Chapter 2

Seth POV

I hate school.

Trying to get my stupid textbooks out of my locker is way too annoying. The one I need just HAPPENS to be at the very bottom of my locker!

But of course! I'm trying to forcibly pull the stinking freaking book out from the depths when the locker door is slammed closed on me.

"WHAT THE CRAP!" I yell spinning up towards Chance, my best friend, while the pratt is standing there looking innocent.

"I just – had the – best – morning! The cutest – new – girl – in the school – is sitting – behind – me!" he gets out from in between blocking the punches I'm now throwing at him.

"Seriously!" Now my mind cares about what he's saying, so I decide to stop hitting him, "Where is she?" I ask, scanning the hallway excitedly. There aren't that many cute girls in the school, and it is a small school, so the girls we do have get boring after awhile. So getting a new cute girl is a little more exciting to us than you would think.

"Her name is Eva Handcock! She's over there with Trish and the other new chick Lyza," he points down the lockers closer to the door. "Lyza is the one with the unnatural red hair, like seriously, its insane!"

I look down the hall to where he's pointing and can feel my eyes widen "Holy crap that's just freaky! Think the carpet matches the curtains?" I ask.

"I was thinking about that too, BUT THAT ISN'T IMPORTANT it's the chick next to her, dipshit!" Yanking my eyes from the apple head, they land on the back of one EXTREMELY short girl.

"She's so short!" I exclaim, "You sure she's as hot as your saying she is? Has a nice butt though." I add thoughtfully.

"Um, YA! Of course. Ok, wait till she turns around, and dude she loves Lord of the Rings just as much as you do!" Both of stand there, side by side, waiting, soundlessly staring at this new chick. After a few minutes a couple teachers have walked by, and I snicker at each of their faces.

"K dude, I'm going to class. The teachers are starting to think we've lost it." I tell my dork of a friend, turning back to my locker. I try, keyword try, to take my books out again, but my chin is grabbed and wrenched to the side.

"What the Frick, dude?! That hur… tsss." I trail off. The new girl finally had turned around, and my jaw hit the floor. She was still really short but totally hot. Blond hair on top with black underneath, and piercing brown eyes behind intelligent-looking thick framed black glasses. She was gorgeous. Her body was skinny but not too skinny in an I-still-eat-everyday-but-I-don't-pig-out-like-the-rest-of-you-weirdo's kinda way. Thin waist with the biggest boobs I had ever seen on someone our age. "Holy Fuck."

Chance spun my chin around to face him. "YOU JUST SWORE!" I smirked at him, and he released me while shaking his head "Man, you're so weird."

Eva POV

It had been a week and four days into the school year and I already knew the entire class! When Chance said that military brats were used to new people, he was right. It was like the entire class had a rehearsed introduction about themselves! Where they lived before and how long they had lived here seemed to be a common topic in this school.

It was like a chain reaction, Chance introduced Lyza and I to one person, who introduced us to another, to another and so on, so forth, this must have been so normal to them. We weren't the only new people either! In my class of 25, there were five of us total. In all of my schooling back home we only every had one new kid! Everyone was very accepting and I really appreciated it, I HATE making friends! Although I had personally met all the people in my class, those who in the other grade 7/8 split class were a mystery to me still.

On a completely different note, I noticed as I walked down the hall to my class, that there were many of the junior high students who had started dating. I was confused as I didn't realize that you could date when we are this young.

I walked into the classroom, not realizing that I wasn't the only one there, it was lunchtime and I wasn't expecting anyone to be in there with me. I dropped my books on my desk and started humming a song by my favorite bank, Reliant K

I heard a gasp come from behind me, startled, I whip around and see one of the girls, Ashley and (I really hope he's her boyfriend!) Daniel wrapped around each other in the back row.

"What are you doing!" I exclaim, starting to back my way towards the door, " You scared the crap outta me!"

"Sorry," Ashley blushed, "we didn't think anyone would be down here at this point." the two of them were scrambling to get off of each other.

"Imma just going to leave now…" I spun and booked it outta there as fast as I could. As soon as I turned the corner into the hallway I smashed into something and fell straight on my ass!

"Ow ow ow ow owie! That really really hurt!" I hissed as I noticed how my bottom had started to smart like crazy. Having such a tender tail bone was making it pretty difficult to stand back up. Through my struggles to get on my feet, I noticed a hand extended down to me. Looking up I see a tall chubbier guy, with short red hair and a set of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. As I'm staring at the unique shade of deep greenish-blue I realize that this boy had been saying something to me.

"Sorry, what did you say?" I ask innocently, eyes wide.

He chuckles and continues,

"No problem, I was just asking if you were alright. I kind of sent ya flying." he tells me smiling, nice teeth. I smile back.

"I'm fine! don't worry, I grew up with boys so I've had worse hits than this!" I explain enthusiastically, fist pumping before taking his hand and letting him help me up. I look back up at him and realize that I'm only up to his chin and just have to giggle.

The boy's brow furrows, "What's funny?" he asks.

"Nothing," I reply back, "Sometimes I just have to re-realize how short I really am now." He smiles again at me

"Ya, you really are aren't you! I'm Seth by the way. I'm buddies with your friend Chance." I'm getting a little lost in his eyes again and it takes me a second to process what he's saying. They are really that pretty, then it clicks.

'Oh! You're Seth!" Chance had told me about his friend's, Seth, crazy devotion to Lord of the Rings. I had seen him around the hallways and hanging out with Chance but I guess I didn't connect the dots between the two, "You're the one who likes Lord of the Rings, right?'

He seems a little bit shocked at my choice of introduction questions, but replies enthusiastically, "Ya that's me!" he laughs, "I take it that you're the Eva chick he's been talking about?"

We end up chatting till the bell rings, where we part and exchange email with each other and promise to talk later.

He seems really nice! I think later as I'm walking back into the class I had previously vacated, I'm glad a ran into him! Even I have to cringe at the unintended pun my brain slipped in there.