Chapter Two

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🎶 I don't give a \*\*\*\* about you anyways Whoever said I gave a shit 'bout you? You never share your toys or communicate I guess I'm just a play date to you 🎶

Play Date by Melanie Martinez played in background when Charles's phone vibrated, showing Jenny's name on the screen. Groaning in annoyance, he picked up after some time rubbing his tired eyes. He shouldn't have binged reading the novel all night all and now, he suffered from the consequences. But, who blamed him? The book's too good to stop reading and he couldn't sleep either because his curiosity was dying inside knowing damn well that every chapter was a cliffhanger. Nobody likes cliffhanger, I know.

"Hello," He answered with his rough voice, still dazed from his sleep. Charles went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face with the towel, leaving the call on speakerphone.

"I see you had just woke up. I'm going to cut the bush off and tell you that you're going to be late if you don't get your \*\*\* here within twenty minutes." Jenny explained, her voice was cheerful and not a moody one. She, apparently loves mornings and is a morning person, which Charles can't relate when he hates morning with passion.

Charles grunted, "Huh? I don't care if I'm late not that science is the first class."

The other line laughed hearing that came out of he friend. She expected this every Thursday since science was their first class together and their killer of a teacher wasn't tolerating any student who came late or they'll automatically go straight to the detention room.

"That, honey, you're wrong," She continued. "Today's Thursday dumb \*\*\* and science is our first class. Now stop grumbling and get here now!"

    Before Charles could answer, she hung up the call and grinned when she knew the distressed look on her friend's face when he got here. On the other hand, Charles quickly put on an oversized red hoodie, a black jeans and black sneakers before he went out to his car. All that happened in under five minutes and fortunately his car was back so getting to school without being late wasn't a problem anymore; except if there was a traffic.

     Ten minutes passed with Jenny still patiently waiting for Charles's arrival while playing some games on her phone. Charles arrived panting after he banged the door open just to see the teacher's seat empty before he sighed in relief. He went to sit beside Jenny at the back of the class right then, the devil aka Mr. Harry came with a new face behind him.

"Okay, Class!" He greeted not so friendly as he thumped his book to gain the students attention. "Good morning, I have a good news—not really but as you can see there's a new guy beside me and he's your new classmate for the rest of the year. So, you better treat him right and I ain't hearing complaints about you trouble makers. You," He pointed. "Introduce yourself."

The new face smiled and as if there was a light behind him, the girls as well as some guys were blinded by his handsomeness. He has a shining green eyes with no hint of under bags, his nose was pointed and high, his thin lips that was currently smiling, he has an untamed black hair and he stood higher than six feet. He wasn't all that bulky, he was rather thin but he did have some muscles in his arms, that alone is an evidence.

"Hi! My name's James King and I was born in California and just recently moved here. I hope we can be friends." He beamed and Mr. Harry gestured him where he would be sitting on. "Alright, if you guys have some questions ask him after my class. I ain't sacrificing another five minutes for some stupid questions. Now, please sit beside Charles, the one with the red bag over there."

James jogged towards Charles, still beaming. His air around him screamed positivities and lively; there was no single moodiness detected. James took a seat beside him, taking out a notebook and a pen from his bag before glancing at Charles with his hand extended.

"Hi! Nice to meet you! I'm James, what's your name?" He asked, slightly bothering Charles with his too much energy tone.

"Uh, yeah. Nice too meet you too, I'm Charles." He shook hand with the James and was getting uncomfortable when the guy stared at him with a smile on his face and no intention on loosening their grip anytime soon. Charles tried to pull his hand back but James just tighten his grip, still staring at his eyes.

After some time of staring contest

at each other, Jenny broke the silence when she noticed that Charles wasn't paying attention on what she was about to asked. "Cupcake and the new guy, what are you guys doing?"

     Charles blushed and James finally pulled his hand back. His palm was sweating afterward but made no comment on that. He turned his gaze to Jenny, silently tried to communicate with her so that the creep wouldn't hear anything. Jenny looked at him weirdly and confused of why was Charles intensely looking at her face.

     "What?" She finally asked.

     With the red blush still on his face, Charles turned away and looked at the window after muttering, "Nothing."

     Jenny sighed and saw that James was looking at Charles for the second time. She grinned mischievously, her gay radar was never wrong.

     She cleared her throat making James looked up at her. "So, are you enjoying it here?"

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