~Chloe~

*Slam!*

"Huh?!"

I woke up disoriented, looking everywhere for the source of the noise and that was when I saw Miss Garfield glowering at me through her glasses from above.

Her thunderous grey eyes striking me with lightning from her deep glare.

"Are you honestly sleeping in my class Chloe Anderson?!" She yelled at me.

I barely knew what was going on, when did I even get here?

I wiped the drool off my face, turning to see the entire class looking at me.

Man, I'd messed up.

Oh well....with messes you've always got to own them...like stolen key cards.

"Man. I thought I was home." I yawned, stretching dramatically winking at Cherry who sat in the corner.

She was dying of laughter but not loud enough for anyone in particular to hear.

"Is this some joke?"

Lol, her saggy neck looked like a chicken's throat as she spoke.

It didn't help that her neck was so bright pink.

"Depends, who's laughing?"

Then sniggers and giggles erupted.

She looked around to glare at some students.

"Shut up!" And did they?

Nope.

Awkwardly, she let me loose and returned to the front.

I sighed in relief, leaning back into my chair, rubbing my eyes.

I turned to face Cherry who had somehow sat down where I was.

"What ar-"

"Shhh"

Creeeepyyyyy.

What was she? A vampire?

She smiled wide, showing me a picture she took of me seconds before I'd noticed her.

It was my face that looked like it had been pressed up against a cold grill.

Jeeezzzz.

~later~

I sat behind my canvas trying to make myself comfortable on my stool but it just felt so uncomfortable.

It never stood still like a normal chair would. I was experiencing serious shit in life at wtf's per hour. Like literally.

It kept moving because it wanted to spin me around like some kind of Prince Charming at a ball.

I kept looking past my blank canvas to see Axel outside working on his next masterpiece.

He got banned from ever entering the Art Studio after his stunt and it seemed like he was taking it seriously.

Well, I guess because he was concentrating on something.

I squinted my eyes to see what exactly he was doing.

He was on his phone!

I bet he was playing sky whale. I noticed that he was obsessed with it when he stopped talking to me yesterday in the library.

He was practically married to it since he was so hellbent to see what happened when the narwhol went higher past of space.

I told him that there was nothing after space but he was adament starting over and over again just to prove me wrong.

I bet that's what he was trying to do; trying to gather evidence that there was more to life than space.

I held my phone on my lap waiting for the next message from Simon to roll in.

I'd gotten pretty good at hiding it from teachers. It especially had that high frequency ringtone that only I could hear.

Don't judge me for my perfect hearing.

I was in turn ignoring Mr Bryce.

It was fine, he was ignoring me too because Axel and I were friends and also because I told him to buy a wig since he had to cut out some of it because some paint stuck strands of his wirery hair into clumps.

My phone made a tiny ding and I saw that the message was from Axel.

It took me by surprise actually.

Axe : Hi.

Me : Hey, thought you were playing Sky Whale.

Axe: It got boring. There was nothing after space it just kept going

Me: Ha!I knew it!

Axe: Whatever. What are you doing in there?

Me: Texting Simon, but he's offline now.

Axe: Come outside I'm bored.

Me: Lol no.

Axe: Why not?

Me: First of all you want me to come just cause you're bored?

Axe: Yeah?

Me : ;0

Me: ...

Honestly the balls of this ass.

Me: Bye

Axe: Come on. I was kidding ;)

Me: Fine

Axe: : )

Even in emoticons, I still loved seeing him smile.

I got up slowly and walked out with my chair. And the funny part was, Mr Bryce didn't even bother to say anything to me.

I felt so powerful walking out of that classroom, ignoring the red head who glowered at me not daring enough to hop on his pogo stick.

"You look badass."Axel said scrambling my thoughts.

I took a seat next to him and he pulled my chair close to him startling me a bit.

The darn thing had wheels.

"Uh...uh...you noticed?"I stammered. I hated that. He made me stammer so much and I had no idea why.

He smirked, "I have eyes don't I?"

That made me smile awkwardly, "Hey I brought your payment."He said breaking the silence.

"Why does it sound so dirty?"I asked, I regretted asking that.

