Chapter 10
Ana POV
"Christian, I don't like this station" I knew I was whining but I didn't care. Who even listens to classical music in this day and age? I changed it to an RnB station but he changed it back to his chosen one straight away.

"Please, I want to listen to The Weekend or something else composed in at least this century!" I was still whining and I knew it but so what? I was fed up of this but as soon as Christian had opened his mouth to finally reply my phone rang.

Why does it hurt?
To fall in love
When you come crashing down to earth.
Feelings ar-

"Hello, Ana. Why haven't you called me it has been ages? I was waiting for your call for God only knows how long!" Aaah, Jose. I hadn't called him back since my first two days in Seattle, but in my defence I did get extremely busy. Making cheer squad, settling into lessons, making new friends, and rekindling old friendships, i.e. with the Greys, with Christian - especially with him.

"Hey! I totally forgot. I'm so sorry, Christian, remind me to call Kira later, ok?" I practically told him. He simply nodded in reply.

"Who's Christian? And is he hot?" Obviously Jose would ask this.

"Christian was my old and still is my neighbour and bestest friend. And yes, I guess he is. Very." I told him matter of fact-ly. I looked over to see Christian beaming and had to hide my own small smile.

"Is he the one you used to mention in your sleep sometimes?" Damn, I knew I occasionally spoke in my sleep but I never knew that anyone really took notice. I used to dream about being back here all the time, about being back with Christian.

"Maybe, but enough about me. How is everything? How is everyone functioning without me?" I was seriously curious about this, I mean I left the entire cheer and dance team high and dry when I left urgently but I had to. I hope no one took it too badly.

"Everyone is adjusting, Vicky's taking your place as main flyer and the dance team are changing their routine slightly to accommodate a much less skilled dancer. Oh and the literature geek squad are dealing. And I'm despairing over the loss of my main girl"

And just like that he made me smile again, I was feeling bad for how I had left everyone and I'm sure it was showing on my face because I felt Christian squeeze my leg. I looked over him and smiled.

"Well I'm glad that everyone is adjusting and dealing. Though, how is my Mom? Have you seen her at all?"

"She seems okay, not a hundred percent, like she is worried a lot. Is there something going on Ana? Is it him again?" I had only told him and Kira parts of the story behind my fudged up life. Luckily, I was saved from answering by Christian.

"Ana we will have to leave now if don't want to be late."

"OH! Sugar, I totally forgot, I'm sorry Jose but I'll have to go now or I'll be late. Bye babes and give my love to everyone."

"Sorry, I keep forgetting about the time differences. Bye, mwah"

"Thank you so much Christian, I didn't know how to tell him anything, I don't know if I ever could."

He smiled a face splitting grin, "Anything, anywhere, anytime." And with a wink he left the car and ran round to open my door for me.

"Why thank you kind sir." I spoke graciously, bowing my head.

This spurred him on and he reached for my hand and pressed a kiss to it saying, "Twas nothing, fair lady."

When he finished I broke out in giggles and I heard his deep chuckle beside me as I walked towards school.

We both had to split off as we had different lessons. After dragging through my lessons and receiving copious amounts of homework I finally felt like I could breathe. I went through calc 1 and geography before I had a lesson with Christian. And the best thing was that we got to sit together in English.

We got out our copies of Jane Eyre, as that was the book we were reading/ analysing for our English coursework and finals. Mr Coggins began the lesson by getting us all to read chapter 15 by ourselves and to make notes with our interpretations and analysis's. As always, I was finished before everyone else and began making notes, I used post-it notes which I wrote on and stuck into the book. I could never and will never be able to bare writing in a book of any kind. As I was analysing I looked over and saw that Christian was looking confused.

"What's wrong?" I whispered to him. He looked up at me, scribbled something down and lifted it to show me his book and notes.

Is this even in English? How do you understand any of this?" He shout whispered. His writing was neat and ordered, no surprise there, saying 'Can you save me? Please tutor me?'

I nodded my head at him before smirking. He needs my help in something, well isn't that new. Maybe I can get him to help me with the whole topics of algebra and geometry. I went back to my book to finish off my notes.

Soon after Mr Coggins asked for our own interpretations of what happened in the chapter and some specific quotes. As he asked the questions only few people people but I didn't agree with what they were saying so I raised my own hand in order to put forth my own view.

