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Academy Infatuation

September 1, 2019
By mangaqueen1, Los Angeles, California
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Janet's P.O.V


I munched slowly on my salad. Why God do I have to eat healthy? I looked up from my bowl and saw Nancy completely engaged with her book. Delilah twirling her black hair between her fingers poking at the mashed potatoes on her plate. To break the silence I said,

"Eat up, Deli" 

"Says you, you've barely touched your salad" she scoffed. 

I shoved a piece of lettuce into my mouth when there was suddenly a lot of noise in the cafeteria. Well, more like cheering. It was because of the jocks. I almost utterly dispised most of them except...him. Josh Sandler. Captain of the basketball team, heartthrob of many girls. He looked over at our table, more precisely, me. My eyes went wide, i looked down at my salad bowl trying to act preoccupied. 

“He’s coming over!”, Nancy said a piece of lettuce in my mouth when there was a sudden noise in the cafeteria.  Well, not noise, more like cheering. It was the jocks. I almost utterly hated all of them except...him. Josh Sandler. Captain of the basketball team and the heartthrob of many. He looked over at our table, more precisely, me. My eyes went wide, I looked down at my salad bowl trying to act preoccupied.

"He's coming over!" Nancy said, nudging me and trying to control her laughter. 

"Hey Janet!" His cheerful voice rang through. Look up you fool."Wait a second, why are you so red? Worked out too much during gym class?" he laughed I looked up at him. I hoped the gasp I made was internal. He looked absolutely gorgeous.

He was drenched. His Jersey was fitting perfectly to his chiseled body. He had that killer smile on, his basketball tucked neatly under his arm.

"Hi Josh." I said awkwardly and continued,

"How come you're at our table?"

Stupid, stupid, stupid. He laughed and said,

"Am I not allowed to be here your highness?" Oh I'd like to be your queen.

"Nothing of that sort, sit down." I said with a soft smile. He whistled,  taking a seat next to me, he came close to my ear, I felt his breath fan the nape of my neck and he whispered,

"You're so beautiful."

I blushed like a maniac. This jock, the crush of so many girls, just called me, beautiful. I looked at him and saw him give me that killer smile of his. Thank God I wasn't standing or my legs would have given way. I hadn't realised my body had unconsciously turned towards him and the distance between us was only so much that we could hear each other's breaths. He brought his hand up to my face and tucked a few stray strands of hair behind my ear. His other hand laced his fingers between mine under the table. Could I just lean in and kiss him? I wish I could. Everything was going perfectly, when...

"SHE'S ENGAGED!!! Oh, whoops bad timing. Hi Josh!" My childhood best friend, Autumn said all this after having jumped on my shoulders. 

"Hey Autumn" Josh said, trying to hide the fact that she kind of ruined the moment. I turned around and glared at Autumn. She grimaces and mouthed me a "sorry!" and sat down next to Delilah. I turned back to Josh who just gave me a sad smile, squeezing my hand in reassurance. Just then,

"Josh darling, where have you bee-" that sickening voice came in. A pair of heels clicked qne came to a stop on the wooden cafeteria floor. Ivanka. Ivanka Fonseca. HBIC. She glared at me and I narrowed my eyes at her, not flinching. She finally rolled her eyes and continued, "Josh, honey, I have a surprise for you, come with me." And winked. 

Josh groaned softly under his breath. Just at that time Noah notices the tension building up at our table and walks over saying, "Hey little sister, is miss fake up bothering you?" I tried hard not to roll my eyes at my brother. "No thanks Noah, I don't need help i can handle it", I said. Noah shrugged and started talking to Josh. I notice that hadn't let go of my hand. I smiled at the thought of it and turned to Ivanka and said, 

"Listen up, I understand that a lot of guys would be glad to accept your 'let's ticket but if you noticed we're a little busy here..unless..Josh?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'd rather stay here with Janet, Iv. Sorry." Josh said with a smile. Noah began to laugh. I elbowed him in the stomach and he smacked the back of my head. I stuck my tongue out at him and he chuckled. Ivanka glared at me one last time and said sinisterly,

"I won't let you get away with this." 

Delilah then said to Ivanka,

"You heard her. Now, scram."

Autumn's P.O.V.


Delilah, Nancy and I start chuckling while Ivanka rants. She stomps away mumbling to herself.

