A/n: Hey guys..see I told you I would post the next day and I did, if you're seeing this chapter make sure you read the one before it because I posted them really close together. Anyway continue to review so I can keep working on ideas and I read your ideas for Sasha and I will incorporate them. Anyway read and enjoy.
Chapter 22
The next day Charlotte slowly peeled herself off her bed confused as to where she was as there was a loud pounding on her door, "Charlotte are you awake? Come on we have to get ready!"
Charlotte looked around her head killing her and her mouth feeling dry as she tried to remember last night. She was in her room still and the last thing she remembered was feeling stressed as she was studying before she dumped out her backpack and found that baggie. Charlotte shot up from the bed, a little too fast as she dug into the pockets and pulled out the baggie which now had 1 and a half pills in it. Charlotte looked around slightly ashamed as she remembered sitting on her bed contemplating the decision to take it or not. She had said she wouldn't but thoughts of Roman and how free she felt when they had taken the pills together led her to taking the drugs last night.
"Charlotte wake up!" the door knob began to turn and Charlotte quickly pocketed the drugs before Sasha came bursting into the room yelling for her to come on, "Dude what are you doing..come on we have to get ready"
"Sasha please stop yelling" Becky grumbled as she walked past, heading to the bathroom still dressed in her pajamas
Charlotte went to say something but her mouth was so a dry, a side effect she remembered from the drugs so the oldest just ignored her younger sister and began picking out her clothes from her closet.
"Whatever" Sasha mumbled before storming out of the room leaving Charlotte alone with her thoughts.
She remembered her mother coming in last night, had she found out about Charlotte using? No. No she couldn't have, there's no way Charlotte would even be standing here today if she had. So that means….she got away with it right? She had taken the pills and nobody knew? Charlotte smiled a spark of rebellion that she had felt when she, Roman, Sasha and Seth had run from the cops, came back, tingling at the back of Charlotte's gut.
Charlotte slowly got ready, pulling on a rare black T-shirt and a random pair of jeans before going to the bathroom, brushing her teeth beside Becky in the mirror who seemed too distracted with her own thoughts to notice Charlotte's mischievous smile. Once Charlotte was done she headed downstairs and quickly grabbed a bottle of water to help with her dry mouth. Hunter was already downstairs making coffee with his back to her when she finished the bottle of water and immediately went to grab another one.
Soon Sasha and Becky were downstairs, Sasha was wear a blue jean jacket over a black crop top and a pair of black jeans while Becky was in blue, clippers jersey with a snapback on her head and a pair of black leggings.
"Why are you wearing that jersey?" Sasha asked Becky as they entered
"What's wrong with it?"
"You don't watch sports...you don't even know who the clippers are"
"So..Dean got it for me and I told him i would wear it sometimes" Becky said looking down at the jersey before she took a seat at the island
"Good morning girls did you all sleep well?" Stephanie asked as she entered the kitchen taking the cup of coffee that Hunter had made for himself
"It's hard to sleep with Sasha snoring like a horse" Becky grumbled causing Sasha to push her off her chair, causing her to fall on her butt "Ow"
"I don't snore"
"Yes you do" the whole family said causing Sasha to roll her eyes and exit the kitchen while Becky slowly got back onto the bar stool and placed her head down
"Can I suggest something" she said
"Go ahead" Hunter responded as she picked her head up to look at them
"Can Sasha sleep downstairs...or outside?"
Hunter laughed but Stephanie elbowed him causing him to stop before she walked over to the red head and placed a hand on her back, "I thought the headphones were working for you."
"They would be a lot better if there was actual music to listen to through them instead of Sasha's snoring. I mean my phone was taken but I didn't even leave the house"
"You just had a boy, scratch that, three boys in your room after curfew which is against our house rules" Hunter said ending the conversation
Ten minutes later the girls were ready and Hunter drove them to school while Stephanie stayed back to take Bayley later so she wouldn't miss another day. Once they had arrived Sasha immediately walked off to go find Seth while Becky stood beside Charlotte for a minute or two longer as she thought, "What's up Bexs?"
"N-nothing"
"Really because you're still standing here and you seem nervous"
"I...I'm not...okay fine..I'm a little nervous. I have to talk to someone today..someone that I'm really nervous to talk to"
Charlotte thought for a second before asking with a raised eyebrow, "What..are you trying to ask Dean out or something?"
Becky looked up at her oldest sister confused, "What? No. It's not Dean"
"Oh"
"Why would you think that?"
