Chapter Two - Bad Luck.

"And that is the difference between an Alkali and a Base, don't get it mixed up next time Jordan"

The boy known as Jordan who was standing nodded and sat down quietly.

"Any way i-"

The bell rang loudly indicating the end of the School day, everyone hurriedly started packing up their belongings and walked out the class.

"Ok, have a nice afternoon !"

The teacher said as half the class disappeared. She sat down, sighed and then spotted Taylor at the back just getting up to leave.

"Oh Taylor !, I wanted to speak to you"

Taylor turned around and then walked over to her with another back pack and books in her hand.

"I was wondering why Kim wasn't here earlier, I didn't see her at all during class, i wanted to talk to her about something"

"Oh !, that !, Um she was...uh...not feeling too good and had to stay at the infirmary !"

She lied, and Miss Renee nodded in thought.

"Oh, I see, Just tell her I asked about her when you see her ok ?"

"Yeah sure !, I'll make sure to do that !"

Taylor turned on her heel to leave immediately.

"Oh and Taylor"

Taylor shut her eyes briefly then turned around.

"Mmm ?"

"Please stop shouting when you talk"

Miss Renee said and then looked back at her desk. Taylor turned around and quickly bolted out of the class before Miss Renee called her again. She had to find Kim, but she had no idea where she was or where she would likely be.

Taylor walked around the school for what seemed like forever when she spotted Kim strolling out of the girls bathroom on the first floor.

"There you are !"

Kim jumped out of shock and some teachers who were passing by whispered and gave Taylor glares, she shyly whispered a sorry and ran up to Kim, still holding an extra back pack and books.

"I've been looking everywhere for you"

She whispered this time as more teachers passed by.

"Why ?"

Kim simply said.

"Duh, because you weren't in like the last three classes-"

She paused when she saw Kim's body, it was soaked and her uniform stuck to her body.

"What happened ?"

Kim looked down at her body and immediately became uncomfortable as she recalled why she was wet.

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Flash Back

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Kim cleared her throat as she still laid untop of the guy from the bus.

"Hey"

Chase whispered as Kim still stared at him suprised. Kim trembled, she was too shocked to speak.

"What ?"

She managed to say.

"Get off me"

He rudely said. Kim immediately collected her self and quickly stood up. The sprinklers immediately came to a halt as Chase stood up as well. Once she was standing, she looked at her body and how soaked she was.

"Seriously ?, why did you do that ?"

She asked as she tried squeezing her now soaked skirt. He didn't respond so she looked up, he was walking away.

He was walking away ?!. Her anger flared up.

"Hey !, I was talking to you !"

She quickly marched forward after him.

"Just where do you think you're going !?"

He kept ignoring her which only made her more angry.

"Hey !, I'm talking to you !"

"Hey !"

He suddenly turned around which made her collide with him as she wasn't expecting his sudden movement. Her head hit his chest before she quickly stepped back out of the sudden interaction between them.

"What ?"

He asked clearly annoyed by her.

"Wh-why-"

"Why did I do that ?, I was trying to pull you away from the sprinklers but we ended up getting soaked anyway so now I'm really regretting why I tried to help you !"

He immediately said, cutting her off, and she just stared at him shocked before returning to her usual serious face.

"This is all your fault, I never asked to you help me so stop yelling like this was all my fault !"

She shot back. He scoffed.

"You're unbelievable, you wanted to know why I pulled you away didn't you ?, so don't be mad because I answered your question, you should be thanking me that i tried doing something nice for you"

"Thank you ?, I didn't ask for your help and I ended up soaked anyway !"

Everywhere went silent after that, the wet duo both stared angrily at each other, exchanging glares. Chase felt like exploding, this was why he never tried to help anyone, he blamed himself for even thinking about doing it, what an ungrateful brat.

Kim glared at him and wished she had never crossed paths with him today, why was this dude so frustrating, and she thought Taylor was going to be the death of her, she blamed him for trying to do something he couldn't handle, they still ended up wet anyways. What an idiot.

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End of Flashback

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"Nothing happened, why are you with my things ?"

She replied, quickly changing the topic.

"As the good friend I am, I thought I would help you get your stuff out, plus Miss Renee was looking for you, probably to scold you for not coming to class"

She said as she handed Kim's things to her.

"I didn't ask for your help"

She said firmly.

"You never ask for anyones help, but I did it anyway"

"Why ?"

Kim asked with a disgusted expression plastered on her face.

"Because that's what friends do, it's only natural"

Taylor shrugged.

"We're not friends"

Kim stated and started walking off. Taylor quickly ran up beside her.

"Alright bestie"

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The next morning at school, Kim walked down the hallway to her locker, she had a brand new phone at hand, she was just about to turn the conner when she saw a familiar head phone, she stopped immediately and then looked again. Chase, the boy from the bus was at a locker that was only three lockers away from hers, he was holding a paper, obviously inputing his new locker code as he had switched lockers for the semester. The bad news was, he didn't know that a certain brat was only a few lockers away from his new one.

She scoffed and bit her lip in anger, the annoying idiot was going to be only a few lockers away, oh how she hated fate. It was just her terrible luck working again, she tried shrugging it off and just strolled towards her locker, while people tried getting her attention and as usual she ignored every single one of them.

