As bad as we are now

Chapter two - first day of school

The next available seat it's next to a girl that I don't know but I choose to seat next to her.

"Excuse me! you are?" the teacher speaks and all my class looks at me

"Lara." I say and put my bag on top of the table

"you're late." she closes the door that i left open and stares at me, lifting one brow

" I am." I state the obvious

"and you're not apologizing?" she gives a step back

"I'm not really sorry, so..." I say and I hear some giggles in the class

"quite! " she looks around the class "Miss Lara, is going to be the last time you arrive late to my class or don't even bother to enter" she looks serious at me and I nod.

We were at the class one more hour , listen to the teacher speaking about what's going to happen this year and well I kept texting Jim how boring this class was and he feels the same. I can help myself and look sometimes at the boy besides me, something about him intrigues me.

Everyone gets up and Jim texted me he's outside waiting for me, I get up and I notice that the girl next to me is sleeping on the table, really?

"hey!" I shake her shoulder

"what? where am I?" she looks at me and then around

"school. get up, you look ridiculous " who does that in first day? she's going to have a nickname in seconds if she does this every class

"thanks." she passes her hands in her hair

"you're welcome" I turn around

"wait! I'm Mali" she walks next to me and I stop. I look at her from the top of her head to her feet. I like her. she sees me looking at her and she looks down in disappointment

"you're new?" I ask her and she looks up again

"yeah..." she says and I keep walking

I look at my side and she's not there so I look back, she's still in the same place I left her looking at the ground

"well, are you staying?" I speak a little bit louder for her to hear me and she looks at me

"I thought... yeah." she starts walking

"I'm Lara." I say to her and I keep moving again

"i know." she smiles at me , she has the same high as me

"did you move here?" I push the door to go outside

"yeah I'm actually from Australia, but I was four years at California "

"oh. I'm English but my dad married a LA girl, my mom, so we moved here again" I explain to her and she looks confused, I'm not telling her more but she nods

"hey!" Jim says and then looks at Mali

"this is Mali... she's coming with us, right?" I ask her

"ha... I guess" she looks confused but I know what she wants, new friends.

"good"

"hey, I'm Jim nice to meet you" Jim says to her and gives her a hug, something that he knows he can't do with me, hug me... I'm not really the hugs type.

I see Josh with a girl and he looks at me, I wave at him and he lets the girl and starts walking in my direction, Josh is my ex boyfriend but we still speak time to time.

"hey babe" he says and hugs me, of course he does, he lifts me a little, that causes my shirt to go up but he puts me down again

"I'm not your babe anymore..." I say to him and I don't even give me the trouble to adjust my shirt