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Frost's P.O.V

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Chapter One: Touchè

Someone once asked me why I'm so annoying. And come to think of it, I have absolutely no clue.

"I'll be in the back, sticking this lemon in my ass." I say in a weird voice as I cut more lemons. I put the cut up lemons in my bottle water, clean up my mess, and leave the kitchen. Quickly putting my hair in a pony tail, I grab my blank black backpack, sipping my drink.

"Ma! I'm leaving now!" I yell to my mom, who is upstairs doing god knows what. I watch her waddle downstairs.

My mom and me don't look alike at all. She has pin straight brown hair, and dark brown eyes. She says I look like my dad, and sadly it's true.

Mom steps off the final step with a sigh, her baby bump looking bigger than ever.

My mom is pregnant with my little sister and is about to pop any day now. And no. She isn't old, she's actually 37. She told me she wanted to start an early family, and had me when she was 20.

That's quite early if you ask me...

But it's fine! She brought an annoying, 'sweet' girl into this world to make it sparkle. Although... she didn't go to college like my dad, and so she really wants me to apply for college.

"Okay, bye honey." she gives me a kiss on the cheek.

"Don't pop out a baby while I'm gone," I say and she laughs. "I'm not joking." I add as I close the door. I hear another door open and close.

"Hey Frost!" my best friend Manon calls out as she leaves her house. I grin, and cup my mouth.

"No, this is Patrick!" I yell. I hear her laugh before she walks across the grass, and meets me on the sidewalk, her brown hair flowing gently in the breeze.

Here's something to know about yours truly; I can eat a whole box of pizza without getting sick.

And I'm totally smart.

It's the first of October and I'm already in the Halloween spirit. I'm planning to be a hotdog or Madea. Or even Stitch.

"I'm surprised you even got out of bed." she laughs and shields the sun from her eyes, "And you're wearing clothes? Frost, I'm so proud!"

"Is mayonnaise an instrument?" I ask while walking to my car. I hop in my car- one that my dearest mother bought for me.

"Get in loser, we're going shopping," I say and she laughs again, walking across the street to my car. She climbs in.

"I'm not a loser," she says while putting on her seat belt.

"Yeah you are,"

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After a long drive and me annoying Manon, we arrive at school. One of my least favorite places to be.

The school isn't so bad; it's a two story building and the walls on the outside are bricks. The inside is black lockers with red walls and a white trims. There's a big golden bear statue named Ollie the Bear out front. We have picnic tables outside incase we want to eat outside. There's a small stairway leading to the school's front door. Our principal though, is like, really strict.

As Manon and I stand by Ollie, the school's queen bee makes her entrance. Rose Spencer; someone with more beauty and makeup skills than I'll ever have. She and Nova were dating up until this summer, I heard them arguing outside and he broke it off. Totally a teenage drama!

And no, I totally wasn't eavesdropping.

Rose walks by us while smacking her gum, her tight white pants standing out against her tan skin. She has on a red crop top and some red high heels. I'll admit, the girl is top notch GORGEOUS! Why couldn't I have been blessed with such beauty!?

Disappointed.

"She's so pretty yet so mean," Manon says while staring at her.

"Hey Manon. Frost, " Cole, one of the popular boys smiles at us as he walks up to us. Cole is also Manon's crush.

I remember last year I 'accidentally' flat tired him, and his shoe came all the way off. And he's all like, "My shoe came off. Does that make me Cinderella?"

It was quite funny.

I watch the two of them continue to smile at each other, and a slow grin grows on my face.

"By the way Cole, she's single and likes it when you scratch her head." I whisper, loud enough for Manon to hear. Manon falls silent, staring at Cole.

Do you know that weird long pause that happens to you when something really awkward happens?

I think I froze Manon.

Cole chuckles, "Really?" he then stretches out his hand and gently scratches her head. Manon gasps and swats his hand away.

"Hey Cole, do you know anybody who I haven't annoyed yet?" I ask as we begin to walk in.

His smile soon transforms into an evil smirk. "Yeah, Nova. He's been real grumpy."

Ah. Nova Hurkins. Cole's bestie. And my neighbor. Being his neighbor isn't all that, because one, he keeps his blinds shut and he never goes outside... which means I can't see his abs. Nova and Cole are like the sun and we, the ladies, are the ice cream... that melts...

Anyways. We all have classes together. Surprisingly, me and Cole are actually quite good friends. But me and Nova? Not so much.

Like Cole, Nova is taller than me. Him and Cole are both on the Football team. They both have beautiful smiles-

"Someone said my name? Don't be drooling now." Nova smirks and walks up to us. His smirk drops as his eyes fall on me.

"I mean..." my hand flies to my mouth, "I'm dry... so you must be talking about yourself. You're standing in front of two hot girls." I grin childishly. He glares at me, his face instantly turning stone cold.

"Get your facts straight blondie. You are not hot." he grumbles.

How dare he.

I stand on my tippy toes and begin ruffling his hair. It's so soft... holy... I might be the first girl to-

Wait, never mind. Who knows how many girls he's been with.

