The dreaded first day of school. Every new kid hates it. The looks, the whispers, the 'in' chicks spreading rumors about why you were really there, the male population planing on how to get you in the sack, the other girls wondering how to stomp out the competition. Anybody would be nervous about this yes? Not me baby! Amanda Peiton has never been nervous about anything. All my life I've been ready to plung into the next thing, unafraid, and never hold back. So when I walked the halls of the school on monday morning, I walked with my head held high, pep in my step and confidence on my face. Yeah the girls whispered, yeah the boys smirked, yeah rumors would fly. But my destination was not to be altered by these petty rich kids. This morning I woke up with a mission. FIND CALEB!
Why find Caleb? The boy is hot, we have good conversation and I want to see if I am in any of his classes. As I was walking around the school looking for Mr. Danvers I ran into Pouge. I never actually got a chance to talk to Pouge at the party but I ended up hearing all about him from Kate and Caleb and he seems like a pretty good guy. Someone I could see as my best friend. "Pouge." I call out from behind him. He turned around and stopped when he spotted that it was me. When I caught up to him I had to look up at him to really look at him he was so freaking tall. "What's up sky scraper?"
"Aw nothin much." he said with a smile at his new nickname. Yeah we could be besties. "Just walkin around until classes are about to start. I never like to be really early to class cause then I have to sit there by myself."
"Mmhm. I know what you mean. When left to my own devices I'm known for destroying stuff." Pouge laughs as we reach his locker. "Now before you open that." I said putting my hand out to stop him from opening his locker. "You don't have like ten mirrors in there with a cup full of combs do you?"
He laughed again and just pushed my hand out of the way saying that it was just the heads of his victims. He just had a lot of normal guy crap. Pictures of Kate, of him and the guys, of him and the guys in tiny little swim suits... I would have to break into his locker later today and get that last one out of there. He added to his locker some books, a leather jacket and his helmet. I would also have to bug him later for a ride on his Ducati. "So are you waiting for Caleb or something?"
"Am I that transparent?" Is it really that obvious that I had a thing for Caleb or was he guessing, and if he was guessing did I just give him an answer? Oops.
"No." He said as we started to walk off to look for my locker. "It's just that, you and Cal hit it off pretty good last night. Which is great because we thought he was never gonna get a girl."
"I find it hard to believe that Caleb has never had a girlfriend." I mean have you seen the man. Tall, dark hair, deep eyes, nice skin, great abs, killer smile and an even killer voice. He just oozes sexyness. I would understand if he was picky, especially here at Spencer, but if a girl didn't approach him at some point in his life and just confess undying love to him then there just has to be something wrong with Ipswich. "That just could not be possible."
"No, don't get me wrong." Pogue jumped in to defend Caleb. I could see that the two of them had to be close and had each others back when the time called for it, just from that one little jester. "He's had girlfriends. But he's been kinda dry for the past two years. I mean even Baby boy, the shyest of us all, has more girls than Caleb."
Yeah I guess baby boy was cute, if you're into that shy, quiet, innocent thing that he's got going on. But me? No. I'm into the natural born leader type. Someone who knows how to take charge but knows when to back down. So basically Caleb is totally perfect for me. When we finally get to the wing of the school that my locker is on, my feet are tingling. Pogue keeps asking me why this hallway looks so familiar. "I don't know." I opened my locker and started throwing in some crap that I probably wouldn't need for my homeroom class anyways. "You've been here for Four years and you're asking me why this looks familiar? You need to start making some changes Pogo-Stix."
He laughed sarcastically and patted the top of my head like he was a toddler petting a puppy. To which he got a nice hard flick in his cheek. We stood there in the middle of the hallway sissy fighting each other and giving random little stupid insults. All in all it was fun. "Messing with my girl, Pogue?" I turned around and found just the man that I was looking for, standing there in all his sexy glory.
"Now I know why it all looks so familiar!" Pogue practically screamed in my ear. "Caleb's ontop of you."
Caleb and I slowly blink at him, then turn to look at each other and then back to him. "Not that I mind but somebody should have told me."
"If you were ontop of me you would have known Cal." I just decided to leave it at that. So I closed my locker before walking away with a smile on my face. It's just the gift of my family to be able to leave someone guessing and wanting more. Perfect.
Caleb
I watched Amanda walk away. Her hips twisted. Her hair flew behind her. Her long legs carried her effortlessly down the hall. I leaned against the lockers and looked at my best friend next to me. "I need that girl Pogue."
