Chapter 3: Rumours around

As 6 o' clock drew near, I wandered slowly out through the back door –ignoring the thumping sounds in the living room- and down to Kai's house.

I kicked random pieces of rubbish that flew past me on my way and the slight autumn breeze flowed around me. Shivering I thought about what Chloe had said. She was seriously deep into Kai, but I had a sneaky feeling it wasn't all because of physical attraction (obviously there was some of that) but also because he's rich and stuff. Really, that girl is so… lazy.

I sighed. I guess it made sense: if you haven't got any brains yourself, go after a guy with plenty of them and millions of dollars as well. Namely Kai. But of course, he didn't have any brains and I didn't know how much money he had. I didn't think it could be whole million dollars. Though when I saw his house I started to have my doubts.

I didn't know what to expect, I knew he was rich and all but… when I got there I was in state of shock for at least 30 minutes. The building… was MASSIVE. It was like those really old and grand ones, so I knew it must've been past down form generation to generation or summin.

After a suitably long time staring at his house, I walked over to the gate at press the intercom. This really deep voice said, 'yes? Do you have an appointment miss?' and I was wondering how knew I was a girl until I saw the camera on the top of the wall. I rolled my eyes, didn't anyone in this country know about privacy!

'Um, yeah. Sorta, I'm here to see Kai. He knows I'm coming.'

'Ok, miss.' Then there was this weird buzzing noise before it stopped and the gates opened. Seriously, I would not like to do that every time that I come here for a party. Imagine 20 people crowding around the gates and the guy asking every single one of them for ID or something. That would just be annoying.

I sighed and walk up to the door that was around 100 yards away from me. The space between the gate and the door was taken up by a fountain that was surrounded by different kinds of flowers. It kind of looked like a giant grey lily pad emerging from a pond of green water that had pink and blue dots in it. Once I actually got to the door it opened before I knocked. Kai, Tala and Tala's girlfriend Katie heads poked out from inside.

'Um… hi' I said lamely.

'What are you doing here?' Kai asked. I raised my eyebrows, annoyed.

'You told me to. Science work, remember?' I stressed on the 'remember' like a grown up talking to a little kid who didn't get the simplest things.

'Yeah, yeah. Come in then.'

I stepped inside and looked around. It was a huge hallway with doors at each side and a stairs directly in front, at the very end. He led me into one of the doors on my right that opened to another hallway and went up a flight of stairs here. Then he turned left… right… right… left and then I lost count. I shook my head, feeling oddly separated from Tala, Kai and Katie, who were standing a few paces in front of me. Katie was clinging onto Tala who was talking to Kai about random stuff that I didn't know about. I sighed and then relaxed slightly when we entered his study.

The room was messy, as I had expected, with books and pens everywhere. It gave me the impression that, despite appearances, Kai was a hard worker and lived to the expectations that his family set for him. I sat down in the seat next to his plunged my hand into my sling-side bag before drawing my own text and exercise books out of there and placing it on the table. I rolled my eyes. It was obvious that it would be me doing all the work and Kai sitting around, doing exactly nothing.

The Tala said, 'Er, Kai? Can me and Katie go down to your room… to get a CD?'

Kai looked at him directly in the eye. 'You're not doing ANYTHING in my room. Find yourself a cupboard. Oh, and be useful, could you get me a glass of water when you're finished?'

Tala grinned at him and he grinned back. Well. He looked less serious. Tala flicked his red locks slightly before grabbing Katie's hand and leaving the room with her.

I looked at Kai before turning back to me work. It was obvious to me that he wasn't a guy who liked to talk. Then he spoke. 'Why did you tell the Paul that you're my girlfriend?' he asked me, not even turning his head around to look at me since he was busy staring at a picture of the sunset that was framed above his desk.

I blinked at him, confused. 'I didn't tell anyone I was your girlfriend. Who's Paul anyways?'

'The guy who answers the intercom. And he said that you're my girlfriend.'

