Ok, just so you know. Destiny doesn't wear big black clothes or anything.
She really wears the skirts and tight shirts like Kate...only not slutty.
Yea, if that makes sense.... Anyway, heres chapter 3. Sorry it took so long
to update. My mom grounded me from the computer (
Chapter 3- Canaslut
Destiny sighed heavily as she saw Kate and her little slut gang sitting at her normal cafeteria table. In fact, there were no empty tables at all. She saw a table nearby with two people sitting at it. They looked pretty nice, she decided to take her chances with them. She walked over.
"Umm, is this seat taken?" she asked hesitantly. The two occupants glanced at each other briefly before turning back to Destiny.
"No, go ahead" the girl answered. Destiny hastily sat down beside the black haired girl.
"I'm Destiny" she smiled.
"I'm Cassidy" the girl smiled, "and this is Mark"
The boy across from Cassidy nodded once before turning back to his lunch. Cassidy rolled her eyes.
"He's not very polite" she grinned, receiving a glare from the brunette boy.
"I am so, just not when I'm eating" he huffed. Destiny laughed.
"Your in my math class" Mark said thoughtfully, "You're the girl who always gets yelled at"
Destiny groaned. The girl who always gets yelled at. What a title.
"Ms. Stokes hates me, it's not my fault." She defended herself.
"She needs someone to yell at, she's afraid of Kai and Tala" Mark shrugged. That perked her interest.
"Why?"
"Kai's grandfather is the scariest person you'll ever meet, and Tala is Kai's best friend...." Mark trailed off, assuming she understood.
"Ok, but she can still yell at them," Destiny argued.
"Look, Kai and Tala are the most popular guys in the school. She's not going to yell at them or everyone will hate her," Mark said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Doesn't everyone already hate her?" Destiny asked. Mark rolled his eyes.
"Never mind" he said, forking some salad into his mouth.
"Kai's in almost all my classes" Destiny said, a thoughtful expression on her face.
"Lucky you" Mark said sarcastically. Destiny glared at him.
"Really? I've only talked to him once, but he's so dreamy" Cassidy said smiling. Destiny laughed at mark's disgusted expression.
"Oh come on Mark, you have to admit he is really good looking" Cassidy giggled.
He gave her an awkward look, "I'm not gay Cassidy"
"I never said you were," she said defensively. He laughed.
"Ok, ok, no need to go all defensive on me, your so sensitive" he said casually.
"I am not" she glared at him.
"Stop it" Destiny said, noticing an argument coming.
"Listen to Dessy" came an annoying voice. Destiny rolled her eyes. Did Kate ever go away? She was like a mosquito or something, the ones that never leave you alone until they bite you. And then they come back again for more.
"Go away Kate" she said calmly.
"Aww, but I wanna sit here and eat with my good friends," she said sweetly, taking a seat beside Mark. He glared at her.
"Hi Mark," she said flirtatiously. She winked at him.
Mark surprised them all. While almost every guy at Tishitok high dreamed of Kate, Mark obviously didn't.
"Bye Kate" he said giving her a little wave. Kate's face turned a little red in fury. Destiny almost laughed.
"Rejection" Cassidy grinned. Kate glared at her.
"Whatever, its not like I'd really waste my time on him anyway" she got up to join her friends.
"Ok, then leave" Destiny said sweetly. Kate stuck her nose in the air and left, followed by her little fan club.
They all burst out laughing.
"Go Mark" Destiny winked at him.
"Not you too" he groaned. The girls laughed.
Destiny talked with her new friends until she had to go to music. Apparently they all had music together. Mark and Cassidy sat on the other side of the room, but today they sat next to Destiny. They sang all period before they all went to their next classes. Destiny was in high spirits all day, not even Harold could crush her mood.
Over the next month or so Destiny sat with Mark and Cassidy at lunch and music. She even talked to Mark in math class. Ms. Stokes and Harold became increasingly mean to her in that time. It was making her marks suffer even more then usual.
It was late October, a week from Halloween. Destiny sat in math class staring out the window watching the leaves blow off the trees.
"Alright, you will be working in pairs for this assignment" Ms. Stokes voice boomed.
Destiny looked over at Mark. He nodded. But, unfortunately Ms. Stokes had other plans.
"Of which I will assign," she added smirking. The class groaned which led to a satisfactory look on the teachers face.
Destiny sighed. That meant she wasn't going to be paired with Mark. It wasn't too bad though. He wasn't that great at math either.
Ms. Stokes read the names off a sheet of paper. It went on for a bit. Mark was paired with Kate, much to his distaste. Tala was with one of Kate's sidekicks, he didn't seem too disappointed. She was probably one of his make out friends.
"Destiny and Kai" Destiny looked at Ms. Stokes then at Kai. She couldn't tell whether he was upset or happy about it. He looked the same as usual. Kate however was seething. She was going to freak at Destiny after class.
Destiny pulled her chair up beside Kai's desk.
"Umm, are you good at math?" she asked shyly.
"I have a 95" he answered dully. She smiled inwardly, he was a genius. She found it kind of strange that someone so popular could be so smart. Usually super popular people didn't care about school or their marks.
