It was Hope! Right there in front of my class was Hope! I couldn't believe it. Her seat was two chairs in front of mine. I scribbled down a note and had the kid in front of me pass it to Hope.

Hope opened the note and sat up, but I saw her shoulders suddenly sag down, like she was sad or something. I heard paper crumble and she threw something into the trash can. Was it my note?

She never replied to the letter, and when class ended she was the first one out the door.

"Odd!" I heard Ulrich behind me as I walked down the hallway.

"Hey Ulrich." I said and tried to smile

"What's wrong?" He asked

"Hope's back." I said

"Okay… I thought you like her though."

"I do, but I wrote her a note and she didn't answer me."

"Odd, what did you write?" Ulrich asked

"I wrote 'hey Hope, I haven't seen you for a while, how are you?'" I explained.

"Did you tell her who wrote it?"

"Well… no. I had the guy in front of me hand it to her."

"Odd," Ulrich sighed, "did you ever think that maybe he was some one she didn't get along with?"

"No…" I never thought of that.

"That make you feel any better?" Ulrich asked

"Yeah," I said, "she isn't mad at me, she's just mad at the guy in front of me."

"Possibly; I've got good news though. The office made a mistake on my schedule; I have P.E. third period now."

"Yeah! That's when I have P.E!" Things are looking better and better now.

At lunch I met up with Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremy in the cafeteria. I found out from Yumi that we can eat anywhere in the school as long as we don't make a mess. We all walked around the school while we ate our food. That's when I saw Hope again. She was under a tree with Samantha and the three other girls she hung out with. I opened my mouth to call her, but a tall guy with red hair like hers had walked up behind her and kissed her. No biggy, I though, Hope will slap him. But she didn't. Instead she let him wrap his arms around her and hold her close to him.

I felt a sharp pain in my heart as I watched her kiss him. Apparently Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremy saw it to.

"Odd…" Ulrich started.

"It's okay." I lied, "Besides, I never actually asked her out…. So I guess he beat me to it."

I started to walk off when I heard some one call, "Hey blondie!"

I looked over to see Rei waving then Samantha kicked her shin. They looked like they were arguing then Rei signaled for us to come over.

"Do you want to?" Yumi asked.

"Yeah…" I wanted to meet this guy, just to make sure it wasn't another guy like Tom.

"Hey Odd." Hope muttered and looked down.

"Hi…" I could tell by the look in her eyes that something was wrong.

"So who are your friends?" Anna asked

"This is Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremy. Guys this is Anna, Rei, Sydney, and Samantha."

"We met." Samantha and Yumi said at the same time.

"This is Xan." Hope muttered as she pointed at the boy who was holding her.

Jeremy, Yumi, and Ulrich looked at each other for a moment as Xan put his hand out to me.

"…Pleasure…" He gripped my hand.

"Yeah…" I gripped back, trying to grip harder.

I didn't like the look in his eyes; they sent chills up my spine.

"Well it's been nice chatting with you Odd," Samantha said as she started to push Xan and Hope, "But we have stuff to do."

"Bye Hope." I said

I know she muttered something, but I didn't hear it. The look in her eyes though… I just knew something was wrong.

(a/n: I'm so sorry peoples, I thought I had posted it but I didn't, so to apologize I'm writing the third chapter now.)