*𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒑* 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 3...2..1 .
"𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐋'𝐒 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐖!!" 𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝."𝐘𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚'𝐚𝐦", 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞.

Karla's pov

Guess what?

Ya girl didn't get detention.
Wohoo!! Yass!!!

I did a victory dance.

In my head tho, since, I was in the hallway and if I did it wouldn't be long before they start saying "Omgee, that brown skin girl with weird eyes is dancing like a hyena in the hallway."

Ok maybe I'm exaggerating.

Principal Duncan, is a nice woman with a welcoming and warm side but she can be serious and strict when she wants to and has a no bullying tolerance.

She kind of let me off the hook because Natalie is known to cause trouble with students and I have a clean record in my old school and for the past three months I've been here.

However, she'll still be calling my parents just to inform them.

Not that I haven't gotten into detention before though because the first time I ever got actual detention was in grade 5 when I yelled at a kid and called him annoying and stupid  for bothering me when I was in Math class.

Like, I'm trying to pay attention.

Instead of getting lost in the wonderful world of numbers and 'x's.

And the last time I got into detention it was when Jimena, Frida, Shawn and I. It was on Halloween night and we were dared to prank the Principal which we messed up big.

I walk to Math class and we're on Algebra.

Fortunately for me, my sister sits beside me at my right. Unfortunately for me, she was being really attentive to what the teacher was teaching whiles I was getting half of the information passing through one ear and to the other so I couldn't ask her for her notes.

Leaving me to jot down what I could understand or what I thought was important.

After the bell rang I rush out of class to go to the library but then I heard someone calling me,  "Karla,Wait!"
I turn around to see Jimena, she was running towards me and looking a tad bit annoyed.

"Were you running away from me?" She asks.
"Wait?What? No, I wasn't!" I say.

"Okayyy" she says narrowing her eyes at me but continues and says,
"well you know how we haven't been spending much time together in school, especially", she said and I nodded.

"Well I thought it would be great to hang out especially since we are starting to be two completely different people. So I thought of  something we could both do together and i signed us up for the Track Team!" She said.

Wait what??!!

"Oh, wow track team" I said suprised.

"Wait? Why aren't you happy?
I thought you would want to.
Ya know, It would be like old times." She says and adds,
"Just a little more competitive."

We used to do this thing where Dad, Jimena and I would go for runs.

We'd run up the block and back, when dad was free no more work no schedule after school. It began as just a game and soon every Saturday we did that right before breakfast though. Good memories.

"Yeah! Yeah I'm happy I just ....", I looked up at her face which was looking at me quizzically. "Um it's nothing just something, um, something stupid." I said.

She looked confused but said "Ok,  see you later, Hope." and walked away.
And I knew she was confused because she only calls me Hope (Esperanza) if she is or if she's angry.

"See ya."I said.

I start walking over to the library because I have free period. And I want to I'm finish this new novel i recently found when,

"You know you should really zip your backpack before all its contents fall out. " A girly voice from behind said.
As she holds my extra fluffy key holder and hands it over.

I turned around to see a girl, a few inches taller than me with pale skin not sickly pale, piercing blue gray eyes and blonde hair which was almost shoulder length, it looked like it was growing back.

She was standing with a guy.
He looked normal, he was a cute guy with brown eyes and dark black hair and was probably 5'11'ish.

"Thanks." I said and take it from her.

"Your welcome." She says and asks, "Your Karla, right?"

I nod and say,"And you're ......."

"Oh, hi I'm Christina Duncanand he's Connor Suede,"she says pointing to the boy standing next to her and adds, "but call me Tina." with a friendly smile.

"You didn't have to introduce me, T.
I could have told the pretty little lady myself." He says.

I felt my face start to heat up.

Christina rolled her eyes at him and said "Ignore him, he's a total doofus.
Making him say,"Tina!!" whiles she gave him an innocent, "what?" making me giggle.

"Thanks for the tip and yes I'm Karla. Have we met before? Because I don't think anyone has talked to me before."
I said as she hands me my key holder.

Natalie opened her mouth to speak but Connor beat her to it and said,

"Well, you're the girl who stood up to Natalie when she  was picking on you.
Also the only girl here with different eye colors." He says and  put the last part in a very sensitive way.

"OH, ok." I said as we walked together.

There was a bit of silence, a little awkward but then Natalie said,
"So where are you off to?"

"Oh well I'm just going to the library." I said with a smile.
I've been doing that for sometime now, every free period I go to the library and get some reading done or I start studying.

"Why are you two going to the library?" I said.

Tina said she has free period too but so she'll come but Connor had to go to because he had Spanish.

So the two of us walked to the library and sat at my favorite spot which was in the Fiction section, in the far conner behind a few shelves.

I sit at the small wooden round table with 4 chairs .