"Oh, I have a 55, so I guess I won't be very much help" she sighed. He frowned at her.
"You can design the poster then, I'll do the math" he said. She smiled. She was good at that!!
"Ok, I'm good at art!" she said excitedly. He nodded. She could have sworn she saw him smile though.
They worked on their own for the rest of the period. Finally she came up with a good design. She showed it to him.
Kai scanned over her drawing. It was good, really good. And Bonus, it wasn't pink. She had combined silver, blue and black to make a catchy poster board. He was impressed.
"Good" he said finally. She smiled happily at his approval.
"I sure hope we get an A, I really need it," she said looking at the calculations and explanations Kai had written down. She had no idea how to do that math; she actually didn't even know what the assignment was on. Thank god for Kai.
"We will," he answered, putting all the work into his binder. The bell rang a couple seconds later.
"Alright everyone, this poster is due tomorrow!" Ms. Stokes yelled. How were they supposed to finish by tomorrow? Before she could ask Kai though, he was gone. She sighed and left for her next class.
During lunch, all Cassidy and Destiny heard was how bad a math partner Kate was. Mark rambled on and on.
"So, who's your partner Destiny?" Cassidy asked ignoring Mark's complaining.
"She's paired with Kai" Mark huffed.
"Really? Your so lucky!" Cassidy exclaimed.
"No kidding, Kai's a math whiz" Mark frowned
"That's not what she meant Mark" Destiny giggled.
"Then what did—oh" he got it. The girls laughed.
"So, do you talk to him a lot?" Cassidy asked excitedly.
Destiny smiled, "He's not a very talkative person"
"Yea, I know" Cassidy said, "apparently the only people that actually know him are Tala and his sister"
"He has a sister?" Destiny asked surprised.
"Yea, didn't you know?" Cassidy said, making Destiny feel stupid.
"No, what grade is she in?" she wanted to know as much about him as she could. For some reason he caught her attention so well.
"Grade ten, her name's Kailee" Mark said forgetting about Kate.
"I've never seen her around" Destiny said attentively.
"You probably have, you just don't know her" Mark shrugged. Destiny nodded in agreement. She wanted to meet this Kailee girl.
The three friends were on their way to music when Destiny halted suddenly in the hall.
"What?" Cassidy asked stopping to look at Destiny.
"I forgot to talk to Kai," she answered quickly running back down the hall. The other two followed suite.
"About what?" Cassidy huffed catching up to Destiny.
"Math" she stopped abruptly in the cafeteria entrance.
"Ok..." they followed Destiny to Kai's table.
Destiny walked towards Kai's table. She was feeling rather nervous. Would he talk to her in front of all his friends? She was a 'loser' after all. She took a deep breath. She'd just have to find out.
"Umm, hi Kai" she said anxiously. All the guys turned to stare at her. The sudden silence was unnerving.
"Hi" he answered dully.
"Umm, about the math project...." She trailed off. These guys were seriously glaring daggers into her. It seems Kate had a little more power then Destiny originally thought.
Kai sighed and stood up. He motioned for her to follow him. She did so hastily. Cassidy and Mark were left standing beside the table.
"What about it?" he said stopping a good number of feet from his table.
"Could you come in early tomorrow so we can put our project together before math," she said confidently. The nervous feeling had been left at the table.
He nodded slowly, "twenty minutes before the bell"
"Ok, I'll see you in English" she said with a small smile. She ran off toward the exit to go to music. Mark and Cassidy went after her.
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Destiny, as she promised, was at school twenty minutes before math. Kai, however, wasn't there yet. She sighed and slunk down into her seat. She really hoped he showed up. She needed this mark.
Finally, five minutes later, Kai walked through the door carrying some pieces of paper.
"Here" he said dropping the sheets on her desk.
"Uhh, thanks" she said sifting through the paragraphs and calculations. He'd cut them out to her measurements. All they had to do was glue them on.
"hnn" he answered, sitting down at his desk. Mark was supposed to be coming early too. Destiny didn't see the point in it though; Kate probably wouldn't show up anyway.
"Do you have any glue?" she asked.
"In the top drawer" he nodded toward Ms. Stokes desk. She grabbed one and starting gluing the info on. She noticed Kai staring.
"What?" she asked, tilting her head to one side.
"Nothing" he answered, averting his gaze to the poster, "you done?"
"Almost" she positioned the last sheet into place, "There, finished"
She picked up the board and dropped it onto his desk.
"What do you think?" she asked smiling.
"He thinks its ugly, just like you" Kate said strolling into the room, "have you seen that Mark guy, he has my project"
"No" Destiny answered uninterested. Just like Kate to barge in on other people's conversations. That was probably what she did in her spare time. Eavesdrop, and then intervene with some stupid insult. She'd done it to Destiny quite a few times. It was really annoying.
"What about you Kai?" she asked him sweetly, putting her hand on his shoulder.
"No" he answered. She circled round him so she was sitting on his desk. He didn't look too pleased. Destiny remembered Kate saying Kai was hers. If that was so, then why did he seem to dislike her so much?
