One week passed and Zayn was still avoiding me, everything was fine other than that, and Alice was still living with us. We didn't plan on letting her go either. I didn't tell Bella about Zayn and tried to sort out on my own, but Zayn wasn't talking to me at all so i had stopped trying. Also, I didn't tell anyone about Jennifer stepping on my foot, no wait, stomping on my foot.

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Mr. Thompson went on about how advanced mensuration works and and I kept nodding and taking notes. After a few minutes i felt a stare at the side of my face and i turned to Ryder staring at my face.

'What?' i asked him in a whisper. He shook his head and i raised an eye brow at him.

'Is something wrong between you and Zayn?' he asked giving me a curious look.

'No,' i answered bluntly and went back to writing down my notes, it was better that i hadn't asked him and just let him stare.

'Yes, something is definitely wrong, Cheryl. If you're still not admitting the fact that you both like each other then admit it now. We know that, okay? But lately we have seen him avoiding any topic about you and trying not to talk to you.Can i ask what is happening? Did you guys have a fight?' he asked me.

'Ryder, no,' i answered bluntly again looking him in the eye, 'And what are you, my dad? I am not ignoring him, he is ignoring me. Why don't you go ask him this question because i am not answerable to you.'

'Woah, I just asked something, I am worried about you guys,' he said staring at me guiltily.

'Ryder,' i started softy, sorry for being rude to him, 'I know you care about us. But really i don't know why is he ignoring me. I have tried to approach him kindly, but he resists and keeps avoiding me for God knows what. Everything was fine till we came back from the hospital on Monday, when my foot....'

I was cut off by Mr. Thompson, 'Miss Jones, now that i saw you were so busy concentrating on something really important in chatting with Mr. Smith, can you please tell me the answer to this question? What is the value of x and y?' he pointed on the board with his marker and i stood up and nodded.

'X is 27 and y is 32, sir,' i said and sat down. He stared at me dumbfounded.

'Very well,' he said and the whole class erupted in laughter, i glanced at Ryder who was giving me an amused look, i smiled and said, 'What? Being a nerd has it's benefits.'

He chuckled and we continued our work.

In English we were given fourty minutes to work on a speech to give if we were to be nominated for the elections, of the student body president and for homecoming queen. You don't really do anything when you become homecoming queen, it was just ceremonial position that was influential and everyone's favourite, because it was announced at the end of the year. The student body president becomes the student counselor, the teacher adviser, the strong position that can actually change something. So i decided to write my speech to be nominated as student body president. If it turns out with good marks, i could use it if i am really nominated.

Most of the girls in the class, wrote about being nominated for the queen, including Dawn and excluding Samantha, i high fived her and we handed in our work. Before we left, Ms. Garcia said, 'Students, you are reminded, that if you want to give your names for the nominations for the student body president and the homecoming queen and king, the times starts now. You can go give your name. Then, like you know you will be nominated by the teachers and then elected by the students. The prefects will also be appointed with the student body president, on 1st of October.'

The students chimed a 'Thankyou' and some said, 'No one cares' and went away.

After Chemistry and Social Studies, it was break and I went on happily to our table.

'Who's giving their names for the nominations?' I asked, 'I am giving mine.'

Bella gave me a thumbs up, 'Wow. And what if you win both?'

'We all know that's not possible but even if it happened, I will be both then,' I grinned.

'I am so not interested in this,' said Samantha and Dawn together and then started to laugh.

'Same,' said Grace and Felicity chiming in.

'I don't want to give my name either,' Alice told us.

'Alice! You're right. You don't have to give your name,' i said. Homecoming queens don't give their name in the list, they are selected on the basis of their reputation and over all performance, and then the students vote and elect one, 'You could be homecoming queen!' I said. She shook her head, 'I don't want to, unless Aaron's becoming king you know...' she smiled.

We all charmed an 'Oooo.'

'I am giving my name too,' said Bella, 'I want to be homecoming queen but I think I'll just give my name for the president too. People like me, I have a chance, ' I nodded at that.

'I am giving my name in the student body president thingie, along with Cheryl,' Stacie jumped in.

'So we have me, Stacie and Bella going for president. Yes! Let's give our names?' I asked cheerfully. They all nodded and we wrote down our names on the list name on the bulletin board.

The list had the names of the toppers, in the boys list was Josh, Bella pointed to his name, 'He likes Samantha.' I rolled my eyes and said, 'Shut up.'

There was Adam, captain of the football team. He had a lot of chance to win because everybody liked him but the next name totally took me off guard. Ryder.

