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Chapter 7

Jessica

"Bells?" Charlie asked as he sat down on my bed, I pushed myself up regretting falling asleep in my clothes. "I knocked but didn't think you heard me, bad day, yesterday?" he said with a wry smile, obviously noticing that I was still wearing yesterday's clothes. I adjusted myself I nodded and stretched.

"I killed it" I commented leaning forward to rest my head on his shoulder. "I made three friends, Ben, Angela and Erik. My classes are okay, too early to tell yet about the teachers. I did start a conversation with a boy in my history class, Jasper and it went well. Then, after lunch I managed to make my first enemy in Biology, and then later in Art I decided to draw a picture of..." my voice faded as I thought of the picture and tears began to fill my eyes, I rubbed my fists over my eyes to wipe away the tears and sniffed.

"Ah!" Charlie said and hugged me to his side and I looked up at him. "So you have a nemesis?" he said lightly and I chuckled. I loved that something as silly as that could get me to smile and laugh with him. "So you going in your tights today?" he asked and I was in stitches as I pulled away from him and slapped his arm playfully feeling much better.

"Of course!" I called as I shooed him from my room, both of us still laughing. I decided to wear my superman shirt and tight red pants thinking I would get a kick out of being super today. That and for the jokes I could make, the uncoordinated overly cheesy supergirl! Charlie was nearly on the floor laughing when he caught sight of me in my supergirl outfit! Both of us had tears in our eyes as he left. I pulled my black sweater on top and tied my high tops and then peeking out the window I grabbed my coat and prayed that my shoes were waterproof.

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I parked my car in the same spot as yesterday and decided that this was now MY spot. I grabbed my bag from the passenger's seat and ran into the cafeteria hoping Angela, Ben or Erik was there. Sadly no, so I sat down and looked over my English text, we were currently studying 'Hamlet' so I read over the parts that I was supposed to last night. It's a good thing I've already read almost everything Shakespeare.

"Hey" A nasally voice said from across the table and I looked up at the girl who had glared at me yesterday. I smiled and closed my text book.

"Morning" I said in return and she sat down. I wonder if I was going to get lectured or if she was going to make amends.

"I didn't get to introduce myself yesterday, I'm Jessica" She said smiling at me and I realised she was going to pretend that yesterday didn't happen. Fine with me, I really did not want to have yet another nemesis, as Charlie put it!

"Hi I'm Bella, it's nice to meet you Jessica" I replied, keeping my tone light and friendly, she smiled again and began to ramble on and on about all the gossip at the school. I never once had the opportunity to talk inwardly cringed and made a mental note not to let this happen again! She was definitely the school gossip and SO not going to be a close friend, not like Erik, Angela and potentially Ben.

"So why are you sitting with the nerd herd?" she asked suddenly and I realised that she was offended that I choose them over her and her friends. I hadn't realised that I had the option but it wouldn't have changed my choice anyway.

"Erik was the first person I met when I arrived and he seemed really nice, he introduced me to some of his friends and we ended up all having lunch together, they all seem really nice, is there a problem with that?" I answered trying not to talk down to her. She was the one that glared at me like I had skinned a puppy.

She replied quickly "No, not really, it's just that they keep to themselves and don't really mix with us popular crowd."

I just looked at her and then after a couple of seconds said "Well, I like them and I think its pretty rude of you to refer to them as nerds, I am not into hanging with the popular crowd anyway so I prefer their company" That'll sort her out I thought!

"Just to let you know, Ben and Angela are totally a thing and they will ignore you after the newness of your being there fades, oh and Erik, sure he's nice but he is a total Dork." She said with a tone of total dismissal. I think she actually expected me to accept her information as final proof that they sucked and that I should be her friend. I was right, we were never going to be friends!!

A second later Erik walked into the cafeteria and spotted me sitting with Jessica, he looked disappointed but not surprised. I packed up my books and got up to go and talk to him, suddenly I had a killer idea, who really needs another airheaded mean fake friend?

"Oh my god!" I screeched as I ran towards him, hopefully not scaring him too much. As soon as I got near enough to him I threw myself at him. He stumbled slightly and looked at me oddly as I grinned at him. "Oh Erik, Jessica was just telling me, why didn't you say anything!?" I sang as I grabbed his hands and danced us around the cafeteria. Everyone in the cafeteria was staring at us both wondering what on earth was going on!

"Now we can be Dorks together!" I said and Erik just laughed shaking his head at me. No one said a word but I heard a few people laughing quietly around the cafeteria and I thought to myself "that'll sort her out!"

"Your nuts." Erik said as he and I walked to English, I nodded and smiled at him. "Sorry she was bugging me so I decided to do something crazy and really annoy her. She really thought by telling me shit about you, Angela and Ben that I wouldn't want to be friends with any of you and be her friend instead, I hate shallow people" I said shaking my head and walking into the class.

"What'd she say?" he asked and I looked around like I was trying to be subtle, there was no one in the classroom and anyone would have noticed me anyways. Erik chuckled at my antics and I sat next to him and giggled.

"Well she said that Ben and Angela would eventually start to ignore me when the newness of our friendship wore off and that you were a dork" I said and Erik looked at me and rolled his eyes.

"Ben and Angela only just started going out, Jessica was making fun of them because of the height difference. I tagged along with them when they started sitting elsewhere at lunch" He said and it made more sense to me that Jessica was mad that they decided not to sit with them anymore. She didn't like them and she seemed petty enough to do just that.

"You ditched her and so she was trying to get even by pulling me away from you guys. She seems like a keeper" I said and rolled my eyes. "Sides everyone knows that dorks, geeks, nerds and weirdoes are just plain more fun than the normal people" I said like it was common knowledge.

Slowly people began to enter the class and I noticed that Jessica was in this class too. She glared at me and continued to her seat. Drat I lost a friend being an idiot! The tragedy! I quickly wrote a note to Erik saying the same and he laughed up until class started. As the bell rang I felt eyes on me and shifted to see who it was, Jessica was whispering in the ear of the girl next to her and it was this girls eyes who were on me. I didn't like the look of her and knew that she would cause as much of a problem for me as she could.

"I think I have a new enemy, who's that girl?" I asked Erik as we left class. He looked at me with pity, not a good sign.

"That's Lauren. I would call her the school bitch but she might hear it and come after me" He said and I cringed, lovely. We parted ways and I walked quickly to Algebra and sat down next to Alice. I hung my coat on the back of the chair and decided to try and be funny. I took of my black sweater and sat down again. Alice looked at me and giggled I smiled back and took my books out.