Rae ducked her head quickly to hide her flushing red cheeks, her heart beating faster, becoming more flustered as she heard Blake's footsteps coming closer until they stopped and Rae heard the scrape of the chair next to her screech back as Blake sat down.
After a few minutes of strained, awkward silence, Rae risked a quick glance to her left, only to divert her eyes to the board at the front of the room as she found Blake's eyes on her. Her cheeks flushed an even darker red as she heard Blake's quiet chuckle at her actions.
Rae frowned and strives to ignore the girl who was causing such strange reactions within her, trying to focus on Mr Watson's voice droning in about upcoming events happening within the school year. Yet all she could focus on was the emitting heat of the female next to her and her confused thoughts as she carried on stealing glances at her. The hour of Homeroom passed by agonisingly slowly and Rae breathed a sigh of relief as the bell rang for first period, Rae hurrying out of the room as fast as she could, trying to ignore the feel of those aqua eyes burning a hole into her back.
She made it to her first period of Maths with plenty of minutes to spare, thanks to her abrupt exit from Homeroom. Again, she chose a seat in the back, at the farthest left corner of the room, which was her favourite place to sit as she found she could observe everyone's in peace without being observed herself.
After several minutes of being sat on her own, with the exception of a couple of students sat near the front, Lana, Emily (one of her other cheerleading friends) and several other students walked into the room, with the two girls making a beeline for her, taking seats next to her and chattering excitedly as Mrs Venn the maths teacher walked into the room, with Blake in tow.
She felt a confusing wave of disappointment as Mrs Venn directed Blake to take a seat near the front by the windows. Forcing her eyes away, she focused on Lana's and Emily's hushed discussion, her heart beating faster as she realised they were discussing the new girl.
"Have you seen her? She's beautiful." Lana whispered, with a jealous scowl in Blake's direction.
"Have you noticed that she's not spoke to anyone so far? Maybe she's a leper." Emily snickered.
"All the guys are gonna go nuts over her. My Blake better stay away. She looks like a total man-stealing bitch." Lana practically snarled.
"Hey! You don't even know her or spoke to her how would you know? I think she seems pretty nice and her hair is gorgeous!" Rae said, with a touch of anger, feeling a strange urge to defend the new girl to her long-time friends even though she'd never even spoke to her herself.
Lana rolled her eyes and chucked sarcastically at Rae's comment "Rae, you're way too nice for your own good. She just looks a bit of a bitch to me, as long as my Blake stays away from her I'm happy"
Rae ignored her friend and focused on Maths, as it wasn't her strongest subject and Mrs Venn has an unfortunate habit of speaking too fast for Rae to follow, as she did last year. The next two periods of English and Geography followed much in the same fashion, with Rae sitting at the back and Blake being seated at the front, across the room from her. In each period Rae found herself unable to avoid stealing glances at Blake, much to her confusion.
Every other glance though she found Blake's gaze meeting her own, causing Rae's cheeks to flush in embarrassment and her heart to beat faster. When lunch finally rolled around Rae was such a bundle of nerves she jumped and nearly screamed as David intercepted her in the corridor on her way to the cafeteria, wrapping his arms around her in a hug that, for once, she was relieved to receive as it was something familiar to her mixed up emotions.
David stepped back after a moment and looked at her, grinning softly and taking her hand leading her to the cafeteria. As she grabbed her food and sat down with David and her friends, she finally relaxed as she saw no sign of Blake in the room. She laughed and joked with her friends, cuddled up with David and forced all thoughts of the new girl out of her mind.
A/N: Not sure about this chapter but hey ho we'll see!
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