: Seaford highs one and only cheer captain of Freshman year :)
the_ry_guy: Kim Crawford ;o
crawfordxox16: yup!
the_ry_guy: it's Ryan Marcus, from homeroom! And the quarterback ;)
crawfordxox16: cool! we shuld hang sum time :)
the_ry_guy: Sure, but aren't u going out with Jack?
crawfordxox16: no, we're just friends.
the_ry_guy: perfect ;)

the conversation went on for hours over private messaging and Facebook.

*-*Kim*-*

When I walked into school on that Tuesday I had an instant smile on my face that everyone seemed to notice. Me and Ryan had been up all night talking about our crazy homeroom teacher, Mrs. Jefferson and how all the girls wanted to wear turtlenecks around our rapist gym teacher, Mr. Wilson. It was usually me and Jack's topic's but Ryan had more to say about Mr. Wilson than Jack ever did because his sister was afraid of him too. Me and Ryan had so much more in common than me and Jack did. Ryan had a older and younger sister, Like me. Jack was an only child. Ryan didn't care about watching lame chick flicks like 'Dear John' as we did on Sunday night. But, Jack wouldn't be caught dead. I knew that everyone was going to be watching me. The way I had a skip to my hop and a hop to my step. When I went to my locker a usual voice welcomed me. It was Jack.
"Hey Kim, why are you so happy today?" He laughed.
"I just met the greatest guy on Friday night!"
"I thought you didn't go to Stacy's party?"
"I didn't I was online chatting on this cool website called 'Chat Free' and -"
"Wait, isn't that like REALLY dangerous?" Jack asked me sounding really worried about me.
"Well.. I mean it's not like I was going to meet up with a creepy guy named like 'sextme69' It was harmless."
"So did you meet up with this guy?"
"This guy, is Ryan from the football team, and he's great."
"Kim, you talked to him what once?"
"Actually you know how you blew me off Sunday, to hang with the guys, he came over and we watched 'Dear John' so I know a lot more about him than you think."
"I am just sayin-"
"Well don't. I actually like him ok? he is the only guy that will happily watch a Nicolas Sparks related movie with me, and actually listen to my rants about Mr. Wilson, and he is the only guy who EVER showed he actually cared about me and let me know that I am beautiful. He never told me to try and pretend to be an attractive girl, AND you know what? I he understands me , more than you ever even tried too" I spat, slamming my locker door in Jack's face and ran off to cheer practice where I also saw Donna Tobin, or DoubleD_Donna shall we call her. :) When I walked in the gym fell silent and everyone looked at me waiting for demands as they did every practice. I went to the stereo and plugged in my iPhone and started to play my workout music. I walked in front of the group of girls waiting for me and clapped my hands together.
"OK ladies, it's time to stretch and do some laps. Lets start with some lunges and go from there." I yelled so everyone in the group could hear me speaking, I heard a groan or two and sighed. "If you guys wanna complain, then why the hell would you waste yours and mine time." I called out and watched everyone start their lunges towards the basketball nets and the stage. As I watched everyone. I started some stretches of my own. I bent down and touched my toes for a few seconds then sat down and touched my nose to my knee and held it for at least a minute before I felt to soft hands grip around my eyes. I sighed with a giggle and stood up as the hands went away. Ryan.
"Hey." I said hugging him. Oh and did I mention, we might have made out on Monday night.
"Hey beautiful. What are you up too?"
"Running practice, you know, the usual." I smiled and got closer to him and put my hands on his chest.
"So, look. I was wondering if you wanted to come over tonight. I think my parents should meet my girlfriend." He smirked.
"Girlfriend?"
"Yeah. You ok with that?"
"Totally." I said leaning in and kissing his moist lips. When we pulled away I gave a smile. "I gotta go to run practice, bye" I jumped on my tiptoes and kissed his cheek and then pranced off to the other girls and started calling out what routine we had to start working on as Ryan went off to the field for football.