'Ryder wants to be president?' I asked Bella. She nodded, 'Yep. If we both become presidents, it's going to be amazing, couple presidents!' she cheered. I laughed, 'Yeah, and if Stacie wins, they'll be Sibling Presidents!' I told her, and Stacie smiled.

'That makes it even better!' exclaimed Bella. I love Bella, she was never jealous of anyone.

Then there was Denis and the last name was Jake. The girls list had me, Stacie, Bella, Lillian, 'Wait her name is Lillian? I thought it was Lilly,' Bella told us. I shook my head.

'Nah, Lillian and I used to be friends in kindergarten. So I knew her name,' I said.

'Oh. Where was I that time?' Bella asked suddenly remembering that she was also in our class.

'You were busy being the mean girl plastic,' I said and smirked. She pouted and Stacie laughed.

After Lillian was a name that took me even more off guard. JENNIFER?

'What is Jennifer-no-use-to-this-world Banks doing in this list?' asked Stacie.

'She is in the list?' asked Bella suddenly.

I tried to take it normal and be calm, 'So what guys, she is a student and she has the legal right to write her name here. Also, where did you learn that cool name Stacie?'

'Uhhh, Jacqueline Wilson's 'Starring Tracy Beaker' book,' she said.

'You've read that?!' I asked, that is my fave book from when I was eleven. 'Give me a hug!' I hugged her as she laughed. I glanced at Bella who was still glaring at Jennifer's name in the list.

'Bella, leave it. It's okay. She doesn't have a chance,' I said and Bella smiled at me.

'That's ma gurl!' she said and I laughed.

Just then, Grace came running towards us, looking alarmed. She paced, and when she stopped she was short of breath.

'Grace, are you alright?' I asked.

'Hey, Ring-the-Bella-and-Run!' she said to Bella grinning at her, 'I wanted to do this. When I woke up, I thought about doing this, and I did it.' She clapped and I burst into fits of laughter.

'Ummm, do what?' Bella asked still unsure.

'Ring-the-Bella-and-Run stupido!' I said to her and we proceeded to our classes leaving her dumbfounded.

She stood there rubbing the back of her head, 'What's wrong with ring-the-Bella-and-run? Wait, did you say Bella? Hey, that's my name!' I heard her say, I face palmed.

'And this girl may be our future president,' Stacie earning a laugh from me again.

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After Biology and History came Physics where I had to see Zayn again. 'I won't attempt to talk to him again,' i said to myself. 'I am done with being ignored, I have self respect.'

I saw Lillian who waved like a baby chimpanzee waving to a banana, okay that made no sense. I waved back and smiled.

'Competition's on Cheryl,' she said, 'I saw your name on the board.'

I nodded, 'We'll see,' I said and went to my seat after giving her a smile again.

Noah joined me after sometime, and Zayn went with Lillian also known as Lilly.

'Before we start, Zayn Abel, you have been replaced with Noah Summer. It has been done because of some reasons that I don't wish to acknowledge you students with. Change your seats and begin your experiments,' our Physics professor, Mr. Daniel said.

I frowned and looked over at Noah, who was not shocked at all. He frowned a bit, as if pretending to be shocked and my frown deepened.

'Good bye Cheryl,' he said and went away quickly.

I was left staring at his back when Zayn approached me and I heard his voice, 'Move that side so I can come inside the table.'

I was startled at his sudden approach and turned around quickly slipping on the tile floor. I grabbed on to his shoulders and he did the same to my waist to prevent ke from falling and we were left awkwardly staring at eachother, me holding onto him for balance.

'Uhmm, Miss Jones, Mr. Abel?' came the voice of Mr. Daniel again and we broke out of the trance. He left my waist and I was sent crashing on the floor because I was stupid enough to not stand on my own feet for the last ten seconds. I grabbed hold of my previously sprained foot again, it was much much better, I was able to walk without stumbling but some of the pain was still left. The fall just freshened it, although I was happy that the sprain didn't come again, I was furious at myself and at Zayn that he just left me there. Like what do you least expect from a friend to do even if they're ignoring you. To hold on so that you don't insult yourself.

He quickly sat down beside me, 'I'm so sorry!' he said and I closed my eyes. Gabe was laughing at the back, I didn't realize that Jerk was in this class till today.

'Is the sprain back?' Zayn asked worriedly.

'No, it isn't. Get a side,' I snapped. He got a side, and Lillian helped me up. I muttered her a thanks and sat back down at my seat. A tear rolled down my cheek, I was never the one who took embarrassments lightly. Even such small ones made me cry in middle school. I quickly wiped it off and made sure no one saw that.

