"What In actual fucks are you doing in here?" Wave questioned when he found me in the Janitor's closet. "Uhh i-im having m-my lunch."

I was startled as I didn't expect anybody to walk up on me. " in the Janitor's closet?" He deadpanned. " y-yeah, well i just needed some alone time." I said while nervously fidgeting with my half eaten peanut butter sandwich.

It had been two weeks since I had started school and I hated every second of it. I stopped eating lunch with my sister's friends long ago. They were great and all by I always felt out of place around them and I felt like I was intruding.

Wave on the other hand remained a mystery to me, he never paid me any mind and had never attempted to talk to me but I found myself being droned to him even more everytime I set my eyes on him. He always acted cold and closed off all, which always seemed to irk me.

" You haven't been sitting with the group lately, whatsup?" He asked me with a straight face, devoid of any emotions. "I've been busy catching up with school work." I shrugged. He stared me hard on my face. His gaze was so intense, it was like he was staring right through me.

He opened his mouth to say something, but decided against it and headed over to the exit. "Wave.." I called him. "Um?" He halted on his track and turned to look at me with a scowl visible on his face.

"I-i..." I trailed off because I didn't exactly know what to say to him, I couldn't even process why I stopped him.

" I wanted to k-know why you had come here? " i asked shyly.

" non of your god-damned business." He spat out bitterly and walked out.

I followed him and decided to start a conversation with him again.

"Wave, c-can we become friends?" I asked while trying to catch up with him.

" why would I want to be friends with you?" He said with a lace of annoyance in his tone.

" I don't know, I just find you interesting" I said.

Honestly I didn't even know how I mastered up the courage to talk to him because i always got flustered everytime he looked my way and tried to make myself as small as possible so that he wouldn't notice me .

At first, I couldn't understand why I was always flustered around him. I mean, it wasn't the same experience with Caleb or Martin, it was easy talking to them but I couldn't do the same with Wave.

" stop following me!" He said through gritted teeth.

"I just want-"

" look man," he cut me off ,"i don't know what you are getting at but I request you stop it right now. Just because we are in the same group of friends doesn't make us buddies, stay the fuck away from me!" He said with anger evident in his voice.

" what's wrong with you?" I questioned. " why are you being a jerk to me, huh? I'm just trying to be your friend, is that too much to ask for?" I pointed out.

" Fuck off!" He pushed me and walked away. I seriously didn't know what was wrong with him. He'd been cold to me everytime since the day I had met him.

That was the longest we had talked, no, that was the first time we had talked. What could he possibly have against he, was I just some nuisance to him?

I remained watching his retreating back in the hallway, trying to process what the fuck just happened. I tried not to get hurt with what he said but I could feel my heart breaking.

" what's wrong with me? Do I like him?" I questioned myself internally. I felt my breath hitch and my vision became hazy.

" no I wouldn't cry over him, not in the school hallway." I needed to get a hold of myself. I didn't have to cry, hell it was just a stupid crush that would go away eventually but it hates nontheless.

I wanted nothing but to forget about him. But it was too late, I already liked him.

The bell rang signalling the the end of lunch break and kids started rushing away from the hallway to the their various classes.

I headed to the bathroom first and managed to calm myself down then headed to algebra class , my seventh period which i had with Caleb, one of Evie's friends.

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I got to class five minutes late. "Mr Varetti, nice of you to finally join us." Mr kenderson, my algebra teacher, sarcastically said to me. God I hated him so much. Everybody in class looked at me.

" sorry for coming late Mr kenderson, I had trouble opening my locker." I lied to him with a straight face. "Alright take a sit, but I won't let you off easily next time." He warned.

I thanked him and walked up to my usual sit at the back next to Caleb.

"hey man." Caleb spoke to me in a whisper.

Obviously trying to be discrete so that the teacher didn't hear him.

"Hey" I whispered back.

"Why did you come late to class? where were you?" He questioned.

"I was in the library and I lost track of time." I lied to him. At that point I felt like lying my way out of things had become a habit.

"You hadn't had lunch with us in a long time." He stated.

" I've been having extra work so am busy throughout lunch in the library." I shrugged.

" right...." he trailed off.

"Mr Varetti, Mr Williams, would you please stop with your tit-chat and pay attention to the lesson or I'll be forced to give you detention!" Mr kenderson grumpily said.

We immediately nodded at him and began to pay attention to the class.

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After class was over Caleb and I walked out together.

"Can I ask you a question?" I decided to start a conversation.

"Shoot." He said.

"You seem to be the closest to Wave so I was wondering if you know why he hates me so much." I asked.

" why would you think he hates you?" He asked with a raised brow.

"I don't know, maybe because he is always cold towards me." I sighed. " I tried to make friends with him today but he just shut me off and walked away."

"It wasn't personal, trust me, Wave's been through shit in the past couple of years and has become distant and cold to everyone. But don't worry, he will definitely come around when he gets to know you. You are a great guy Skylar, you should know that." Caleb said in all honesty.

"Thanks man." I said with a smile. " what did he go through that made him like that anyway." I asked with curiosity
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" it was something very depressing, but I don't think it's my place to actually tell you about his life. I'm sorry man. He said with a guilty face.

" no it's fine, really, you don't have to apologize." I said.

"I need to head to gym class, now see you around, yeah?" I asked.

" actually, you can come to my house today after school, me and the other guys are meeting there for some snacks and movies.

You should come with Evie." He pointed out. "She already knows about it and she was planning on coming with you anyway." He finished. "Oh" was all i managed to say. " I'll be expecting you plus, Wave will be there, maybe you can talk more." He said and then winked at me. I didn't know what that was all about but I decided not to think anything of it.

" I'll be there." I said.

"Pinky promise?" Caleb raised his pinky finger out to me. I chuckled and held out my pinky to his,

" pinky promise."

We both stared at each other and laughed at our childish gesture.

"See you later man." He said and i nodded at him then he turned and walked away. I liked Caleb, he was very friendly and an easy person to talk to.

I headed to the last period, gym class, which I hated because I didn't like exercising or doing any strenuous activities. With a sigh I walked over to the boys locker room to get changed into my gym clothes .

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After hours of torture, school finally ended and I headed straight to the student parking lot to meet my sister so that she could drive me home because I couldn't drive myself for obvious reasons.

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I had fun writing this chapter. What do you all think of Wave? Do you think he will warm up to Sky ....? We'll see in the next chapter.
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