Miley's POV:
"Is he new?" I whispered to Nick.
"I think. I haven't seen him around"
Our question was repeated.
"Are you new?" our teacher asked him.
"Uh, yeah. I'm a transferred student" he answered.
"Well, take a seat next to Nick and Miley" he said pointing to where we were.
"Ok" he replied.
"Wait a minute. What's your name?" the teacher asked.
"Jake Ryan, sir" he said and sat down next to me.
"Hi, I'm Miley" I said sticking my hand out then pointed to Nick "And that's Nick"
"I'm Jake" he said smiling.
"Class, listen. As I was saying, you're gonna have a project today"
"Can we pick out our partners?" Jimmy, the noisiest student in the class asked.
"No, I already picked out the pairs" he said then held up a piece of paper "These are the pairs. I'm just gonna read it"
He read the list and I waited. I just hoped that I would be Nick's partner.
"Miley Stewart, since you are the best student in our class and Jake is the new student, I want you to be his partner"
I opened my eyes widely and looked at Nick, then looked at Jake then looked back at the teacher.
"Got any problem?" he asked.
"No, sir" I mumbled to myself.
"Good. Nick, seeing as how Miley is not your partner, you're gonna be Laura's" he said and Nick almost jumped in the air. Laura was the one he had had a crush on since last year.
"Ok" he said happily and turned to Jake "Thank you so much" then he ran to Laura. She smiled and talked to him.
"Why did he have to thank me?" Jake whispered to me.
"Because you came, so I have to pair with you, he will get to pair with Laura over there. He has had a huge crush on her" I explained.
"Oh" he finally said.
The whole period we worked on the frog that we were given. Time passed by.
"Ok, we'll continue next time. Dismiss" yelled when the bell rang.
I put my books into my bag and waited for Nick. He was still talking to Laura. I still waited, patiently. Finally, when he was done, he walked to me, still looking at Laura. I raised my eyebrows.
"Nick, be careful or you're gonna crash into a desk or something" I warned. He turned around with a dreamy face.
"With that dreamy face, doesn't need to turn away, just look straight ahead, he still can be crashed into things" I mumbled then turned to Jake "So, what do you have next?"
"Uhhhh, lunch, music, Algebra and History" he said as he looked at his schedule.
"OMG, me too" I exclaimed.
"Maybe we should go together" Nick suggested. I looked at him raising my eyebrow, again.
"When did you wake up from your beatiful dream in which I know that Laura got a big part?" I asked him. He glared at me "Let's go. The others must be waiting"
I led Jake to the cafeteria. After getting the food, I went to the table where we usually sat. They were there. Kevin was reading one of his books, Lilly and Oliver were arguing about something and Joe……ugh, that jerk, I don't wanna talk about him.
"Lilly, Oliver, Kevin" I said ignoring Joe.
"Hey guys" Nick said glaring at me.
"Hey Nick, and who are you?" Joe asked Jake, also ignored me.
"Joe, I know you guys can't stand each other, but if you can't even remember her name, then it's really rude" Kevin said looking up from his book.
"Who are you?" he asked as he saw Jake.
"This is Jake Ryan" I said introducing him to everyone " Jake, this is Kevin, Nick's older brother, Oliver and Lilly" I completely ignored Joe.
"And this is Joe, my other older brother. He's younger than Kevin" Nick added, continued to glare at me.
"So, you're new, huh?" Oliver asked.
"Yeah. I'm just tranferred from East Coast middle school" he said.
"Hey, my cousin goes there" Kevin exclaimed.
"Really?" Nick asked him confusing.
"Yeah, Lauren, remember her?"
"Oh, right. She's the same age with us" Nick said.
"Same? Wait a minute, I think I know her. She's my ex-girlfriend" Jake exclaimed.
"Well, yeah. She has had over 10 boyfriends for now. She always got dumped" Joe said understanding.
"Yeah, she admitted it to me" Jake said remembering all the memories.
"So now you're in the same class with Nick and Miley, huh?" Kevin asked him.
"Yeah, Biology, Music, Algebra and History" he answered.
"Cool" Lilly exclaimed.
"How about you guys?" Jake asked Lilly and Oliver.
"I'm in the same Algebra class with you" Lilly answered.
"History" Oliver replied.
"Cool"
Then the bell rang. Lunch was over. Nick, Jake and I went to the Music class. Once we got in, we talked for a while. Nick and I tried to find out more about Jake. We kept talking till the teacher, , walked in.
