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Shy

Chapter 10

Jealousy

"My girlfriend?" Nick asked and I nodded. "What about her?" I looked past Nick and saw Marissa approaching us, a furious expression playing on her flawless face. Nick turned to where I was looking and saw Marissa standing there.

"I should go." I mumbled quietly and turned to walk away. Nick grabbed my arm and I turned back to him. "What are you doing?" I asked.

"You don't have anything to worry about anymore." He told me.

"What do you mean?" I asked quietly.

"She isn't my girlfriend anymore." He said and my eyes flickered back to Marissa. She was glaring at us, glaring at me.

"She looks like she wants to bite my head off." I said so quietly I wasn't sure if he heard me or not0.

"Don't worry about her. She won't do anything." He told me, but I could tell that he was unsure with what he just said. The bell rang and Jenn walked over to us, eyeing Nick's hand that was still on my arm. "Hey Jenn change of plans." Nick said.

"What change of plans…?" Jenn asked slowly.

"Miley wants to have the skit practice at our house." He said and I turned to him, giving him a look.

"You do?" Jenn asked me and I nodded slowly playing along with whatever Nick was doing. "If that's what you want." She muttered and turned away to walk to her class.

"What was that about? She's mad at me now." I asked him as he let go of my arm and we started walking to Spanish.

"I knew she wouldn't say no if you suggested that." He said with a smirk.

"But I didn't." I told him.

"You're not good with this going along thing, are you?" He chuckled and I pushed his arm lightly.

"Maybe if someone told me about it beforehand." I said and he turned away, chuckling lightly. We reached the Spanish class and saw everyone standing impatiently outside the door. "Does she do this often?" I asked.

"Who? The teacher? Yeah, she does. We should be used to the routine by now, but I guess some people aren't. Like my buddy Adrian over there." He pointed to a big buff guy that looked like he was about to punch a hole in the wall.

"He looks like he wants to punch a hole in the wall." Nick laughed, "At least I know that I shouldn't be in his way when he's mad." I said and Nick laughed again and soon I was laughing a long with him.

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A few moments later, the teacher still hadn't shown up. "Want to play 20 questions?" He asked abruptly after a moment of silence between us. I nodded sleepily, feeling kind of stupid for almost falling asleep waiting for the teacher. "You want to ask the first question or do you want me to?" He asked and I pointed to him. "That tired, huh?" He chuckled.

"Yes! Oh my god, where's the freaking teacher?" I asked and he laughed.

"Favorite color?"

"Pink." I replied and saw a shocked look appear on his face. "Why do you look so shocked?" I asked.

"You don't look like someone who likes pink." He answered.

"I know. I've been told that a lot, but if you saw my room. You would probably think its some 5th grader's room." I laughed. I can't believe I told him that. I mentally scolded myself.

He laughed, "Its okay."

"What about you?"

"Red." He replied.

"I noticed." I laughed, pointing down to his red converses.

"I need to go get some green ones. Looks like you're a fan of converses too." He said, kicking my foot lightly.

"Oh, you don't even know." I laughed. "I think I have all the colors except green." I said, thinking about it.

"We can go shopping for green converses together." We laughed.

"Hey Nick." I looked up, surprised to see Marissa standing there with the fakest smile that I had ever seen.

"Uhm, hey." He muttered. "What's up?" He asked with no amusement present in his voice.

"Can we talk?" She asked. I could tell I was not wanted there right now. I started to get up, but Nick grabbed my hand and I looked at him. He looked up at me and I could see that he didn't want me to leave. Marissa glanced down at our hands and looked up at me. I quickly looked down, trying to avoid seeing her glaring eyes. I sat back down quietly listening to their conversation.

"What do you want? I thought you said everything you had to say at lunch." Nick said in a quiet tone.

"What does she have that I don't?" Marissa asked, hurt evident in her voice. He likes someone else? I thought, getting a little disappointed. I looked back at them and saw that Marissa was in tears. Wait, I was the other girl?! I asked myself in disbelief.

