As Jenna and Jensen got unto the crowded corridor they both release a sigh of relief.
"Now, do we begin the tour before lunch or lunch first?" Jenna asked.
Jensen gave her a questioning look as she said that.
"What? Did I say something wrong?" She asked looking confused.
"You're were the one angry at me for wasting time and that you wanted us to go a eat." Jensen said.
"Oh." Jenna said innocently.
"And what's the need for the tour?" He asked as the walked down the hall.
" It's mandatory. Plus I don't want you getting lost." She replied with playful seriousness.
"We literally have the same timetable. How would I get lost if I'm going to class with you." Jensen said as he took her bag from her.
"I might not always be around. Plus I want to wonder round a bit after lunch with you." Jenna said as she flashed mischievous eyes at him.
"That's if we...."
A loud noise at the end of the hallway cut Jensen off before he could finish.
"What's going on there?" He asked a kid who just rushed passed him.
"It's the Diva 3." The boy said before hurrying off.
"Diva 3?" Jensen asked.
"Only the most annoying self absorbed bitches in the whole fucking school." Jenna said in annoyance.
"Wow. Didn't know you cursed like that. I like it. Does your mum know?" Jensen said.
"Yes and you make it sound like it's a good thing." She said.
"With me Jelly, it's a good thing." Jensen said. Now let me go cause some trouble and gather information." He added walking off.
"You sound like some kind of spy." She said not hearing the first part of his statement.
She paused then realized he was walking towards the crowd.
"You idiot. Don't go....." She stopped mid sentence. "And he's gone."
She sighed before walking to the crowd. "Asshole."
Jensen pushed through the crowd and saw a boy on one knee holding flowers to a girl who looked like she was pulled out from some tacky magazine.
"Danielle, will you go out with me?" The boy asked.
Danielle looked at the boy then at the two girls that stood behind her. They also dressed like her.
'Who can dress like an ass an waltz around like some beauty queen.' Jensen thought.
"Ewww. Why would I go out with you." Danielle said with disgust. "You're so tacky you ape."
Just then two boys came and took the other boy by the arms. They lifted him up and began to take him away.
"Now we'll make good use of you." One of them said.
"No.....wait. I was just joking. It was a dare!" The boy screamed as he was dragged away.
Jensen's eyes followed them before trailing back to Danielle. He smiled mischievously before pushing his way to the center.
There, he looked down at Danielle who was styling her eyebrows.
"Ahem." Jensen cleared his throat to get her attention.
She looked up at him because he was taller. She then immediately withdrew back with a shriek.
"Eeeek. Get away from me you gothic freek before you stain my pretty skin with your ugly black whatever shit you're wearing." Danielle said.
Just then another pair of two boys came to take Jensen away. Unfortunately they couldn't move him.
"Debbi, Dorothy, where's Ben?" Danielle asked see that the boys could not move Jensen.
'Talk about bullshit. All three of them 'D'. Ugh.' Jensen said with disgust.
"I'm here babe." Said a huge jock like boy who emerged from behind Danielle.
"This freak is bothering me." Danielle said.
Ben walked up to Jensen and looked him straight in the eyes. Jensen looked him back with a glare that sent shivers down Ben's spine.
No one caught it. No one except Jenna who had her eyes fixed on only Jensen.
"Get away from my woman you dick." Ben said pushing Jensen away.
He landed with his back on some lockers before slopping to he ground.
"Now everyone get back to what you're doing." Ben barked out.
As soon as everyone had dispersed Jenna jogged up to Jensen an crouched beside him.
"Daijōubu desu ka?" She asked in Japanese.
"Since when..."
"I don't." Jenna cut him off. " I just wanted to lighten the mood and it was the easiest to learn in under one minute." She added showing him her phone.
"Ohhhh." He said. "Cheat!" He bit back.
"Shut up and get up." She said fiercely as she helped him to his feet.
"Wow." He said. " I'll have to get used to this side of you." He added.
"Ehhh. That a side why would you try to talk to that stuck up bitch?" Jenna asked annoyed.
