School Food is Meant to Kill

Nudge pulled me into line because I admitted to her that I didn't know what I was doing. Ella was hanging out with Iggy already up ahead. I had taken my hair out of my ponytail from gym. I was still freaking out about that class and what had happened. I never felt anything like that before with someone.

I grabbed a blue tray that had on it a piece of pizza with more grease than a pail had water after it rained. I picked an apple from the fruits and the chocolate milk. They even had chocolate cookies but I refused to take one because they wouldn't be as good as my mom's. I paid and then followed Nudge to table when I heard both of our names.

"Max! Nudge!" Ella was calling my name and Nudge's name waving us over. Brigid was next to Fang glaring at her for even considering inviting us over. Fang stared up at me and gave a small smile. I was glad to see that at least one of us was over the current situation of what had happened.

"Let's go," Nudge had made our decision up for us. We sat down and she opened up a book while she ate. She was silent for some time as I sat there quietly. I was sitting next to Fang who was listening to Brigid politely but I could tell he was annoyed. Ella and Iggy were enjoying themselves as well.

I couldn't deny there was this need I had to touch Fang's skin again. After what I had felt, it was interesting and irresistible. I understood why he was such a popular kid in school after that scenario. Brigid was sending me evil glances every now and then but I ignored them because I sort of deserved them. Fang was her boyfriend after all.

I took my first bite of the pizza and almost gagged. Fang looked at me and laughed, his attention so easily on me. Brigid's face went as red as her hair when she noticed that. "School food can kill you." I was going to explain that I need the food but instead, I took another bite and pretended to enjoy the disgusting taste of burnt cheese and bread with sauce. He smiled, "Here." He gave me a granola bar, it was actually my favorite kind.

I swallowed the food in my mouth, "Thanks, that's my favorite." He dropped it in my hand and smiled an I-know kind of smile. But he wouldn't know me of course because we had just met today. I took off the wrapper and had a bite. I chewed slowly and turned my attention to Nudge. "What are you doing?"

She was staring at this biology book, "I'm trying to understand why this virus is able to have the same characteristics of another virus by using its DNA." She scratched her head. From the look of her, you wouldn't say Nudge wanted to be smart but she had explained to be on the way from lunch to gym that she loved learning almost as much as she loved clothes. Which meant she liked reading a lot.

"That reminds me of Jurassic Park." Nudge looked at me, I don't really recall seeing the movie but now I had an image in front of me, sitting with someone very close to me and then there were other people around too but they were younger. I had a blanket wrapped around me.

I continued, "The part where the dinosaurs change genders because their DNA was combined with the frog DNA. The scientist said frogs changed genders sometimes if they are in a same-sexed environment which happened to the dinosaurs. They were all female to prevent mating but some changed to males so they could."

Nudge laughed and so did Ella, "I didn't know you saw that movie." I stared at her and shrugged. All eyes were on me as if I was some scholar who had just found the meaning of life when in reality I turned a dinosaur movie into a scientific refrence.

"I remember seeing it with someone and I had to explain it because a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes asked me during that part of the movie-,"

In time with me, Fang said the exact same line, "Does that mean the dinosaurs will start jumping around like frogs?" I dropped the granola bar and stared at him. Even he was shocked at what had just occurred. The others were laughing, "How did you know that?" I was so confused.

"Lucky guess- besides, I remember a young kid asking me the same question. It's a confusing movie." Shivers went up and down my spine as I realized how everyone else was staring. I went to go throw away my food. To my dismay, Fang followed with his own bag of trash.

"Listen," he followed me, "I just found out that we're short for touch football and I figured I deserved a rematch." I tossed the food and turned to face him. He stared at me as he reached over my shoulder and threw out his garbage. I narrowed my eyes in question as I placed the tray at the window Nudge told me was where we dropped the dirty dishes off.

"Afterschool?" I asked, because if so then I could catch a ride with my mom and Ella once she was done with drama. Fang nodded his head. "I don't think your girlfriend would like it." Fang shook his head.

"First of all, it's just football. Second, you didn't seem to mind about that before," He had leaned in to whisper this in my ear. I backed away from him. He laughed and held up his hands, "Brigid had to learn to back off. She's a little-,"

"Annoying?" I asked and Fang nodded his head.

"Yeah, she kind of is." He was so different from the rest of them. Why was it that he was with someone like her? What did he honestly see in her? "So," he held up his hands, "Will you please play football? I promise we'll be on other teams so we can see who's better. This morning's match didn't count."

I sighed heavily and placed my hands on my hips. I took a fighting kind of stance that I learned in my karate class. He didn't seem taken aback by me, like most people, instead, he stepped towards me intrigued. "Sure, meet me by my locker."

"Thanks," he smiled and his hand traced lightly against my arm. I realized now he had moved at an angle so no one could see us. Maybe he just did this to all the girls but for the moment I didn't mind because his hand sent unbelievable shocks that felt really good.

I was forced myself to walk past him and I sat down beside Nudge who was gawking at me. "What?" I asked as Fang sat down, the tables were just benches. He sat close enough so that his leg was pressing against mine. Even through both of our jeans I could feel the heat of his skin and I was blushing but I kept my eyes on Nudge. She leaned in and whispered only one short sentence.

"Fang just said the most words to you than he had last year."