BEEP BEEP BEEP
I groan and try to block the noise out by covering my ears with my pillow. Ugh! How is it only Tuesday?
I do my boring school routine, not that it's interesting AT ALL. When I head downstairs I'm greeted by what I think is pancakes and they smell divine.
Who's made them? Is it Josh? Because Nadia and Mark have most likely already left for work. I get to the kitchen and Josh is there holding a plate filled with pancakes, I guess I was right.
"Surprise!"
I smile, excited to eat them. "I'm definitely not going to complain but why the nice gesture?" He brings them to the table, which has two places set up, with two glasses filled up with orange juice.
"I just wanted to apologise for yesterday, you're right, I was being selfish and I shouldn't have made it sound like you'll stoop to Cole's level." I frown, not at the apology but the Cole part. Of course I'm not planning to sleep with him, but Cole isn't a bad person.
"What's so wrong with Cole? We've both started to get along just fine."
"Alright, I'm sorry, It doesn't matter. Let's stop talking about him and just eat the pancakes, you don't know how many attempts and eggs it took to be able to get them to look semi-decent." I laugh and agree.
"Okay, now where's the syrup?"
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Mia meets us at school and I travel with Josh, me being the one to drive. Again. Now that I also have a car, I seem to be the one to always drive usâlucky for him, not so lucky for me.
Coincidentally, Mia arrives at the exact same time we do. I quickly say morning and head to my locker while they go to theirs.
After bashing my locker multiple times, the stupid thing still won't budge. This school seriously needs to purchase new lockers, I mutter a few words that I'm not going to share with you. I swear enough as it is, I'll try and preserve your innocent souls as long as I can.
I finally manage to get it open and resist the need to do an entire celebratory dance. Putting, the books I need in my bag and the ones I don't back in my locker, I slam it shut and see Cole's distant figure get bigger and bigger as he walks towards my direction.
He smirks and I feel slightly disappointed that it's not the smile I've been getting all too often recently. The one I've gotten very used to.
Although, it does save me from my heart doing that stupid thing I was telling you about. Where it starts beating faster than it should. But when I start to think too much about his smile, my heart does exactly that anyway.
What the hell is going on with you?
"Hey," He waves his hand in front of my face, snapping me out of my daze, "you good?" Oh my god, I'm blushing, aren't I?
Oh boy...
"Yep, I-I'm fine." He looks at me suspiciously but if he was going to say something, he doesn't because Seph, Bryce and Ash approach us.
You need to seriously pull yourself together. What's wrong with you? What was it you said yesterday? You didn't want things to be awkward? You're REALLY not helping yourself.
"Hey, Andie," Ash says to me.
"Hey." I greet him back and realise I haven't said hello to Seph and Bryce. "Hey, guys." I wave and as they go to say what I presume would be a hello back, Cole cuts in.
"Hey Cole, how are you today?" He says sarcastically and we all laugh, except Cole himself.
"Jealousy doesn't look good on you Coley Woley, they just like me better." Cole rolls his eyes and Seph, Bryce and Ash snicker.
"Can we please stop with that stupid name now." Cole whines and I giggle.
"Coley Woley," Seph laughs, "That's amazing." Cole glares at him and Seph puts his hands up in surrender, even though he continues to laugh.
We all start talking about a load of different things and Seph insults Bryce so he punches his arm lightly. "Aw man, stop doing that, it hurts." Seph starts to complain, rubbing his arm as we all fail to contain our laughter.
"Dude, I hardly touched you." He rolls his eyes and the bell rings, so I head to my first class.
Yay maths! Pick up on the sarcasm yet?
Once everyone is settled, the teacher starts to talk. "Morning everybody, I'm not going to speak much today as I've paired you all up to complete the multiple worksheets I've set."
She proceeds to tell us our pairs, "Andie you're with Noah." I frown, curious, who is Noah? I may not be friends with some, if not any people in this class, but I know who everybody is and I definitely don't know a Noah.
Before I can ask the question, Cole knocks on the door not looking at all impressed. He was definitely sent here to get something against his will. "We need pencils." Just like Cole to use his manners.
