“Oh, okay!”
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I put my pencils in my backpack and I felt my heart beating really fast. She was smiling really big and to be honest I was a little afraid. The reason I said yes was… well I didn’t have anyone to sit with at lunch, but also because my brain went haywire and the word “sure” came out of my mouth automatically.
I was walking out the door with Fayth when Ms. Burtyn told us goodbye.
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“Bye Hayden, G’bye Fayth!”
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It really caught me off guard so I just blurted, ”Bye.”
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And, my voice cracked.
Fayth giggled and I gave her a death glare while holding back my laughter as well. The walk to the cafeteria felt really long and we just walked in silence next to each other doing nothing. My head was swimming with thoughts like, This is awkward. I should just talk to her… but what if she thinks I’m weird. Nah, well it’s worth a try. How about I ask a question?
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“Uh, what’s the food that the school serves like?”
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Fayth had a thoughtful look on her face and said,” Well, ha, I don’t know ‘cause I just bring my lunch all the time. Are you buying lunch today?”
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“No, I just want to know because I might in the future. I mean, I wouldn’t want to make my lunch every day.”
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“Yep, well that’s what I do every day so…”, she sighed loudly in fake annoyance.
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I chuckled. It was actually pretty easy to talk to her, I wasn’t feeling that awkward at all.
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We walked into the cafeteria and it was packed with kids. Like, almost all the seats were taken up. I think the surprise traveled to my face because Fayth said, “Yeah, and this isn’t even all of it. There are some seats outside, too”
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“Y-you’re joking… right?”
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Fayth looked at me with an amused look on her face.
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“Were you homeschooled or something? This really isn’t too crazy.”
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“Well, I actually was homeschooled, so ha!”, I replied.
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It was her turn to look surprised. I was homeschooled for most of my life until now, but this year I decided to go to public school and argued with my mom forever. But my dad took to my side and decided that I needed to make friends.
And now, I’m here eating lunch with Fayth.
“I normally sit here,” Fayth pointed to a random table against the wall that was empty.
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“Huh, okay, this seems like a cool spot,” I replied.
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“Yeah, I don’t know, I think I picked it because it gives a good view of the forest right there,” she nodded her head to a rectangular window right above the table.
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The trees looked amazing all packed together tightly in the small valley between the school and the road.
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I sat close to the wall and craned my next to look at the tiny cliff. My eyes widened at the sight,” That drop looks a little scary though.”
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Fayth chuckled,” True, but that’s what makes the view even cooler to me.”
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I raised my eyebrows in surprise. I’m a little afraid of heights so I really don’t understand when people think that this stuff is cool.
I took out my lunch box that was stuffed into my backpack and Fayth did the same.
I took out the soggy turkey sandwich mom made for me to eat and sniffed it. Argh! No, nope, not a good idea.
Fayth raised one eyebrow and giggled while I was gagging and trying to get rid of the horrific thing I just smelled. I took out the chocolate chip cookie my dad baked and put in my lunch secretly.
Thankfully the cookie smelled heavenly and I took my first bite. I closed my eyes and savored the sweet goodness in my mouth. I opened my eyes and saw Fayth watching me.
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“Jealous?” I asked with a little smirk on my face.
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She stared at the cookie for a really long time and nodded her head.
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“Here, you can have a little if you want,” I told her.
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“Really?” Her face lit up.
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“I mean, yeah, it’s a cookie,” I snorted a little laugh. “I have more at home, too.”
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“Omigosh thank youuuuu!” She seemed overly excited.
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I broke off a piece of the cookie and she ate it in a second. I seriously have a feeling that this girl hasn’t had any sugar for years or something.
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“Oh I almost forgot to ask but what’s the rest of your schedule?” I heard Fayth ask me.
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I looked in my backpack for my schedule that I printed out last night. “Uh, I don’t know, lemme check.”
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I rifled through my mostly empty folders and notebooks in my backpack and found my schedule.
It was a piece of paper that had a grid full of words on it. It took me a little time to try and decipher what my schedule was. I really should memorize it soon.
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“Uh, ok, so I have science-”
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“With me!”, Fayth interrupted.
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I tried not to smile,” Yup, and then my second block is math, we just had writing class… and then my last three blocks are French, ELA, and Social Studies.”
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“French? That’s what you’re taking?”, Fayth looked confused. “I didn’t know they had that as a language.”
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I nodded,” Yeah, there wasn’t any space for Spanish because literally, everyone takes it, so french is my best bet.”
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“Wait, and then you said that you have ELA and then Social Studies?”
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“Mhm”, I took another bite of my cookie.
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“Awh”, she frowned. “ That means Science and Creative Writing are, like, the only classes we have together, then.”
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“Mph, yeah, that sucks,” I agreed.
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I saw her eyes travel over her shoulder to a group of girls and land on one of them with a white turtleneck. She blinked quickly a couple of times and then snapped her head back to look at me.
She smiled brightly at me and I narrowed my eyes in confusion.
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“Um, who’s that?” I asked.
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“Who’s who?” She acted clueless.
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“That… the girl you were looking at a couple of seconds ago?”
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Her smile faltered just a little. “No one, that’s no one,” she looked at me like I was the crazy person.
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I looked over to get a better look at the girl as Fayth’s eyes widened.
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She started slapping my hands to get my attention.”Stop, stop don’t do that!” She whisper-yelled.
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“Woah, woah ok,” I stopped. “Is she your, umm… bully?”
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“No! She is- no one, I don’t know why I looked at her,” she looked down at the table.
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“Oh, ok,” I said.
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I looked through my lunchbox some more and found a bag of brown apple slices. Wow, my parents do not know how to make lunches. I threw them away and looked for the bag of cereal I hid under the ice block thingy, just in case I needed to abort my lunch. Thank you, past Hayden!
Fayth and I ate in silence for a while until the bell rang. We packed up our lunches.
“What room is your Social Studies class in?” she randomly asks.
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I closed my eyes and tried to remember,” Shoot, um, I think it’s 412?”
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She smiled,” Okay, is it ok if I wait outside for you…?”
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“Yeah, sure,” I smiled back.
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“See ya!”
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“See ya!”, I walked out of the cafeteria and to French class. Hopefully, the teacher doesn’t expect me to know anything more than Bonjour.
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A/N -
OOOOOKKAAAY... hi! I know I literally took the longest break ever recorded in history but please forgive me! (and also I'm very very sorry that I left you guys on a cliffhanger-ish, yeesh I'm mean) Anyways, thank you for reading the newest installment of my book! This past HALF YEAR that I was gone for, I was not really feeling that motivated to write and only felt like reading. I finally got the inspiration to finish this chapter that I started writing, and yeah hopefully I won't disappear for such a long time again! School has been pretty crazy, though so if I'm gone, just know that I'm doing some essay about why radishes are healthy or something. 𝓛𝓸𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮 𝔂'𝓪𝓵𝓵!
- psheilak <3
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