"Marissa, please don't cry." Nick sighed.

"I can't help it. I just don't get what happened. I thought you loved me." Marissa answered her voice cracking as she said each word.

"Can we please not do this here?" Nick asked her softly and Marissa shook her head.

"No. I want to know the reason right now." She said, looking over at me with her tear-filled eyes. "Just tell me why Nick." She said, looking back at him. I felt extremely awkward sitting there. I had no business to be there listening to their conversation.

"Uhm, I'm going to get a drink of water." I said, getting up.

"Miley—" Nick started.

"Let her go. We need to talk." I heard Marissa say. I quickly walked towards the water fountain, afraid to look back at Nick and Marissa. I took a drink, but quickly spit the water back out.

"Ew." I said out loud. The water didn't taste like water at all. I thought about going back, but changed my mind and decided to wander around the school for a while. After 20 minutes of walking, I decided to walk back. When I arrived at the classroom, I didn't see anyone. Shit. I didn't see my backpack where I had left it; I quickly entered the classroom, all eyes on me as I reached the teacher's desk. "I'm so sorry that I'm la—"

"Nick said you went to the bathroom." She interrupted me. "Just take a seat." She told me. I nodded and turned around. Everyone was back in their little conversations. I saw Nick sitting in the corner of the class with Marissa. They were… kissing? I looked away sadly and took a seat in the nearest desk by me.

"You're new here right?" I heard someone ask me and I looked over at them.

"Yeah. I moved here a few days ago." I answered and he nodded.

"Hey, I'm Adrian. The guy you thought wanted to punch a hole in the wall." He put his hand out and smiled.

I blushed, "Nice to meet you." I said quietly shaking his hand. "I'm Miley."

"Don't worry. I'm not as mean as I look. I don't get why people just say that. They don't know how much that hurts me inside." He laughed, causing me to laugh as well. Adrian was pretty funny. "So, did you move here because you hated your last school or…" He asked.

"My mom transferred jobs... again." I answered.

"That must suck ass. Always moving around like that." He said and I nodded.

"Yeah it does." I answered truthfully. "But, I think I'll like it here." I smiled, "The people here are really nice and friendly. And one of them is extremely funny." I nudged him.

"Gee, I wonder who you're talking about." He laughed, causing me to giggle. He smiled and I could already feel a really good friendship forming.

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"I'll see you tomorrow." Adrian said, giving me a quick one arm hug.

"Bye." I smiled. He walked away and I turned to find Nick, accidentally running into him. "Okay, I really need to stop that." I laughed.

"Why were you talking to Adrian?" Nick asked as we started walking toward the loading buses, no humor showing in his voice.

"Oh, he was just being nice. We became friends." I smiled and Nick looked away from me.

"Be careful." He mumbled.

"What does that mean?" I asked and he looked back at me.

"It means that you should be careful." He said in a serious tone. "He's not as nice as he seems. He's hurt a lot of girls." Nick answered.

"Nick, I just said we became friends. It's not like we're going to start dating or something." I told him. I saw him wince a little at the term I used.

"I'm just saying." He replied.

"It's not like you're jealous or something." I mumbled.

"What?" He asked, turning his attention to me.

"I said it's not like you're jealous. You're back with Marissa." I said.

"Who said that?" He asked and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not blind you know. I saw you two kissing in the corner of the room." I answered.

"You saw that?" He asked and I nodded, trying to conceal the hurt that I was feeling.

a/n: Okay, so I somewhat got my inspiration back, but it's kind of weak xD lmao. Here's what I'll do. I have ideas I just don't know how to corporate it into a chapter. If you want, I'll just update frequently it's just that the chapters will be shorter. Like way shorter than this one. Is that okay? In the next few chapters I'll be playing around with a lot of characters, so I hope you didn't forget about Meg or Joe because they're going to play a key role in future chaps. Review.