The Boy Next Door ~ Ethan Karpathy

Chapter 8 ☯ School

BEEP BING BEEP BING

My alarm went off for the first time in 6 weeks. 

I mumbled and got up putting on my uniform as slow as possible, 

my only motivation being to see my friends. 

I packed my lunch when I was all ready and said bye to mum. 

As I opened the front door, the wind hit me hard and I sliped on my jumper 

before starting the short walk to the bus stop down the street, thinking about life. 

"Heyyyyyyyyyy" I hear a smug voice behind me. 

I turn around and smile immediately as I see Ethan wearing the boys uniform of our school. 

"Excited for your first day of school?" I tease, 

"Yes, as long as it's with youuu." He teases right back nudging me on the shoulder.

I laugh along, God he is so cute.

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We reach the school gates and a few groups of people look at Ethan like he's an alien.

Some of the girls instantly went into a heart eye emoji trance and start to gossip about how cute he is.

I move closer to him and smile over at him as he does the same, just to show those girls to back off.

What's gotten into me?

We head towards the lockers and there is a teacher waiting for Ethan to come by.

"Ethan? Ethan Karpathy?" Ms. Smith asks him.

"Uh yeah thats me." He smiles.

"Ah welcome to Sanderson high school! This will be your locker this year." 

She points to a locker down the hall from mine.

"Thank you miss." He says unsure of her name.

She walks down the hall, telling off some kids on the way.

"Where's your locker?" He says unpacking his bag into the locker.

"Down the hall."

"That is preposterous."

"Why?"

"Because! It's too far away from mine." He crosses his arms over his chest. 

I laugh extremely hard at his comment, some boys look at me like i'm psycho.

Soon after, the bell rings and it's time for first period.

I direct him to his class and I head to mine.

"CAITLINNNNNNNNNNNN" I hear a scream down the hall which scares me out of my mind.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I scream as a body jumps on my back causing me to collapse.

I turn and see Alyssa was the cause of the commotion.

"Oh my gOD ALYSSA WHAT THE HELL." 

We hugged and stood up, noticing everyone had gone to class. 

"I missed you but we got to get to class." I laugh.

We made our way to geography talking about our holidays.

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Recess. Finally.

Greeting old teachers in the first couple of periods wasn't the highlight of the day.