Chapter 1 // Free Candy

I feel that every single romance book I read is so totally full of shit, that it's not even a joke anymore.

Since when does the super hot mysterious, rebellious bad boy, ever go for the quiet and shy nerd? It's like one day some girl just thought to herself;

Hey, you know what would really fuck with every teenage girls expectations of a relationship? Writing a whole collection of bullshit, that's what.

I was sitting in my school's library finishing a romance novel I had found online.

"Moral of the story, you never know what life is going to throw your way..." I murmured the last words of the page.

No shit Sherlock?

That's not a moral, that's fucking common sense.

Sighing, I exited the page on my phone, and stared at the library filled with false expectations.

I really did need more friends.

Now don't get me wrong, I love reading stuff like this - trust me, I do. It's just, I don't know - maybe id like to read a book a bit more realistic, more true to the reader, you know?

Something that doesn't make me utterly repulsed by chapter 3? Just once.

"I knew I'd find you here." Looking up at my friend Paige, a small smile raised to my lips. "You're always in here" she murmured to herself with a small roll of her eyes.

Flipping her satin blonde hair over her shoulder, I cocked an eyebrow at her dramatic action but she paid no attention, typical.

"Sooo" Flopping down in the plush chair next to me, I groaned as her backpack smacked me around the face.

"Okay, that didn't hurt or anything." I said in a blunt tone.

"Oh don't be a baby" She laughed under her breath. Narrowing my eyes, I craned my neck to the left to stare at the side of her porcelain face.

"I'm sorry, next time I'll try to jump with joy?" Waving me off with her hand in my face, I tried smacking her out of my personal bubble, but she continued to try to annoy me.

"I swear to god I will shove you infront of a moving bus, Paige." I said with one final slap to her hand. Her pearly teeth on full show suggested how she was not taking my lethal threat serious.

"Someone's on her period, which I find hard to believe." Squinting my eyes, she tried to stifle her laugh. "I mean, don't grumpy old women go through the whole menopause thing" feeling another eye roll coming on, I didn't even have the energy to hit her.

"I find it hard to believe you don't have a boyfriend" I joked sarcastically. Tucking my hair behind my ears, I began to stuff my books and left over lunch in my bag.

Hearing her pop her gum, I turned my head to peer over my back to look at her scowling face with a bright grin.

"The world is my oyster, okay?!?" She half shouted half whispered with a pout on her rosy lips.

Holding my hands up in surrender, I tried to hide the grin that was forcing its way onto my face.

The fact that Paige hasn't had a boyfriend since 4th grade has always been my main use of teasing her. She some how saw it as the end of the world every time I mentioned it. It was as if not having a boyfriend, was equivalent to the earth having no gravitational pull.

"Calm down desperado, it's this thing called a joke?" Grabbing my backpack, I swung it over my shoulder and laughed to myself. "Kinda like your love life." Tightening the strap over my shoulder, I got up from my chair and made my way half way across the room, before waiting for Paige to get to her feet.

"Look here you little bitch-" following me to the doors, she pushed them open and joined my side once again. "I can get a boyfriend, it's just I would feel way too guilty leaving you with no one to hang out with." Smirking, I pushed my way through the cafeteria doors, and headed straight towards the vending machine.

"Oh, so what you're saying is that you're doing me a favour by being a huge dick repellent?" Scoffing, I smacked the side of my head with my palm as to say it was all so obvious. "Now, I get it. Thanks" I scoffed sarcastically.

"Ha.Ha." She said dryly while leaning her back upon the vending machine.

Running my fingers over the glass, I hummed a laugh while trying to decide what snack would get me through AP calculus. I may be good at the subject, but that doesn't stop me from still being bored out of my mind, every time I looked at a quadratic equation.

"What do you think I should get, m&m's or twizzlers?" I asked with my hand leaning on the machine, while chewing down softly on my lip.

Once I got no reply, I glanced at Paige and did a double take as I saw her attention was else where.

"Woah nelly" she whispered under her breath.

Remind me to tell her she's been watching way too many episodes of the Mindy project.

Who am a I kidding? There's never too many episodes of the Mindy project.

"What are you looking at now?" I said while nudging her with my foot. Averting my attention back to the vending machine, I heard her release a longing sigh.

"Not what, Marnie. Who." Leaning her head on the machine, my eyebrows furrowed as I saw how both the twizzlers and m&m's moved upon her shaking the machine.

"The Carter boys" she sighed again.

Pushing the machine again, I smiled at how the candy was starting to fall. With one more shove both of the snacks fell, and to think, it only took a shove and half of the cafeteria staring at me like a mad woman.

It's free candy, I'm taking it.

"Oh yeah, those guys" I said uninterested while picking up my candy.

"Those guys? Is that it?" Looking up from my candy with a confused face, my eyebrows furrowed as I pondered on what adjective to use to describe them.

I didn't really know them personally, I knew that one of them was in my calculus - Brooks - and one was in my art - Noah -.

"Those tall guys?" Squaring her eyes, she snatched away my twizzlers with anger on her face.

It was like she had taken my child... My free, tasty sweet child.

I should probably never describe a child in that way ever again.

"What's wrong?" I asked with a pouty expression. Trying to sneakily grab back my candy, she outstretched her arm over my head so I couldn't reach.

One reason I hated having a tall friend.

"Marnie, you live right next door to 8 of the hottest guys ever to walk on earth, and you just see them as 'those guys'." She said while adding the quotation marks with her fingers. "That's what's wrong"

Nodding my head sympathetically, I quickly jumped for my twizzlers, and growled under my breath once she pushed me away by my face.

"Forget the dumb candy, Marnie" Throwing down the packet, she stomped her heel into them, and jumped up and down a few times.

In taking a harsh breath, I slapped my hand over my chest with a hurt expression.

"You monster." I gasped.

What person destroys a persons free food item? People who have no morals, that's who.

Beginning to walk out of the cafeteria, I knew the bell was about to ring at any moment, so I thought that getting to calculus would be easier without a stampede of testosterone and oestrogen blocking my way.

Trying to open my crunchy m&m's, I gritted my teeth as I struggled to get the packet to tear.

"Are you an A-sexual, Marnie" Chocking on the air, I almost spilt the chocolate balls of goodness everywhere.

The important word being almost.

"Dude?" I coughed. Shrugging her shoulder at me with a look as to say 'what-the-hell-did-I-do?'.

"Just because I'm not broadcasting to the whole world about my sexual desires, doesn't mean I'm an A-sexual, Paige?" Reaching outside my class, I popped an m&m's in my mouth whilst watching Paige cock one of those neatly groomed eyebrows of hers.

"You know, that sounds oddly a lot like something an A-sexual in denial would say" She muttered suspiciously.

Swinging my bag around to hit her in her side, she erupted in a fit of giggles and held her hands up in surrender.

"Okay okay, I'm sorry" she said slowing down her laugh.

"Best be" I threatened mockingly cocking my chin with a small smile. "Anyway, could you really imagine me and any of the Carter boys having a conversation?" We both laughed at the thought.

I'd rather lose another pack of free twizlers.

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A/N:

So that was the first chapter, wahey.

Would be Hella cool if you'd tell me what you think of the chapter, &don't forget to vote and follow for updates! 😬😬😬

&&The song by the side has literally been stuck in mmy head all week so, enjoyyyyy

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