"Just testing something. Now I know whose an ass and whose not." He said.
He paused and looked at her carefully. "Are you jealous?" He asked.
"Pfft. As if." She said handing him their bags. 'Of course I am.' She said inwardly with a mild curse.
"Why are you giving me this?" He asked.
" Oh I don't know..... maybe because you wasted our time." She said forcing the bags into his arms. "Now let's go. I'm hungry." She whined like a baby as she pulled him towards the cafeteria
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The two walked through the halls after the had finished their lunch. Jenna was laughing holding Jensen's arm and shaking him.
"Stop shaking me. I'll lose my balance." He said trying to shake her off.
"You know you're a donkey." She said hitting his head.
He stopped and looked back at her with an angry look.
"Sorry sorry." She said placing her hands together.
Jensen took out his phone at looked at it then showed her the time.
"Our tour will have to wait. We'll have to go for our next class." He said.
"No don't worry. Our next class is Spanish/ Latin." She said as she stopped at her locker.
She opened it and Jensen did like wise for the locker at her right.
" How do you know my timetable?" Jensen asked putting some of his books in the locker.
"Oh. We're locker buddies." She said nudging him with her hips. "Plus you were the one that said I had the same timetable with you that you can't get lost if I'm with you."
"I said nothing like that." He said with a joking look as he pulled out his Spanish textbook.
She smiled as she pushed his book back in the locker. " Very funny. But Ms Julietta is on maternity leave so we don't have any class till Advanced Maths. And for you timetable, I saw it in you bag."
As she finished, she pulled out her and Jensen's Maths textbook out of their lockers.
Students began to fill the corridor as she shut the lockers.
"Now take." She said shoving the books in his arms. "And let us go for our tour." She said said pulling him with her.
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Jenna pulled Jensen to be basketball court. She threw some balls into the hoops before pulling him to the next stop.
From the basketball court they went to the soccer pitch to the school pool then all of school.
They both stopped at the art room exhausted from all the walking.
"So how was it?" Jenna asked.
"Next time.... I'm not gonna ....follow you like that unless .....you treat me afterwards." Jensen said in gasps .
"Sorry. I didn't know it was going to be that tiring." She apologize.
"Honestly, I wonder how it's going to be if I were to take you out on a date." Jensen said.
As he finished he opened his eyes widely. 'Why did I say that.' He said inwardly.
Jenna went on four and pushed her face close to Jensen's. Her face was pink and it made her look even cuter.
Jensen couldn't move his face. It was like he was in a trance. He could feel her breath and he was sure she could feel his. Her apricot and honey scents filled his nose.
"You'll really take me out on a date?" She asked innocently.
Jensen looked away. His face already red with embarrassment.
"I said 'if'. Plus we just met." He said.
Jenna sat down and pouted in annoyance before turning to face him.
" I wanted to ask....." She said.
Jensen turned to her with a rapt attention.
"What made you to be so free with me even though we just met?" She said.
Jensen was quiet for a while. He was calculating rather than thinking.
"You looked desperate for a friend." He said.
Jenna felt her heart break. She stood up picking her books.
"This was a mistake." She said turning to leave.
Jensen quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her. She landed on his laps. She sat there looking at him.
"I'm sorry. I didn't expect you take it so seriously. Don't leave." Jensen said with remorse. "I'm actually more desperate than you think. I've never had friends and when I crashed into you I felt that you'd be different. Soo I wanted to try my luck with. If you want to you can. I won't stop you." He added.
She paused looking into his deep black eyes that looked back into her hazel eyes.
"Don't." She said as she hugged him. "I also need a friend. But we can be friends.... Best friens. I was actually happy when you free with me."
She released from the hug and got off his laps before ruffling his hair.
"I also got this for you I case you wanted to be friends." Jenna said pulling out a box. I was the same as the one she picked from her room.
Jensen looked at it then at her. She motioning for him to take it.
He took it and opened it. A chain that had half of a heart on it looked back at him and he looked at her with a raised brown.