"Well you two have always been close I just thought….never mind, who are you so nervous to talk to then?"
"This kid in my grade...Finn. I have to talk to him about some stuff and I'm really nervous about how he'll act" Becky said seriously as she tugged on her backpack straps awkwardly
"Why..what stuff?" Charlotte asked
"We have history and he can be really mean sometimes"
"Is he mean to you?"
"No..not to me..but he was mean to Dean" Becky said with a shrug, "I talked to mom and she said to talk to Finn but I don't want him to say something to Dean and then I have to choose between them"
"Really? I would think i would be a no brainer...Dean, he's been by your side since we were kids and he really cares about you. He has his flaws but i wouldn't trade him for some jerk"
Becky nodded and scratched the back of her head, "Yeah but I..I know that Finn can be a good guy...I don't know what to do"
Charlotte gave her little sister a sad smile before placing a hand on her shoulder, "For now just talk to him and then see where you go from there"
Becky nodded, "Yeah..yeah thanks"
With that Becky headed off while Charlotte then too left going to find Roman. She wanted to tell him about what she had done last night and if she had to admit it, she really wanted to see Roman's face. Her crush on him only intensified when she got high not only with him but also last night when she was high by herself. Her mind had been wrapped with feelings and ideas of colors and pictures of the one and only Roman Reigns.
After a few minutes she found the tall Samoan boy on the abandon football field bleachers looking off into the distance. There was nobody else out there and there were no cameras so a lot of kids came out here to skip of smoke which is what Roman seemed to be doing as he took a hit from his blunt, "Hey"
"Sup princess" He said nonchalantly while Charlotte took in how natural the boy looked right now. He wore a simple grey hoodie and jeans with his long hair back in a man bun and a lazy smile plastered on his face as the blunt hung loosely in his hand, "You're in a good mood for only the second day of school"
Charlotte sat beside him and smiled before waving the baggie of drugs slightly in victory, "Yeah probably the best mood I've been in in a while"
"Well shit...I didn't think you were actually going to use them" roman said taking notice of how one of the pills were cut, "How was it?"
"Fucking amazing" Charlotte said with a happy sigh thinking back on the amazing feelings that she had experienced, "And the best thing is…..I didn't get caught"
"You did it at your house? With your parents home" Charlotte nodded excitedly causing Roman to laugh shaking his head with a smile, "Damn...you're crazy Helmsley"
"I'll show you crazy" Charlotte said suddenly feeling rebellious. She grabbed the blunt from the boy's hand and took a long hit holding in the smoke for a while before releasing it causing Roman to look at her surprised as she stood up on the bleachers and looked out. The football field was at the back of the school behind buildings that were barely used for anything other than special ed classes and storage and it was still early as kids slowly filled into the school waiting for the first class to start so Charlotte smiled and screamed at the top of her lungs, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"
Hunter laughed with wide eyes before pulling her back down on to the bleachers as she took another hit, "What the hell?"
Charlotte smiled letting out a breath of air as she felt a rush of energy and adrenaline flow through her. This is what being free felt like, no standards, no rules, no need to be perfect, This is what not giving a shit felt like. Charlotte smiled and looked at Roman who was still laughing at her. This felt good.
"You are crazy" Roman laughed
"Oh you have no idea" Charlotte laughed
"I like you Helmsley", Roman gave a smile that made Charlotte blush as she felt her heart spark at the thought of Roman. They were becoming close and she knew that this was her chance to make any sort of move in order to start a friendship with him and maybe turn it into something more later on, "You're not as bad as everyone else thinks...you're actually pretty cool..and well just pretty in general"
"You think I'm pretty?" roman nodded before relighting his blunt and taking another hit
"Yeah..you're pretty...and you're fun especially when you're high...so we'll have to hang out sometime. I got a game next friday. Maybe afterwards we can hang out"
"Yeah...yeah sure" Charlotte said not even thinking about her being grounded,she was too caught up in the idea of hanging out with her crush again
Roman smiled and finished his blunt before standing and helping Charlotte up as the warning bell rang for first period to start, "Well...i'll see you later Helmsley"
Charlotte said a goodbye as she stood on the bleachers watching Roman leave and head to class.
"This year's going to be fun" She mumbled with a relaxed smile
With Sasha
Sasha, had been on the other side of the campus before the bell rang, sitting on Seth's lap on one of the tables in the quad with the rest of the football players. They were talking about their first game that was next friday against some school that Sasha didn't care about, she didn't really care about football at all but she loved the way Seth looked in his uniform. He was the only freshman picked to play for the varsity football team and that was a huge accomplishment, or so Seth told her.
