eight

I run to Alyssa's class which so happens to be Sam's class too. I peek in to find that no teacher is there and I take the golden opportunity.

"Alyssa? Can I talk to you for a minute bub?" I give her a sweet smile to cover up my anger.

"Yeah?" She says and I gesture for her to come out but she shakes her and calls me in.

Well, upto you wherever you wanna get your ass whooped.

"I heard you told my best friend to go on a diet?" I ask her standing in front of her confidently. The thing I like the most about myself is that I may be nervous over small things but I'm not afraid to stand up for myself and my friends.

"Yeah. He has a bit of baby fat on his face, y'know?" She says scrunching up her nose and it takes everything in me not to punch her right there.

"No, I infact don't think so. I think he's perfect."

"You're the only one who thinks that."

"Yes because I'm not a fucking bitch. This is the last time you said something about him, next time I will for sure punch the life out of you. I'm a black belt in Judo, just to warn you." I say putting my hands up in the air and she visibly pales but quickly recovers with an eye-roll.

"You're gonna get expelled and also your title would be taken away." She says, smirking.

"Who said I was gonna do it inside school?" I say shrugging and raising my eyebrows.

"Mia, I think that'll be enough, you're gonna be late for class." Sam says coming up behind me to turn me around and I glare at her one last time before going out of the class with him.

"Don't act like a hero all the time." He says and sighs.

"I can do anything for my friends. She made Jim go on a diet, I will definitely punch her next time." I say firmly, still angry.

I don't want Jim to go back to how he was once before. I need and want him happy and healthy always.

"Alright, go to class." He says laughing a little and I calm down immediately.

"Okay."

As soon as the bell for lunch rings, I run to my locker and throw my books in. My nose picks up Sam's perfume and I can tell he's near without turning around.

"Hi Sam-Sam." I say without turning around and then shut my locker close.

"Oh my god, how on earth did you know I was near?" He says and I look back at him. He gives me a surprised look and I laugh at his reaction shrugging. We both start walking to the cafeteria and that's when I notice that his cap was back on, I didn't notice when I met him again in the morning because I was way too angry to think.

"Give that to me." I say taking snap back off his head and he groans setting his hair as I did in the morning. I put his cap on my head and then turn it so the strap is in the front and do a peace sign.

"You are so weird." He says shaking his head.

"Oh come on bruh, I'm not weird." I say in a deep voice like one of his classmates I know.

"Are you imitating that guy over there?" He asks pointing to Joshua, one of the jocks in the school and I nod snickering a little.

"Let's sit with the boys, I'll help you make friends, we can talk some other time." He shrugs and I pull him along making him sit next to Nathan since they are friends. Jim sits next to me so now I'm between the two of them. The rest aren't here yet.

"Jimie, this is Sam, he's my friend." Jim nods smiling a little at him and then puts an arm around my waist posessively. He's a little jealous of all my new friends.

He's dumb if he thinks I can stay away from him for more than a day.

"Hey Sam, It's nice to meet you." He says softly.

"Minnie, I gave him your shirt, was that okay to do?" I ask nervously, whispering in his ear.

"Of course Mia, why would that be an issue?" He says smiling at me and I smile back nodding.

"Oh hey by the way, there are a lot of cute people around school, you found anybody you'd like?" Nathan asks nudging Sam a little and his eyes immediately shoot up to me but he looks away and then nods.

"Ooh, who is it?" Jim asks wiggling his eyebrows.

"Alyssa."

As soon as the word comes out of his mouth, Jim tenses beside me and looks down.

"Jim, she's a nobody to you, let it be." I say keeping my hand on the side of his face and turn it up. "Don't you dare put you head down and sulk now."

"So you're saying you have a crush of Alyssa?" Nathan asks very much surprised.

Same Nathan. Same.

"I mean I can't call it a crush, just that she's really cute and sweet." I choke on my food.

"Can you please pass me a waterbottle?" Jim asks rubbing my back and trying to hold his laughter in. Cute? Okay, arguable but okay. Sweet? Is he dumb? His taste in women is quite, what was the right word? Ah yes, disgusting.

"D-don't fucking laugh. I just had an NDE." I say sucking in air but wheezing again.

"What's an NDE?" Sam asks innocently. He is actually really innocent if he thinks Alyssa is a sweet person. What a blind guy.

"What I just had, Near Death Experience." I say huffing. Nathan and Jim burst out laughing at this and I squint my eyes at them. Jim shuts up shaking me by the shoulders to make me laugh too. It worked. He knows just what to do.

"I have never met a more dramatic person." Sam says and I give him a bored look.

"Alright, now for you Sam, good luck with that crush of yours." I say with a finger gun.