"Oh, he's a horrible partner" she pouted, "I wish you were my partner"
Destiny scowled, "Well he's not, so could you get your huge ass off our project"
Kate's mouth dropped open, but quickly closed, "Don't you mean Kai's project, you're not smart enough to have done that"
Destiny glared at the girl. Her hot pink underwear was showing from under her skirt. She really needed to roll down that skirt.
"Just get off, your ruining it" Destiny tugged at the corner a little. She looked at kai. He kept shrugging Kate's hand off his shoulder.
Kate slid off reluctantly. She didn't want to ruin Kai's project. It was Kai after all. Instead, she dumped herself on his lap.
Kai's expression, or the little expression that was there, was a mixture of disgust and annoyance. Destiny guessed he didn't appreciate that.
Kate wrapped her arms around his neck, "There's still five minutes left until the bell Kai"
He sighed and reached up to unwind her arms. He shoved her off his lap, "That's enough time for you to get a skirt that fits you"
Destiny burst out laughing. Wow, Kate got majorly rejected there. Go Kai! Kate sent her a death glare, but it only made Destiny laugh harder. Kate left quickly.
"Talk about Burn" she said after she stopped laughing.
"Whatever" Kai said.
"Seriously, she is so annoying" Destiny tried again.
"She's a whore," Kai answered distastefully. Destiny couldn't have agreed more.
"Everyone says that you two are the perfect couple," Destiny said.
Kai shrugged, "so she thinks, but it'll never happen"
Destiny couldn't help but smile.
As it turned out, Kai was right. They did get an A, or actually a 100%. Destiny was so happy. That would help her mark. She wanted to thank Kai, but before she could he was already gone. He sure got out of that class fast.
By lunchtime though, the whole school knew about how Kate had been rejected. Or a really twisted version of it. Cassidy told Destiny.
"Ok, why is everyone looking at me like that?" Destiny said, finally exploding. Everywhere she went, people would stare or start whispering to the person next to them. It was really creeping her out.
"Uh, they're all talking about something that happened this morning" Cassidy said hesitantly.
"What?" She didn't remember anything exciting about the morning, aside from Kate being rejected.
"Before school, is Ms. Stokes' room" Cassidy said glancing at Mark.
Destiny laughed, "That was great, so you heard about Kate being rejected?!"
"Uhh, no" Cassidy said slowly, "Everyone says that you're ruining Kate's and Kai's relationship"
"What relationship? I didn't do anything anyway, I just laughed at her" Destiny exclaimed.
"They say that you want to take Kai away from her because you're jealous of her popularity and good looks" Mark said.
"That's ridiculous" Destiny exclaimed angrily.
"That's not all" Cassidy said anxiously. She looked afraid of Destiny. Destiny's silence made her continue.
"So, uh, everyone thinks you're a nasty Canadian Slut" Cassidy said looking down at the table.
"What?" Destiny yelled. This was so not true.
"You should stay away from Kai" Mark warned.
"Why?" Destiny said indignantly.
"It's the way this school works, there are two groups: the losers and the popular people. Kai is one of the popular people and you're a loser." Mark explained irritably.
"Losers? That means you guys are losers," Destiny said doubtfully.
"Yea, most of the school is," he said shaking his head.
"That doesn't mean I can't talk to Kai," she said in annoyance. Besides, its not like she really talked to him anyway. Why was it such a big deal?
"Popular people and losers don't mix," he stated as if it were a fact.
"Why not?" this whole group thing was dumb.
"It's the way it's always been Destiny, just give it up already" he said in exasperation.
She was about to argue, but she decided against it. Arguing with Mark wasn't going to do anything. She had to talk to Kai.
He was sitting at the same table as usual. Only this time, she approached it more confidently.
"Hello Kai" she said in a fake sweet voice.
"Hi" he answered.
"Have you heard any interesting rumors lately?" she asked in that sweet voice again. Every guy at the table was listening. Even Tala who had turned away from his current make out friend.
"Sure" he looked uninterested. That made her feel even angrier.
"Oh really? Nothing about a nasty Canadian slut?" she said the last words through gritted teeth.
"Ignore it," he answered, turning to look her straight in the eye.
"What?" That wasn't what she expected him to say.
"Ignore it, Kate made it up" he said firmly.
"Oh yea, no problem. Everyone thinks I'm some sort of snobby bitch, but I can just ignore the whispers and creepy stares," she said in exasperation. She was pretty sure she was humiliating herself, but she really didn't care. No one thought highly of her anyway.
Kai sighed and shook his head. "What do you want me to do about it?"
She hadn't really thought about that. Could he just tell everyone that it wasn't true? He was the most popular guy after all.
"Well, you could, uh...." She stopped to think. She could tell everyone of those guys thought she was a total retard.
She got it, "Tell everyone what really happened"
"Beat it little girl," said Tala. She glared at him.
"I'm not talking to you" she exclaimed impatiently at the red haired boy.
"Get lost" he rolled his eyes.
"Fine" she cried. She ran off. Tala sure knew how to make someone feel wanted.
For the rest of the day Destiny got stared at, or whispered about. A few people even teased her. By English, she felt like she could cry.