"So babe...you coming to our first game?" Seth asked as Sasha traced her hand along the bucket of the belt he wore
'Of course" Sasha said without hesitation. Not worried about her grounding, there was no way she was going to miss the first football game of the year, Tamina and Naomi would annoy the crap out of her if she didn't, besides if Seth won they would definitely be spending some quality time together. So all she had to do was convince her parents to let her and her siblings off of punishment, it's not like grounded for life really meant grounded for life, "We'll have to celebrate after you win"
The rest of the guys around them all began to 'oooo' at this while Seth turned red causing a couple guys to punch him in the arm before the bell rang causing them to slowly head off to first period while Sasha refused to budge from her spot on Seth, "Come on babe we gotta get to class"
"I don't wanna" She pouted before kissing him,"I wanna stay here"
"In the middle of school?"
"With you" She said simply causing Seth to smile before kissing her and then lifting her so they could stand up
"I know but we gotta go, if I don't go to all of my classes my coach won't let me play the first game" Seth said as he picked up his backpack and straightened his white polo shirt before taking Sasha's hand and walking off to class
"I thought you wouldn't have to go to class like those jocks in the movies...their coaches let them slide because they're-"
"They're the star quarterback or the best player on the team...I am a freshman linebacker..i'm not that special"
"Yet"
Seth gave a grateful smile, "Yet yes...but it's only the second day anyway, maybe later on in the year we can cut some more..but...we won't be doing anything if you're still grounded"
"Don't worry, I already have a plan..I just need my sisters"
"What do you have in mind?"
"It's a surprise"
"Well let's just say if it works, you can bet that we'll be spending a lot of quality time together this year"
"Oooo..that makes this year much more interesting now doesn't it" Sasha said seductively, turning so she was walking backwards pulling his shirt forward so they were leaning against each other as they walked, "I have such satisfactory plans for you too"
Seth smiled and placed a kiss on her lips before turning her so they walked normally into their first class together, "You're crazy you know that right?"
"Yeah but you love me"
Sasha's first block class went off without a hitch as she spent the time planning on how to get off punishment. She knew that her sisters would want the same and would go along with her plan no matter what as long as she got them free. Sasha eagerly said a parting goodbye to Seth as she headed to her second block with she had with Becky and that annoying boy Sami who followed Becky around like a lost puppy. She would hopefully get the chance to talk through her ideas with her younger sister.
"Hey Bex...glad I caught up with you" Sasha called out as she saw her sister entering her class with Sami right beside her
"You are? Why?"
"I need to be ungrounded by the first football game and I have some ideas"
Becky raised an eyebrow at her before rolling her eyes and taking a seat at one of the desks in the back, "Sasha..no offense but your plans never end well…"
"hey my plans are great"
"name one of your plans that didnt result in us getting in trouble" Sasha thought for a second, opening her mouth to say something before closing it, "exactly"
"look his one is different...we dont have to do anything but be on our best behaviors. You know butter them up I suggest us appealing to mom. Dad seemed real serious about Seth and Dean being in our room"
"Appeal to mom..yeah right." Becky said with a sarcastic laugh as their teacher Mr. Rock started class
"Look...just hear me out ok...just try not to get into anymore trouble" Sasha whispered, "and then let me do all the work"
"fine whatever"
"what's your problem?" Sasha whispered noticing her sister bad attitude
"nothing ok…"
Sami leaned over from his desk from the other side of Becky and said, "She's nervous about talking to that Balor kid"
"shut up Sami"
"Balor..Finn Balor .ugh that kid is a jerk...why do you want to talk to him?" Sasha asked as she rolled her eyes
"None of your business ok..just drop it"
The three sat in their row silently listening to Mr. rock talk about what he was going to be teaching throughout the year. However this silence didn't last long as Sami leaned over and whispered, "apparently Bexs knew Finn back in Ireland and they have some long backstory..some real Batman Joker type stuff...but in this the joker's the rich one"
"Sami shut up" Becky groaned before punching him in his arm
"Wait you knew mr. money bags? Wait..is he the guy from that story you told me when you first moved here? The one you tried to come to America for?" Sasha asked with wide eyes
"You came to America for him?" Sami asked rubbing his arm in pain
"Yes"
"Why he's a jerk?"