'Well I said that you were expecting me.' I couldn't help but add, 'you're wrong.'

He looked slightly angry. 'I'm never wrong. I make mistakes, I'm not wrong.' I raised my eyebrows and placed my pen down before standing up and moving so I could see directly into the slate grey eyes that looked so harsh set in his face. 'What are you doing!' Pushing me roughly back.

'Just seeing whether you're crazy or just plain arrogant.' I said, crossing my arms and sitting back down on the seat.

'Well, I'm neither so you can stop worrying.'

'Oh, I'm not worried.'

This time Kai raised his eyebrows. 'Here, I'll help you with your work.'

'Hey, it's your work too. And you were supposed to help me in the first place.' I snapped at him, with an edge of annoyance in it. He just smirked. Argh, his face is so annoyingly flawless.

He leaned in to help me, picking up a pencil and running in gently over the notes that I had wrote. 'Do you even know what the periodic table is?'

'Of course I have!' I told him, offended.

'Then what is "wood" doing in it?' he muttered, raising his eyebrow.

I gasped, and then looked down. Damn! I got them mixed up! Argh, that is so annoying. 'It was an accident and it wouldn't if you had actually been doing something.' Ok, so it was childish. I guess I just don't like to say it was actually my fault.

He smirked at me. 'It's ok little baby' he said. I stuck my tongue out at him. God, I'm so immature. 'Let me just get my pen' he muttered and reach around me to get it, but his arm sort of… got wrapped around me as he reached around. I was going to get the arm off, really I was! But I was distracted by the feeling in me that... that kind of liked having his arm around me so instead I breathed in and turned my head slightly to the side so it was resting against his shoulder and he didn't move away. I guess I might've let he head stay there a bit too long because there was a sort of gasp at the door so I turned round and who should stand there but Katie and Tala.

I gaped at her. Seriously she couldn't think that I was flirting with Kai! HE was the one with the arm around ME! And he was just getting his pen. Of course it didn't help that I had actually had my head against him.

I didn't really want to stay and see what was going to happen, as Tala was already looking at me with his eyebrow raised, so I grabbed my stuff and shoved it into my sling-side bag and muttered something about getting milk from the shop for me mum and rushed straight out of there, then remembered that I didn't know how to get out of there. Luckily I met a guy who wandered out of one of the rooms and he showed me the way out of the main gate (there's MORE gates!)

I sighed to myself when I reached my road. I couldn't be trusted to go ANYWHERE near Kai anymore. Not knowing that Chloe was watching and now Katie's gone and told her what she had seen, as I'm sure she would but she would've made it so it would've been like

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I could tell that Katie had told from the moment that I saw them the next day. It was just before registration when the teacher hadn't arrived yet. They were talking in the corner and when I walked in Chloe glared right at me and said to Katie, while still looking at me, 'well I knew she was a slut the moment I saw her.' Really loudly so half of the room heard. I thought was a very hypocritical thing to say because I knew that she definitely went out with many more boyfriends then me and lost her virginity way before me. Well I'm still a virgin and she's not. Tell the difference. Being friends with Mariah means you know a lot about other people. Seriously, she has the biggest mouth I've ever met.

Chloe had a gang of bitches sneering at me whenever I went past and whispering loudly words like 'slut' and 'whore' and by lunchtime I was really sick of it. I think it might've showed 'cause when I went to sit down, I slammed by tray so hard that my orange juice spilt over the side of the cup and threatened to drip off the table onto my bag.

Jo looked from the cup to my very angry face. 'You're only satisfying her by getting angry, you know'

'Easy for you to say,' I moaned to her, picking at my sandwich irritably, 'you're not the one who has half in our year calling you a slut behind your back and don't you think that Chloe is just over reacting a little bit! Ha, understatement of the century.'

Mariah looked at me. 'Nobody actually knows what really happened, only you, Kai, Katie and Tala. All the rest are just pretending that they do so they get into Chloe's good books so we can't call her over reacting, and we don't know how bad the thing is that she's reacting over.'