Harolds couldn't have made it any worse though. They all had to do a project on a Shakespeare play....in groups of three. When Destiny though the day couldn't get any worse, she was wrong.
She was paired with Kai. And Tala. Not good. To make it worse, they had to do Taming of the Shrew. A crappy play about some screwed up girl. Not a good sign.
Reluctantly Destiny sat down at Kai's desk. She made sure to sit as far away from Tala as she could.
"We can work on it at my place tonight" Kai said as class ended.
"See ya then Canaslut" Tala laughed as he headed out with Kai. That was his new nickname for her she guessed. Canadian Slut put together made Canaslut. At least he left out the nasty part.
Destiny headed for her locker. What was she supposed to do? Just go straight over to Kai's house? She didn't even know where he lived.
She slowly piled her homework into her blue backpack. What was she gonna do? She saw Kai over by his locker and decided to ask him.
"Umm, when are we working on the project?" she asked keeping away from Tala who was with Kai at the moment.
"After school, I'll drive you to my place" he said shutting his locker, "Let's go"
Destiny followed behind them at a distance. She didn't want anyone to actually think that she was obsessed with Kai.
Kai jumped over the door of his convertible. Sort of like a hockey player jumping over the boards. Destiny hated to admit it, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't hate Kai for not doing anything about that horrible rumor. There was something about him she just forgave him unconditionally. Unconditional forgiveness. Not as catchy as unconditional love, but it still worked.
When she though Tala was going to be a problem, she underestimated. There were three other people getting into Kai's four-seater car. She groaned, this was not going to be fun.
On the bright side, she didn't have to sit beside Tala. He was with two other guys. A purple haired boy names Brian, and a black-haired guy named Ray. Destiny was between Kai and some Michael boy. It was definitely not her idea of comfort. It didn't help that Michael kept touching her 'accidentally'.
Destiny tried to move away from Michael, but it wasn't working. He'd just slide over with her. And now she was being shoved up against Kai AND Michael. She sighed in exasperation.
"Stop it" she shoved Michael, "I'm a 'loser', you're not suppose to associate with me" she said with clear annoyance.
He smirked, snaking an arm around her shoulders, "I won't tell anyone if you don't"
If she was uncomfortable before, it was nothing compared to now. She tried to shrug his arm off, but it only resulted in hid arm slipping down to her waist. She could feel his hold tighten and he pulled her toward him.
"Let me go" she glared at him.
"hmm, Fiesty, I like that" he said slyly. Okay, now he was really scaring her. Didn't anyone notice he was practically assaulting her? She looked around. Obviously not.
Luckily, the car stopped at a huge mansion. Destiny tried to climb out quickly, but Michael's grip wouldn't allow her to. Instead he pulled her out with him.
"Are you guys staying?" Kai asked from the front door.
"I am" Michael said, "If she is"
Michael was creepy. Destiny doesn't like creepy people. She doesn't like Michael.
"I have to work on my English project," she said trying to pull free.
"Kai and tala can do it, why don't we go and spend sometime in one of Kai's guest rooms?" he said with a wink.
"NO" she yelled in his face. This caught Kai's attention.
"Leave her alone Michael" he called out.
Michael didn't let go; instead he put his other arm around her and gripped her firmly around the waist. She tried to pry his hands off.
"Come on Kai, I'm just having some fun with Canaslut" he said smirking slyly.
"She doesn't look like she's enjoying herself, let her go" Kai said firmly. Michael obeyed. Looked like not very many people crossed Kai.
Before she got away though, Michael whispered in her ear. "Don't worry, we'll have some fun later"
Destiny shivered. What was that supposed to mean? Was Michael some sort of rapist? No probably not, he was probably just messing with her.
Destiny didn't top running until they were inside. She let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Scared of Michael?" Tala taunted. She glared at him.
"No" she said boldly. She actually was kind of scared of Michael, but no way was she going to admit it to Tala.
They worked on the project in Kai's room. Which, like his entire house, was huge. It was blue and black with touches of white and silver in the room.
Destiny worked on the designing again. She didn't have the brain for Shakespeare, or any other author for that matter.
It took them until eleven to finish the project, mostly because Tala stopped working to talk to Kai. Destiny learned a lot from sitting there pretending to be focusing on her own task. First she learned that Tala had six girlfriends. Although that didn't come as a surprise. She felt sorry for Kai having to listen to things about each girl. Mostly everything Tala said about the girls was what their body looked like, or sexual stuff like that. She wondered if all Kai's friends were like that? Michael and Tala were, that's for sure.
Kai didn't date very often. That was something else she learned. Tala kept asking Kai why he didn't have a girlfriend. Kai said he doesn't want to date some bitchy slut.
Kai drove her home at the end of the day. Her house looked extremely small when he dropped her off.
"I'll see you tomorrow" she said climbing out.
"Watch out for Michael, he's a liar" Kai warned her.
"Isn't he your friend?" she asked curiously.
"No, he's Tala's friend. Watch out for him though. I don't want him to ruin you" Kai said before driving off.
What was that supposed to mean? Destiny had no clue. But it gave her a lot to think about. At school tomorrow, she would ask him. But right now, she needed to go to sleep. And explain to her mother why she never came home.