"He wasn't when I knew him" Becky said simply
"Excuse me? Would you three like to tell the class what you're talking about?" mr. Rock said causing everyone to look back at them
Becky opened her mouth to say something but sasha quickly cut her off, "No sir...we were just talking about how excited we were about your class..sir"
Becky and Sami eyed Sasha suspiciously as Mr. rock thought over her comment with a raised eyebrow before nodding and continuing with his speech. Once he was no longer focused on the class and began writing on the board Sami leaned over Becky again and whispered to Sasha,"What was that?"
"We have to lay low...no getting in trouble" Sasha said seriously before eyeing Becky, "Right Becky?"
"Yeah sure"
With Becky
By the time it was lunch Becky was a lot less nervous. She had been worried the whole day about talking to Finn but after awhile she was no longer nervous, she was annoyed. She had wanted to talk to the boy the whole day and he had been avoiding her. So when Becky saw him sitting at the lunch table alone she made a Beeline straight for him but was stopped a few tables away by Paige who stood in front of her in her usual all black, gothic attire.
"What are you doing?"
"Going to talk to Finn"
"Mr. Fancy pants..Bex I lov ya but he doesn' wanna be bothered by people like us" Paige said as Dean joined the two, eating a burrito
"I'm just going to talk to him"
"Talk to who?" Dean asked with a mouth full of food
"Why..you have us. You don't need to bothered by the guy who thinks he's too good for everyone" Paige said before she looked in his direction as he stared in disgust at the cafeteria food in front of him and picked apart half of the burrito, "I mean he won't even let anyone sit with him anyway"
"What kind of guy destroys a perfectly good burrito" Dean said staring at Finn while Becky and Paige looked at him with raised eyebrows, gaining his attention, "What?"
"Dean shut up" Paige said before looking back at Becky, "listen pumpkin..Finn is not a good guy"
"You don't know him like I do" Becky said seriously causing Dean and Paige to look at each other with unsure looks, "Just let me talk to him for a little bit"
"Okay then we'll-" Dean started but Becky cut him off
"Without you guys"
"W-without us..now Becky if I didn't know any better I would think that you were ashamed of us" Dean said before taking another bite of his burrito causing the other end to open and drop sauce onto his black leather jacket. He simply shrugged and lifted the jacket to his mouth before he licked the sauce off
"Yes Dean. Why would she ever be ashamed of you" Paige said sarcastically before Becky said a quick goodbye before heading over to Finn, feeling as if the entire was watching her as it seemed to quiet down a little
"Hello Fergal" Becky said causing Finn to look up at her as she took the seat in front of him
"That's not my name"
"It used to be…" He didn't respond simply looking at his feet
Becky didn't say anything else for a while, simply enjoying her old friend's company. The two would always eat together when they were back at the foster home. Sometimes Becky would be to scared of the other kids to come downstairs to eat so she would hide and he would later find her and bring her food, so the two would eat leftover bread and cookies under her bed or in a closet somewhere. However out of the corner of Becky's eye she could see Finn fidget slightly uncomfortable with the situation, "What's wrong?"
"Why are you here?"
"It's lunch...where else would I be?" she said as if it were the most simply thing in the world while Finn was spiralling
"Why are you sitting with me?"
"Because I can..and I've missed you old friend..I used to think about you when you left"
"Really?"
"Of course you were my best friend...my only friend"
"Things are different now though"
"They don't have ta be"
"Yes they do..I grew up, I see you haven't..you still think the world is all rainbows and sunshine. You still see me as some hero that I used to be when I was what...six..seven. Look I understand how the world works there are no heroes Becky" Finn snapped causing Becky to look at him seriously, "The only way to make it in this world is if you surround yourself with better people"
"Better people?"
"People with money...with class"
"Thinking like that is why people don't want ta sit with ya"
"I don't let anyone sit with me..I'd prefer to be alone than to sit with anyone from this school" Finn said looking around with slight disdain while Becky looked at him with wide eyes and a smile as she ate her salad
"Okay"
Finn looked at his old friend slightly surprised at this response, "Go away"
"No"
"I said-"
"I heard ya...but I know that ya don' really wan' me ta go" Becky said letting her accent slip causing finn to blush, "Ya know I used ta really like eating lunch with ya back in Ireland..at least then you'd eat"
"The food there was edible" Finn pushed away the tray, "This is crap"
Becky smiled and took the tray from him placing half of the burrito that was still intact on her tray for Dean later, "My friend likes it"
"Your friend? That scum with the deranged face and biker jacket? He is your friend?"