He looked at me and patted my shoulder and gave me that lazy ass smile of his. "You pretty much already got her bro."
Amanda
History. A class about things that have already happened in the world that us students are going to hear about for the rest of our lives. Don't get me wrong, I love history, it's actually my bet subject. But when you sit infront of Kira and Aaron whome never shut up, then you could see where the problem with this will be. Good thing: Caleb is in this class. Bad thing: he's on the other side of the room.
I was trying to listen to Mr. Harris and take notes but the gaggling nut bags behind were giggling like little kids. I gave up and threw my pencil on my desk, which got the teachers attention. How he noticed me throwing a pencil and not the half wits is beyond me. "Am I boring you Miss Peyton."
"Not at all." I started and spun the abused pencil in my hand. "I love history but I think you should move me."
"And why would that be" He questioned and everyone turned wanting to know what the problem is.
"At the risk of turning around and smacking the pigment out of Kira and Aaron if they don't shut up." the class laughed as I turned around at Kira's shocked and embarresed face. This year is going to end well.
Thankfully I was moved away from Aaron and Kira, unfortunatly I was moved next to Chase not Caleb. Chase is a pretty ok guy but there is just something wrong with the guy, something creepy and forbodding. It was either that or I just really didn't like him, but my intuition has never been wrong so far so he must just be a creep.
History ended a short time later yet not quick enough for me. As I was leaving the classroom and going to my next class, Literature, and hand was placed on my shoulder, turned me around and brought me into two big arms. I looked up into the eyes of my holder to find Caleb the Golden Boy Wonder. I wrapped my arms around him, just trying not to fall as Reid pushed us out of the doorway. "What was that for?"
"Well, you just looked like you could use a hug." He gave a laugh as he let me go but took my hand as we walked towards our lockers. "I really thought you were going to hit one of them."
"If I did I would probably kill them." I saw the confused look that he gave me as I opened my locker and switched out my books. "I do mixed martial arts as part of my anger management."
He nodded, impressed, as he walked me to my class. "So if you get in trouble you can just karate chop somebody?"
"Sure." I answer with a shrug.
"Good. Take care." I watched him walk away, smiling as I walked into my Literature class.
I don't know if it was my boredom or if I was losing my mind but class just seemed to drag on for some reason. It could probably be because my teacher talks like the guy from the dry eye commercials, all slow and monotone. Or it could be because I have no one to talk to. See, no one that I know is in this class except for Sarah and lord knows I don't want to have to deal with this girl. I don't know what her deal is with me but it's getting a little old. It's almost like everytime I see her she's got this stink face directed at me. But oh well what can I do about her not liking me? As class digressed I found myself falling more and more into sleep without my own knowledge.
It was almost like an out of body experiance. I saw myself sitting in the middle of field wearing an off white floor length dress with a veil on my head. It was like she was dressed for her own wedding. She was sitting on the ground looking at all the beautiful flowers around Her. A man apeared almost from nowhere from behind my other self. She turned around to see Caleb and smiled a happy loving smile. Caleb held out his hand to her but as she went to reach for it, he disappered. A fog rolled in on the field and my other self stood up. I could feel panic and fear set into me as the other me looked around frantically for her Caleb.
An earie laughter suddenly came from around as me and the other me looked around for where the noise was coming from. When I turned back to myself I noticed her looking at me. Or she seemed to be looking at me. I walked up closer to her and her eyes followed me. As I got almost face to face, I noticed wierd spots on her face and it seemed like they were getting bigger. And the bigger they got the more fear ran through me until they started to pop. Out of the spots came thousands of baby spiders. I screamed as they crawled all around her body turning her skin into a crawling nightmare. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she fell forward causing me to jump out of the way. Behind where she once stood was the shadow of a man his face was clear as day to me.
"WAKE UP!"
Sitting up quickly from my slumped over position was real murder on my back. "Miss Peiton." I looked before me and there stood my teacher Mr. Glanton and boy did he look mad. I looked around at everyone around me. Some people with raised brows, some with unintrested looks, and Sarah with a look that said 'you're-in-deep-shit' but they were all looking at me. "Miss Peiton, sleeping is strictly prohibited in my class."