"I can make it dirty if you want."He said in his low husky voice making me shiver a little.

I tried to look away but he raised my chin with his index finger looking me right in the eye.

He was clearly fond of doing that.

"Don't look away from me Anderson."He said dangerously.

Woah.

I think I pissed my pants there.

His serious expression turned into a smirk and a laugh.

"Did you piss your pants?"He asked still laughing.

Heat rose to my face and I bet I put a tomato to shame by my face.

I still don't know how he did that.

"That wasn't funny."I said crossing my arms looking away from him.

He held my chin up gently, "Sorry then."He said smiling.

"I thought it'd make you laugh."

He searched my eyes and rubbed his thumb against my cheek.

He looked down then up at me smiling a dimple appearing.

It made me think of that stupid song Simon kept singing that week.

Something about a girl's dimple being illegal.

It was a good song and the choreography was awesome.

What was I doing by the way?

Oh...eye raping Axe Body spray.

Speaking of which, he let go of my cheek and had proceeded to take out my payment from his bag.

So I looked like a total creep, like one of those stalkers with a camera behind a bush at 3a.m watching a celebrity sleep.

He looked back up holding a lovely cupcake frosted in a thick vanilla icing.

I snatched it from him plucking out the carefully folded note in it.

I unfolded it licking off the icing that had gotten on my fingers.

I loved his tiny notes and it was kind of hard to hide it.

He looked at me biting his lip waiting for me to open the tiny letter.

I raised my eyebrow suspicious of what could be in it.

'My first love was a spoon.I dumped her last night when she fell down the disposal.'

I laughed out loud my chair rolling back a little but he held me steady also laughing.

"What the heck was that?"I asked still laughing.

"What? It's true."

I really wondered what was going on in that gorgeous head of his, one minute he looked like he was going to skin somebody the next he was coming up with stuff like this.

"Your head's a circus."I admitted recovering from my outburst.

He wiped his eye playfully, "I've never heard that before."

I leaned back wiping away a tear from my eye.

That was how hard I'd laughed.

I took a bite out of the delicious treat.

It tasted like marshmallows.

I took another bite and it was just paradise all over again.

"Slow down princess." Axel said catching me off guard.

I liked that he called me princess. It was just so empowering.

"At least leave me half."He said shocking me.

"Me give you half?"I mumbled. My mouth was still stuffed with this deliciousness.

"Why?"I asked finally swallowing.

He took my hand and placed it in his making shivers run down his spine.

"Wanna strike a deal?"

"What?"I asked suspiciously. Why was he suddenly talking about a dare?

"How about we share all the food we have?"He asked.

Okay that did not make any sense.

How were we supposed to do that and why?

"I mean all friends have some kind of special thing they do together. So why not this?"He asked.

"We're friends?"I asked a little flattered.

"Aren't we?"He asked furrowing his eyebrows.

"Yeah...of course we are."I stuttered placing my hand on his trying to assure him.

"Then this little thing?"He suggested lacing his fingers with mine.

"Ok...okay."I stuttered again blushing furiously from his gentle touch.

Wow he was really trying to make our friendship work.

That...that was really sweet.

"Oh..oh."I stammered realizing something.

I took the half of the cupcake and gave it to him.

He took it gladly and took a bite never looking away from me and my heart beat so fast.

It was getting hotter in here, out here.

Somewhere.

His grey eyes pierced through mine making me more nervous.

He made me so nervous and it drove me insane.

He smirked licking his lips.

His insanely kissable lips, "Okay. This is delicious."He admitted chuckling.

I smiled too.

He took out a watermelon slice and held it up smiling.

I guess he was waiting for me to take the first bite.

I gladly did and he followed.

Sweet caramel cupcakes, I think I pissed myself.

Why was everything he did so....ugh steamy?

"I'm quitting Art by the way."He said casually.

A seed dropped from my mouth as he said it.

"What?Why?" It had only been two weeks.

"There's no point."He said shrugging.

"I'm always outside and I'm terrible."He admitted.

"No. No...No don't say that."I begged. He wasn't that bad, he wasn't good either but still....

My cupcakes.

I was gonna lose my cupcakes.