Chapter 3: Jessica Stone
Even though Sean felt a little guilty about last night, he still knew that being friends would kill him. He had cared a lot for Sean.
"Craig, what am I going to do?" Sean asked after telling Craig and Natalia about last night.
"I think you should definitely get a new partner if you're gonna get 'wiggy' on her." Natalia suggested.
"I think you should continue the project. You might learn something new about her." He smiled and looked at Natalia, who giggled.
Craig, Sean, and Natalia walked down the hall to Craig's locker. Before they had reached the locker, Sean noticed a girl in all black talking to Ashley and Ellie. He hadn't seen her before.
"Craig, man, who is that?" Sean said, suddenly stopping and staring at the girl.
"Dude, don't stare!" Craig looked at the girl. Natalia looked over there after Craig and Sean turned away.
"Oh... I think that's the new girl." Natalia said.
"So you don't have a name for her?" Sean asked.
"Why don't you go over there and find out?" Craig suggested.
"Nah. She's talking to Ellie and Ashley..." Just as he said that he turned around to look at her and she was alone at her locker. "Fine. Whatever." Sean walked over to her locker. It was close to his so he just pretended to be interested in his locker. The girl noticed him and noticed her notebook at his foot. She crawled over to the notebook, but he had noticed and went for the notebook too.
"This yours?" Sean asked as he handed it to her. She took it and said nothing as she got up and walked to her locker.
"Excuse me?" Sean tried again. She looked at him with an evil look.
"Can I help you?" She asked, glaring at him.
"Well, I was just wondering if you were new is all..." Sean said with a little anger in his voice.
"Yeah. What's it to you?" She said not as angry.
"I just wanted to introduce myself but I guess you're too busy being a bitch to notice that I was just trying to be nice!" He said this and turned quickly around and walked over to Craig and Natalia.
"Well?" Craig asked.
"What a bitch!" Sean exclaimed.
"She doesn't seem to care." Natalia said nodding in the girl's direction. Sean looked she had a smile on her face and was walking over to them.
"Tell me what happens at lunch k?" Craig said. He and Natalia left Sean standing by himself.
"You got guts." Sean heard someone say behind.
"Thanks." He said as he turned around. Then he noticed it was the girl he had called a bitch. "What do you want?"
"I just thought that it was cool the way you took my attitude."
"What's your problem anyways?"
"Trust. I don't trust anyone but myself." She explained.
"I know how that is." Sean said with a partial smile.
"I noticed." She paused. "I'm Jessica Stone."
"Sean."
"Got a last name?"
"Cameron."
"Well, Sean Cameron, it was nice pissing you off and making up. Maybe I'll see you later." She said, leaving him once again alone.
Jessica must have been psychic because the next class was with him.
"Jesse, over here." Jessica heard her new friend, Ashley Kerwin call.
"Hey Ash, what's up?" Jessica asked as she took a seat in the back with Ashley.
"I saw you talking to Sean..." Ashley said with a worried look.
"Yeah. He's cool. Single too I hope." Jessica looked up from her binder that she had with her. Ashley shook her head.
"What?"
"Sean is bad news, Jess. I know you probably don't want to believe it, but he is. He hangs out with a guy named Jay. Both of them steal, Jess. Both of them." Ashley saw disbelief in her new friend's eyes.
"Well, if that is what he does then... oh well..."
"What?"
"Ash, the reason I moved was because I was a troublemaker. My parents couldn't handle it. They couldn't handle my bad rep down south...so we moved." Jessica looked at Ashley.
"Wow! I...I didn't know. I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it. I made a deal with my parents that if they cooled it down then I would keep a good rep up here." Ashley sighed with relief.
"Hey." A couple of familiar voices said behind the two talking Goths. Jessica turned around. Sean and another guy were sitting behind them.
"Hey Sean," Jessica said with a smile.
"Hey Ash," Craig said, trying to be polite to his ex.
"Whatever." Ashley said; she rolled her eyes.
-"Okay class, I'm going to begin by pairing you up in groups of four so that you can work on your plays that I assigned last time." Ms. Kwan looked up and saw Jessica. "Ms. Stone, you can work with Ms. Kerwin, Mr. Manning, and Mr. Cameron." Ashley and Jessica smiled.
"So what's the play thing about?" Jessica asked.