We talked a little then we played 21 questions and from that, I found out she's the last born and only girl with three older brothers. She loves Burger King. Her favorite color is sky blue. She's a die hard TVD gal and Enzo is her man. She loves makeup. Also her mom is the Principal. She and Connor have been friends since half the semester of Grade 5. 

And she doesn't like Natalie.

*The bell rings*

"Well I guess that's our cue to leave." Tina says as we are getting up and packing our things into our bags.

"Yeah, so see u at lunch?" She asks.

"Yeah, um see you there." I say as we exit the library.

After I walked to my locker, and  picked the books from my backpack which I don't need and switched them for my Physics books before the second bell rang. I rushed to class.

I normally sit alone or sometimes this nice girl Wendy sits with me. We aren't friends but she's a really good partner. Last week, she said something about her switching schools but I don't remember if she'd be leaving this week or the next.

Anyways, I took my seat.

A few minutes went by and Wendy didn't show up so I guessed that she skipped but she isn't the type who would skip so I'm sure she had changed schools today. I guess this is bye to my sitting partner.

I hope the new one would be cool.

A few minutes after I stepped in our teacher, Miss. London stepped in and  started teaching whiles she was teaching Connor stepped into the class. He gave Miss. London a late pass slip and she told him to sit down
and he decided to sit beside me.

"Hi, how are u?" He whispered.

"I'm fine thanks for asking." I whispered back.

"So?" He said
"So?" I said

Before we got the chance to speak again our teacher said,

"Open to page 235 of your Textbook and read on today's topic. I expect a detailed explanation on the experiment we just concluded either what you understood or what you learnt. You have to submit it before the end of this week. And since today's Wednesday you have two days." She says with a smile. There are some groans.

I love this teacher, so I'm going to ignore the fact that she's telling me to write a Detailed Explanation on everything we just did.

I internally groan and shake my head as I walk down the hallway.

*𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒, 45 mins 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟*

Now we are literally doing nothing but waiting for the bell to ring for Lunch, since the period isn't over.
I decided to talk to Connor, you know to pass up the time. And as we talked I noticed throughout the class, he would just like phase out and stare at me which made me uncomfortable because of my eyes.

Resulting in me asking questions like this,"So, Connor what's your favorite subject?"

Like, seriously? "Esperanza, you had to ask that. Upon all the things you could have asked." I mentally chided myself.

"Oh, um it's French." He said.
"Wow, that's also one of my favorites." I said.

"21 questions?" He asked with a smile.
I return the smile and say,
"Yeah, sure."

I found out he's the second boy in the family and third child. He has an elder sister, brother and a little sister.

His favorite color is green.
And SpongeBob is his bestie.

I noticed that as he talked eyes lit up beautifully when he talked about his  animals and he talked so passionately.
I think he'd be a good vet.

Then somehow we started talking about if  Ironman and Hulk had a fight who would win.

"No, no, he'd shoot his beam blaster's and blast him off to somewhere."
He said.

"Aaaand Hulk would come back and swing him around like a doll.' I said with a laugh.

"Even if he did that Tony would shoot his minin missiles at him and would start blasting blasters." He responded.

"And hulk would smash." I said

Then it went on like

"Blast." He said

"Smash" then I said

"Blast"

"Smash"

"BLAST!!"

"SMASH!!"

"Blast"

"Smash"

"Blast"

"Smash"

"Blast"

"Smash"

"Blast "

"Ok fine Blast."I said with a smirk.

"Smash."
He says then his face morphs into a horrified expression as he says,
"Wait!!What?! nooo!!?"

And then
*𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠*

I got up from my seat whiles taking my backpack and said,
"Ha! Looks like Hulk and I win!" 
 
"No, nope! You did not win!! You you tricked me!" He said .

"What? I would never! It was just a minor use of my unresistable charms." I said looking at him innocently with a little smirk playing at my lips."Plus you still said 'SMASH' and smash wins."
I added, pumping my fist in the air and then sticking out my tongue as we exit the class.

"What are you three?" He asks.

"Nope I'm one, *quiet pause*
Number one, because I won!!!" I said sticking out my tongue again.

"Well next time I'll be sticking my tongue at you." He said.

"Yeah, sure." I said in an unbelievable tone. In response, he rolled his eyes at me.

"So what's your next class?" He asks.

"Oh um we have lunch."  I said.

"No, I meant after lunch." He said.

"Ohh, um I think I have Languages or something like that." I respond.

"Oh um right, Right? lunch." He says.

"Wait, where's everyone?" We both say as we spy not a single soul in the hallway.

"Let's go to lunch then." He says and I nod following behind him.

