"Hey Jolene, wait up!" Calum yells as he jogs to catch up to me. "What do you want now?" I spat. "Jeez I just thought we could talk...." He says actually sounding hurt or offended. I actually feel bad, but we're supposed to be "enemies" or whatever. If Casey sees us or anyone sees us talking and she finds out.... I'm fucked. "I'm sorry Calum. It's just we can't talk right now. At least not here." I say apologetically. "Is it because we're supposed to hate each other?" He asks turning to face me. "Yes. If Casey sees us being nice to each other she's gonna think something is up; which there isn't." I reply. Calum then nudges into me and yells, "Watch where you're going!" Then turns to face me with a grin. I mouth thank you and yell "How about you stop taking up the hallway with your huge ego!" I yell and he just walks off to his next class.

I then look at the time and saw that I only had two minutes to get to class, so I picked up my pace and made it just as the bell rang. "You must be Jolene." My Algebra teacher Mr. Friedel said. I nod as I stood there awkwardly looking around the room to see Calum grinning in the back. "Find a seat." Mr. Friedel says with a smile. I then immediately head towards the empty seat in front of Calum just to bother him. "I don't bite ya know.... well sometimes." He says leaning forward and whispers to me. "I didn't want another incident happening like last class." I say leaning back. "Well you may have prevented that from happening again, but at least this way I can stare at that fine ass of yours." He says with a smirk before glimpsing at it. "Excuse me, I'm trying to pay attention." I huff. I can feel him grinning from behind me and roll my eyes. "Okay take out a piece of paper and pencil then pick up your books and open up to page.... 42." Mr. Friedel says. The entire time he was explaining the lesson my head was in a whole different universe. One where I want to be, but don't at the same time. "Jolene, What's the next step?" Mr. Friedel asks. "W-wait what?!" I say jolting back into reality. "Can someone please help Jolene since she clearly wasn't just paying attention." Mr. Friedel says and I can feel my cheeks heat up. "Is it Calum?" He asks and I turn to see Calum raising his hand. He nods and puts his hand down, "You subtract 2x from both sides." "Good, maybe you could help Jolene." He suggests. I then turn around again to see Calum with a smug look on his face. "Can you not?" I say annoyed. "Can I not what?" He asks. "Smartass." I say rolling my eyes and turn back around. What felt like 2 hours, but was really 20 minutes went by leaving only one minute left of class. "So all you guys have for tonight is to get that syllabus signed." Mr. Friedel said just as the bell rang signalling for us to go.

"Why are you doing this?" I say to Calum as I walk beside him in the hall. "Because you and I both know you want to." He says. I didn't even have to think about it to know he was right. "Besides you're hot." He adds with a smug smirk. "Meet me in the janitor's closet across from the cafeteria before lunch." I say as I began walking off to my next class that I had before lunch. Great another 50 minutes in a class before I can talk to Calum again. This should be fun.... I think sarcastically to myself. Finally a female teacher. As I walked into the room I spot two familiar faces; Bailey and Rory. I walk over and sit in the desk behind them. "Did you see Calum yet today?" Bailey asks with a smug grin. "Yes." I say clearly blushing. "Do you like him?" Rory says chiming in. "I don't know maybe." I respond. "Plus I have like two classes with him at least right now. I don't know about Spanish or Social Studies yet." I add. "Oooo." Bailey says. Rory still seems to be a little shakey on the whole situation. "Well I plan on talking to him before lunch." I tell them. Honestly I'm nervous and I'm not quite sure on what I want to say to him yet. But I think I have an idea.

"My name is Mrs. Quinn and I will be your English teacher for the year." Mrs. Quinn says introducing herself to the class. I then focus my attention to her. "I've been married to my husband for about four years now and I somewhat recently just had our first child; his name is Ryder. Uhm what else....? *lightly laughs* I don't know, what about you guys? Tell me about yourselves. Anyone want to go first?" She asks. Everyone including myself just sits there in awkward silence; I can almost hear crickets chirping. "How about you." She says pointing in my direction. "Me?" I ask to be sure, and she nods with a smile. "M- my name is Jolene. I'm 17 and I have 2 younger brothers." I say awkwardly. "Do you have anything else you would like to share about yourself? Maybe something interesting you did this summer?" She asks. I immediately thought of what happened yesterday and just shook my head no. "Okay. Anyone else want to go?" She asks the class. *time skip* By the time the whole class had gone; it was almost the end of class and I could feel the knots in my stomach grow bigger and tighter as it grew closer to lunch; not to mention I was starving. "So all I want you guys to do tonight- sorry for my class that is; Anyways, what I was saying is I would like you guys to fill out and answer as many of these questions as you can. If you have one or two blanks that's fine." Mrs. Quinn says as she's passing out the small stack of papers that rested on her forearm. 5....4....3....2....1; I count down silently in my head as I took a deep breath before I walked out of class and headed towards the cafeteria.

"Jolene, wait up!" I hear three voices yell from behind me. I turn around and see that it's Bailey, Rory, and Casey. Shit. I know you can't just run away from your problems or whatever forever and you have to face them eventually, but I was kinda hoping I could do that with Casey? Yes she's one of my good friends, but since I don't know what's going on with Calum yet; I kinda want to keep my distance you know? "Oh hey!" I say offering a small smile to them as they catch up to me. "Anyone cute in your classes?" Casey asks. Bailey then gave me the look and I nudged her arm to shut up. "No, not really. How about you?" I say trying to turn the conversation to be about her. "Same. It really kinda sucks. Ever since that whole thing with Calum I haven't been able to find anyone who I feel would be worthy of my trust and be cute." She says with a saddened look on her face. I honestly kinda feel bad, but at the same time it's not all my fault and it's not like we're dating or anything like that. "Hate to break it to you, but finding a guy who is cute and trust worthy will take a while to find. I'm sure you will find him though." Rory says. "I'll meet you guys in there in a bit. I have to go talk to someone." I say as we reach the cafeteria entrance.

Once they were completely gone, I stood there and waited a minute before I went into the janitor's closet to wait. At least in there there was somewhere to sit even though I had been sitting all day. I then heard a familiar voice outside the door, "I'll meet you all in there in a minute. See you guys." I heard them say. I then cracked the door open to see Calum standing there, so I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the closet.