The New Boy And Me

Chapter 6

The next morning was a... let's just say not a great day.

Not for me but for Maggie.

Everyone was talking about how she stood up for the 'queen' of our school. Some of them congratulated her and some of them trash talked her.

I don't get what it so importante about standing up for herself. Maggie had every right to defend herself, plus it was no big deal. The girl spilled her food on my friend. In my opinion she deserved it and Maggie wasn't the kind of girl to be stepped on.

The so called queen is a sophomore and has every guy wrapped around her little finger. She was dead gorgeous and every guy wanted her.

She was capable of doing the impossible and who knows what she can do to Maggie. God help us from the 'evil queen'.

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We were at the cafeteria. I was with Luke and Maggie at our usual table. Maggie was next to Luke and I was sitting across from them. Luke was acting weird and I didn't know why. I wanted to ask him but I feared that with Maggie's presence I would embarrass him because I know that he liked her and I was waiting for the day that he asks her out.

They are totally meant to be together, they are really cute.

Anyway, I let the matter drop and decided to ask him later on what's going on with him.

We were just talking when a guy came up to us. He was tall and really hot. Everyone says 'what matters is what's inside' but when once you see this guy you'll say 'screw that, he's on fire'.

He looked at me and said ''So you're THE Maggie''

''Um.. no, she's the Maggie'' I responded pointing to my best friend.

I was surprised I didn't stutter. I was always nervous around guys. I remember when I talked to Luke for the first time, I was like a tomato.

He smiled at her but then returned his gaze to me.

''You have a confident friend'' he said smiling to me. But I wasn't sure why he was talking to me. Maggie was the center of interest, not me.

I could feel Luke's eyes on me. Since I helped him out, we became really close and he was very overprotective when it came to me and I didn't know why. Maybe I was too vulnerable to protect myself that he did it for me.

Well, he was being a nice friend and I loved him for that, you know, in a friendly way.

The guy surprised us all when he took a seat next to me. I could feel my cheeks heat up. Maggie sent me a stop-being-shy-and-talk-to-the-guy kind of look.

''By the way, I'm Jake. I just moved in town a couple of days ago and this morning at school all I heard was that a certain Maggie stood up for th queen bee of the school.''

Well, that explains why I've never seen him these last three weeks.

He was taller than me even though I was really tall for a girl. He had dark eyes that you can easily get lost in them and his smile, his beautiful smile was perfect.

I was shortly taken back to reality by a little shake from Luke. Maggie noticed that I was staring at Jake and she began to laugh and soon Luke joined.

But Jake oblivious to what's happening turned to me with a questioning look. I blushed and smiled at him. He was so cute.

''So are you too together?'' Jake asked Luke and Maggie whose cheeks turned a dark shade of red.

''NO'' they shimmed together.

Luke looked slightly embarrassed and then focused on his lunch as did Maggie.