"What? I thought you were going to be a girl ok." She said.
"No. I like it." He said putting it on. "Thank you." He added.
He smiled at her before getting up and looking at his phone.
"Shit." He said.
Jenna got up with caution. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"We're late for the class." He said.
She quickly gathered their books before pulling Jensen with her. "That ass is surely not going to let us hear the end of this.
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Jenna and Jensen quietly snuck into the classroom through the back door.
Mr. Heartwood faced the board solving an equation when he stopped. He threw the maker he was holding backwards without looking back.
It was heading for Jenna's head when Jensen caught it.
"You two." Mr Heartwood said. "To the front." He added turning to face them.
Jensen moved first the Jenna like he was her bodyguard.
"That's new kid is cooked." Someone said.
" Yeah this guys classes are difficult." Another.
"That Jenna girl might get off. She's always top of the class. But the goth ....."
"I pity the boy."
Comments rained down as they made their way to the front.
"From where?" Mr Heartwood said.
"I ju—."
"I was showing him around and we lost track of time. Don't hold him responsible." Jenna cut Jensen off.
He shot her a look that said 'what the fuck are you doing'.
"I expected more from you Jenna." Heartwood said. "I'll be taking ten points from your next quiz. Now back to your seat."
Jenna bowed lightly and turned round to leave when Jensen held her hand.
"Sir I have a proposal." Jensen said with full pride.
Mr Heartwood looked down at him— not physically but mentally.
"Speak boy." He said.
Jensen gritted his teeth. He didn't like being called boy by him. I felt wrong.
"If I can give you the answer for the problem, you'll give us both full marks for your subject." Jensen said.
"Is he stupid."
"Heartwood hasn't thought us how to solve that. This kid is mad."
"Heartwood said that eighty percent of the people that come across the problem usually fail on their first try."
Murmurs began to rise.
"You've got guts kid." Heartwood said. "Alright if you fail to provide it then you both fail and would have to take it again next year." He added.
"Deal." Jensen said shaking the man's outstretched had and taking the second maker.
"Everyone begin to try and solve it." Heartwood said to the groans of the students.
Jensen stared at the problem. He looked at Jenna who looked focus.
"Ok, she's locked in." Jensen said looking back at the board.
He shook his head. Then everything began. He began to shake his head and his fingers.
He was calculating. And it was fast.
Then he started mumbling. Everyone stopped and looked at him—including Jenna and Mr Heartwood.
Now all eyes was on him. The board with still empty and they were wondering what was going on.
"Arrrgh!!" Jensen groaned throwing his head back. "Sorry for this." He added looking at Jenna.
Mr Heartwood just chuckled to himself.
Jensen walked to the side of the board. He swung his head back placing his hands on the wall.
"Jensen!!" Jenna shouted as she saw his head going to the wall.
*Bang*
Jensen's head landed on the wall. Everyone moved startled including Heartwood.
Blood dripped down from the wall and his forehead.
"Now." He said going back to the board.
"Is he mad?"
"He needs help."
"Maybe an asylum."
Jensen began to calculate again in his head. His head felt hot— in a good way.
Then a smirk spread across his face. He took out the marker and began to write.
"Jenna, do you have your answer?" He asked.
"Y–Yeah." She said.
He dropped the marker his body covering the answer.
"On three." He said.
He used his fingers to count. As he reached three he turned round revealing the answer.
" Negative six to the power of negative root three." They both said.
Mr Heartwood's face fell. They had both got the answer. The on the board.
[ -6^-√3]
"The answer is correct but what about the solving?" Heartwood said.
"We agreed on only the answer." Jensen said.
"Yeah but you can't get the answer without solving." Heartwood countered.
Jensen picked up the marker and began to write on the board. He stopped and looked at Heartwood. "Can I write on the wall?" He asked.
Heartwood looked at the solving. I was all correct so far
"Mr Heartwood." A boy called out from the class.
Everyone turned to face the boy.
"You agreed to only the answer so you have to keep your word." He said. "And I got the answer too." He said.