He grips my wrist, slowly pulling it away from his hair. I then use my other hand and continue ruffling.

I laugh at his annoyed expression. "This annoys you doesn't it!" Cole stifles back a laugh while Manon gapes at us.

"No, it doesn't," he plucks my other hand out of his hair. "And don't touch my hair. It's annoying."

"Ha! You just confirmed it!" I laugh and pull my arms back, "Well. I'll be seeing you later." I grin evilly and grab Manon.

"Time to discuss my evil plan." I rub my hands together and laugh evilly.

After what felt like forever, we walked into our first period, Math. With my top lip curled over my teeth, we sit in our regular spot, up the front by a window. Manon takes the window seat like always, talking about Cole dreamily.

"Ask him out," I state and she blushes.

"No! He probably has a girlfriend!"

"If he had a girlfriend, don't you think she would be all clingy and never let him out of her sight?"

"Yeah..."

"Then there's your answer! Ask him out."

I see Nova walk in with Cole following. "Oh hey! Hey! Sit over here!" I frantically wave at them. They look at each other, bickering back and forth.

Cole walks over, leaving Nova high and dry. "Hello," I greet him with my curled lip. He laughs, and sits next to Manon. "I didn't expect you to sit here. You know, cause we're not 'popular'."

"You guys are pretty awesome and Nova is being a sour puss. Like always." Cole says as the bell rings. Nova looks at me, then Cole, then me again.

He rolls his eyes, stomps over to us, and sits down in the free spot next to me. "Welcome my dear friend!" I smile at him.

"We are not friends." he snarls.

"No one told you life was gonna be this way!" I sing, and Manon claps her hands. I bob my head and Nova looks away, shaking his head. Cole laughs, singing along.

Mr. Earl walks in and I stop singing, "Good morning class."

"Good morning Mr. Earl," we all say in sync. As Mr. Earl explains what we're doing today, something about a math paper, I begin kicking Nova's chair.

After many kicks, Nova finally looks at me with a glare. "Do you mind?"

I pierce my lips, "Hm... nope!"

Then, he kicks my foot with his foot, and goes back to listening to Mr. Earl. He passed out our new math papers, and said we could get started. Everyone begins talking in a quiet tone. I scan over the first one, my IQ already lowering.

"Hey, hey Nova!" I nudge him. He sighs deeply and runs a hand through his hair.

"What." he grumbles, looking at me. I shove my math paper in his face.

"How do you do this?" I ask, pointing to the first problem. He takes my paper and sets it down, examining the problem.

He sighs, "First you add this, then you multiply these, and subtract it. Then divide it by five. There's your answer." he explains.

(A/N: I have no clue about what I just typed 😂 im not smart okah.)

"Okay! Thank you, buddy." I smile innocently before kicking his chair again, but harder than last time.

"I swear to God if you kick my chair one more time."

The day dragged by and slowly, lunch arrived. I managed to convince Cole and Manon to eat outside with each other. Alone.

As I'm getting my food, I feel a presence behind me. I turn around, a fry dangling out of my mouth, and see Principal Isa and Nova. I sheepishly smile at her, "Hello Mrs. Isa..."

"Bring your lunch and come with me." she orders and begins walking at a really fast pace, her heels clacking against the floor. I practically run just to catch up with Nova.

"Why did you tell on me? I was just playing around!" I whisper shout at Nova. He glances at me, shaking his head.

"I didn't tell on you, she randomly grabbed me too." he says. We arrived at the principals office, my lunch half gone. Some of the office ladies gave us curious glances.

Me and Nova stand awkwardly in front of her desk. "Sit." she says, sitting down herself. We plop down and I clutch my lunch, looking around.

Her office is actually really nice; the walls are painted a maroon red color, with white trims. Her desk is a simple brown color with pencils, pens, and paper work on it. There is a couple of plants and windows, and lamps.

"Ms. Matthews, do you know why I pulled you in here?" she finally breaks the silence.

"No Mrs. Isa, I don't." I answer. She looks at Nova and asks the same thing. He shakes his head.

"Well Frost, it seems like you are struggling in some classes. You have an F in math, and a F in science."

I take back saying I was smart.

How do you even fail science?

"And Nova, you have an A plus in math and science." she states. I watch his lips slowly form into a proud smirk.

"Rude," I mutter, "I can have my mom-"

She cuts me off, "Now you know, I want the best for my students. Especially for you Frost, and you know why. So, therefore, Nova you will tutor Frost. Until her grades go up." she strictly says. I grin at Nova's disappointed mouth fall.

"Is that clear?"

"Yes," we both answer.

"Alright. You may leave."

I stand up and walk out with Nova. I stand on one side of the hallway, while he stands on the other. "Do you still have food?" he suddenly asks.

I look down at my plate, and see I still have a burger. "Uh... yeah? Why?"

"Cause I'm hungry," he struts over to me, grabs my burger, and struts back over to his side. I watch him devour my food.

"I mean... you could've bought your own..." I say, a little bit sad. We walk back into the lunch room and I dump my tray.