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Ok, chapter 3 is done!!! WOOOHOOO 13 pages. It's a long one. I hope you enjoyed it.
Chapter 3- Canaslut
Destiny sighed heavily as she saw Kate and her little slut gang sitting at her normal cafeteria table. In fact, there were no empty tables at all. She saw a table nearby with two people sitting at it. They looked pretty nice, she decided to take her chances with them. She walked over.
"Umm, is this seat taken?" she asked hesitantly. The two occupants glanced at each other briefly before turning back to Destiny.
"No, go ahead" the girl answered. Destiny hastily sat down beside the black haired girl.
"I'm Destiny" she smiled.
"I'm Cassidy" the girl smiled, "and this is Mark"
The boy across from Cassidy nodded once before turning back to his lunch. Cassidy rolled her eyes.
"He's not very polite" she grinned, receiving a glare from the brunette boy.
"I am so, just not when I'm eating" he huffed. Destiny laughed.
"Your in my math class" Mark said thoughtfully, "You're the girl who always gets yelled at"
Destiny groaned. The girl who always gets yelled at. What a title.
"Ms. Stokes hates me, it's not my fault." She defended herself.
"She needs someone to yell at, she's afraid of Kai and Tala" Mark shrugged. That perked her interest.
"Why?"
"Kai's grandfather is the scariest person you'll ever meet, and Tala is Kai's best friend...." Mark trailed off, assuming she understood.
"Ok, but she can still yell at them," Destiny argued.
"Look, Kai and Tala are the most popular guys in the school. She's not going to yell at them or everyone will hate her," Mark said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Doesn't everyone already hate her?" Destiny asked. Mark rolled his eyes.
"Never mind" he said, forking some salad into his mouth.
"Kai's in almost all my classes" Destiny said, a thoughtful expression on her face.
"Lucky you" Mark said sarcastically. Destiny glared at him.
"Really? I've only talked to him once, but he's so dreamy" Cassidy said smiling. Destiny laughed at mark's disgusted expression.
"Oh come on Mark, you have to admit he is really good looking" Cassidy giggled.
He gave her an awkward look, "I'm not gay Cassidy"
"I never said you were," she said defensively. He laughed.
"Ok, ok, no need to go all defensive on me, your so sensitive" he said casually.
"I am not" she glared at him.
"Stop it" Destiny said, noticing an argument coming.
"Listen to Dessy" came an annoying voice. Destiny rolled her eyes. Did Kate ever go away? She was like a mosquito or something, the ones that never leave you alone until they bite you. And then they come back again for more.
"Go away Kate" she said calmly.
"Aww, but I wanna sit here and eat with my good friends," she said sweetly, taking a seat beside Mark. He glared at her.
"Hi Mark," she said flirtatiously. She winked at him.
Mark surprised them all. While almost every guy at Tishitok high dreamed of Kate, Mark obviously didn't.
"Bye Kate" he said giving her a little wave. Kate's face turned a little red in fury. Destiny almost laughed.
"Rejection" Cassidy grinned. Kate glared at her.
"Whatever, its not like I'd really waste my time on him anyway" she got up to join her friends.
"Ok, then leave" Destiny said sweetly. Kate stuck her nose in the air and left, followed by her little fan club.
They all burst out laughing.
"Go Mark" Destiny winked at him.
"Not you too" he groaned. The girls laughed.
Destiny talked with her new friends until she had to go to music. Apparently they all had music together. Mark and Cassidy sat on the other side of the room, but today they sat next to Destiny. They sang all period before they all went to their next classes. Destiny was in high spirits all day, not even Harold could crush her mood.
Over the next month or so Destiny sat with Mark and Cassidy at lunch and music. She even talked to Mark in math class. Ms. Stokes and Harold became increasingly mean to her in that time. It was making her marks suffer even more then usual.
It was late October, a week from Halloween. Destiny sat in math class staring out the window watching the leaves blow off the trees.
"Alright, you will be working in pairs for this assignment" Ms. Stokes voice boomed.
Destiny looked over at Mark. He nodded. But, unfortunately Ms. Stokes had other plans.
"Of which I will assign," she added smirking. The class groaned which led to a satisfactory look on the teachers face.
Destiny sighed. That meant she wasn't going to be paired with Mark. It wasn't too bad though. He wasn't that great at math either.
Ms. Stokes read the names off a sheet of paper. It went on for a bit. Mark was paired with Kate, much to his distaste. Tala was with one of Kate's sidekicks, he didn't seem too disappointed. She was probably one of his make out friends.
"Destiny and Kai" Destiny looked at Ms. Stokes then at Kai. She couldn't tell whether he was upset or happy about it. He looked the same as usual. Kate however was seething. She was going to freak at Destiny after class.
Destiny pulled her chair up beside Kai's desk.
"Umm, are you good at math?" she asked shyly.
"I have a 95" he answered dully. She smiled inwardly, he was a genius. She found it kind of strange that someone so popular could be so smart. Usually super popular people didn't care about school or their marks.
"Oh, I have a 55, so I guess I won't be very much help" she sighed. He frowned at her.
