I’ll be the new kid, on an old block
A chalk outline on a playground blacktop
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Alex


No, no, no.

Not so fast Alex, do NOT get a crush on the first guy you meet in your new school.

I was confused on whether or not the fluttery feeling in my stomach was because I am nervous about being in a new school in a whole other continent, or the fact that I just talked to a really, really attractive guy. Maybe both?
Judging by the way my heart hasn’t been able to stop beating a mile a minute, I’m assuming it’s because of the second part.

I wandered through the hallways of the school that seemed to be like a maze, trying to ignore the weird and annoyed looks people would give me when I would stop in front of a crowd of people and turn around to walk in the other direction.
I swear to god, the lady at the administration office was just fucking with me and gave me a fake map that took me around in circles, because this school was literally one of the most confusing places I’ve ever been.

Okay, so it didn’t really help that everyone here was freakishly tall and I couldn’t see the room numbers to the doors that I walked by. I don’t know if there’s something they served at lunch here, like a growth hormone or something to make nearly all of their students a foot taller than anybody back in Essex.

Dark thoughts started to swarm in my mind when I thought about my hometown, but I quickly shook my head and pushed them away.
This is my new home now, I don’t ever have to think about Essex again. Just forget about it…

I really had no idea what to do now. I was looking for my honors chemistry class in room 563, but somehow I’m near 102, and near all the English classes.

I was becoming desperate for some help, so I walked to a corner, stood on my toes and gazed around the enormous sea of kids rushing to their next classes.

I saw girls with long pony tails wearing their cheerleader uniforms being followed by a gang of buff looking guys wearing the same jackets so I assumed they were the football team. There were nerdy guys staring at their phones, a group of girls laughing and chatting, but nowhere in this huge crowd could I find the strikingly attractive boy that I met this morning.

What was his name? Jack Barakat?
Damn…

I’ve never had anyone ever be that blunt with me. I’m shocked he even noticed me, he didn’t seem like the type to be welcoming new kids to school but for some reason he was compelled to pay attention to the new british kid that usually kept under the radar.

I could tell that Jack was not like me though, he is not one that prefers not to be noticed.

Just by his appearance it was obvious! His dark brown hair that looked black if you didn’t pay attention to it close enough, with a stripe of bright red that suited him perfectly. The light stubble on his face that looked like he hasn’t shaved in a few days got me even more on edge, he looked so old and sexy while I can’t even fucking grow any facial hair.

His captivating brown eyes that were full of warmth and flirtation made my heart beat faster, plump pink lips that left me craving to taste them the more I thought about it.

His skin looked like the golden tan he probably had during the summer was lightly fading away as the colder weather started settling in, but the thought of him outside in a bathing suit excited a whole different part of me, particularly the lower half of my body.

Jack’s dark features mixed perfectly with his dark grey and black striped shirt, with tight black skinny jeans that kind of looked like mine, except without the rips in the knees.

He obviously had a similar sense of style to me… like he couldn’t get any more perfect in the first place.

It was like he was made for me, with my ideal looking boyfriend that I’ve always dreamed about in mind.

The nickname that he gave me made my heart flutter and a blush rose on my cheeks just thinking about it. I didn’t think anyone actually noticed that I had dimples, or if they did, they didn’t care. But Jack had to give me a cute nickname within the 5 minutes that I’ve known him, and leave me feeling warm and fuzzy inside.

How does a stranger have that kind of affect on me?
I just met him!!

I was knocked out of my daydream and thrown back into reality when a pulse or excitement ran through me as I saw him. Jack!
He was walking casually in the hall next to a girl with brown and blonde hair, and I swear my heart skipped a beat as he looked up from the conversation he was having with her, and looked directly at me.

He smiled at me and a shy smile instantly spread across my face, I looked down at my feet instinctively before looking back up at him. He had a sexy smirk on his lips and winked at me.
My breath caught in my throat by once again, his very blunt flirting, and I smiled instantly, and looked down at the ground once again because that’s all I know how to do in these situations.

He fucking WINKED at me!!! God dammit!
That boy fucks me up in ways I can’t even fucking explain!

Is he trying to make me get a huge crush on him, because so far it’s really working.
Whatever he’s trying to do he’s definitely doing it right.

I never really got crushes like this, at least not so fast and all of a sudden like this. In Essex, there were some cute guys that I dated, and I did like them, but they were so different from Jack.
They were so polite and proper, not doing anything further than holding hands in public, asking me if they were allowed to kiss me when all I wanted to do was to be swept off my feet and fucking make out with someone other than the 4 walls of my bedroom!

I want excitement!!! I want an adventure, and Jack Barakat seemed like the definition of the word.

A little voice of reason started talking in my head, and I couldn’t ignore it no matter how much I tried.
Don’t fall too fast, Alex.

I couldn’t fucking help it! All I wanted to do was run up to him and wrap my arms around his lean body. The way that he told he, ‘he’d keep me,’ meant he wanted me, right?
Probably as just a friend though.

