Well, this is not my favorite chapter, its mostly just a filler. Anyways, review at the bottom and give me feedback!!!:) ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
School the next day wasn't much better. I walked in, tired and wanting nothing more than to just collapse on a bed and sleep for the next two days. I walked to class and spotted Drew on the way.
"Hey Max." he spotted me too and started walking with me. I grunted in response, and he gave me a look. I shrugged.
"I'm tired, okay? Don't get me in a bad mood." I snapped. He held up his hands as a truce.
"Okay, okay, calm down. Just wondering." We walked to class in silence after that, him not wanting to aggravate me and me not wanting to get aggravated. I shuffled down the hallway to the door I thought was my classroom, but Drew just started laughing when I reached for the handle. I whipped around and glared at him, and he just shook his head.
"The classroom is two doors down, Max. That's Mr. Howard's classroom. Come on." He motioned his head down the hall, and I scowled but followed him anyways.
As he walked into the door two down the hall from the one I was just at, I saw Ms. Maxwell sitting at her desk and grading some papers with a few students mulling around her classroom, chatting. She looked up when we entered and smiled at me and Drew. I managed to smile back a bit, and Drew just nodded at her. She went back to grading. Drew waltzed on over to the group chatting in the middle of the room, and I followed hesitantly. There was a darker girl, a tall boy with strawberry blonde hair, a boy with blonde hair which reminded me of Angel, and a girl with dark brown hair. They all greeted Drew with high fives or a nod, and they all looked at me curiously.
"This is Max. She's new. Max, meet Nikki, Ian, Gerik, and Jaz." He nodded at each of them as he said their names, and they all smiled or nodded at me. Mostly, the boys smiled and the girls nodded. I nodded and sort-of smiled back.
"Hi Max! I'm Nikki, obviously, and I really hope you feel welcome here! This is a great place, and I love it, so I hope you love it too! Some of my friends don't like it here, but I think they're crazy, 'cuz this place is just so awesome you know? Anyways, maybe we can hang out sometimes or something. Like with all of us! We could, like, have a party! That would be so awesome, you know? Like amazingly awesome! We could have like a D.J. and punch and get all dressed up and everything! Man, that would be so-"
"Nikki!" Everybody, even me, yelled. She was breathing hard, I think she only took two breaths to say that entire monologue.
"Umm… sorry about her. She kind of gets to talking sometimes and she won't stop. Just try to tune it out, because she can change the subject from homework to nail polish." Said Jaz. I laughed, and so did everyone else except for Drew, who was smirking and Nikki, who was scowling.
"Humph." Nikki pouted, which made Ian laugh. I looked at Drew, and found that he was looking at me too. Our gazes locked, and some message passed between us. Like some old memory that I couldn't remember… I shivered and looked down.
"Hey, so, uh Max, where'd you move from?" Gerik, the one who looked like Angel, asked.
"Oregon." Just saying it brought back so many memories. They all looked at me with curiosity, and I shrugged.
"From what town?" asked Jaz.
"Bend. Around that area." I tried my best not to think of my friends that I left. I was talking with them for about ten minutes about where I lived, and how I got here, and some of my life, which isn't every interesting. They told me some of the same things, and then we had to sit down for class. I got to know them pretty well that day, and I figured out that most of them were in my classes. I had made even more friends, and I hung out with Angel a little bit. Gerik told me that Angel was his sister, and that cleared up some stuff for me. Ella was still in middle school, so nobody here knew her. At least not yet.
When my classes were over, I walked out with Angel and Gerik. As soon as I walked out the doors, I could feel someone's eyes watching me. I looked around, trying to act normal, when Angel giggled again. I had gotten used to that little giggle, since it was used so often around me.
"He's over there, Max." she pointed to the left, and giggled again. Of course, Drew was sitting over on the ledge, alone, and staring at me. When he saw me look at him, the corner of his mouth went up a little. "Go over there already! Don't keep him waiting!" she giggled, yet again, and pushed me in the direction of the boy dressed in all black and waiting alone on a window sill.
"Okay, well, I'll see you guys later then." I shook my head. Was she trying to make me into a Barbie doll? Her giggle-y-ness was starting to get to my head.
"Hey, Drew." I said when I got close enough.
"Hey Max. how was school for you?" he scooted over a bit to make room for me. I sat down.
"Well, okay. It was fine. It was school. How would you expect it would go?" I did a sort of breath and laugh thing that made a "Huh" sound.
"Yeah, I guess that's true. Hey, um, do you want to hang out or something later…?" he said so quietly that I almost didn't hear. I was shocked, to say the least. I did the laugh/breath thing again, and he looked at the ground, like he thought that was a no.
"Well… I think that would be pretty cool… why don't we go over to my house later? I bet my mom wouldn't mind, and my sister would definitely be cool with it… think that's cool with your parents?"
He looked up at me, and I was surprised to see hope and happiness in his eyes. He smiled, and then remembered his nonchalant expression. He cleared his throat.
"Yeah, I guess that'd be pretty cool. Um, I'll go over to your house and just hang for a while. Yeah, that would be pretty cool, Max." I could tell he was trying to keep the emotion out of his voice, but he was failing.
"Okay, so let's get on the bus now. My mom got me a spot on bus #541. Let's go." I smiled at him, and we jumped up to get on the bus before it left. This was going to be interesting…
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