Zayn looked at me with guilt and said, 'Sorry' again. I let my strand of hair fall to my face to hide it, and muttered an 'It's okay' sticking to my motto of avoiding him. He sighed and we went on looking at Mr. Daniel dumbly, but I know no one of us was able to attentively listen to him.

At least I was too much indulged in my own brain. I was afraid, Mr. Daniel would ask me a question about my experiment that I had not at all worked on, and I would be left with no answer this time. Whenever such embarrassments happened to me, my hands started shivering and one or two tears were sure to come out of my eyes.

Anyways, he didn't ask any question. No matter how strict Mr. Daniel could be, he was understanding. As soon as the bell rung indicating the end of the class, I picked my books and stumbled quickly across the classroom, and made my way outside.

So that I won't have to talk to Zayn.

'Cheryl! Wait up!' his voice came soft but loud. I wanted to run away, but I waited for him to say whatever he wanted to. I had nothing to do with this person right now, I wanted to punch him on the face, forgetting about how I loved the way it was carved, and run away from him. But i still waited up.

I turned around where he stood looking at me, I didn't know what I read in his eyes first, guilt, worry, desire or was it frustration? 'Cheryl, I am really sorry for what happened in class. I know you're not good with these situations and I'm really.....I didn't mean to do that.'

'I said 'its okay' for that long ago Zayn,' I said, and turned around to leave the classroom again but he grabbed my hand. I raised an eye brow at him, but he didn't leave my hand so i freed it out of his grasp slowly. I didn't want to be harsh, otherwise I was feeling like jerking it away.

'Cheryl, i want to talk to you,' he said quietly.

'I don't want to talk to you,' I said looking at him straight in the eye, 'Not after how you have been avoiding me like plague. I was trying so hard to talk to you but you won't even give me a chance to ask why were you doing that? But I am not something for free, I am done trying and I am moving on.'

'Cheryl, I want to explain myself,' Zayn said slowly, 'I did it because Bella told me you weren't ready....... To date,' he hesitated.

'Bella told you that?' I asked unbelievably.

'It's not her fault,' he said quickly, 'I just wanted to know from her that if I should ask you out but she said I shouldn't right now. I thought you liked me so I was angry. I forced it out of her.'

'So when she told you, I wasn't ready, you started to ignore me? That was your solution?'

'I thought about it, and I decided that we couldn't be together I should stay away from you and make myself used to that,' he said looking down.

'You decided? You mean you decided how you treat me not even thinking about how I would feel? Before we started to like eachother, we hated eachother. At least I hated you. We irritated and pranked eachother. We were friends after that. We were friends before the elephant in the room. Didn't you think that we could stay just friends? Like we were before, I loved that. Why can't we stay like that?' I said smiling and my voice growing softer at the end.

'I know. I was stupid,' he said, 'We can be friends, I loved being your friend. But Cheryl, let me say this once, I really really really really really really like you!' he sang.

I started to laugh.

'If that's so, I am not sure if I am still ready to go out with you. But. And I want you, do you want me, do you want me too?' I sang and laughed again. He took a few steps closer and I took a few steps back in sync. He smirked at me, and I frowned at him.

'Cheryl, the real reason why I stopped you here was.....' he paused and took a deep breath, 'Is because I wanted to prank you!' he said quickly and there came the splash of water right on my face, I closed my eyes and my mouth opened, 'Zayn, you traitor! I'll get you!' I yelled but by the time I opened my eyes, he was running a long distance from me, and I was left there annoyed yet happy.

Instead of following him, I decided on using my wise old brain and coming up with a good idea to counter his prank and reconquer my prank pride.

When I got to music class, Ms. Hailey had started the class but i was given the entry because Ms. Hailey is fab. I stomped inside and sat down beside Bella with a thud.

'What happened?' she asked looking at me amused. Why do you look all washed over?'

'Bella, that was so funny, haha,' I said with a straight face and she laughed, 'That Zayn! Idiot splashed all the water from his bottle on my face, right on my face. My prank ego is wounded before the war had even started. I'll get back to him, I'll avenge my prank pride!' I said dramatically making the last part a little louder than the rest and earning a few weird looks from around.

'Bella Dear, I want you over here at the guitar. Cheryl sweetie, at the piano,' Miss Hailey told us sweetly and we got up and went to our certified instruments.

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'I'm exhausted!' I said as I crashed on the couch, the moment i came inside my house.