"Ok, as I had informed you yesterday, today, you're gonna have to pick 2 partners and write a song. This would be count as the final exam" she said.
"So you mean we won't have to do the final exam?" Tommy, a student in our class asked her.
"Your exam will be performing the song you wrote" she answered.
"So, we have to whole semester to finish the song?" he continued.
"Yeah" she replied then turned to the others "Any other questions?"
"Will we get to pick our own partners?" Tommy still didn't give up.
"Yes. In case you don't like my settings, you will the whole period today to pick out the partners" she said as she sat down and read a book. The whole class got out of their seats and asked the others to partners with them.
"So, you wanna be partners?" I asked Jake and Nick.
"You don't have to ask. Of course I'll always be my best friend's partner" Nick said proudly.
"You?" I turned to Jake.
"Well, since I'm new here, and you guys are the nicest students to me, of course" he answered with a smile.
"Hey Miley" Tommy's voice came from behind me, I turned around "Well, I was just wondering, if, you know, be my partner?" he asked. He glanced at Nick for a moment "And Nick can also be our partner"
"Look, Tommy, I also got 2 partners" I said gesturing to Nick and Jake. He glanced at Jake, confusing.
"I understand about Nick, but who is this guy? I've never seen him before"
"His name is Jake Ryan, and he's new" I replied.
"Oko, so you're gonna pick this new kid and not even care about me?" he asked then walked away angrily.
"Who was that?" Jake asked me confusing.
"Oh, that was Tommy Davis. He has had a huge crush on Miley. He has tried to impress her so many times. She just doesn't have any interest in him" Nick explained it to Jake.
"Really?" he asked.
"Miley has lots of secret admires in this school. You will see more in our next classes. You already saw 2" Nick said.
"One is that Tommy guy, who is the other?"
"Jimmy Tunnel. You know, the guy in Biology?"
"Really?"
"Yeah" Nick replied.
"Wow. How many are the others?"
"I'll show you later" Nick promised him.
"Hey, I don't have that much" I exclaimed.
"Yeah, not much, about more than 15" Nick said sarcastically.
"Wow, you must be very hot here, huh?" Jake asked me curiously.
"No, not really"
"Yeah, you're hotter than Jessica Millers. She only has 8"
"8?" Jake asked opened his eyes widely.
"Yeah. She's also good at basketball. So is Miley. So is Angela Bale. I think all the hot girls in our school have a thing for basketball"
"Who is Angela Bale?" Jake asked confusing, again. Maybe Nick should start to explain things to him slowly.
"Oh, she's a girl in our PE class. She is the 2nd hottest girl in our school with 9 guys" Nick informed him.
"So you're definitely the hottest girl, right?"
"No, I'm not, don't listen to Nick" I said glaring at Nick. He noticed that glare.
"Hey Miley, I'm just telling him the truth" Nick said totally innocently.
Then the bell rang.
"Remember, prepare a song" reminded us.
Nick, Jake and I got out of the class and went to the Algebra class. We bumped into Lilly on the way, so we all went together. Walking in the class, Lilly and I sat in our usual seats, next to each other, and Nick sat with Jake right behind us. , our Algebra teacher came in.
"Ok, guys…." He started then he got cut off.
"Sorry, I'm a little late" a guy ran in.
", why are you so late?" asked him.
"Because my friend dared me to….."
"On second thought, I don't want to hear it. Now, take your seat" he said and pointed at the seat near me.
"That's James Davidson, another of Miley's admire" Nick whispered to Jake as James sat down in his seat.
"James? He's in my Technology class" Lilly said.
"Yo, Davidson" Nick called him.
"Yeah, Gray?" James replied with an annoying look on his face.
"The dare you had at lunch, does it have anything to do with Miley here?"
"What do you mean?" James asked him confusing.
"I heard some of your buddies my English class" Lilly continued.
"What buddies?" James asked even more confusing.
"Bunch of jerks you sit with at lunch" I answered.
"Miley, stay out of this, ok?" James said looking at me then he turned to Lilly "Anyway, what did you hear from them?"
"They planned to dare you at lunch. They said they would dare you to…" she stopped, looking over at me.
"What?" I asked her.
"They said they would dare him to ask you out" she said truthfully.
"WHAT?" I yelled. The teacher turned to us immediately ", is there a problem?"
I blushed "Uhhh, no. I just….Lilly said that…..you're wrong" I stuttered and knew that Lilly would kill me later. I heard James giggling.