"We get to pick a scene from any of the Shakespeare plays and make it to be something rather than drama." Ashley tried to explain.
"Oooo sounds like fun!" Jessica said. "I have the perfect seen." She looked at Ashley and Craig. "You two wanna be Romeo and Juliet."
"My girlfriend wouldn't go for that." Craig said looking at Sean.
"He's my ex-boyfriend who cheated on me." Ashley whispered.
"Okay... then Sean and I will be Romeo and Juliet." Jessica said with a slight smile.
"Who said we're doing Romeo and Juliet?" Sean asked, finally speaking up.
"Me. Do you have a problem with it?" Jessica asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Nah," Sean replied.
For the rest of the class, they worked on the scene of Juliet's Window. Ashley would be the nurse and Craig would be Benvolio, Romeo's best friend and nephew of Montagues. Juliet would be played by Jessica. Romeo would be Sean.
"Okay. I did the same thing at my old school but I'm gonna change a couple of things." Jessica said as they discussed their comedy. The nurse would be prettier than Juliet. Juliet would have warts and be ugly. Romeo would be vain and selfish. Benvolio would be drunk. As Jessica told her new friends her idea, they all laughed and had a good time. Craig and Ashley even got along.
After class, Ashley and Jessica were talking about costumes. Craig was talking to Sean about the upcoming dance.
"...I can't believe you can't just go by yourself. I mean, it's great that couples will get to meet other couples but still." Craig said. He was a little upset about it being only couples. He was a couple... but it still bothered him for some reason.
"Well, at least you're in a couple. You and Nat are a great couple. You may even win cutest couple." Sean said. "Plus, you get to go to this stupid dance."
"Don't forget it's sort of a formal." Craig said a little disappointed. This was the dance that he and Ashley were going to attend when they were still a couple.
"What dance?" Jessica asked as she came up behind the two boys.
"Just a dress-up couples dance." Craig said. Just then his girlfriend came up and hugged him.
"Hi!" She kissed him.
"All better." Craig said with a laugh.
"Another horrible class with your ex?" Natalia asked.
"Actually," Craig looked from his girlfriend to Jessica. "It was okay. Ash, Jessica, Sean, and I are in a play together."
"Ash? You and Ashley are at speaking terms?" Natalia asked with a half disappointed smile. It had took Natalia most of the year just to become acquaintance with Ashley.
"Not exactly." Ashley piped up.
"Oh...hi Ashley." Natalia said, now blushing with embarrassment.
"We're just working on the English project so that Jess and I can get an A." Ashley said jokingly.
"Oh...Well, Craig and I will see you at lunch, Sean." Natalia pulled Craig to the side and started kissing him.
"So... the dance?" Jessica said.
"What about it?" Sean replied.
"Are you going with your girlfriend?"
"I don't have one." Sean said a little disappointed.
"Ash, you going?"
"Probably not. You?"
"I doubt it. I just thought it sounded it a little interesting."
"Wanna go?" Seam asked suddenly. He surprised Jessica, Ashley, and himself.
"What?"
"You wanna go with me, Jess?" Sean asked again.
"Sure." Jessica smiled. Just then a short girl with blonde hair walked up to Sean.
"Hey Sean." It was Emma.
"Hey, Emma."
"Are you going to the dance?"
"Actually-" He was cut off.
"Because I know that we're only supposed to be friends, but Manny and JT are going and they want me to go... but it's only for couples. So I was thinking..."
"Hi, I'm Jessica Stone. Sean's date." Jessica said sliding in between them and sliding her hand to his and locking with his.
"Oh..." Emma paused. "I'm Emma Nelson, Sean's ex-girlfriend he still has feelings with." Emma said. Jessica looked at Sean, who looked down to the floor.
"We'll see about that." Jessica surprised everyone when she kissed Sean. Hands on each cheek and lip to lip contact. Emma got mad and walked off.
"Oh my gosh!" Ashley said while laughing.
"Call me later, kay?" Jessica said this and then walked off with Ashley.
"Dang, Jess. What was that?"
"She was getting on my nerves. I could tell that Sean didn't like the situation so I kissed him." She and Ashley looked back at him. He had the same shocked face as he did when he was kissed.
TBC...
Just so you know... I don't hate Emma. I just like messing. Read to find out what happens.