Next period was math and I had that with the man himself, Jack. But just for my luck I also had it with Ryan, so I could actually show him that me and Ryan actually do know each other and like each other. I just wanted him to know that it wasn't just some 'thing' that I usually had with guys. This was different. He was different. As I walked into Mrs. Little-Carters class and then clutched to my binder and then smiled as I noticed that Ryan was already settled at a table in the back, I walked over to him and sat down setting my binder down too.
"Hey" I smiled.
"Hey" He leaned in to kiss me-
"Mr. Wilson! Mrs. Crawford! PDA will not be accepted in this classroom." Mrs. Little-Carters said out loud as we jumped away from each other. I then soon noticed the girl that usually sat by Ryan was in my seat next to Jack. Her name was Amber. When Mrs. L notices this she then yelled out at us to get back to our seats and we did as we were told and I sat down by Jack with a huff. We sat in silence as the teacher explained to us what page we had to work on and what we had to do. As she finished explaining to us she clapped her hands and told us to work with the person next to us as a partners activity.
"I think 1 A is 23." I said plainly and then started doing B.
"Kim.."
"Do you disagree?" I asked avoiding the conversation he obviously wanted to have.
"No, I meant to say.. Like Kim I'm really sorry for upsetting you, and bailing on you." He said.
"B is (-120)" I said again ignoring him, he sighed and then just went along with it and starting to do his work and we shared some answers and then we were dismissed to go on our free. I got up quickly and waited outside for Ryan. As I did I noticed that him and Amber were deep in conversation. A
"So, I'll call you tonight then?" Amber asked him, WHAT? SHE DID NOT JUST TELL MY BOYFRIEND SHE WOULD CALL HIM!
"Yeah, sure. So we'll go see Iron Man 3 right?"
"Yup! Bye Ryan!" She 'slutted' off with that skanky walk of hers and then I just stared at Ryan. Scoffed and walked away. As I did this he ran after me
"Kim! You didn't want to see the damn movie! ok?"
"What about dinner with your mom and dad? or was that some lie that you came up with to get in my pants?" I demanded to know. Everyone thought that I was just some slut that had sex with all of her boyfriends before they were even fully official. He didn't say anything to me. "Yeah, that's what I thought. We're over Ryan" I yelled with tears filling up my eyes and I ran off to shove my head in my locker.

Jack

I was on my way to history when I heard something that sounded like crying. I wasn't sure where it was coming from, or from who, but whoever it was I was close to them. When I saw a body of someone familiar with their head sticking in their locker and crying, as I walked up to the body I realized who it was.
"Kim.. you ok?" I asked even though I already knew the answer. She turned around and wiped her eyes.
"Uh, yeah.." She sniffed. I looked at her with eyes of despair and sighed, she knew that I was absolutely sure she had been lying to me. But she still tried to hide it.

"Kim." I said her name as i took a step closer to her. She stared at her feet to avoid my gaze.
"Jack. I said I'm fine. And I am, really." She sniffled one more time.
"The hell you are Kim, I know you. Now, whats wrong" I said softly. She then stopped and started to dry-heave then fell into full tears, wrapping her arms around me tightly. I didn't say anything to her until she let go of me and wiped her eyes.
"Ryan.. He um.. he only wanted to so-called date me to..um.. to have sex with me" She sputtered out.

Kim

After I explained to Jack what had happened with me and Ryan he took no time to react to it. He instantly stormed off looking for Ryan. I wanted him to feel pain, sure. But I was pretty sure that Jack was actually ready to kill him. As he looked around our school I was calling his name, begging for him to come back but he didn't stop. He just kept roaming through the halls, angrily.
"Jack!" I yelled as he spotted Ryan and basically charged at him.
"Hey!" He screamed at him. Jack walked up to Ryan and punched him square in the face.
"What the hell!" Ryan yelled as an reaction. Jack then ignored him and just walked away, I couldn't believe my eyes. I didn't want too. Jack just beat up a guy.. for me Jack passed by me without a word to me. As he walked by I said his name in a soft whisper. But he continued to walk away.
"Jack! C'mon wait up!" I said slowly jogging up with him. He turned around
"What the hell was that?" I demanded.
"What do you mean?" He asked me acting as if the punch to the face never happened.
"Jack don't you dare play dumb."
"he's a asshole, he had it coming to him."
"But it's the reason you did it."
"What do you mean?"
"You-You did it for me right?"
"I guess a little bit yeah. Sure."
"Well. Thank you." I said kissing his cheek and skipping off. I was hoping that this would be the start of something.. Great.