Chapter10: Questions

Lunch.

The one word that could make me happy any time and any place, just not today. To say our group was silent this lunch break would be an understatement.

It was fucking deadly silent, no light no laughter. Alec sat next to me fiddling on his phone, Erinn sending confused looks our way and me looking at my tasty pizza slice as if it was the only thing I knew.

"So, this is awkward," Jordan's says as she takes a seat next to me. I smile at her and nod my head. She smiles back and hands me her extra fries.

"I was thinking since I'm free for the day and I really need a place to crash for the night would you be up for it?"

I look at her in shock a fry hanging out my mouth, she looks at me expectantly. I eat the fry and answer her with a clear of my throat and a glare sent to me by Erinn.

"Sure it wouldn't hurt we could have a movie night or something."

Everyone perks up at the mention of movies." Are you guys going out to watch or.." Rom asks from Erinn's left. "Can I borrow your history notes and if you are going out can we join?" Spencer adds in quickly.

I shake my head at his lack of history notes but let's face it, he sucks at the subject so I help him out. Just because he can be pushy with the whole ' I wanna date you' thing doesn't mean he isn't a friend.

"We staying in and you better give them back this time or so help me," the threat makes him nod his head vigorously.

"When can we come over to hang out sometime?" Alec asks putting his phone down to look at me. The boys give sounds of agreement to his question.

Looking at Alec now I can see he decided to head back to who he was before. Cold and cut off, no strings attached and your typical ' I don't give a fuck' attitude back in place.

So to be a nice and I say this with pain I answer," Whenever you want to its not like I can stop you guys anyway. Rom already knows where I live" I add a cheeky smile in said boys direction.

"Oooh," the boys say fluttering their lashes at him. We all bust out laughing beside Erinn.

"It's not like that!", he yells and notices the attention he gain from the students in the cafeteria. He clears his throat," We just hanged out and stuff."

I smirk and give him a knowing look. Jordan nudges me under the table and leans in," What's up with Alec, is he OK?" When she sees the smug look on my face she quickly adds,"Not that I care, whatever."

I shake me head at her," Why dont you ask him yourself," "Maybe I will" she says and goes back to eating her lunch.

Conversation flows for the rest of lunch until Jordan gets curious, again she pokes me in the side," What subjects do you actually have?"

I look at her in shock how could she not know, she's been walking me to classes for a while now." English Lit,History,Drama, Business, Math and a selective." "That's a weird bunch of subjects but we have Business and Math together though." I admit my subject choice does seem weird but it all work out in the end or my future.

The bell rings and we all make our way to Drama seeing as its compulsory for all seniors. Rom pulls me to sit with him towards the back of the class. Spencer rolls his eyes and goes to his other group of friends.

I shake my head at the dumb rivalry, which is dumb cause they're best friends anyway. Ms Lewinsky bounds in and everyone settles down. It's magic I swear the moment she stepped foot at this school she became a student favourite.

With her wild frizzy curls tumbling down her back, her short height, curvy body and caramel skin. Let's not forget her chic glasses and charming smile.

She claps her hands," Alright, listen up I've given you the time to set up your ideas and partnership or groups. I might be easy going but we need to get somewhere people.

So I've come up with something I know you all will like. All of you will line up in the front of the class while I rearrange the desk. Then you will have 30 seconds to get your ass into a group or a pair. Groups no more than four people.

Rules...who am I kidding, even if you gotta trip someone to get where you wanna be so be it.

Let the Drama Games Begin!"

With that said everyone quickly makes their way to the front. Ms Lewinsky flies past us chocolate  frizz whipping around as she pushes the desk to her liking. Looking around I notice people huddling into groups in a non obvious way.

Rom seems to notice too and moves closer to to me. Alec, Jordan, Spencer and Erinn make their way over to us but before they can get to us, Ms Lewinsky calls our attention at the other side of the classroom.

She stands with her phone in her hand and a whistle near her mouth." Now get ready and I don't expect this to be pretty,"  immediately she blows the whistle and Rom damn near rips my arm off from the force he drags me to the closes desk seats.

Jordan sits down next to us just as quickly as we do and then we watch the scene unfold in front of our eyes. Turns out more than one person was laying on the floor. Tricks were being playing, pushes happening but what really got our attention is the fact that Erinn, Alec and Spencer's hand grips the last seat tightly.

Its like a cowboy stare down, in here and then all hell breaks lose. Spens pulls the chair pulling Erinn along with him seeing as Alec lets go just in time but instead of joining the fight he moves and sits down on the now seatless desk.

Those two have at it on the poor seat but without anyone realising Ms Lewinsky blows her whistle again and everyone freezes.

"Huh ah, stay where you are. Now let's get down to business. Right where you are standing or sitting, make up your group name and a awesome plan for your booth and remember it does not have to be a traditional one at that."

I look at Jordan and Rom, they shrug their shoulders. I slap my forehead and say the first thing that comes to my head." Goodbye Squad?" They think about it for a moment and nod.