'Why? Did your teachers make you climb Mount Everest?' Harmony asked trying to be sarcastic.

'Wow. Harmony. You're so sarastic. Ha. Ha. Ha,' I said with a flat face. She threw a cushion at my face but I dodged it and ran up to my room. 'Mom, i will come down at seven. I got a lot of homework to do, and I am not hungry.'

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I came back down in my black tights and over sized 'Gryffindor' shirt with my hair done into two braids.

'What happened to you Cheryl?' asked my mom.

'Nothing. Just trying to be comfy,' I replied.

'Real sh*t Cherry, you look like a peasant,' said Zabella and I stared at her with my eyes widened and mouth opened wide.

'Zabella? Who taught you that?' asked my mom as shocked as me, I could see the laughter she was suppressing.

'Harmony. Harmony. Harmony.' Zabella sang.

'No I did not,' said Harmony looking at her shocked.

'Oh Lord, Harmony. Try speaking in a better language! What is this?' scolded my mom.

'I heard Harmony saying that to Lavender. I thought that means pretty,' Zabella said innocently, 'Because Lavender looked very pretty.'

'Awww. Thanks Zabes. Do I look pretty?' I asked her.

She shook her head, 'No you don't. Harmony then told Lavender that she looked bad so I understood.'

I glared at her as she chuckled and said, 'Mommy says we shall never lie!'

I glared at her but continued watching t.v. knowing it was useless to argue with this little child. She was too smart.

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Days passed and soon it was time for the announcement of the nominations a week later. We all waited in the canteen, silently to listen to the soon coming voice of the principal.

It came, boomed through the corridors from the speakers and in the canteen.

'The nominations for the student body president male out of twenty names we have are Adam Levine, uhmm excuse me Adam Hope.' We all laughed, we knew Mrs. Cynthia loved Adam Levine.

'The second name is Harrison Liliath. And the third and final name is.....'

We all silently wished for it to be Ryder, 'Ryder Smith.'

Bella cheered and I smiled at her as we celebrated it.

'For the female nominations of ten people, the first name will be, Stacie Smith,' we clapped and waited for her voice again, 'The second name is Cheryl Jones and the third is,' I jumped in my seat and clapped, 'The third has to be you, Bella!' I said.

'The last name is a tie. The teachers could not decide who is better so there are four nominees for the female president. The first name is Lillian Joseph and the second is Bella Adair.'

We all yelled and cheered, three people from our group had been selected. And everyone was delighted, we celebrated by deciding to have lunch at McDonald's, after school together.

After the lunch at McDonald's, we went to our separate homes, I had to walk back. As soon as I got home, I completed my homework quickly. I read my bio notes to freshen my memory for tomorrow's test. Being a nerd, I study on a daily basis, which doesn't make sudden tests a burden. I can score above 80% without studying. And after reading my notes, I was sure to get 90%.

Right after that, I called Zabella for help and then the swarm of ideas of campaigning inside my head that were buzzing inside my head to come out, I jotted them down on a paper and began my work right there.

The next week was amazing, it was a lot of fun. With the increasing burden of studies on our head, the activism for campaigning grew too. And we went all crazy over it.

Lillian promised pizza in the canteen if she won.

'Lillian? Seriously?' I asked. Lillian wasn't one of the walkie talkies because she had a really bad fight with Dawn. Although she was nice and kind, but a great cheat she was. I won't lie, she has betrayed people and cheated on boys. Dawn and Lillian were also friends, we used to be the bestie trio, Dawn, Lillian and me.

Dawn liked a cute boy in third grade, and she didn't tell me. She told Lillian and Lillian said that she would do her best to make them both friends. But Lillian fed wrong info about Dawn to that boy, and he started to hate Dawn. And Dawn started to hate Lillian. When I got to know what Lillian did, we broke up.

Dawn and I became best friends, but as we grew up, our group grew in number. Dawn found Samantha and Bella became nice from the meany she was. And that's how we became the walkie talkies. Bricks of a wall, that are stuck with super duper glue, which is permanent. Together forever, we can't be pulled apart, through thick, thin and we're Bejart.

Hehe. We decided to have a sub line as a little rhyming phrase. We decided it would be
Together forever
We can't be pulled apart
Through thick and thin
And then we couldn't come up with a rhyme for apart, so we said it would be 'Bejart'.
So the last sentence was
'And we're Bejart'
Bejart is the name of Samantha's late great grandfather's late uncle. She found it amusing so we said that was it.
Together forever,
We can't be pulled apart
Through thick and thin
And we're Bejart.

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