"Yes..and he's not scum" Becky said calmly, "he's my friend just like you are"
"We are not friends"
"We used to be...yesterday you were nice to me"
"That was before I knew you were one of these bottom feeders" Finn said looking around once more
"Bottom feeders?"
"The lowest of the low...seriously look at the crap you people eat, this shitty school, the terrible houses around here all of it. You know nothing about high class society. You and that ..that..that-"
"Dean..his name is Dean"
"I don't care what his name is"
"Well I do, Look he is my friend and i would appreciate it if you didn't call him scum or any other names"
"Why..it's the truth...I bet he lives in some trailer with a crack whore mother and a abusive father who puts out the end of his cigarettes on his skin. And the girl..the goth slut, what is she the same thing or is she getting tossed around from uncle to uncle" Becky's left eye twitched slightly at this, she knew very little about Paige's life but she knew Finn's accusations were wrong and horrible. She also knew that Dean fit this stereotype perfectly but she also knew that those words had been Dean's reality at one point before Seth's family. She knew how much this would hurt him if Finn would have said it to his face and just that thought alone made Becky grow angry
"I'm right aren't I..that's why you two got along huh? Because he was damaged and you love everything that's broken..you think you can fix people. Well let me tell you something, people are shit. You can't fix them Rebecca. Well at least not people like that piece of trash. I on the other hand was turned into a perfect image of high class excellence."
"What?"
"I could help you...you could take to a new life of fine dining and class and maybe even hold an actual conversation with a intellect deserving of our words. Not some one like...Dean"
Becky stared at the boy across from her, trying to remember what her mother had said before, he was only being like this because he was hurt, but this..this Finn he didn't act like he was hurt. He was rude and he wanted to get on her nerves and it was working, Becky was beyond angry and she wanted to hurt him back, "You were in foster care Fergal"
"My name is Finn" Finn said seriously
"You were born Fergal Devitt"
"Stop-"
"Your parents were killed. They were in a car accident" Becky said not even thinking about what she was saying
"Shut up"
"A drunk driver ran their car off the road and they drowned in the bottom of the Irish sea"
"Stop talking" Finn had tears in his eyes but Becky didn't stop talking, people had started staring while Becky remained calm and quietly talked to Finn as she ate
"But I mean come on..you were happy that daddy dearest was gone, he would beat ya an' yer mum anyway. You could never save her though. Not when she was there and not when she died either."
"Stop talking now"
"You were considered scum on ta streets in Ireland, you were spit on an' beat up by anyone that passed by ya... just like me. But you were still my friend, you protected me, you were my brother. This you...the you that hates all of these people, that calls them names and looks down on everyone..that may be Finn...but it's not Fergal."
Finn slammed his hands on the table as he stood up, staring hard at Becky with tears in his eyes as he tried to speak but Becky cut him off, "I know that you are only acting like a jerk because you're hurt..but I-"
"You don't know anything about me...you and your son of a whore friend can all rot for all I care" with that Finn stormed off leaving Becky along, but only for a few seconds before Dean and Paige came and sat around her.
"Did that go as bad as it looked?" Paige asked while Becky sat there angrily and dean slowly grabbed the burrito she had saved for him
"He...He's an asshole"
"Told you"
"I-I..I hate him...all those things he said to me...I hate him for it"
"Well I think it went smashingly" Dean said in a fake english accent causing Paige to raise an eyebrow at him before he continued regularly, "You even made him cry...I count that as a win"
"I guess mentioning his dead parents didn't help" becky mumbled causing Paige to choke on her drink while Dean looked at his best friend with wide eyes
"You made fun of his dead parents?"
"I didn't make fun of them, I just stated that they were dead and he lived on the streets so he has no right to look down on people" Becky said angrily as she rethought the situation, "i mean for god's sake his real name isn't even Finn"
"Well I think he not worth your time" Paige said seriously as she picked at a few of the croutons from Becky's salad, "Life's too short and all that to care about losers and nothing he said about you should work you up like this"
"It's not about what he said about me...it's what he said about you guys"
"What he say?" Becky didn't respond causing Paige and Dean to look at each other suspiciously, "Ok you don't have to tell us but whatever it is it doesn't matter...just let it go alright?"
"I don't want to be angry at him" Becky said slightly but Dean wrapped his arm over her shoulder, "But he makes me so mad"
"Well some people are fuckers and they deserve your anger..if what he said pissed you off then it was probably bad and you should be able to feel mad." He reasoned
Becky thought about this before nodding and thanking her friends. After that she took her tray and dumped it in the nearest bin before exiting the cafeteria with Dean and Paige on her heels as they called out, "Where are you going?"