"What? Why am I wrong?" he asked me suspiciously.
"Well, that's why I yelled. You are totally right. She just….read the wrong thing. She must have mistaken, she's a little bit tired since….I made her eat a lot of things at lunch" I kept on stuttering.
"Fine. You're clear this time. Now sit down and don't make a sound" he said gesturing me to sit down. I sat into my seat and waited for him to turned his attention to the board again, I turned to James.
"Is that true?" I whispered to him angrily.
"Well, yeah. But I didn't. I turned them down. That's why I'm late" he explained and smiled "By the way, I like the way you stutter and find the way to get out of trouble. That is so smart" he said dreamingly. I pulled a disgusting face on him "Ewww". Then I turned to the board, trying to write down all the notes.
Rang. Rang. Rang. The bell rang. Finally, one more period. Getting out of the classroom, I sighed in relief.
"OMG. You can't imagine how relief I am to get out of Algebra class" I said to Jake and Nick. Lilly already went to her Geography class.
"Does this have something to do with that Davidson guy?" Jake asked me curiously.
"Ugh, I can't spend 5 minutes alone with him" I said shivering. I went to my locker to take my History book. I put my Algebra book back in there. I noticed my pencil was gone.
"I must have forgotten it in Algebra class" I mumbled then I turned to Nick and Jake "You guys got any pencils?"
Suddenly I heard a voice behind me that made me jump "I do". I turned around and saw Matt Martin.
"Oh, holy crap, Matt. You scared me to dead" I exclaimed.
"Sorry, I just wanted to inform you that you can borrow my pencils. I have tons of them, you know?" he started and held out nearly 10 pencils for me.
I raised my eyebrows "Thanks, I guess". Since he still held out his hands like that, I decided to take one.
"No problem" he said winking at me. Then he walked away.
"Lemme guess" Jake said "That's another one?"
"Yeah" Nick confirmed.
"Hey guys" Oliver said as he came to stand beside me "I just saw Martin standing here. What did he want?"
"Let me borrow his pencils" I said closing my locker.
"And maybe you can take it and he won't even complain" Nick joked. We all laughed. Then I saw Joe walking to us.
"Great" I mumbled "What are you doing here?"
"My locker is right here. Oliver, move" he said as he opened his locker "Like I want to talk to you"
"Joe, Miley, we've told you guys so many times, KNOCK IT OFF" Nick glared at us.
"Geez, could you be any louder?" Joe said as he rubbed his ears.
"Hey guys" Kevin said opening his locker.
"Hey Kev" Nick said.
"Hey, I got a big news. You wanna hear it?" he asked.
"What's the big news?" Joe asked him curiously.
"I just had Gym class, and my teacher said I got in the school basketball team" he exclaimed.
"Really? That's cool" I also exclaimed.
"Yeah, And guess what, Miley and I…" Nick started but I cut him off "…really happy for you"
"Ok" he said confusing but shrugged it off "I gotta get to my English class, see ya". Then he walked to his class.
"Wow, I don't even know he's into basketball" I said unbelievingly.
"Yeah, me too" Nick said looking at Kevin's back as he walked away.
"I will be the one who doesn't care about it and go to my Gym class" Joe said and walked to the Gym.
"What's his problem?" Jaek asked me.
"Let's say Joe and Miley got some attitude problem" Oliver said earning a glare from me. Then we hurried to the History class.
In History class, Nick and Oliver showed Jake 5 more guys whom they said to be my 'admires'. Before our teacher came in, Zack, one of them, even winked at me. I sighed.
"I can't believe it" I said frustrating "Why can't they ever give up? Why can't they turn to Jessica or Angela? Or another girl? Why me?" I groaned. Then our teacher walked in and started teaching. As other times, I would just rest my head on the desk and didn't need to care about what the teacher said, he wouldn't care anyway. It seemed like reading about it at home is so much better than hearing it in class. That's why I always got the highest grades in the exams.
"Maybe because you always smile at them. You turn them down but you smile when you do" Nick explained in a 'duh' tone. I groaned in frustrated one more time and earned a glare from the teacher I didn't even remember his name. Come to think of it, he never told us what his name was. I opened the book so that it looked like I was reading it. Finally, when the bell rang, I couldn't wait but got out of the class as fast as possible.
My 1st and 2nd chapter of "Can I be in love with him?". Just read and tell what you think in your reviews.