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When lunch came walked over to the same table she sat at everyday since her first day of freshmen year with most of her friends. Tina and George didn't sit with them anymore, Tina sat with her basketball buddies and George with his girlfriend but they were still friends. Liza and Katie still sat with Kim and that was most important.
Kim wasn't really popular but had a fairly big group of friends that didn't really fit into a particular stereotype, and that was how she liked things. Her best friends were Katie and Liza.
After Kim dumped out her sack lunch and swapped the apple for a banana and a cupcake for a cookie she looked over to Jared's table. His table definitely had a stereotype, popular, hot guys who were all absolutely out of Kim's league. Especially Jared, who Kim was pretty dang, sure was the one true love of her life.
He was sitting at his table with his usual friend only Jacob Black, who he was real good friends with was sitting on the opposite side of the table with a couple other guys from Jared's group of friends. It was like there was some weird invisible line down the table. And to add to the twilight zone feel Jacob had just gotten back after a two weeklong absence. Rumor was he had gotten mono, but just a really mild case.
But that didn't explain the segregation at the table. And while Kim pondered this she suddenly noticed Paul was missing, which was weird. Briefly I thought maybe he'd gone to the library to work on his report but I'd known him since primary school, he didn't have that kind of work ethic.
Liza caught Kim staring over at their table, her mouth open slightly. "Oh Kimmy darling…" She called in a singsong voice. "You looking at the hot, hot eye candy again?" She giggled at her own comment.
"Shut up!" I snapped. "Besides Jared isn't…hot. Movie stars are hot, jocks are hot, Jared is handsome…so very handsome." She sighed before looking back at him while eating her cookie barely hearing Liza's muttering under her breath.
"Man sometimes I forget just how bad you have it girl." But Kim ignored the comment and just continued to gape trying to limit myself to furtive glances but failing completely.
"Oh my goodness Kim did you hear?" Katie asked bursting in on Kim's pensive mood as she sat down right across from her, ten minuets late for lunch.
"Hear what?" Kim asked barely managing to pry her gaze away from the beautiful guy she had been staring at.
"Oh my goodness obviously not! I just heard from Lola who heard from David who heard from Rusty who was in the hall when Paul was arguing with Jake about something the only words he could catch were from Paul something along the lines of 'I wont, it isn't my job! You deal with the leeches.' and then he just stared shaking like a mad man. And then Jake, Jake Black you know? He whispers something to him and tried to grab his arm and Paul shakes him off and bolts like super fast. I've asked and no one seems to understand what the leeches are all about but yeah…talk about drama!" She rushed out the words in like two breaths max. But Kim had known Katie long enough to catch it all. You know how news spreads like wild fire at school? Well at Quilet Tribe High Katie was the reason.
"I was wondering where he'd gotten to." Kim muttered the words but still wished she could eat them back up. Luckily Katie let the comment slide. She knew about my obsession of Jared, and how sometimes that meant his friends too.
After the bell rang Kim tossed her bag in the trash and shoved the banana in her pocket, Mr., Garcia let his students eat in his class and Kim was always hungry come sixth period. So she saved something for that class just like every other day of her school career.
Art was Kim's favorite class, Jared may have sat just behind her but this was the one time it didn't matter, he couldn't get to her there, her palms didn't sweat, she could pay attention with ease and think clearly. Kim loved art. It was her paradise, her one true release where she could let the world know who she was and how she felt in a way that was beautiful, even if she expressed her anger or fears.
Today was a free project day. The got to use whatever medium they wanted and make whatever they wanted. Or work on homework, which was a project they got a week to work on at home or during days like today and then we handed it in at the start of class the day it was due. Kim was almost done so she was going to finish this weekend because she had decided to do a landscape of the cliffs where a lot of people went cliff diving and liked to see it while she drew it.
So today she just drew without really thinking, it was her favorite way to work, like meditating for the artistic. It let her express something deeper than if she thought too much. About ten minutes in she looked to see what she had done. It was a large chocolate brown wolf. It was really beautiful, just lying on the ground staring out, a beautiful slim crescent moon above. Its eyes though were… odd but beautiful, almost human like but more, pure. And it was huge in comparison to the tree drawn beside it, like the size of a bear. Jacob walked past at that moment but halted, looking at the drawing.
"Uh…Kim right?" He asked sounding kind of odd.
"Yeah."
"What…I mean where…your picture…it's really good, where'd you get the idea?" He finally managed to say.
"Oh, I dunno really. I just kind of drew it. It's a wolf I guess, but just, big like a bear." I laughed dryly, "Like it's mythical or something…" At the word mythical he took in a sharp breath. And as Kim looked up at him she noticed just how tall and muscled Jacob Black had gotten while he was away…in fact all the boys who had been sitting with Jake today looked similar to how he did now…
"But you've never seen a wolf...that big right?" his voice wary.
"No, never."
"Oh, well its still cool." And then he just walked away. Weird was all Kim managed to think. Jake rarely talked to her, more than Jared, sure, but still not a lot. And then it was mostly "Do you have a spare pencil?" Or something similar to that, but Kim finally just decided not to dwell on it. He probably had a phobia of wolves and worried there were giant wolves lurking about La Push or something.
Kim managed to finish her drawing by the end of class and tucked it under her arm, praying it wasn't raining so the colors wouldn't run on her way to biology.