"With the fire in Mr Rochester's bedroom, I believe that the fiery passion links with love and marriage for those are the main roles in a bedroom at the time. The only reason a bedroom would be shared is due to marriage. It makes it seem as though the mystery at Thornfield is to do with marriage and the passion that lies within it." I finished my mini speech and looked up to find everyone looking at me, even Christian and Mr Coggins, all in surprise. I mean really, they all know how much I love literature.

"Well, yes Ana. I can see where you are coming from but I have to admit I never had anyone give me such a deep, and underlying understanding of the book."

And with that he kept on with the lesson until the end. I packed my bag and breezed out of the lesson waiting outside for Christian. It was lunch so he took me down to grab a sandwich and then we both made our way down to the gym, me for cheer practice and him to meet up with his rowing team for their own practice.

After we said our goodbyes I walked over to the squad and warmed up. As soon as Crystal walked into the room we began our practice. Crystal is our warm up leader and she had to make sure that we were all properly warmed up and ready to practice. Bianca came round and made us practice our routine for the game in two weeks, I'm so worried about it as it will be my first public performance around here. But all I can do is practice and train my but off so that I can pull off everything with ease. We're learning some new tricks to help make us look better and I have actually learnt a few. As today is a Monday, lunch is a little longer today but before we knew it we had to get changed and leave.

In the afternoon I had French and chemistry; both without Christian and both dragging painstakingly. The only pro was that Jared was in my lesson. We sat next to one another in Chemistry and once we had completed the work - which to be fair was really easy, we talked about our duet that we were going to perform at the christmas showcase. So far it was going amazing and we were just adding the final touches to our vocals and instrumentals. It was really fun and through it all I realised how cute he and Jose would be together. It was obvious what side he batted on, I mean he looked at Christian as though he was a piece of meat - its really entertaining to see Christian oblivious and Jared stumbling over his words.

After school I made my way to the gym to practice and afterwards met up with Jared to practice a little more while I waited for Christian to finish off with his own practice. He was gelling with the team really well and had made a few new friends. As we were finishing up on all the preparations for our duet Christian snuck behind me and grabbed at my sides tickling me into submission. I was barely able to breath when I surrendered.

"So, your finally done big man?" I asked as I looked him over I saw that he was sweating and his t shirt was clinging to him. I looked over at Jared and saw his face flushing crimson; I barely held back my laughter.

"Yep! So let's go I'm starving. He can come too if he wants." He gestured at Jared.

I looked to Jared for confirmation but I don't think he would have survived another five minutes looking at Christian in all his sweaty glory, let alone a whole meal. "No, I'm fine. I need to get home anyway. See you later Ana." He waved as he packed all his equipment away and walked away.

"Bye" I called after him. I then turned back to Christian, "So let's go, I'm famished!"

18th December 2015

"Oh my God! Jared we are next!" To say I was stressing out is to say the least. This week I have my first actual cheer performance as the last one got cancelled and today I have to perform our duet. In front of everyone. "I think I'm hyperventilating!"

"Ana calm down! You'll be perfect as always." Jared said to me. We were on next, damn I don't think I can do this. "Come on, take deep breaths."

Gradually, he got my breathing to slow down. "OK! I'm okay. But what if I forget the words?!" God! What am I gonna do?

"Ana, relax. It will all go done well because you are amazing and will pull this off perfectly! Now let's go, we're on now." He turned me around and nudged me towards the stage.

"I'm ready!" I walked into the stage with Jared following close behind. When I reached the centre of the stage I looked out towards the audience. With my outfit I opted to wear a pair of black leather skin tight trousers a basic, white tank (as we were indoors) with a black rose on its shoulder. I also wore my black, knee high boots with heels. I kept my make up light but had smokey eyes and a subtle nude lipstick.

Once we were introduced, I grabbed my mike, and looked ahead at the audience. I spotted Daddy and Christian in the audience and gave them a small smile. I can do this. I took a deep breath and as Jared began the melody on his guitar, opened my mouth to begin singing.

I'm so sorry it took so long to get this up. First I had found out that I had a French j test the following week. After that I had a few other tests that I didn't actually revise for though I probably should have. But then I burnt my hand and couldn't actually do much. I will try to be more regular from now on. I hope you enjoyed the chapter.; )

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