"Polite as always I see." She gives Cole the famous 'teachers glare' that everyone has been given at least once in their lives.
"Miss, who's Noah?" I ask while she's giving Cole a bunch of pencils. Cole must recognize my voice because he looks up for the first time, smirking.
Again, not that smile.
"Oh sorry dear, he's the new student." She looks at her watch then looks up again. "He should be here any minute now." I nod and Cole mouths something to me.
"Hey, princess." My attention is quickly off Cole when I hear Miss speak again.
"And this is our new student, Noah Scott."
No.
Freaking.
Way.
I squeal, "Noah!" and run up and hug him. "What are you doing here?" I ask it comes out muffled against his top. I pull away and he finally answers,
"Missed me, Dee." He grins.
"Of course!" I hug him again and then pull away for the final time. "I thought you said you were coming to visit, not stay permanently!"
Noah is my other close friend that I have been speaking to recently, he brought up that he would be coming down soon but I never expected this.
I catch a glimpse of Cole over Noah's shoulder and he looks annoyed, irritated maybe? He turns around and slams the door behind him, startling the whole class. Is he okay?
"Hey, Dee! Did you hear me?"
"Sorry, I spaced. How come you're here?" I ask but before he can answer the teacher interrupts.
"I get the idea you haven't seen each other in a while but how about you continue this little reunion later." It was more of an order rather than a question. She's glaring at me more than Noahâ the advantage of being the new student. When I look around, everyone staring at us.
I completely forgot we were in class, I look down embarrassed. "Right. Sorry, Miss."
Once Noah and I are seated, everyone is told to get on with the tasks and we continue our conversation from just a few moments ago. "So why are you here?"
"I got expelled." My jaw drops. Noah may not have also followed the rules but I would have never expected him to get expelled.
"W-what? Why?"
"Jess' boyfriend cheated on her and he was acting a total dick, just like he always has, so I punched him in the face."
"Not like it was the first time," I murmur, resting my chin on my hand. "poor Jess. I know that fighting isn't exactly the best thing but why didn't you just get a suspension?"
"I broke his nose and before he could throw a punch back the teacher had already come. But to say my mum wanted to kill me would be an understatement of the century. Luckily though, she let me move here instead. I just had to be extra nice for a few weeks."
"How is your mum? I miss her." I say sadly, "And who is Jess going to hang around with at school now you're not there?"
"We made friends with a few other people before I got kicked out so at least she has them. I just hated leaving her, but at least I still live near her."
"Tell me about it," I say glumly "I hated leaving you guys."
He takes my hand reassuringly, "How have you been doing recently."
"I've been doing a lot better recently, mum's birthday was really hard but I've been fortunate enough to have family and friends help me. My best friend around here, she's called Mia, I met her on my first day and I probably would've hated it here if it wasn't for her.
Then there's Josh, my aunt and uncle who have all been there to help me as well, they helped me settle in as much as they could. There's this guy. He's called Cole and he's been there for me a lot recently. I didn't like him much at first, we argued a lot, but... I don't know, I guess my whole perspective of him has changed. I don't know how I properly feel."
I look and Noah has a massive grin on his face. "Holy shit... You like the guy!" I can't help but blush and he's right. Dammit.
As much as I try and deny, I like him. So freaking much and it scares me.
"W-what are you speaking about?" I lie.
"Don't lie to me Dee, you should've seen the look on your face when you were speaking about him."
"Fine, Okay. Maybe I like him but I don't know what to do about it." I feel guilty that Noah knows and I haven't even told Mia yet.
I guess I was a little uncertain of my feelings and if I wasâamâslightly confused about my feelings, how was I going to tell Mia?
The bell rings and we start to pack all our stuff up. "Well, we better go, what lesson do you have next? I'll take you."
Luckily, Noah's class was right next to mine so I didn't have to go to the other side of the school. "Well thanks, and you'll have to show me the lucky guy." I laugh and wave to him before walking into my class.
I now have English and the last time I saw Cole he looked pretty annoyed so at least I get to see what was wrong. But when I look at my seat I see Cole isn't thereâor in the classroom at all for that matter.
Where the hell is he?
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