"But oh whale! So, Nova, should you come to my house or what?" I throw my arm over his shoulder. He shakes my arm off.

"I guess yeah, whatever." he grumbles as he turns around and begins to walk away.

I jog up to him, "Okay. I'll drive you to my house!" I smile before kicking the back of his knee. He stumbles forward, I walk up to him, a smile growing on my face.

"Frost Matthews, if you touch me one more time." he storms up to me, grabs me, and pulls me by the window. Rose glares at me, her eyes fixated on Nova's hand around my arm. Remind me to buy rich girl repellent.

I wave at Manon before turning back to Nova.

"Oh is the big bad boy mad," I tease, ruffling his hair. "Don't huff too much because you can't blow this house down."

"Don't. Ruffle. My. Hair." he grips my wrist, lowering my arm.

"Yo Nova! Keep staring at her like that and you'll need to get a room!" I hear Cole's loud laugh from outside. I pull my wrist away, laughing as well. Looking at Nova, I see no expression on his face, but a glare.

Pfft. He should be laughing.

The bell rings, saving me from Nova's icey glare.

"Well buddy," I pat his shoulder, "I'll see you later, but I have a p.e class to get to." I skip away, catching up with Manon and Cole. As sad as it is, this is the only class I don't have with Manon. Oh, it's so tragic.

"Yeah? Will you go?" Cole says, unaware of me.

"Um... sure.." Manon also says, unaware of me as well.

"Hey love birds!" I throw my arms over their shoulders, surprising both of them. "Oh, I'm sorry, did I interrupt something important?" I wiggle my brows at Manon. She shoots me a glare while Cole laughs.

Huh. Over the years of knowing Cole, I just now realized his response to everything is a laugh. I wonder if he realizes that he does that. It's quite a cute laugh.

I pat their stomachs, "Manon! Have you been working out?! When did you get abs?" I pat her stomach again and she blushes a deep red.

"You got to teach me some-" before I could finish, Nova pushes through me and her, dragging me along.

"I'll see you guys later! And pray for me!" I call out to Manon and Cole as I'm dragged away to my death.

Girls glance at me curiously, others glare at me. As he drags me down the hallway, he leans down so only I could hear, "Does annoying me give you pleasure in life? Because if it does, you can forget about me tutoring you."

"Why are you being secretive about tutoring me? It's not like anyone finding out the popular boy is tutoring a girl, is the end of the world. Is it?" I ask.

"Don't answer my question with a question." he says and opens the gym doors.

"But why answer your question, when I have a question about your question."

"Whatever Matthews, just shut up and go change. Meet me outside when your done." he shoves me towards the girls locker room.

Gather around ladies and gentlemen. This just in. Nova Hurkins is apparently my father.

I changed and left the locker room, only to run into Nova.

Literally.

I rub my nose, "Seriously? What are you made of, rock?" he rolls his eyes before walking away. I jog outside, where everyone else is.

I stand off to the side, looking at the substitute curiously.

Only if Manon was here...

Once everyone got outside and onto the field, the sub began talking. "Uh... so today you're just going to be running laps. You, uh, may get started." Everyone jogs onto the track, and begins to run. And being the lazy person I am, I took my time getting on the track.

Look at these fools, wasting their energy.

A hand grasps my arm, and I immediately know who it is. "Come on, chop chop. Don't want you failing p.e too." Nova says and forces me to run along with him. He runs beside me, unaffected with all this running.

He's on the football team, of course he is.

"Just go, leave me! Save yourself! Save yourself while you still have the chance!" I dramatically flail my arms around, and start walking. What an idiot! He thinks I, probably the most laziest person known to humanity, am going to run. Turning around, he looks at me with annoyance.

"Look Matthews, just jog. It's not so hard." he sighs and squints at me.

"But it's p.e, everything is hard!" I whine.

"Let's go,"

"Ugh, why are you so persistent? Can you answer that?" I complain but jog with him anyways.

"Why are you so annoying? Can you answer that?" he retorts.

"Touchè Nova, touchè."

He picks up his pace suddenly, giving me a side smirk, "Race you!" he then, takes off sprinting, leaving me high and dry.

"Hey get back here!" I yell, running after him. I struggle to keep up with him, and he laughs at my attempt to speed up. I give up, stopping and rest my hands on my hips. A driblet of sweat rolls down my forehead.

Dang I'm unfit.

"How... the... heck... are... you... not... tired?" I ask the non-tired Nova, breathlessly. He approaches me with a smirk.

"You should work out more, and eat healthier. Like seriously, all you ate was fries and no fruits or vegetables." he comments, walking past me, the complete opposite direction.

"I'm sorry," I say in a robotic voice, "Please try again. Word 'healthy' is not found."

"You're weird. I'm going to go hang out with Cole, see you later." he calls over his shoulder. I stick my tongue out at him and continue walking. I chuckle to myself at my childishness.

"And pace yourself! It'll help!" I hear him call out behind me.

Okay fine.

Maybe he isn't so bad.

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Mushroomers?

Mushumer?

Idk.

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