A.N- while I was writing this I was listening to "makes me happy- Matt White band" and " crash into me- Dave Matthews band" it might flow better if you do the same! I'm going to try updating more often!
2nd day of school-
Anakin looked at her from across the room, and gave her thumbs up to signal that his plan was working. Padme just rolled her eyes and gave him a sarcastic smile. He hadn't ever seen anything cuter before in his entire life. Ani loved when people were sarcastic with him, and when girls got mad and all up in your face about it. He quietly laughed to himself about it for a moment before he realized everyone in the class was looking at him for support about their plan to escape 5th period. He looked up with amused eyes and flexed his muscles to tell them to keep working. This had happened many times before and they all knew that signal. Suddenly the bell rang 15 minutes early and the teacher kind of look confused while telling everyone to stay seated. Too late! Everyone had already left and were thanking Ani. Most people were going to make-out somewhere or smoke in the parking lot or something but he knew where he was going, he was going where he always went after a class…his locker of course! Just kidding, he was going to copy Padme's assignment because he knew the teacher would come looking for him because he had been the only one who hadn't turned it in when the bell rang early. "How did you do it?" was everybody's main concern right now and they weren't keeping it to themselves. Ani was basically pushing away people by the herd (well, not really, but he felt like it) and he couldn't even tell them his secret! They think he, like, made the bell ring with his mind or something… but in truth he just told one of the other teachers that there was a scheduled fire drill they had forgotten about, and being the gullible, scatter-brained teacher he had told, she believed him….so Anakin convinced her to tell the principal to change it and to his surprise, they did! But he for sure couldn't tell his peers about this! That would be a disgrace to his reputation. Knocking him out of his train of thought, someone bumped into him and he (knowing it was one of the people who wanted to know what happened) pushed her away.
"What was that for, loser?" came his best friend's voice.
"Oh… MY MISTAKE!" Anakin replied while tackling Padme to the ground.
"Stop it! Ani! Stop! This floor is so gross! EWW I think I just touched somebody's old gum!" Padme playfully exclaimed while everyone was shouting rudely at them to get a room. Padme used to not particularly like this, because it made her feel uncomfortable, but she was used to it by now. She kind of got privileges, being the center of Anakin's attention (not as a friend, but as a best friend, of course!) There were some bad things, like whenever she had sleepovers in the 7th grade it was weird because her two closest friends were guys, so they couldn't come. But there were definitely a lot of good things, too. Guys wouldn't dare mistreat Padme anymore because they knew what would happen to them….they would have a bloody nose, is what! People were kind of afraid to talk to her, but they had to, because they had to be nice to her. Sometimes it felt weird, but most of the time it felt good for guys to fight over whom would hold the door open for her. Padme really believes in chivalry from guys, and though it was always given from Ani (holding the door, opening the car door) she liked it when other guys were nice. Most of the people at her school were the epitome of the typical high school guy, wanting to get in your pants, so when she saw them act nice, it was a real treat. But back to what she was thinking about before, people were still shouting at them to get a room and making kissing noises, even though all Ani did was tackle her. People always came up and told both of them that they are cute together and need to date, and they both act like they are tired of hearing it. That's a lie though, because secretly, they were both flattered. Padme loved Anakin (as a friend) because he took care of her; he really did, whether anyone could tell, because from the outside it would look like she took care of him…but he kept her sane. And Anakin loved the thought of people admiring him and his best bud, he knew everybody was jealous of them, mainly of her, and he liked that. He really believed she was the best person he would ever know; she was beautiful, and nice to EVERYBODY. Now, how many people are there like that? They were both truly grateful for each others friendships. They were both thinking this over when the next bell rang and suddenly Ani stood from where he was tackling Padme and extended his hand to her. She took it gratefully and was pulled up. The two of them walked to their next class to find that nobody was in it except for the teacher who reminded them it was class picture day. Padme said a very grateful "thank you" while Anakin placed his hands on her shoulders and led her out of the room; and they were on their way to "class pictures".
When they got there Ani merely replied with a "this will be fun…" while Padme ran over to talk with Camille. After a while they got situated in their places (Ani behind Padme, Padme next to Camille, Obi behind Camille and next to Ani.) The pictures took about 5 minutes and the photographer told them he had one more picture to do. Of course, Ani looked over at the group and told everybody to do a funny picture, and at the moment, it was the "cool thing" to kiss in pictures. So what do they do? Well, the picture will be of some people making out, but regarding "the group"… it will be Obi kissing Camille's cheek and her wide green eyes expanded in a "ohmigosh you did not just kiss me in public" look in them…and Anakin caringly kissing the top of Padme's head and her sweetly looking up at him. Man, nobody wanted that pic to be the one to make it in the yearbook because they thought they looked pretty hot in it, but they were all really jealous of Padme. After all, that was the sweet girl who was best friends with the hot guy.