"I don't know.." Becky shouted back as she walked out
"Becky..hey Becky..what are you doing?" Sasha called out as she ran past Dean and Paige and rushed up to her sister, "What happened back there?"
"Finn is an asshole and I need to punch something" Becky said as she stopped walking and faced her older sister
"Or someone?" Dean offered to which Becky nodded as she turned to continue marching down the halls to leave the building where the junior classes and the cafeteria were, but Sasha stopped her, grabbing her arm
"Hey...what happened?"
"I talked to Finn...and now I'm goin to either punch a tree or find him and punch him in the face" Becky said angrily, snatching her arm from Sasha
"No. No way...you can't get in trouble..do you want to make grounded for life really mean grounded for life?"
"I don't care about that or the fact that you want to go to some dumb football game so you can fuck Seth. If you had heard the things Finn said about my friends you would want to hurt him too" Becky yelled pushing Sasha back slightly
"Hey! I am not your enemy here…."
"You're right Finn is" Becky growled before turning again to walk off
"No! Would..would you just listen to me for one second and calm the fuck down?" Sasha said just before the bell rang, signalling the end of Freshman lunch and the beginning of Sophomore lunch. The four freshmen stood there waiting for the people to leave and as the halls became less crowded Charlotte and Roman came into the building laughing.
"What's this? What are you guys doing here?" Charlotte asked slowly with a loose smile on her face as she approached her sister
Sasha immediately threw her hands up frustrated as she noticed the redness in Charlotte's eyes and the slowness in her voice. Sasha stared at Charlotte with wide eyes before walking up her her to look her hard in the face, "You've got to be fucking kidding me...are you high right now?"
"Yo Sasha chill" Charlotte said with a smile as she fist bumped Roman causing Dean to laugh
"Yo? Yo? Are you both fucking kidding me….you both want to be killed? Is that it? You both want mom and dad to literally kill you both...do you know how that affects me?
"Not everything is about you Sasha" Becky said, crossing her arms over her chest
"If you haven't noticed we're all kind of a package deal..whatever punishment they give to you, they give to me too. Forgive me if I actually want to have a life that doesn't involve the four walls of our bedroom"
"Just relax Sasha..nothing is going to happen" Charlotte said
"Oh..wow really..thank you for that. Thank you for reassuring me but right now I can't take you seriously because you're high out of your fucking mind. You're fucking high in school right now" Sasha turned to Becky, "And you are trying to fight...am I the only mature one here?"
Becky looked off in the distance thinking, deciding to let her anger take over her again as she balled up her fist, "yeah..you are"
Becky turned and walked off while behind her Dean and Paige looked at each other with raised eyebrows but they followed their friend to where they didn't know, while Charlotte nudged Roman and the two laughed before walking into the cafeteria, leaving Sasha to stand by herself in the empty hall, "A-are you serious...both of you…..just great..this is great"
With Bayley
When Bayley entered her second period class the teacher took notice to her presence, calling her out and making her stand in front of the class and introduce herself since she wasn't there on the first day of school. The teacher went through an extensive list of questions about who the girl was and facts about her before she was told to sit in the empty seat at the two person table beside Alexa Bliss. This was her chance to befriend the girl like Becky had said in order to spend some time away from Carmella, especially when she spent her entire first period fantasizing about the way Carmella smiled at her when she saw her arrive at school that morning.
"Hi" Bayley said as she sat down, "I'm Bayley...b-but you already knew that...and I remembered you're Alexa because I" Bayley stopped for a second, she was going to say because I've been thinking about you but decided against that, " .s-sorry.. I mean...l..nevermind"
Bayley's cheeks flushed with embarrassment as she slightly facepalmed herself thinking about how stupid she sounded but stopped when she heard Alexa laughing lightly beside her, "You're nervous...it's cute"
Cute Bayley thought. Carmella was the only person who called her cute and every time she said it Bayley would smile like an idiot as she fantasized about the blonde's perfections, "uh yeah that's me...I mean…not cute..I mean I guess I am but like not in a conceded way that-"
"You should probably stop talking though" Alexa said as their teacher Ms. Michelle passed out packets for each of the student pairs explaining that it was a guideline to help them on their project
"So what do we have to do?"
