A/N: Okay so things get awkward in this chapter and Cris may seem like a bi of a bitch at the end but it's important for the story line ... Okay and I'm quite evil and want to see your reactions :)

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Chapter 8: A beautiful thing is never perfect...

When they got to registration most of the seats were already taken but it didn't matter as Sir was bound not to show up so they all went to the back of the classroom. Cris noticed the seat next to Jem was taken by Kaelie, a blonde slut, who seemed to be cosy-ing up to Jem. Jem avoided eye contact with her. Weird she thought, why would Jem be ignoring her, practically pretending she didn't exist? Not only was he ignoring her he was letting one of the biggest sluts in the school flirt with him. Ugh, she thought he had standards.

As they reached the back work top, Cris slid herself on it and the girls stared at the expectantly. "What?" she asked "You all already knew what happened you were watching," she said innocently. The girls looked at each other in surprise, "Oh come on, you really didn't think that I thought you were not going to watch," she said as if it was obvious, and it kind of was. "Why did you do that?" Katniss asked "Not know we'll talk at my house after school," Cris said and they all nodded, this was not a conversation she wanted to be having now or ever.

"Simon's pissed at you," Hazel says oh shit, that was all she needed. Cris opened her mouth surprised at her words. Jem, now Simon. Jeez, I cannot get a break. She looked surprisingly at them and they gave her a look that said Jesus-girl-it's so-obvious. She sighed and saw Sebastian staring at her. She sighed and the girls noticed this as well and Clary said "Christ Sebastian, if you keep on staring we'll charge you" rather loudly so that the whole class laughed. Sebastian went to stand up and probably argue with Clary, when the bell for first period went.

"Ugh" she groaned "Languages" all the girls laughed and agreed with this but seriously who needed Latin nowadays. But the one advantage to this was Cris got to sit next to Jem, now they had a seating plan so they couldn't get out of this, which means Cris can find out why Jem is ignoring her. The one disadvantage to the seating plan was that on the other side of Cris sat Jamie. Oh crap, yay, how awkward is this going to be.

When she got to the room the girls had separated because they were in different classes, so Cris, Hazel and Katniss walked into the room together. The teacher wasn't here yet so everyone should've been talking but when they walked, the whole room went silent and they all stared at them. They all looked to each other with confused expressions.

Giving up wondering why, they all walked to their places which again were on different sides of the room. She sighed and reluctantly sat down in her seat, Jem didn't even look as if he knew she was there but Jamie looked at her and smirked. She looked towards the class who were all looking at the interactions going on. Some were looking angry, some jealous, some confused and the rest looked interested. Cris slumped down in her seat.

"Don't look so down, Cris" he said mockingly. Cris turned her head and scowled at him, he of course carried on unaffected "I, for one, had a great morning, probably best ever," he said a smirk plastered on his face. She sat up looking stunned and was about to slap him when the teacher walked in. "Miss Jones" he almost shouted "Keep your hands to yourself," Mr Aldertree actually shouted almost making her cringe from the noise. Everyone hates Aldertree he shouts almost everything and gives you detention for no reason.

"I don't mind, you can touch me all you want" he whispers seductively in her ear that makes Cris want to puke. Jem looks over at what Jamie says, his face and eyes unreadable as if he couldn't be less interested but there was a flicker of something in those glistening silver eyes as he stared at Cris for her reaction. She goes for the second best option: Cris stamps on his foot and he lets a little yelp. Sir had already started the lesson and he stops at Jamie's reaction. Sir turns around slowly, sighing "What is it now, Mr Campbell?" Cris smiles at this and Jamie starts to argue but Aldertree stops him by lifting his hand up. "I don't want either of your excuses," he says looking at both Jamie and Cris. "What the hell have I done?" Cris exclaims, see why everyone hates him.

"Distracting students by using your feminine charms, Miss Jones, is not being a good role model" Cris was stunned at this her mouth open in shock, oh yeah she thought he was also a sexist pig and thought every woman was using her 'feminine charms' to destroy everything men had worked for. Jeez that was one long lesson, Cris thought thinking back to her first lesson with him. "Yn gyntaf, sy'n ddiawl gofalu am fod yn fodel rôl da. Yn ail sut oedd yr cynnig gydag ef, yr oedd ef yn cynnig â mi!" Cris rants in Welsh which is lucky, really, because no one else knew Welsh apart from Cris. She could have chosen any language, because she weirdly speaks different languages when she is angry, but normally she would choose Welsh as it was her first language.

"Miss Jones, may I remind you, it I don't like it when students speak any other languages apart from English or Latin" you'd be surprised how many times he has said this in lessons. "But sir" she argued but was cut off by Aldertree who raised his hand and said "I've had enough of you and your species Miss Jones, please leave" 'species' what was she a dog, actually he probably thought all women were female dogs. She stood up without hesitation, her chair scrapping the floor, and she stormed out of the room. It was Jamie's fault anyway, why should she get sent out for it?

She stood her back leaning against the wall for about five minutes when Aldertree came out and said "Miss Jones , once again, you are distracting my class, please got to Mrs Branwell's office" Now luckily this was Charlotte but she was getting sent to the head's for people staring at her. As she looked back in the room she saw all of the boys, albeit Jem who was looking at the desk, staring at her with amazement and all of the girls looking slightly proud, that she stood up to him even though she didn't, and jealous. Jesus, what she wouldn't give to be someone else, if you want to be me, go ahead because I don't want the role she thought as she trudged to Charlotte's office.

