Zendaya's POV (AN: Thoughts are in italics)

We walk in relative silence, not really speaking to each other but he speaks to the other people that come up to him. Trevor is one of the most popular boys in our grade so almost the entire school comes up to him to say hey or whatever just to get on his radar. I just stand at his side until we start walking again, because they don't even look in my direction let alone talk to me, so why should I care about what they say. I realize that Trevor doesn't know where my class is when we stop walking in the middle of the hallway by the stairs, Trevor had to tie his shoes.

 I know that his first class is on this floor(AN: 2ND floor of a 4 floor building) but mine is on the fourth floor, so I need to start getting upstairs soon so I don't just barely make it before the bell. Even though it is the first day and late bells only matter for the staff to make sure the bell is going off at the right time, I really don't like being late like ever. I turn around to tell Trevor this but he's talking to someone, again. I recognize that it's Diggy, his best friend, so I tune out until they get done talking. I tune back into their conversation just as he is saying goodbye.

"Yeah so anyway man I'll see you in class."

"Yeah man for sure, I'll see you later."

"Oh hey Z. I almost didn't see you right there."

"Yeah I'm here just trying to get to class."

"Yeah I about to make my way there too. Are those the new J's you rockin Z?"

"You know it, I plan to have the best shoe game in the entire school this year."

"Well so far you already won today so I wouldn't worry too much about that."

"Thank you and don't worry I won't kill the game too bad."

"That's what's up! Alright I'll see y'all at lunch. Later."

"Later."

I grab Trevor's hand and steer him in the direction of the stairs so he can get the hint that we're supposed to be going this way and walks up the stairs with me.

"Why are we going up the stairs?" Really?

"Because my first class in on the fourth floor." Why else would I be walking up the stairs? Come on Trevor think, you are more than a pretty face!

"Oh. Why didn't you just say that in the first place? I had us walking all the way down here for no reason. I would have taken you up the stairs by your locker if you told me earlier."

"Because you were supposed to ask me since you offered to walk me to class. I could have gotten there by myself, especially if you're gonna act like this."

"I was trying to act like a gentleman offering to walk you to class. How are you mad about this right now?"

"I'm mad because you always expect me to do all the work in this relationship, and you know I don't like to be late."

"It's the first day of class, it doesn't matter if you're late today. In fact most teachers expect you to be late the entire first week."

"That's not the point! You don't get it Trevor."

"What is the point then Zendaya? Help me understand."

"I'm not having this conversation here Trevor, just go to your class and I'll see you at lunch."

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?"

"Yeah I'll see you at lunch."

"Do you still want me to walk you to class?"

"No it's fine I can get there by myself."

"Okay then I'll see you at lunch."

He leans in to kiss my cheek and walks back down the stairs while I go up the rest of them to get to the fourth floor so I can make it to first period before the bell. I don't know what has been going on with him lately but for the last month or so he's been acting really weird. Normally he only does the gentleman stuff on dates and that's fine, but once we started getting ready to go back to school he started suffocating me with relationship stuff. I don't like how he's doing this stuff all of the sudden now that school has started back. I wouldn't be complaining if he was doing this type of stuff since the beginning of our relationship, quite the opposite actually, but he hasn't and right now it feels like our relationship is a show and I don't want to be apart of something that's fake.

I go through my classes with this whole mess on my mind throughout my morning all the way to lunch, I actually almost didn't hear the bell ring for lunch I was so out of it.

"Hey Z, snap out of it!"

"Huh! What?"

"The bell rang. It's time for lunch."

"Oh."

"You okay? You've been out of it for most of the day. You didn't even react when Ms. Aiko got your name right on the first try."

"Yeah I'm fine it's just relationship stuff, and Ms. Aiko had practice with my name before class. She was the one with my schedule this morning in the gym."

"Oh okay. Because I was about to say you never let anyone off the hook when it comes to getting your name right."

"Yeah it's nothing to worry about. I'll be fine after lunch."

"Speaking of lunch, do you have your special meal papers for the new year?"

"Yes I have them right here. I finished them last night, then put them into my bag as soon as I finished so I wouldn't forget them."

"You're always prepared aren't you Z?"

"I hope so Lauren. I hope so."

Lauren laughs and we part ways for lunch. She goes to sit with her friends and I go towards the back of the lunch room to give the kitchen manager my forms. I am definitely missing Normani today, having Lauren in my classes is great and all but I need someone that I can really talk to. I'm happy and grateful that Trevor offered me a seat at his table because I was not about to sit alone on the first day, but I know that won't last for the whole year. Lucky for me the kitchen manager was in her office so I give her copy of my food order forms so the kitchen staff can make the specialized meals for my lunches.