"What were you saying again?" Janet asks as if she didn't hear me. "Camryn is engaged! This is so exciting." I squeal. "Wow really?" Deli and Nancy add in. Upon hearing heavy footsteps, I turned around to see Bellame, red with frustration. "Hey, what's wrong?" I ask curiously. 

"More like what's wrong now. When is anything right with her?" Nancy gives her the mother glare. "Andrew and I had a fight." I can already feel the atmosphere getting very tense because Bell will make everyone's day miserable if she feels miserable. "Now don't you all think that since we're together he shouldn't be friends with other girls?" " So you're saying he shouldn't be friends with any of us?" I question.

"How rude!" Deli exclaims in her baby voice. 

"No, you guys, I didn't mean it that way. I mean like that bitchy friend the fake bitch has."

We all let out a big "ohh!".

Josh and Noah walk away without even saying goodbye. Janet pouts sadly and mutters

"Boys..."

Nancy and Deli start fangirling over Korean dramas so Janet and I head to English along with Bellame bugging us about how Andrew got angry at her for blah blah blah. I stopped listening after that. 

During English, while our professor lectured us, Janet and I decided to go ice skating later this evening. Yay!

Since next period is free Janet and I start working on editing our pictures for photography club. "Do you remember how Bell met Andrew?"

"The very dramatic fall and his slow motion running towards her? Vaguely." I said sarcastically. It was dramatic as heck.

It was a fine day. Janet, Bell, Nancy and I had stayed back after hours to play badminton for the upcoming competition. Obviously I was just playing for fun, I would never compete in those sporty stuff. 

Bell and Janet were playing their turn and as always Janet was winning. She is so good at literally everything she does, except telling her crush about how she's been crushing on him for as long as I can remember. Nancy and I engaged in a deep conversation and we would've easily missed the fact that Bell had just fallen down, hard, if Janet hadn't yelled. Bell went pale after seeing the blood trickling down her leg. She started shaking both her arms in a state of panic. The rest of us seemed to be rather calm. "Come on, let's get inside." Nancy helped her up. Bell shrieked in pain and fell back to the ground.

Soon Andrew, the volunteer, came running with a concerned look on his perspiring face. Without a second thought, he picked up Bell and staggered his way to the locker rooms. "Wow he is strong!" exclaimed Janet.

We followed them in. Andrew got ready to clean her wound while all of us just stared  at them from a corner. "Look at her." I whisper. "Huh?" "Look at her. She can' stop looking at him an...and she isn't panicking, AT ALL." Both of their eyes started focusing on Bell. 

As soon as Andrew sat on the bench Bell sat up straighter and now she was a lot more closer to him, just staring at his perfectly structured square face. Bell's big, brown, doe eyes got bigger. 

He too caught her staring at her but that didn't stop Bell from doing it. His eyes locked on hers and ours on them. She went beet red. Not even 30 second had gone by and they were making out. Janet and I looked at each other in disgust and Nancy, the bold one, said "Eww!" "Get a room you two." chuckled Janet. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE." I ran out along with Janet and Nancy right behind me. Phew!

"Did you just go into a memory lane? Because I did." "Yup." Says Janet while still looking at her laptop screen. 


In the evening.

Janet and I went over to the skating rink as Janet goes over to the counter guy, Zack, who happened to be Lisa's brother. 

"Hey Zack! Two pairs please." She said with a smile.

"Sure thing, J." And he kept two pairs on the counter and Janet took them and walked over to me and handed me mine. We both sat down on the bench and put on our ice skates, reminiscing about events from the past. I stand up and as I fix my headphones. Janet pulls hers down and says something to me which I don't hear because of my headphones and i screech, 

"Whaaaaaa..?" 

And WHAM.

Janet's P.O.V.

"WATCH OUTTTT!!!!!!!" I scream but of course she doesn't hear me. She was facing me, and bangs right into a guy who walks into the skating rink. I cup my hands over my mouth, trying to prevent myself from laughing at the fallen Autumn (hehe, pun intended) I look up from her to see a wavy, chocolate haired, tan guy extending his hand out at Autumn.  Stupidly enough, her back was to him so she couldn't see that. I smacked her arm and signalled her to turn around. She did. He smiled sweetly at her and she took his hand. I sat back down on the bench and tightened the laces on my skates. She stood there dumbfounded . He grinned at her and me and her and said,

"Didn't mean to bump into you, sorry about that, anyway, I'm Kaleb."