"You can design the poster then, I'll do the math" he said. She smiled. She was good at that!!
"Ok, I'm good at art!" she said excitedly. He nodded. She could have sworn she saw him smile though.
They worked on their own for the rest of the period. Finally she came up with a good design. She showed it to him.
Kai scanned over her drawing. It was good, really good. And Bonus, it wasn't pink. She had combined silver, blue and black to make a catchy poster board. He was impressed.
"Good" he said finally. She smiled happily at his approval.
"I sure hope we get an A, I really need it," she said looking at the calculations and explanations Kai had written down. She had no idea how to do that math; she actually didn't even know what the assignment was on. Thank god for Kai.
"We will," he answered, putting all the work into his binder. The bell rang a couple seconds later.
"Alright everyone, this poster is due tomorrow!" Ms. Stokes yelled. How were they supposed to finish by tomorrow? Before she could ask Kai though, he was gone. She sighed and left for her next class.
During lunch, all Cassidy and Destiny heard was how bad a math partner Kate was. Mark rambled on and on.
"So, who's your partner Destiny?" Cassidy asked ignoring Mark's complaining.
"She's paired with Kai" Mark huffed.
"Really? Your so lucky!" Cassidy exclaimed.
"No kidding, Kai's a math whiz" Mark frowned
"That's not what she meant Mark" Destiny giggled.
"Then what did—oh" he got it. The girls laughed.
"So, do you talk to him a lot?" Cassidy asked excitedly.
Destiny smiled, "He's not a very talkative person"
"Yea, I know" Cassidy said, "apparently the only people that actually know him are Tala and his sister"
"He has a sister?" Destiny asked surprised.
"Yea, didn't you know?" Cassidy said, making Destiny feel stupid.
"No, what grade is she in?" she wanted to know as much about him as she could. For some reason he caught her attention so well.
"Grade ten, her name's Kailee" Mark said forgetting about Kate.
"I've never seen her around" Destiny said attentively.
"You probably have, you just don't know her" Mark shrugged. Destiny nodded in agreement. She wanted to meet this Kailee girl.
The three friends were on their way to music when Destiny halted suddenly in the hall.
"What?" Cassidy asked stopping to look at Destiny.
"I forgot to talk to Kai," she answered quickly running back down the hall. The other two followed suite.
"About what?" Cassidy huffed catching up to Destiny.
"Math" she stopped abruptly in the cafeteria entrance.
"Ok..." they followed Destiny to Kai's table.
Destiny walked towards Kai's table. She was feeling rather nervous. Would he talk to her in front of all his friends? She was a 'loser' after all. She took a deep breath. She'd just have to find out.
"Umm, hi Kai" she said anxiously. All the guys turned to stare at her. The sudden silence was unnerving.
"Hi" he answered dully.
"Umm, about the math project...." She trailed off. These guys were seriously glaring daggers into her. It seems Kate had a little more power then Destiny originally thought.
Kai sighed and stood up. He motioned for her to follow him. She did so hastily. Cassidy and Mark were left standing beside the table.
"What about it?" he said stopping a good number of feet from his table.
"Could you come in early tomorrow so we can put our project together before math," she said confidently. The nervous feeling had been left at the table.
He nodded slowly, "twenty minutes before the bell"
"Ok, I'll see you in English" she said with a small smile. She ran off toward the exit to go to music. Mark and Cassidy went after her.
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Destiny, as she promised, was at school twenty minutes before math. Kai, however, wasn't there yet. She sighed and slunk down into her seat. She really hoped he showed up. She needed this mark.
Finally, five minutes later, Kai walked through the door carrying some pieces of paper.
"Here" he said dropping the sheets on her desk.
"Uhh, thanks" she said sifting through the paragraphs and calculations. He'd cut them out to her measurements. All they had to do was glue them on.
"hnn" he answered, sitting down at his desk. Mark was supposed to be coming early too. Destiny didn't see the point in it though; Kate probably wouldn't show up anyway.
"Do you have any glue?" she asked.
"In the top drawer" he nodded toward Ms. Stokes desk. She grabbed one and starting gluing the info on. She noticed Kai staring.
"What?" she asked, tilting her head to one side.
"Nothing" he answered, averting his gaze to the poster, "you done?"
"Almost" she positioned the last sheet into place, "There, finished"
She picked up the board and dropped it onto his desk.
"What do you think?" she asked smiling.
"He thinks its ugly, just like you" Kate said strolling into the room, "have you seen that Mark guy, he has my project"
"No" Destiny answered uninterested. Just like Kate to barge in on other people's conversations. That was probably what she did in her spare time. Eavesdrop, and then intervene with some stupid insult. She'd done it to Destiny quite a few times. It was really annoying.
"What about you Kai?" she asked him sweetly, putting her hand on his shoulder.
"No" he answered. She circled round him so she was sitting on his desk. He didn't look too pleased. Destiny remembered Kate saying Kai was hers. If that was so, then why did he seem to dislike her so much?
"Oh, he's a horrible partner" she pouted, "I wish you were my partner"
Destiny scowled, "Well he's not, so could you get your huge ass off our project"
Kate's mouth dropped open, but quickly closed, "Don't you mean Kai's project, you're not smart enough to have done that"
Destiny glared at the girl. Her hot pink underwear was showing from under her skirt. She really needed to roll down that skirt.