 Last year I didn't know about these forms until December when the lunch was a Christmas dinner and I couldn't eat anything. I went up to the staff and they sent me to the main office to get a "Alternative meal plan" form to fill out and bring back either before or after Christmas break. The form is for the students who have any allergies, if they don't eat certain foods, or if they're vegetarian like me, or vegan. Students are supposed to get this form with all the other entrance forms at orientation every year and turn them in on the first day.

 Since my dad works at the school I never got any of the entrance forms at orientation, they went straight to him, I guess it wasn't in the stack he got. Because of me not seeing the forms I didn't get a say in if I had gym or JROTC freshman year. My dad put me in JROTC because I would be playing basketball anyway so I didn't need it. (AN: Small plot hole but the JROTC class is 8th period because I never put one) I was really mad about it at first because I thought you had to be in gym to take driver's ed your sophomore year, but then the teacher in JROTC told me they still teach driver's ed in there too I calmed down about having that class. The only problem I have with the class now is when we have inspection and I have to wear that ugly green uniform all day. You can't even change into it just for class you HAVE to wear it all day because it's a part of your grade. The only saving graces for the uniform are I don't have to wear the full uniform all day, the jacket hat and tie are only to be worn at inspection, and I don't have to worry about finding an outfit once a week.

Last year Mani would make fun of me when I had to wear it every Wednesday for the entire day. She would even text me on Tuesday night to tell me not to forget my spinach suit, that's what she would call it, and she would take pictures of me in it because I would refuse to take photos of myself in the uniform. By the end of the freshman year she had a photo album full of 32 photos of me in my suit on her facebook and she won't delete them no matter how much I begged her too. At least the photo album is password protected so only we can see it otherwise I would hack her page and delete it myself.

 I walk back into the main area of the lunch room so I can find Trevor so we can sit together and talk, but to be honest I don't really want to talk to him about this morning because we're probably just gonna start arguing again because he either doesn't listen of he doesn't understand what I'm trying to say, and when I try to make him understand I just make it worse on me. Don't get me wrong I love being with him but if I had other options, he wouldn't be my first pick. 

I have had crushes and other classmates, but I was always way to shy to come up to them and talk to them. Being so shy is a blessing and a curse I've come to find out over the years. An upside is that because I'm so quiet people don't notice me a lot so they say things around me that they don't want anyone to hear, so I always know the latest gossip before everyone else. The downside to that is that I suck at confrontation and talking to new people, unless they talk to me first. I should really work on the talking to people thing in the future, I can't hide behind Normani forever.

I find Trevor's table in the back of the lunch room by the windows, the best place to use your phone in the lunch room, and walk the rest of the way over and tap him on the shoulder.

"Hey there you are. Where have you been?"

"I had to hand in some forms to the main office."

"Oh Okay. Well let's go get our food."

"Okay."

He stands up from the table and we walk to get our food together. On the way back to the table he brings up this morning which I do not want to talk about.

"So, about this morning. Do you still want to talk about it?"

"No I thought about it during class and you were right earlier. I should have told you where to go. I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have gotten mad like that. So, are we good?"

NO! "Yeah we're good."

"Alright now let's eat. Hey do you want anything from the vending machine?"

"Yeah a water would be great." They didn't have the milk I like yet so I didn't have anything to drink.

"Okay, I'll be right back."

As he walks away I face palm because that is more or less how all our conversations go. He misunderstands me and when I try to make him understand I either stop and just agree with him or I just drop the topic altogether. This is another reason why I don't talk to him about anything unless he brings something up. Probably had too many basketballs to the head over the years. It's not that he's dumb, that's not it at all, it's that we don't value the same things and that causes a clash between us. The worst thing is that he thinks everything is fine when I'm the one having all these problems. I hope I can figure out what's wrong with me and soon because I have way too much on my mind for the first day of school.

"Here you go babe. One water."

"Thank you babe."

He kisses me on the cheek and eats his food while I pick at my salad until the bell rings.

AN: Oh my god I'm updating before three am it's a miracle! Hey I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Well if you ship Zevor you probably didn't like this too much but what can you do. By the way this is a ZenDinah fic so read with caution. I have a little plot hole to clear up. In the third chapter when I list the class schedule I forgot to add a class, so I put it in this chapter. Trevor and Z seem like the perfect couple on the outside don't they? But all those little things Z is feeling about her relationship can not be good, especially if she doesn't talk to someone about them, and why is Trevor been acting weird. What do you think is going on? Let me know in the comments or if you have any ideas you want me to use. Dinah will appear soon maybe chapter 5 or six, or I might even add a time jump so I can get into the meat of the story. Vote Comment and Share. Until next time!

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Meags