So we look up and see what Ms is up to, seems like she's going around and bringing order to this mess. She stops by our group and burst out laughing. She looks at Erinn and Spencer and nearly burst out again.

"You two clearly need to be a partnership,"her smile gives away the fact that she's clearly enjoying this.

She turns to us without listening to the whining of the two and her eyes lights up. She grins at us," Now this group I have high hopes for. Applause to you Alec for planting your butt on the desk instead."

I look at her feeling confused, it must've showed on my face cause she gives me a gentle smile." Between me and you guys, let's face it everyone here isn't the same as you. Afterall a bunch of misfits are bound to come up with the best plan."

We all grin at her and nod, she writes down our name and goes on with the rest of the groups, we fill that time with small talk. The class is bubbling in happiness like the Ms said we absolutely liked it.

***

The final bell goes and Jordan and I make our way to my bike. Since I got her at the café I was her ride. She gets on behind me and we make our way out the school grounds.

We drive for a while and then pull up to a very shiny looking apartment building. The doorman greets us and we step into the elevator." Go on ask?" I look at her sheepishly and ask the obvious question," This is one smart looking building..."

She smiles at me," My brother and me do odd jobs here and there and with his café taking off it going good."

We step out and go to the first door on the right side of the hallway. I notice how she doesn't mention her parents, so I leave it be. We enter her apartment and the cosiness of it hits me.

The kitchen and living room are open plan and there's a short hallway ending with the bathroom and two bedroom opposite each other.

She laughs and my facial expression and motions for me to follow her to her room, which is the left room. Her room, now that's what I expected. She had a grunge theme going with a lot of car and motorbike posters and pictures.

I flop down onto her bed and watch her pack." Why would wanna sleep over by mine if your room is so awesome?" I ask and spread out like a star fish.

Her shakes her head at me," It gets lonely around here, with my brother always busy and tonights one of my off nights so I'm free! Now stop distracting me we need to make quick if we wanna dogde my brother."

The last sentence she says softer but before I can ask why we needed to rush her door bursts open and she gets tackled to the ground. Before I can react I nearly fall off the bed from what I heard.

"Archer you fat ass hippo get the fuck off me!" I look at her so called brother and damn! What is it with this place and the guys looking so hot!

He gets off her with a wild laugh and brushes his hair away from his eyes with his hand. I snap out of my daze and help Jordan up." Jaw, I didn't know you hand a friend over."he does a very obvious once over on me and I sarcastically do the same.

He chuckles," Fiesty, I like." I roll my eyes at him and go back to the bed." And your a 20 year old back off." He gasps at her words acting like it broke his heart." I wasn't planing anything like that its just weird seeing you with a friend, that's all anyway I gotta leave you got a place to go right you won't be here alone," she nods and his words and he turns to leave.

Before he leaves he turns around and winks at me but runs out before Jordan can throw him with a pillow. His wild laughter is heard before the front door is slammed shut. She shakes her and with a small laugh.

We finish up and make our way to my home. We pull up and seeing Erinns car out front nearly makes my mood, turns out I'm not the only one who see it." Oh joy," Jordan says dryly. We make our way to the foyer and take off our shoes.

"Took your damn time I need to ask you a few things"I roll my eyes at the sound of Erinn's voice behind us." Get done with it then," I say pushing my way past her and into the kitchen to get snacks.

"How old is your Uncle?" she blurts out. I nearly drop the bag of skittles. I clear my throat and answer," He's 23." I turn around and cross my arms over my chest and look at her sternly.

Slowly some things full into place. I shake my head at her as she leaves, doing whatever fuck she does. Jordan looks at me in confusion, I shrug and go back getting snacks.

"What's her problem anyway" Jordan finally ask as we make our way to the theatre room. I look at her and sigh," She going through freedom phase, thinks I'm an attention seeker or something."

She nods and sigh too. I hope Erinn knows what she's getting into.

***

We pig out in the theatre room and at some point past out in food comas. Unfortunately I'm woken up from mine to the sound of my phone. I blindly look from it and answer," Speak," the person on the other side let's out a chuckle. I get up and step out into the hallway immediately knowing who it is.

"I told you not to contact me anymore" I say coldly." Oh come on King don't be like that, I got some infomation for you regarding your legacy you left behind here," the person says smugly.

I rub my temples and sigh," This better be fucking good Zeta." She clears her throat uncomfortably at my cold tone.

"People are getting antsy, they heard what happen with your family and the rumors of what he did are spread over the borders. The circuit ain't happy King, losing the best isn't good."

I slide down the wall and softly bang the back of my head against the wall." Listen  Zeta I told them I would do my last fight and I will I'm not sure if the circuit here is the same. Link shit up for my so I can get this done with you know I can't keep going likes this not after what happen.

If any information leaks about what really happened with my family and all let my know immediately. Thanks."

I end the call and rub my eyes in frustration. I feel my control slowly slipping through my fingers and everything around me just wants to fall apart.

I won't let it happen this time.