"Just get off, your ruining it" Destiny tugged at the corner a little. She looked at kai. He kept shrugging Kate's hand off his shoulder.
Kate slid off reluctantly. She didn't want to ruin Kai's project. It was Kai after all. Instead, she dumped herself on his lap.
Kai's expression, or the little expression that was there, was a mixture of disgust and annoyance. Destiny guessed he didn't appreciate that.
Kate wrapped her arms around his neck, "There's still five minutes left until the bell Kai"
He sighed and reached up to unwind her arms. He shoved her off his lap, "That's enough time for you to get a skirt that fits you"
Destiny burst out laughing. Wow, Kate got majorly rejected there. Go Kai! Kate sent her a death glare, but it only made Destiny laugh harder. Kate left quickly.
"Talk about Burn" she said after she stopped laughing.
"Whatever" Kai said.
"Seriously, she is so annoying" Destiny tried again.
"She's a whore," Kai answered distastefully. Destiny couldn't have agreed more.
"Everyone says that you two are the perfect couple," Destiny said.
Kai shrugged, "so she thinks, but it'll never happen"
Destiny couldn't help but smile.
As it turned out, Kai was right. They did get an A, or actually a 100%. Destiny was so happy. That would help her mark. She wanted to thank Kai, but before she could he was already gone. He sure got out of that class fast.
By lunchtime though, the whole school knew about how Kate had been rejected. Or a really twisted version of it. Cassidy told Destiny.
"Ok, why is everyone looking at me like that?" Destiny said, finally exploding. Everywhere she went, people would stare or start whispering to the person next to them. It was really creeping her out.
"Uh, they're all talking about something that happened this morning" Cassidy said hesitantly.
"What?" She didn't remember anything exciting about the morning, aside from Kate being rejected.
"Before school, is Ms. Stokes' room" Cassidy said glancing at Mark.
Destiny laughed, "That was great, so you heard about Kate being rejected?!"
"Uhh, no" Cassidy said slowly, "Everyone says that you're ruining Kate's and Kai's relationship"
"What relationship? I didn't do anything anyway, I just laughed at her" Destiny exclaimed.
"They say that you want to take Kai away from her because you're jealous of her popularity and good looks" Mark said.
"That's ridiculous" Destiny exclaimed angrily.
"That's not all" Cassidy said anxiously. She looked afraid of Destiny. Destiny's silence made her continue.
"So, uh, everyone thinks you're a nasty Canadian Slut" Cassidy said looking down at the table.
"What?" Destiny yelled. This was so not true.
"You should stay away from Kai" Mark warned.
"Why?" Destiny said indignantly.
"It's the way this school works, there are two groups: the losers and the popular people. Kai is one of the popular people and you're a loser." Mark explained irritably.
"Losers? That means you guys are losers," Destiny said doubtfully.
"Yea, most of the school is," he said shaking his head.
"That doesn't mean I can't talk to Kai," she said in annoyance. Besides, its not like she really talked to him anyway. Why was it such a big deal?
"Popular people and losers don't mix," he stated as if it were a fact.
"Why not?" this whole group thing was dumb.
"It's the way it's always been Destiny, just give it up already" he said in exasperation.
She was about to argue, but she decided against it. Arguing with Mark wasn't going to do anything. She had to talk to Kai.
He was sitting at the same table as usual. Only this time, she approached it more confidently.
"Hello Kai" she said in a fake sweet voice.
"Hi" he answered.
"Have you heard any interesting rumors lately?" she asked in that sweet voice again. Every guy at the table was listening. Even Tala who had turned away from his current make out friend.
"Sure" he looked uninterested. That made her feel even angrier.
"Oh really? Nothing about a nasty Canadian slut?" she said the last words through gritted teeth.
"Ignore it," he answered, turning to look her straight in the eye.
"What?" That wasn't what she expected him to say.
"Ignore it, Kate made it up" he said firmly.
"Oh yea, no problem. Everyone thinks I'm some sort of snobby bitch, but I can just ignore the whispers and creepy stares," she said in exasperation. She was pretty sure she was humiliating herself, but she really didn't care. No one thought highly of her anyway.
Kai sighed and shook his head. "What do you want me to do about it?"
She hadn't really thought about that. Could he just tell everyone that it wasn't true? He was the most popular guy after all.
"Well, you could, uh...." She stopped to think. She could tell everyone of those guys thought she was a total retard.
She got it, "Tell everyone what really happened"
"Beat it little girl," said Tala. She glared at him.
"I'm not talking to you" she exclaimed impatiently at the red haired boy.
"Get lost" he rolled his eyes.
"Fine" she cried. She ran off. Tala sure knew how to make someone feel wanted.
For the rest of the day Destiny got stared at, or whispered about. A few people even teased her. By English, she felt like she could cry.
Harolds couldn't have made it any worse though. They all had to do a project on a Shakespeare play....in groups of three. When Destiny though the day couldn't get any worse, she was wrong.