She immediately got to her locker and inputted her locker code before opening it to her old phone and some books she had put in yesterday. Her locker was plain, unlike many girls locker, hers was simple, it was sky blue on the inside and didn't have much locker accessories.

She was taking out her books when suddenly she heared a rather familiar voice, and no it wasn't who you are thinking, she turned around and saw Corry Dighton who had made herself Kim's enemy.

"There you are !"

Chase mentally sighed then turned around to the beaming girl.

"What ?"

"Gosh, why are you so serious all the time ?"

She replied sheepishly and looked down shyly.

"What is it Corry ?"

He asked nonachantly as Kim peeked from her locker door to see what was happening.

"I-i just wanted to know where your new lo-"

"Why did you do that, you're not my mother so stop following me around"

He responded, quickly cutting her off, she looked at him with a shocked expression on her face and then she looked down again at how serious he looked and sounded. So many people had stopped to stare at the two.

"Leave"

He simply stated. She looked up at him suprised at his sudden statement.

"What ?"

"Leave"

He immediately repeated. He sounded so serious that Kim was actually curious to know what he would do to Corry if she didn't move. She moved a little bit closer showing intrest in what was happening. Then all of a sudden...

"Kim !"

The rather loud and familiar voice said much to Kim's unhappiness, why was she so freaking loud ?, everyone turned to look at Kim, Chase hadn't noticed her standing there before, she immediately looked away and shut her locker. Now he knew that her locker was a few lockers away. She hurriedly walked off with Taylor loudly following her..

"Hey Kim !, Kim !, where are you going ?!, I bought snacks again !, wait up !"

She disappeared in the bend while waving a bag up. Great, not only did he have to deal with Corry but now his locker was a few lockers away from that rude girl. Corry cleared her throat attracting Chase's attention.

"I'm sorry"

She shyly said and then walked away immediately out of embarassment, her 'Wanna be's' followed her and everyone quietly went back to whatever they were doing, Chase sighed and turned back to his locker, now he had to request for a locker switch, again.

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During chemistry that day, Miss Renee asked Kim to stay back after class, the bell rung and Taylor gave Kim a thumbs up before walking out of class, of course Kim ignored it and rolled her eyes, she made her way to the front of the class once it was empty, Miss Renee was sorting through some papers and then looked up once she noticed Kim's presence.

"You asked me to stay back Miss"

"Oh yeah that's right"

She looked at Kim seriously.

"This is about your last term grade in chemistry, it wasn't too great"

"I know"

She said in a worry-free kind of way.

"Kim if you keep getting bad grades in chemistry, I'm sorry to tell you but you're gonna fail this class"

"Fail ?, I can't fail !"

"No you can't !, which is why I assigned you a tutor, after school today you're gonna meet him at the libary"

"A tutor ?, I don't need a tutor, I'll just try to get my grades up to a D"

"I'm sorry but it's either that or you fail chemistry"

Kim sighed, she really didn't want to fail chemistry, but she didn't want a tutor either, ugh what bad luck she had today.

"Fine"

Kim responded silently.

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Kim sat down at a chair in the libary, she held in her hand a piece of paper containing the phone number of her 'tutor', she gently placed her bag on another chair and pulled out her phone, it had all the same content of her previous phone as everything was downloaded from the cloud. She clicked on the phone icon and quickly dialed the number written on the paper.

"I can't believe I'm doing this"

She whispered to herself and then clicked call on her phone, she carefully placed her phone on her ear and tapped the table as it rung, the person picked up at the third ring.

"Hello ?"

A masculine voice was heared, she quickly looked around almost swearing that she heared someone say hello too at that instant.

"Whatever, Miss Renee gave me this number because supposedly you're supposed to be my tutor in chemistry"

There was a long silence.

"He-hello ?, are you still there ?"

She took the phone out of her ear and looked at it before placing it back. An annoyed sigh could be heared from the other end.

"Where are you ?, we were supposed to meet up one hour ago"

"Oh well I had better things to do so..., just meet me at the libary ?"

She stood up before continuing.

"I'm behind some shelves, with books in them, lots of books, they're very old too..."

"Is this some kind of joke ?"

She stopped.

"No its not, just get to the libary"

Another long sigh was heared.

"I'm already here just tell me where you are"

The person sounded annoyed and tired.

'What kind of person were they anyway ?' Kim thought.

"I told you already, look for somewhere with tall shelves that has really old books in them"

She started walking again when she turned around the corner of the huge bookshelf she was talking about, then she crashed into someone.

"Hey watch where you-"

Looking up she stopped talking and just looked suprised at seeing the person's face. He looked down at her and slowly looked at his phone that was up against his ear immediately realising what was happening. She stared horrified at the person.

"No..."

Was all she could whisper.

"You have got to be kidding me"

Chase said and dropped his hand down. Then he took a deep breath.

What were they gonna do now ?, they practically hated eachother and now he was going to have to tutor her and she had to learn from him. It seemed almost impossible, there could only be one explanation.

Kim's bad luck was at work, again.

End of Chapter Two - 'Bad luck'.