little flower

Candy

Lily's pov
I walk up behind Marcellus, staring at him as he towers over my small frame. He's the only person I knew at my new school, i noticed his emerald eyes flash and look behind me to see why he seemed afraid. I see who he was now glaring at, it's the person he warned me about.
"Hey Blondie, I'm Ashton." He looked down at me. I wasn't very short but he was still a few inches taller than me. I stare at his chest not knowing what to do or say and not wanting to make eye contact. He grabbed me by the chin and forced my head up so that I was forced to look into his Smokey gray eyes, "look at me when I'm talking to you, Candy."
Marcellus pulls me from Ashton's arms, I hug my body as tight as I can to Marcellus, "Are you hurt Flower? Where did he touch you? Ash, I swear if you hurt her in any way I'll..." I cut him off by tugging at the hem of his shirt.
"I'm okay Marcy, he didn't hurt me." I give him a reassuring look and tug slightly on his shirt to where I think my class might be. He looks down at me and smiles. He grabs my hand and turns me around, "it's this way" we walk all the way to my class and he stops right outside of the door, "I think you'll like it in here considering this is my mom's class. I'll stay in here with you since o have a free period right now."
The teacher walks into the room as her tall black heels clink against the tile floor. "Good morning class, today we have a new student." She looks over to where I'm sitting in the back of the class and smiles, "would you like to introduce yourself to the class?"
I stand up at the desk and face everyone in the room, " hello, I'm Lily and I've lived here in burngold my whole life but I was homeschooled. I guess a fun fact about me is that I have played football for almost my whole life." I sit back down feeling as though I had accomplished something.
"Miss evergreen, I'm going to be sitting in here with Lily because it's her first day if that's good with you."
"I hadnt even noticed thatbyou were here. But if that continues then yes of course just make sure you aren't missing any classes young man."
He laughs from where he sits next to me, "we both know I don't have any classes this period or next so I won't be missing anything."
The class was whispering about Marcellus but I couldn't make out more than a few sentences. They kept talking about how I was new and how Axel would come after me. And then I heard something I hadn't expected. They were talking about Marcellus as if he was some kind of super human. It sounded like they look up to him. He slid me a folded up price of notebook paper so I unfolded it and read.
"Little Flower, most of the kids here no nothing about me and seeing as I'm already spending time with you they will be asking questions. They have always considered me a mystery when in all honesty I just don't care for high school drama or crazy amounts of fake friends. And now that you're here you will also be a mystery. They've never seen me with anyone let alone a girl so they will ask you many questions just try not to tell about me too much. Please."
Cindy begins the lesson, okay so today we are going to start reading the book I have played down on all your desks and if you could please read to chapter 2 by Monday. We will be having a discussion over the chapters then."
I hadn't even realized but time was flying by and before I knew it the bell rang and class was over. I walked up to the front of the room where the teachers desk was, as soon as Mrs. Evergreen stood up we hugged each other tight, “I can’t believe you’re in my class, I saw your name on my roster and it made me smile. How is your first day? Did anything happen yet? did you find anyone cute? Oh my I’m rambling, I’m sorry honey.”

I smile at her, “It’s okay, I didn’t realize this was your class. I’m so happy that I get to be here.”

Marcellus joins in the conversation, “Are you two done yet? Mom I have to get her to her next class.”

“Do I have to go to my next class Marcy? I like it in here.”

A smirk plays on his face, “I guess if you want to stay in here you are more than welcome too, but you would want to be late to your second class on you first day at a new school would you?”

His mom smiles at me and reaches over her desk to grab a paper and pen, “I’ll write her a pass and she’ll be fine. Stop teasing the poor girl, you’ll scare her. She’s already so nervous.” She writes down the time, place, and my name on the paper.

I take the pass and head to the door, “I’ll see you after school Cindy, I love you”

“I love you too sweetheart, I’ll see you soon” And with that she sat back down at her desk and Marcellus takes my hand in his and begins walking me to the science hall. “My science teacher is Mr. Jones.”

Marcellus starts laughing, “Don’t expect to do much learning in his class, he mostly just does labs and experiments. He knows what kids like and he’s really chill so we can do pretty much anything we want.”

We get to the science class room and the teacher welcomes everyone with a bright smile and calls me over to his desk, “So I notice that you’re new and I know how awkward it can be so if you don’t want to introduce yourself you don’t have to.”

I smile at him, “I don’t really want to, thank you for giving me the option.” I walk to the back of the room and sit at an empty desk. Marcellus sits on the counter behind me and gets on his phone.

“I’ve never seen you in this class Mark.” A tall brunette walks up and stands next to him, I see his eyes darken. He hates being called Mark, it’s been years since I heard anyone call him that

He slides off the counter and stands over her, she may be tall but she looks like a fun sized candy bar compared to Marcellus. I have yet to see anyone close to his height, he stands 6 feet and 9 inches tall. “Don’t ever call me that again and go sit down Brianna.” he booms in his devilishly deep voice.

She scurries away in fear. Nobody has ever had the guts to stand up to Marcy, nobody but me but that was a long time ago when we were both 10. He had taken my light brown teddy bear and I wanted it back so I tackled him to the ground and got it, and we’ve been friends ever since then.