Another Chance

Star's POV

I was feeling exceptionally brave after my confrontation with Paul this morning. I thought he would be looking for a way to get even with me, but surprisingly I hadn't seen him all day. I was even beginning to miss those awkward staring contest that we were always having between each other. But my day was going great. I was even bold enough to get two pieces of cake for lunch today, which I hadn't eaten since three days ago. Everything just seemed to be perfectly fine. That was until Chase told me that I was hogging all the food and to leave some for the other students. That's all it took to ruin my good day. As soon as he said that I dropped my plate and ran into the bathroom before anybody saw me crying.

So here I am sitting in the small bathroom stall debating whether or not to go back and face my fellow students. Not many people heard the comment he made but I'm pretty sure I got most people's attention when they heard my plate drop and saw me almost trip as I ran out the door.

I really didn't wanna go back but I knew that my mom would kill me if she heard that I was cutting school. She was already on my case about not eating; I didn't wanna add another thing to make her not trust me. I took a deep breath and for the first time I hoped that nobody would notice me as I headed back to my next class, late. Obviously, my payers were not answered because as soon as I took a step out of the bathroom I heard a deep voice telling me to come here.

At first I just kept walking because I was pretty sure that they weren't talking to me but when I realized that I was the only one in the hallway besides the boy it became pretty obvious who he was talking to. I knew I shouldn't talk to random strangers that I hardly knew but my curiosity got the best of me as I turned around and stared into the eyes of Jared Bronson.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he looked like Paul, a lot. They both had the same short haircut and big round tan muscles; though Paul had more of a scary demeanor where else Jared looked sort of outgoing and playful. The second thing I noticed was that he was tall and I mean freakishly tall. I had to tilt my head backwards to even look at him in the face. Was that really how me and Paul looked standing next to each other? That even furthered the reasons why Paul would never even like me let alone ask me out.

"Ahhhh...….Your Starlet right?" Jared said snapping me out of my private thoughts about Paul, which I was gratefully thankful for.

"Yea," I said slowly. "How did you know that?"

"Paul talks about you a lot," he said with a smirk. Of course….he had to bring up Paul. Even when he's not here he can find his way into my conversations. Wait, did he just say Paul talks about me, Starlet Fields, a lot? That can't be right he must have confused me with some pretty, rich, girl. Jared must have noticed my hesitation because he said, "Yea, I'm most positively sure it's you that he's talking about. You know he's not that bad once you get to know him, aside from the temper he's actually a nice guy," he said truthfully.

"Is that before or after we have sex?" I said which was really stupid of me. I didn't know why I snapped at Jared when he clearly was just trying to help, but the thought of people defending Paul just made me sick. Even if he weren't just using me for sex he still has done it in the past with a lot of girls, I've seen it in action before.

"Look Starlet," Jared said hoarsely, "I know you think that he is just some douche bag who plays with girls and you're probably right. Bur I know for a fact that he really likes you and I would hate for you too miss the opportunity to get to know him based on some stupid things he did in the past." The way he said it left no doubt in my mind that underneath all the lying and cheating Paul was a good guy. And that's when I knew that I would give Paul Meraz a chance.

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