New girl
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Alex's phone was beeping. He rolled out of bed with his hair sticking up and sleepily walked across the room. He looked at his clock, 6 am. Who could have been texting him at this time of the morning, a time that all sane people were asleep. He was jolted awake when he saw who the text was from. It was her. He hadn't heard from her in over a year, why now?
Alex's answer came the next day while he was standing at the bus stop, chatting to Katie, and a sleek black car pulled up. A girl came out of it who Alex knew very well indeed.
"Hi Alex!" she called. Everyone turned to look at the boy as if to say "who is she?"
Robin was first to speak, "Hi, I'm Robin, what's your name?" then he turned and gave Alex a look that meant, "Katie won't be happy!"
Katie was still standing there while the girl and Robin talked. She discovered that her name was Sabina and she was an old friend of Alex's. She was joining Truro High School today and, surprisingly, was single. (The last question was from Carter, who seemed to have forgotten about everything else). Katie gave Alex evils and refused to sit with him on the bus like she normally did. Instead Sabina sat there and talked non-stop while Alex gazed sadly at Katie, who was sitting three rows in front with Issy.
"So, Alex, what's it like here?" Sabina asked cheerfully, presuming that he was just tired.
"Well, it's cool if you know what's happening with everyone," he said with as much happiness as he could muster.
"So basically I'm going to need someone to help me find out what's going on," she said, "would you do it?"
"Well……I'm not sure how much we'll be together…." He trailed off, still staring at Katie, silently willing her to forgive him.
"Come on! It'll be just like old times!" she said.
"Ok then," Alex conceded.
"Well, come on, I bet you've got a really pretty girlfriend haven't you!" she smiled happily, "Is it her?" she pointed at Julia. Alex shook his head. "I know! It's that girl there!" she cried, pointing at Jessie.
"Ewwwwww! No!" shouted Alex, a little too loudly, Jessie turned round to see what the commotion was. Alex and Sabina just smiled sweetly. After five more minutes Alex decided that it was probably best just to tell her, he pointed out Katie but was slightly shocked by Sabina's harsh reply.
"HER!" she whispered, "OH MY GOD! Why would you want to go out with her!"
"What's wrong with her?" asked Alex defensively.
"She's so short, she's spent the whole journey giving me evils and she has obviously got something going on with that girl next to her!"
"That's not fair!" he said firmly, "she's grown loads recently, she's only giving you evils because it looks like we are dating and for your information that girl is called Issy and she has a boyfriend already!"
With that he got up, walked as quickly as possible (which is hard on a bus) over to Katie, held the small girl in his strong arms and kissed her passionately, much to the surprise of Issy, who decided that this was her cue to move seats to next to Sabina.
"So," Issy said brightly, "What's the story with you and Alex? How do you know him?"
"Well, I met him when I lived near him but he moved here about 3 years ago,"
"Oh yeah! I remember his first day! He had really short hair then and we all thought he looked funny!" laughed Issy, remembering.
"Anyway," Sabina smiled, "It's kind of embarrassing but I used to date him when we were in year 7,"
Issy laughed at this. Alex had joined at the start of year eight and everyone thought he was so immature, after that first Christmas though he became a total hottie and all the girls fancied him. "So, what happened?" she asked, wondering what else Alex hadn't told anyone, she knew that Katie believed that he had only ever had a few girlfriends and none before Truro High.
"Well basically Alex and I decided that as he was moving it would be best if we broke up," she said quietly.
"But you still like him right?" asked Issy softly, guessing what the girl was going to say.
A single tear trickled down the girl's cheek. She hadn't wanted anyone to know, especially not Alex.
"Please don't tell anyone!" she begged.
"It's ok, you're secret's safe with me," promised Issy.
"Yeah, when I heard that I was moving round here I begged to go to Truro High, just because he would be there, and I didn't think about him having a girlfriend…." She trailed off.
"That's funny! The rest of us are begging to get away from it!" joked Issy. This caused Sabina to laugh a bit.
The two girls saw Alex coming back over to pick up his bag, holding hands with Katie.
"Hey guys!" he said cheerfully, "I see you're making friends Sabina."
Issy was proud of Sabina. She managed to nod and watch Alex give his girlfriend one last kiss before getting off the bus with tears in her eyes. Issy watched the sad girl go; glad it wasn't her causing this upset. She hadn't had any messages since last week but what was that? She saw the familiar square of paper in her bag. This one was shorter:
Meet me behind the Language block at 1pm, I love you.