"We have to learn about each other in some fun exciting way" Alexa said sarcastically rolling her eyes as she read through the packet, "It says we have to present a product that we made that helps describe our similarities and differences"
"Oh..well did you have any ideas?" Bayley asked as she looked at the packet for herself while Alexa sat in her seat thinking, "I mean I'm sure whatever you think of will be good"
"I don't know but whatever we do is going to be ten times better than whatever any of those losers do" she said looking around at the other tables brainstorming
"We could make a little powerpoint.."
"No"
"Ok..what about uh..I don't know" Bayley said stumped on what they could do so the two sat in silence watching all of the other students talk about things, well Alexa was looking at the other students, Bayley was staring at Carmella who sat across the class talking animatedly to her partner about something. Bayley watched as Carmella's eyes lit up at whatever she was talking about and her nose crinkled slightly from her smiling so hard, "We could make something creative"
"Like what?"
"I don't know...can you draw?'
"No"
"Can you dance?"
"Not in public?"
"Can you sing?"
"No"
"Not even in the shower?"
"No" Alexa said looking out the window
"Well can you play an instrument?"
"Let's just say I have no musical talent okay?"
Bayley laughed at this while Alexa turned red with embarrassment and crossed her arms pouting, "Well what can you do then? Can you draw?"
"Yes"
"Well can you dance?"
"Eh..I'm not the best but I still try"
"Can you sing or play an Instrument?"
"Yes"
"Really?"
"Yeah I write songs and play them on my guitar" Bayley said bashfully
"Well do that"
"Huh?"
"Let's write a song and you can perform it for our thing" alexa said with a smirk, kicking her feet up on the table, satisfied with the idea
"Uh..I've never really played for anyone other than my family..I get really nervous"
"Well you said you could play..so what are you nervous for...if you can do it then do it"
Bayley thought, she didn't want to say no and maybe playing would help her and Alexa become friends faster. Though that would mean Alexa would be the first person to hear her play other than her family. Bayley had always thought it would've been Carmella but…
"Hello Bayley..are you even listening?"
"Yes..I mean no..sorry…"
"I asked will you do it? Will you sing for our project?"
"Only if you sing with me"
"Not happening..i'll help you write and then you perform" Alexa said bluntly
"We'll see about that" Bayley said, not giving up on the idea, "For now we have to come up with some stuff to write"
"Well we have to talk about our similarities and differences so..get some paper" Alexa said pointing at the bin of paper on the top shelf of the supply rack in the front of the room
"Why can't you get it?"
"B-because I don't want to"
"Well what if I don't want to?" Alexa stared at Bayley with wide eyes before looking at the bin
"Please" Bayley was shocked at Alexa for saying please and just sat there staring at her, "I can't reach the bin"
This caused Bayley to laugh on taking the blond seriously before looking over at the bin and taking notice of how high up it was before agreeing. She had known that Alexa was rather short but she hadn't really taken notice to it, it was never important before. As Bayley came back with the paper she handed it to Alexa who quietly thanked her before she started writing.
"Here now we can write the stuff I like on this side and the stuff you like on that one then we'll see what's the same or not"
Bayley nodded before thinking, "I'm adopted"
"I'm not" Alexa wrote this on Bayley's side
"I have three older sisters"
"I have two brothers"
"Really I didn't know that"
"They are older..Buddy and Blake..they're twins" Alexa said not looking at Bayley as she wrote that in their separate columns
"Well I already said I play guitar" Alexa wrote this on Bayley's side
"I wish I could play an instrument"
"Oh yeah..what instrument?"
"Maybe the violin...I love the way they sound,...but a guitar is pretty cool too"
Bayley nodded at this agreeing before saying, " I..I like comics..like superheroes and stuff"
Alexa smiled and wrote in under the similarities but didn't say anything about it, waiting for Bayley to list off more things, "I like grilled cheese...that's my favorite..anything cheese based really" Alexa made a face at this, "What you don't like grilled cheese?"
"No I like grilled cheese but I don't like cheese that much unless it's on pizza or one of those quesadillas that Blake makes when he's in charge of dinner"
"Okay then what's your favorite food?"
"Pasta..anything with pasta"
"Okay..what about animals?"
"I love animals" alexa said with a big smile, "i have three dogs and two cats and we even have a pig"
Bayley started with wide eyes, "a pig?That's so cool"
"Yeah you should come over sometime and see him..his name is Larry Steve" Alexa said with a big smile
"You actually want me to come over?" Bayley asked shocked
"Well..yeah..i guess. I mean..we have to work on this project. So you can like come over..b-but only if you want"
"Yeah sure" The bell rang signaling the end of class so Alexa quickly packed up her stuff and took the paper the two had been writing on before saying goodbye, they didn't have anymore classes together for the rest of the day so Bayley would only see her again on the bus ride home.