I really don’t want to overthink this, and I don’t want to be one of those boys who fall for the very first person they see. I swear, I’m not one of those people.
Okay, maybe in this one very specific moment I am one of those people but it doesn’t count.

I watched in awe as he walked away, staring at his strong looking shoulders and back covered by his thin v neck longingly.

Wait…
Shit!!
I was way too distracted by how pretty Jack looked, I didn’t even ask him for directions to my next class!

I flinched as the loud bell that I still wasn’t used to rang through the school, signaling that class was starting and everybody had to be in their seats.

Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!

I quickly turned around to hurry in the direction of the office, knowing that lady that gave me some kind of fake map might help me understand this puzzle of a school.

As I walked down the hall I felt my ankle catch on something hard, tripping me and causing me to stumble onto the ground, tripping in front of the peers of my new school, my map and schedule slipping out of my hands.

Loud bouts of laughter surrounded me, a heat wave of embarrassment flooded over my body and I looked down in shame. I glanced behind me quickly, relieved to see that Jack was still walking in the other direction, unaware of how badly I just humiliated myself.

At least he didn’t see, but everyone else did.

I recognized some of the faces I saw swarming the hallways earlier, pressed up against the lockers giggling and mumbling things about me to their friends. Great…

I sighed, and started to pick myself back up again until I felt someone’s foot step into my lower back, making me fall back down onto my stomach again.

“Ow, what the fuck?!” I exclaimed, my voice breaking because of fear but I tried to push it away.

I looked up to see a douchey looking guy with a huge head, spiky blonde hair, a big nose, ghostly pale skin, overall just not very attractive in my opinion lean over me and glared.

“You know how much these fucking shoes cost, kid?!?” he growled, getting spit on my face as he talked and I grimaced.

I had no idea what he was talking about until I looked down at his shoes. I watched my plastic water bottle slowly pouring the clear liquid on the tile of the school floor and was spilled all over his brand new looking Jordan sneakers.

Dammit Alex, why do I have to be such a fucking screw up?

“Sorry…” I mumbled, not knowing what else to say. I really didn’t want to pick a fight.

“Yeah, you fucking should be asshat. Watch your fucking step next time, faggot.” he spat, causing kids to laugh around him.

My face grew redder from the embarrassment, but I wasn’t just going to let him mock me like this.

“It’s just water,” I responded audaciously.

Yeah yeah, I get the hype with the cool basketball shoes and everything, but they are shoes! You walk around in them, and you never know what you might step in, or what might get dropped on them, plus, it’s WATER!

“What did you just say to me?”

I stood up, quickly realizing that I am much shorter than this bully who looked even more pissed off. I was about to let my anxiety get the best of me before I blurted something in his face.

“They are just shoes! If they are so special to you than you should put them on some sort of shelf instead of walking around in them.” I said sassily.

I don’t really know what was coming over me. No matter how badly I didn’t want to think of Essex, I didn’t get bullied there. I never was bullied a day in my life, I didn’t really know the correct way to respond to them, but I don’t think I just did the right thing…

I gasped as big fists grabbed the thin material of my white shirt, and shoved my back hard against a wall making me groan as my head collided with the brick. That’s gonna bruise…

My eyes widened as I noticed more guys, all wearing the similar pair of shoes in a variety of different colors surrounding the scene with angry eyes.

Hmm… So I’m guessing that this is the basketball team.

Great. I pissed off an entire sport on my first day of school.

Notes

not entirely sure that 'sassily' is a word but i think you guys know what i meant

this chapter isnt as amazing as i wanted it to be, but im very tired, too tired to edit it and i want you guys to have some stuffs to read :))

YAYAYYAY YOU MET ALEXXXXX
hes such a cutie and he thinks jack is a cutie
but now he pissed off the entire basketball team and it looks like they are gonna beat him uppp
:(((

i sadly wont be posting many chapters in alex's pov, i defientley will when i need too but it will be mostly jacky'

ughhh im sorry i havent posted this weekend i know this is a dumb excuse but i have a cold and im not feeling well at all, so i was thinking 'great, now i can just stay in bed and write'
but i was too tired to write and what i did write was prettty BADDD

im also gonna be updating some of these chapters to make them better and format them better, hopefully i will do that tomorrow instead of homework lmao

aaaahhhh im so tired, you can probably tell by my lack of all caps
guys i literally used to stay up until 4 in the morning writing, now its 10:30 pm and im exhausted because schooool
whats happening to me
school has CHANGED MEEEEEE

okay
im gonna go to bed
i rlly rlly hope you guys like this chapter
sorrry for the cliffhangerrrr :P LEAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN NEXT
OKAY
GOODNIGHT LMAO
YOU PROBABLY ARENT GOING TO BED ANYTIME SOON
OH WELL GOODNIGHTTTTT :DDD <3 <3 <3