The only think was getting far away from Chase as possible. I pushed him, and ran to the restroom. I entered the stall, and sat down on the toilet. I put my head in my hands. I could my eyes fill up with tears. I tried to choke them back, but a few slipped through, and down my cheeks. Why did he do that? You cannot just suddenly kiss someone like that. Life does just not work like that. If he liked me, he should have just told me outright. I hate beating around the bush, and trying to read the minds of people. But he did not do that. He possible scarred me. I was so scared that I thought I was going to faint. I still my heart beat fast, and my hands are trembling a bit. This happened to me in elementary school, when a girl would kick me out of the blue because she liked me, I later found out from my friend Zach. I avoided her for the rest of my time at elementary school. I don’t think I could possibly avoid Chase for the rest of high school unless he changed schools. I wish he would have just told me. 

"Damn it." I murmured into my hands.

Why did this thing happen to me?

I was late to my first class, and I got a pink slip to go to detention at lunch today. Great, now I have to spend lunch with the stoners, and degenerates. Could this school day just end already? I’m ready to go home, and cuddle under the blanket with a book and no pants.

I was so mad, and really confused at what happened that I had to try extra hard to concentrate on the lessons today. Except Spanish. We had hot chocolate and churros, and free Spanish speech day. It was a cool, fresh drink of water than just sitting there conjugating verbs, and learning new vocabulary.

I sat talking about makeup, and taking a trip to the beach to Valencia, Spain, which does not sound so bad right now, with Gabriella and Anna. Gabriella and Anna are also in my German class. It was mainly Anna and I speaking, and Gabriella saying "Sí, es bueno." every now and then to get those participation points. The bell rang, and everyone got up, and I stayed there and sighed. Chase walked passed, and came over.

"Hey, can I talk to you for a second." He bit his lip, and, rolled his sleeve down over his right hand.

"No, I have nothing I want to say to you right now." I got up, and tried to leave, but Chase stopped me.

"Please, Jeong. Just I’m sorry, okay."

"Save it. I don’t want to hear it." I snapped, and marched past him. I went to my locker, and grabbed my lunch, which I realized I forgot to pack because I was too busy prying Tobey. "Shit." I said under my breath. I’m going to have to starve myself because I can’t be late for detention or I get suspended. So, I grabbed a book, and walked towards the room for detention. It was the art room. I walked in and saw some art students putting their work away in a closet, and lock it shut, and hurry past me, while giving me dirty looks like I had not showered in a month.

I sat down, and whipped out my book, and began reading. One by one the students for detention slowly poured in. Just as I thought, they were all punks, and stoners, and some jocks. the sat all around me in different cliques. Good. I don’t like these types of people. They are all going nowhere in life with their ambitions, or grades. I sat there reading my book, and tuning out the ruckus they were making. The teacher was Mr. Rice for detention. He shouted, and everyone shut up, or went to a low whisper.

"Hey. I didn’t think you’d be here, Jeong. " I looked up from book, and saw Zach. His bleach blonde hair that was natural, and small stature. He hadn’t changed a bit. He was a little taller.

 I smiled, and placed my bookmark in my book.

"Hey. I didn’t think you went here. "

"Yeah, I just got here. Today is my first day. Family moved across town. "

"Interesting. So, how’d you end up in here." I asked.

"I couldn’t find my home room. Some fat woman caught me, and gave me a pink slip, then showed me to my home room."

"Oh, that sucks dude."

"Yeah. How’d you get in here."

"Some guy kissed me, and I freaked out, and was late because I was in the bathroom trying to sober up." I looked at the table out of embarrassment.

"that wasn’t your first kiss, was it? He looked at me, and grinned.

"No. It wasn’t thank god. "

"that would be kind of awful if your first kiss was with a boy." He said.

I rolled my eyes slightly "I don’t know about that, but it was freaking scary. My hand was shaking, and everything. I couldn’t even think, or see straight. I was THAT scared, Zach. Jesus. He tried to apologize, but I don’t want to see him right now. "

"I wouldn’t want to either. " He chuckled, and I rolled my eyes.

"So, are the teachers hard-asses here?" He asked, and scrolled through his Instagram with his back turned towards the teacher.

"Some are. It’s public school, so if you put a little effort you could pass with flying colors. That and a little BS every now and then, and try to keep low. There should be no problems. Or for you. Find the popular clique. "

He chuckled, and said." Well I’m with the clique I want to be with. I’m in the popular clique."

That made me laughed in that hard way that made no sound, then I snorted, and everyone heard, and looked. I felt my face turn redder than the color of the tomatoes on the painting on the wall. I looked down, then looked at Zach. We laughed silently like we did when we played Pokemon, and told inside jokes in elementary school.

Lunch was over, and Zach and I swapped numbers, and parted. He had P.E, gross, and I had Social studies. For the rest of the day, I paid attention in the back of my classes, and texted Zach. There were some texts from Sam and Edward, wondering where I was during lunch. I told them the whole story. I received some texts from Chase too, which I left on read.

I got into the car in the front seat this time, since my school got out earlier that Tai’s and Tobey’s. When we got home, I plugged my phone in, and took my pants off, and got under the covers, and snuggled up with a good book. It was a good time of the day to do it too. It was really cloudy, and rain had begun to hit the window. It made for the perfect ambience for reading.

Mom called me down for dinner, and I went down with no pants, and Everyone chuckled, but I did not care at all. I was happy, and that’s all that mattered at the moment.

Mom asked how school was, and told her in front of my little brothers, and she went wide-eyed, and gasped. I shrugged it off, and ate. I could tell she was worried, but I could also tell that she knew it did not bother me now, and I was over it, So she dropped it. I finished my dinner, and did the dishes. I brushed my teeth, and went back to reading my book, and fell asleep with the light on, and the book in my lap. I did not move because I woke up at one in the morning, and nothing had been shifted, when I placed a bookmark, and put my book away, and turned the light out, and went back to sleep.

Next Chapter: Chapter 18