Carmella quickly came up to Bayley and slung her arm around Bayley's, guiding her out of class as she began talking about her partner Jojo who was a talkative girl that always sat in the back , "She's really cool..did you know her dad owns a TV station?"
"Yeah..she talks about it all the time"' Bayley said
"Well at least my partner is fun and not rude like yours"
"Alexa's pretty cool too..she has her own pig"
"More like she is a pig" Carmella mumbled but Bayley stopped walking
"That's not nice Carmella, you shouldn't talk about her like that" Bayley said as the two walked off to lunch together seeing as their class had first lunch.
By the end of the day Bayley had actually made it through without thinking about Carmella like she used too. Well, even though a lot of her thoughts were on carmella a few weren't, during her last period her thoughts were more focused on talking to Alexa on the bus home today.
"Hey..Bayley wait up" Carmella called out from behind Bayley to stop walking, "What's up with you?"
"Huh?"
"You haven't been talkin' to me all day..is something wrong?" Carmella placed a hand on Bayley's shoulder worried making Bayley's heart race as her rush of feelings swarmed in her chest
"I'm fine..just ready to go home" Bayley said which wasn't exactly a lie
"Well can I come over later?"
Bayley wanted to say yes so bad, but she knew that she couldn't...allowing Carmella to come over wouldn't help Bayley while she's trying to create separation"I don't know...my parents are kind of on this thing right now because my sisters are grounded so no one's allowed over"
"Well then maybe you can come over to mine?"
"Maybe I don't know..but right now I gotta go..I'll call you later okay" with that Bayley ran off and went to get on the bus. As she got on she saw Alexa sitting alone in the same seat they had sat in together yesterday, "Hey can I sit with you?"
The blond looked up and smiled at her before moving her backpack allowing Bayley to sit down, "Hey"
"So..um I was thinking about what you said earlier..about coming over"
"Really?"
"Yeah..i mean...we have to work on our project and I do really want to see Larry Steve" Bayley said seriously, "I've never seen a real live pig except for one time when my family went ot the zoo but we got kicked out because my sisters climbed the bird cages and were throwing the elephant's peanuts at visitors"
Alexa laughed at this, "are you serious?"
"Yep we can never go to San Diego zoo again"
"Well I can ask my mom today..maybe you can come over after school on friday and we can work on our project"
"Cool" Bayley said with a smile as the bus pulled off from the school, the two sat in silence for a minute before Bayley smiled, "So...no cheese on nachos?"
Alexa laughed, "No..I don't like nachos, biting into that is like straight cheese and they smell gross"
Bayley turned to Alexa with wide eyes, "Are you serious? Nachos are delicious"
"Yeah..no thanks" alexa said
"Okay then what about….cheese sticks like the ones they served in the cafeteria?"
"Yes...I'll eat stuff with cheese in it...I just don't like too much cheese" Bayley nodded along causing Alexa to laugh, "well what about you...any strange foods you don't like?"
Bayley thought for a second before looking around to see if anyone is listening. She then leaned in close and motioned for Alexa to do the same, which she did with a questioning look on her face, "yogurt"
"I'm sorry what?"
"I hate yogurt" Bayley said with a look of disgust causing the blond to laugh, "it's not funny"
"sorry...its just...who doesn't like yogurt?"
"ME! I don't...I had a bad experience once with yogurt in kindergarten"
"What happened?"
"I don't wanna talk about it" Bayley said with a pout
Alexa raised an eyebrow before giving a smirk, "Now you have to tell me"
"I mixed my yogurt and cheese crackers and I threw up" Bayley said quickly causing Alexa to laugh and even snort which made Bayley smile as the shorter girl covered her mouth in embarrassment, "You snorted"
"No I didn't"
"yes you did I heard it...it was kinda cute" Bayley said without a second thought as the bus rolled to her stop. She gathered her stuff, completely oblivious to Alexa's shocked face or the blush that permanently marked her face red until she turned around, "you don't have to be embarrassed about that...it meant it was a genuine laugh. I'll see ya tomorrow"
As Bayley exited the bus she saw Alexa staring at her through the window and gave a small wave before the bus pulled away.
A/n: Thank you for reading, continue to review and leave ideas and make sure to follow and favorite so you can get updates on when I post the next chapter.