She was paired with Kai. And Tala. Not good. To make it worse, they had to do Taming of the Shrew. A crappy play about some screwed up girl. Not a good sign.
Reluctantly Destiny sat down at Kai's desk. She made sure to sit as far away from Tala as she could.
"We can work on it at my place tonight" Kai said as class ended.
"See ya then Canaslut" Tala laughed as he headed out with Kai. That was his new nickname for her she guessed. Canadian Slut put together made Canaslut. At least he left out the nasty part.
Destiny headed for her locker. What was she supposed to do? Just go straight over to Kai's house? She didn't even know where he lived.
She slowly piled her homework into her blue backpack. What was she gonna do? She saw Kai over by his locker and decided to ask him.
"Umm, when are we working on the project?" she asked keeping away from Tala who was with Kai at the moment.
"After school, I'll drive you to my place" he said shutting his locker, "Let's go"
Destiny followed behind them at a distance. She didn't want anyone to actually think that she was obsessed with Kai.
Kai jumped over the door of his convertible. Sort of like a hockey player jumping over the boards. Destiny hated to admit it, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't hate Kai for not doing anything about that horrible rumor. There was something about him she just forgave him unconditionally. Unconditional forgiveness. Not as catchy as unconditional love, but it still worked.
When she though Tala was going to be a problem, she underestimated. There were three other people getting into Kai's four-seater car. She groaned, this was not going to be fun.
On the bright side, she didn't have to sit beside Tala. He was with two other guys. A purple haired boy names Brian, and a black-haired guy named Ray. Destiny was between Kai and some Michael boy. It was definitely not her idea of comfort. It didn't help that Michael kept touching her 'accidentally'.
Destiny tried to move away from Michael, but it wasn't working. He'd just slide over with her. And now she was being shoved up against Kai AND Michael. She sighed in exasperation.
"Stop it" she shoved Michael, "I'm a 'loser', you're not suppose to associate with me" she said with clear annoyance.
He smirked, snaking an arm around her shoulders, "I won't tell anyone if you don't"
If she was uncomfortable before, it was nothing compared to now. She tried to shrug his arm off, but it only resulted in hid arm slipping down to her waist. She could feel his hold tighten and he pulled her toward him.
"Let me go" she glared at him.
"hmm, Fiesty, I like that" he said slyly. Okay, now he was really scaring her. Didn't anyone notice he was practically assaulting her? She looked around. Obviously not.
Luckily, the car stopped at a huge mansion. Destiny tried to climb out quickly, but Michael's grip wouldn't allow her to. Instead he pulled her out with him.
"Are you guys staying?" Kai asked from the front door.
"I am" Michael said, "If she is"
Michael was creepy. Destiny doesn't like creepy people. She doesn't like Michael.
"I have to work on my English project," she said trying to pull free.
"Kai and tala can do it, why don't we go and spend sometime in one of Kai's guest rooms?" he said with a wink.
"NO" she yelled in his face. This caught Kai's attention.
"Leave her alone Michael" he called out.
Michael didn't let go; instead he put his other arm around her and gripped her firmly around the waist. She tried to pry his hands off.
"Come on Kai, I'm just having some fun with Canaslut" he said smirking slyly.
"She doesn't look like she's enjoying herself, let her go" Kai said firmly. Michael obeyed. Looked like not very many people crossed Kai.
Before she got away though, Michael whispered in her ear. "Don't worry, we'll have some fun later"
Destiny shivered. What was that supposed to mean? Was Michael some sort of rapist? No probably not, he was probably just messing with her.
Destiny didn't top running until they were inside. She let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Scared of Michael?" Tala taunted. She glared at him.
"No" she said boldly. She actually was kind of scared of Michael, but no way was she going to admit it to Tala.
They worked on the project in Kai's room. Which, like his entire house, was huge. It was blue and black with touches of white and silver in the room.
Destiny worked on the designing again. She didn't have the brain for Shakespeare, or any other author for that matter.
It took them until eleven to finish the project, mostly because Tala stopped working to talk to Kai. Destiny learned a lot from sitting there pretending to be focusing on her own task. First she learned that Tala had six girlfriends. Although that didn't come as a surprise. She felt sorry for Kai having to listen to things about each girl. Mostly everything Tala said about the girls was what their body looked like, or sexual stuff like that. She wondered if all Kai's friends were like that? Michael and Tala were, that's for sure.
Kai didn't date very often. That was something else she learned. Tala kept asking Kai why he didn't have a girlfriend. Kai said he doesn't want to date some bitchy slut.
Kai drove her home at the end of the day. Her house looked extremely small when he dropped her off.
"I'll see you tomorrow" she said climbing out.
"Watch out for Michael, he's a liar" Kai warned her.
"Isn't he your friend?" she asked curiously.
"No, he's Tala's friend. Watch out for him though. I don't want him to ruin you" Kai said before driving off.
What was that supposed to mean? Destiny had no clue. But it gave her a lot to think about. At school tomorrow, she would ask him. But right now, she needed to go to sleep. And explain to her mother why she never came home.
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Ok, chapter 3 is done!!! WOOOHOOO 13 pages. It's a long one. I hope you enjoyed it.