I wiped the crust out of my eyes and sweetly and softly said, "I'm so sorry Mr. Glanton, but your voice was just so soothing. One minute I was listening to you, taking notes and the next I'm on the sleep cloud."
Mr. Glanton looked to be shocked and then flattered, you could tell because of the way he straightend his tie and looked away. "Well thank you." He said and then cleared his throat getting his thoughts back together. "Just try not to let it happen again please." I threw him a thumbs up and in return got a small smile and a nod as he turned back to the lesson.
I zone out on him again but this time I stay awake. I had never in my life had a dream like that before, so creepy, so... real. It felt so out of place in my mind that I couldn't call it a dream. I couldn't call it a nightmare either. But it makes me wonder. Why would I have a dream about spiders or Chase?
That dream had me pretty spooked for the rest of the class. I couldn't concentrate on anything and when I tried all I could think about was millions of tiny spiders taking over the school and ruling us like some crazy over lords... I'm zoning out. Class was over about thirty minutes after my little sleeping mishap and I was more than glad to take my leave. Apparently I wasn' leaving fast enough and realized that after a run in with Sarah. I don't have anything against Sarah, besides the fact that she's whiney and annoying, so I don't exactly see what her problem is with me. In fact I've hardly said ten words to the girl... that I could remember.
Well back to the annoyance at hand, "That was a close call you had there, Peiton." I just enjoyed how she called me by my last name and with such distaste too. "You shouldn't slip up like that again." I rolled my eyes as I stepped past her. I don't think she got that I wanted to end the conversation when I started to walk away from her because the idiot followed me. "If it was me I wouldn't have had that problem."
I turned around and looked her in the eye with a blank stare. I don't like when people get all upidy and deside to compare themselves to me as if I was doing the most evil thing in the world. "You and I are two different people and to be honest I could care less what you do. So get out of my face and stop wasting my time." With that said I do an about face and leave her standing in the hallway.
Caleb
Today should be like any other day. First day of school, every body should be high fiving and hugging and bragging about who had a better summer break. Yet all that I could hear about was Amanda Peiton. Don't get me wrong I can't get enough of the girl and we've only known each other not even a day, but I was wondering why her name was spilling from their mouths. It was lunch time and me and the guys were sitting at a table just talking about this and that when two guys at the table behind Tyler and Pouge started talking about Amanda.
"That chick is slick. I never could have got out of getting detention from Mr. Glanton." The first guy commented with a shake of his head.
"Did you see the way she handled the chick Sarah?" The second guy laughed as he thought about this moment that he had obviously been witness of. "That Wenham girl was standing there looking like a fish out of water."
Pouge took it upon himself to turn around and tap the second guy on the shoulder. "What's this about Amanda?"
"She fell asleep in Glanton's class and talked her way out of getting in trouble like a pro-negotiator or something." The first guy started with an impressed look on his face.
"Then that Wenham girl tried to rattle her cage. Amanda put her in her place like that." and the second guy snapped his finger.
Pouge looked at Caleb and laughed. Looks like my girl is kickin' ass, takin' names and sleepin' in. Yeah that's right, I said it, my girl. Just as I wanted to go into thought, a body plopped right in between me and Reid. Well, there is Amanda and she looked absolutely tired. That would make the falling asleep in class true. "You look like hot hell." Reid said to which the woman next to me glared at him. "What? I said hot hell!"
"Shut up Reid." she mumbled. "But you're right. I feel like hell." Amanda leaned her against my shoulder and let out a slight sigh. "I fell asleep in class."
"Yeah and what's all this about you putting Sarah in her place?" I asked as I look down at her head.
She picked her head up and I looked into those grey eyes and smiled. Her head tucked further up in my neck as she answered, "She was getting all high and mighty so I had to kill her ego", she yawned and closed her eyes. "It just seemed like the right thing to do." Tyler and Pouge chuckle under their breath while Reid laughed loudly. After Reid got over all the laughter he invited Amanda out to Nikki's with us tomorrow. "Who is Nikki and why would I want to go."
"Nikki's is a teen bar and you want to go because I want you there." I gave a little puppy dog pout that I knew she couldn't refuse.
I know nothing.
"I have triplet three year old cousins, that doesn't work on me." She tweaked my nose and laughed. "But you're cute so I'll fall for that just this once. Don't abuse your power."
When she said that all me, Pouge, and Tyler just stopped and looked at Reid who was looking off to the side and whistling.
She could pretty much hit the hammer on the head.