"Miss Jones, wait" Cris stopped half way down the hall and turned around. Aldertree walked up to her and stopped "Miss Jones, you know you have to have a chaperone," Cris sighs at this. "Okay then tell the 'chaperone' to hurry up, I'm not waiting all day" Cris said saying chaperone in a mocking tone like Aldertree was using. "Mr Carstairs, will you speed up" he said and Cris froze. Though this was bound to be awkward at least she may find out why Jem is ignoring her. A voice inside the back of her mind says he saw you with Jamie, that's why she dismissed this thought thinking Jem doesn't like me that way, so why would he be upset. She felt as if her subconscious was banging its head against a wall in frustration.

Jem then came out if the classroom not exactly looking pleased. Cris sighed, as Aldertree waddled back into the room, and Jem stormed ahead. He was quite a bit taller than Cris, at 6,3", I mean 4 inches taller and Cris was considered tall, this meant that he had longer legs that could walk a hell lot faster especially when he was angry which he was now. "Jem!" she called out hoping he would turn around, stop or at least slow down. He didn't do any of them he kept on as he had so that she had to jog to keep up with him "Jem!" Cris said catching his arm, he tried to keep on walking but she was persistent and didn't let go of his arm.

"Jem, please tell me why you're ignoring me" she pleaded and at that he looked down at her, Cris could see anger, sadness and restraint clearly flickering in his eyes. "Cris please don't, just don't" Jem said looking away from her. Cris moved so that she could look Jem in the face again and continued "Please, James," and before she could continue Jem turned to face his eyes glistening. "Don't" he started and anger filled Cris. "Stop telling me to stop doing things, please just tell me James" he then made a noise of restraint "Say my name again" he whispered "I like the way it sounds on your lips" Now Cris was confused why was he acting like this she didn't understand.

"Just tell me why you're angry with me?" she begged ignoring what he said. He seemed to snap out of whatever he was in and he said quietly "You know full well why" she wondered then what she had done to offend him in any way. "No I don't, I wouldn't be asking if I did" Cris said in a frustrated manner. Jem sighed and said so quietly Cris struggled to her him "I saw you in the court yard with Jamie" oh crap she thought how many people had been perving on them? "You were spying on me, Jem I thought" Jem cut her off again "You don't seem to know anything" he said his voice rough but he continued nearly shouting "I saw him kiss you" his voice was strained now "And I saw you kiss him back"

Cris was stunned, her hand flew to her mouth, she was shocked as Jem continued, sounding as if he was trying to hold in emotion. "I always come second place and I suppose I always will, I am always the one friend-zoned because people like Jamie get there first" he sounded hurt as he spoke "Is that who you want me to be because I am not him, nor would I want to be but god dammit Cris why are you so blind, why can't you see that I like you?" he stammered then realising what he had said.

Cris couldn't help but feel shocked at his words, Tessa had even said he liked her but Cris couldn't conceive the thought. "And I know I'm his friend which is exactly why I'm angry because I swear I want you so badly and knowing you're his is killing me so much that I can't stand to speak to you or even look at you because all I want to do is kiss you" he swallowed and Cris swore she had stopped breathing. "James, I am not Jamie's, nor do I think I ever will be" she said in a small voice. "He blackmailed me into kissing him and he told me that it would be over quicker if I just kissed him back" Jem searched her face to see if she was lying, surprise clear on his face.

"Well that's not what he says" Jem says coldly, clearly referring to Jamie, he started towards the office again. Her hand whipped out and grabbed his wrist pulling her towards her. He unwillingly came and said softly "Jamie likes you, you know" while once again she was surprised but she didn't show it instead she looked at him in the eye and he seemed to be staring at her lips while biting his bottom lip. She could see the argument going on in his head through his eyes.

"I don't care, I don't want him" she said and he started to lean down towards her. Cris tilted her head up and leaned in. When their lips touched she felt Jem lean in further and she felt electricity run through her veins and she looped her arms round his neck and pulled him in further. He groaned against her lips at this and they hit the lockers behind Cris making her breath escape her lungs. At this she felt the restraint leave him as he curled his arms around her waist and pulled her even closer to him leaving the gap between them very much non-existent. His mouth now moved hungrily over hers and she didn't hesitate to reciprocate his actions. Their lips moved together in perfect synchronisation and he tasted like burnt sugar which she thought was heavenly.

She pulled back then for breath and they were both now breathing heavily against each other. When she had pulled back Jem didn't let her get very much space, maybe a few centimetres, and he whispered against her mouth "Ni hen piao liang" she didn't know mandarin, which was his native language and what she guessed was the language he was using, but she didn't want to ask him what it meant in fear she would ruin the moment.

After about a minute of staying like this, she pulled out of Jem's embrace and started walking to the office, what had she done she thought fighting the urge to face palm. She was confused now, she had always thought of Jem as a friend and she didn't know what to make to this. When she got to the door to the office, she brought up her hand to knock when she saw silver out of the corner of her eye. He was still standing in the same place she had left him, with a distraught look on his face. Guilt rose up inside her and she felt tears prick her eyes as he probably thought she was using him, and she didn't really know what she was doing, just that she didn't want it to stop. Finally she knocked on the door and Charlotte opened it and ushered her in.

Translations: Once again translations may be wrong

Welsh:

Yn gyntaf, sy'n ddiawl gofalu am fod yn fodel rôl da. Yn ail sut oedd yr cynnig gydag ef, yr oedd ef yn cynnig â mi! - Firstly, who the hell cares about being a good role model. Secondly how was I flirting with him, he was flirting with me!

Mandarin:

Ni hen piao liang – you are very beautiful (If you've read TID you should notice the quote J )