We go to the dining hall and join the line. Today there's mashed potatoes, Salad, MacNcheese and spaghetti and chicken nuggets, for dessert, it's  chocolate pudding and a slice of apple pie. I took MacNcheese with 6 piece chicken nuggets and 2 slices of apple pie.

We walked over to Connor and Tina's table, it was at the far conner close to the end of the cafeteria.

Connor and I are walking to their table. Tina waving over us to hurry over to the table and she shouted,"Connor and Karla stop walking slow and HURRY UP you Lovebirds! I've been waiting for y'all to come and eat but instead you're on a date."

And everyone turned to look at us.

Oof. Why did she have to shout.

I feel my face heating up horribly from embarrassment and speed walk to the table leaving Connor behind but he easily caught up.

"Hey Tina how are you?" I said and gave her a quiet glare making a mental note to remember to ask her why she called us love birds.

Christina ignored my glare and said "Don't "hi me'. Why are are you guys slow walking when you two know I was waiting for you. You two are also late since lunch started.….." *checks watch*, "15 minutes ago and I was here so y'all got some explaining to do?"

She asks looking at both of us with a raised eyebrow and a no no nonsense face, trying to look intimidating.

Connor said,
"Well we were talking about if Ironman and Hulk had a fight who would win?"

"Ugh, how am I not suprised." Tina said rolling her piercing blue eyes.

"So then we were debating about it and you know what Karla did?*dramatic gasp*. "

"No I don't know what she did." She says. He looks at me with an actual comic worthy, horrific look and said,"She tricked me into saying Hulk Smash"

"Trick!?*laughing* Bruh, you got it all wrong." I said and continued with,
"Boyy! I just used my amazing,  undeniable, unresistable charms."
But the look of annoyance on his face was just too much and I ended up
laughing and clutching my stomach, which pretty much made me a dying cockroach except I wasn't on the ground. 

"Up top girl." Tina said raising her right arm while she laughs and we did a high five.

We continued laughing at him and he said "You two are unbelievable, I can't believe your my friends."

"Aww, but you still love us." Tina cooed. He rolled his eyes and we continued laughing.

After there was a comfortable silence between us as we ate. Then  we started talking again and Tina started talking about this guy, Ryan who keeps on bugging her to go on a date with him since 8th grade but she keeps on turning him down.

* 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒, 20 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟*

I'm at the library again because  our teacher called in sick  and since no substitute came it is an indirect free period.

I'm reading the steps the for the experiment. I'm on the part where I'm trying to understand what the process is and I see Kayla entering the library and walks over to the librarian. She walks over to my direction and I see her, she's looking angry.

Since I sit in the fiction section and it iss surrounded by shelves to make it of secluded. So you won't be able to see me until you get closer to the shelf which is blocking you from seeing me but I can see you from afar cause the shelves aren't blocking my view of you.

"Why did you do it?" she asks with her voice in a quite raised tone.
"Could you please tone down a bit?" The librarian said.

Jimena says, with her normal nice friendly voice,"Oh sorry."

And she turns back to glare at me and says, "So are you going to start talking or what?"

"Do what?" I ask and she then glared at me and says.

"Perché hai preso a pugni Nat ?" She says in Italian.

Oh, uhm did i forget to mention we are part italian from our grandma (fathers mother) and part english spanish from our dad's dad, so we Spanish and Italian, hehe yh, I know its quite confusing, sometimes.

Also, I actually forgot I punched her. Yep, definitely relevant.

Anyways back to what she's saying,  "Qual è il tuo problema con lei, so che a volte può essere provocante o piuttosto stronza, ma perché hai dovuto farlo? "She says looking at me.

The librarian shushes us and we say sorry.

"Well, do you know what she did?"
I ask giving attitude from getting annoyed by all this. Like Chile! I'm minding my buisness reading and enjoying my free period then she bring all drama.

Y'all know she was asking for it.

She says "No, non so cosa abbia fatto."

"Ha strappato la mia nuova versione tascabile del libro dei fiammiferi di Cupido", I said with a hint of anger and I raised my voice.

The librarian shushes us again.

"Sorry." We both say.

"That doesn't mean you had to punch her." She says as her voice raises.

We did not even notice the librarian walking to our table.

"I think you two have a lot to talk about and I think you should discuss this outside, of the library."
She says and she adds,
"Please girls your giving me quite a headache." She says in a sweet voice.

We both say sorry and quietly exit the library. And we go to the washroom which was empty, thankfully.

"Karla, I want you to apologise to Nat" she says.

𝔸/N:
Hi, so this isn't the full A/N just a sub since it will be continued in the next chapter.
Anyways so this has been long, (3535 words) so I thought I'd stop it here. Hope you like it pretty sure one of my worst chapters anyways , yh. I'm that horrible.
So I'm posting next chapter in the next hour or a few minutes so stay tuned? Wait I'm not sure if that's the correct word.
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