"Oh it's okay, thanks anyway." She said.

I mentally facepalmed, I had to save this disaster in the making. I got up and swung my hand around her shoulders and said softly to her,

"Introduce yourself. " while smiling at him.

"Oh, um, I'm Autumn." She says with an awkward laugh. He shook her hand and said,

"Its really nice to meet you Autumn." 

Okay… he doesn't care about my name… nevermind. 

After a few tense and awkward seconds pass, he scratches the back of his head and says,

"Anyway. I gotta run, Hallie would get mad. Bye!" He waved and left, leaving the both of us confused. 

"Do you think…" I started off

"No, nope, nope. Highly doubt it." Autumn cut me off. 

I shrugged and said to her,

"Shall we?" I held out my hand to her.

"Ofcourse kind madam." Autumn said in a fake British accent taking my hand in the most royal way possible. I guided her to the centre of the rink and we skated our two hours away. 


The next day


"WAKE UPPPPP!!" screamed an extremely hyper Bellame.

"Wha...what do you want waking me up at…" I looked at my phone to check the time. "6:30 in the morning?!" I yelled at her. 

She handed me a small piece of paper and signalled me to read it, that stupid grin on her face. I take the paper from her and it says,

"Meet me at the lakeside at 7:00. Love - Josh"

My entire body feels like fireworks are bursting inside of it.

"What's going on…" yawned Autumn "and Jan, why are you so red in the face?"

Bell burst out laughing and said in a sing song voice,

"Janet has a boyfriend...Janet has a boyfriend."

Autumn, being, Autumn, dramatically tosses off her comforter and says,

"ALREADY?!" 

I smack my forehead and say,

"Have you not learned anything about Bell? It's not true…" although I wish it was.

After getting my bed all nice and neat I get into my wardrobe to see what I should wear. Not too fancy… not too homless-drug-addict type either. I pull on a laced white top with a pair of ripped blue jeans and a black choker and a pair of white boots. Too much. Nevermind. I set my hair right and wave them goodbye and walk towards the lake. I see someone standing there with a hood on, I assume it’s Josh and walk towards him with a smile on my face. His back was towards me and I tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey there." I say, he turns around and I tumble back screaming.

You know the mask that the killer in Scream wears right? Well that's what he was wearing. He takes off the mask and well, to my dismay, horror and frustration, it was my big brother. Noah. He's laughing so hard it makes me want to slap him. But I kept my calm.

"WHAT THE F NOAH?!" yep. That's me keeping calm. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" sidenote, he pranks me with this one more time, I'll be on a death row, accused of killing my own brother and i don't care, I'm pleading guilty.

"Poor poor Janet. Thought her little boyfriend was coming to see her… awwww" he says in a mocking voice. 

"Did...not. also why do you people think he's a boyfriend...he's not." I said slowly. "And why did you even call me here?"

"Well you see… like we did in high school and college, we should host the BOTY party this time too!" He said, running his fingers through his mane. Haha. Mane.

"You think we should host the Beginning Of The Year Party? You do know that entails a lot of hard work.." 

"Come on Jammy pammy, just this one." He clasped his hands in front of me, as if begging.

I sighed and said,

"Fine just this one. No more." 

"Deal!" He shook my hand.

"Ah well this will take a while, let's just sit down and discuss it." 

I crossed my legs and sat down, pulling out my phone.

"We'll make a list of the things we need. First off. Drinks?"

"A few non alcoholic, maybe Dr. Pepper's,  and Bacardi Breezers?" 

I took that down in my notes on my phone. 

"Next up, theme. What do you think?" 

"I guess maybe 90's? 80's theme?" He died scratching his head.

"80's is way better." And I took it down

We spent the next hour finalising every little detail. I then was walking back to my dorm room when my phone buzzed. I pulled it out of my pocket. My heart started beating faster. It was a text from Josh.


Hey there, sorry about that prank Noah pulled. We should talk though, I’ve got something to tell you. ;)


Holy f. What does he have to tell me? What does that wink mean?! Oh god oh god. 

HELP.



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