'Two things' I muttered to her unhappily, 'one, improve your grammar, it's no wonder that you only got 60 in your English test and two, what do you mean that nobody knows what's going on is only trying to get into Chloe's good books? Is she some crazy dictator or something?'

'Sort of. She likes to think of herself as the most popular, most amazing female in the entire school and has the whole population of guys at her feet but the only reason why she's had so many boyfriends is because she's easy to get in bed.' Ray explained.

'Yeah, you would know.' Mariah muttered sourly.

'That was in y7! I wasn't gonna sleep with her then.' Ray said wearily. 'Besides,' his eyes twinkling at her, 'you're the only girl for me.' Mariah giggled and the two of the immediately started kissing.

I rolled my eyes. 'Hello! I'm trying to me moody and upset here, I really can't do that well if there are people displaying happy and affectionate emotions in front of me.'

'What exactly happened anyways?' Enrique asked me.

'Well… it's actually not that bad. Basically me and Kai were talking and he reached out to get the pen, his arm going around me and Katie walked in when it was still around my shoulders.' I answered him, carefully missing out the whole me-resting-my-head-on-his-shoulder thing.

'Why didn't Kai just reach in front of you for the pen?'

I shrugged at him. 'I don't know. It doesn't really make a difference; Katie probably would've said that he was feeling my breasts.'

A snotty voice came behind me. 'He felt your boobs as well?' I knew who it was. Only a true bitch could have that snotty and that squeaky a voice. 'Well you're even more of a slut then I thought.' I turned around to look at her. She looked directly at my chest. 'Not that there would've been much to feel there though.'

I sighed, trying to calm myself. 'Drop dead Chloe,' I said lightly, 'I couldn't care less about what you thought of me.' She frowned and motioned for the girls behind to move away with her. Once she had gone I breathed a sigh of relief. I turned to back. 'Have I really got a flat chest?' I asked worried. It wasn't really a part of me that I paid extra attention to but having a girl who probably wears black lacy wonderbras telling you have nothing in the chest department can get you paranoid.

'Relax.' Tyson slurped his strawberry milkshake, 'You have really big boobs.'

'WHAT!'

'Ok, that didn't come out right. I meant that you don't have to worry, your just normal.' He said absent-mindedly.

I narrowed my eyes at him. 'Why have you been looking?' I growled.

He blushed bright red. 'I don't mean I've been looking, just that… oh God.'

Everyone laughed as I throw the rest of my sandwich at him, which he took and stuffed into his mouth. I groaned. 'If Chloe's trying to get me paranoid then she's doing a very good job. Why can't she go torture Kai?'

'Because he's her king.' Jo explained. 'She feels by you so she's trying to say "back off, he's mine. If you don't go you'll pay the price"'

'She's already said that. And I'm not going near him, the only feeling I have for him is hate and that's all.'

'Why do you hate him?' Mariah asked for she had surfaced for air and to see Chloe.

'He should've said something to her to make her stop and I've heard enough about him to chop his head off.' I stabbed the other half of my sandwich as I spoke. Jo rolled her eyes and muttered something that sounded a lot like 'prejudice' but I ignored her.

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I stared in disgust at the gym kit the PE department had lent me. I now understood why Miriam had told me to bring my own PE shorts. Because the school ones weren't shorts! They were knickers! I threw them on the floor. 'Miss you can't make me wear that.' I grumbled to her.

She folded her arms and looked at me sternly. 'That is the proper school kit. It isn't expectable for you to come 15 minutes late to a lesson and tell the teacher that you refuse to wear the kit that we have given you. Now put it on.'

I sighed in a defeated way. 'Ok.' I knew what I was going to do; once she left I would get out of the PE department and spend the rest of 4th period free to do whatever I want.

She put her hands on her hips. 'Now.'

My jaws dropped as I realised what she was saying. I was to get changed. In front of her. I groaned, could this day go any worse?

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This chapter has been rewritten as well so I won't say the normal 'please review' that I usually do.