The lunch bell rings and everyone rushes out of the classroom, but as always our group stays behind to talk.

" So what's the plan for elf ears?" A guy from our school's basketball team asks Aubrey and me, and I can't help but cringe at the name that they have given my friend, but there was no way I was going to tell them that she was a friend of mine. I'm afraid if I did that they would do the same thing to me that they would do to poor Harley. I know, I'm a coward but if you were in the same situation I am would you do the same thing or risk everything you have worked for to save one friend from the other friends and your best friend? Whatever, it doesn't matter anyway.

Aubrey looks at me for ideas but I just shrug. I usually didn't get involved with all the pranks that my friends like to play, and even though I might be a bad person I'm not a horrible one like some of them. Let's face it everyone has a bitter side to them and some of them just like to show it by embarrassing others for their own enjoyment, but I'm not one of those people. I don't enjoy it.

Aubrey turns back to the guy and giggles. " I have an idea."

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" Ahhh!" I hear Harley scream from a nearby table. She still didn't know I was here and I wish I could keep it that way, I wish that I didn't have to deal with this. I didn't want to do this, but here I am being a little bitch not doing anything about it. I'm a sicko, but there's nothing I can do to change that. I wish I could be like Aubrey who can just brush it off and act like it never happen, but it did.

My friends decided that they were going to make their famous 'leftover lunch soup' and pour it over her head.

" That's what you deserve elf ears!" One of the girls from Aubrey's cheer team says and I scrunch up my nose at the foul smell of lunch food and milk.

I didn't want to look, I was too scared to see what was happening, so I did the only thing I could do.

I stand up and trudge out of the lunchroom not once looking back at the look of enjoyment on their faces as they embarrass my friend on her first day. She never did tell me that she was going to go here. Maybe that's what she was trying to tell me yesterday. The guilt sinks in as I walk in the halls. How could I have done this? I'm a horrible person! I'm too much of a wussy to stand up to my own friends to do anything! I'm literally nothing!

Just then I feel my face slam into what I think is a wall and lookup. It wasn't a wall, it was a person, and that person was none other than the one and only Jasper Gray. The beautiful blonde with a six-pack and gorgeous green eyes that were looking at me with an expression I couldn't really understand.

The world just hated me today, but then again I guess they have a reason why don't they? I deserve what was to come.

" Hey watch it," Jasper says to me turning around.

" I could say the same thing and probably much more, but my day is already pretty shitty and I don't want it to be any worse so have a nice day and- " as soon as I start walking off to somewhere far away from Jasper but then feel a strong grip wrap around my wrist to hold me back from going anywhere. Great.

I turn around trying to yank my arm out of his grip but sadly my strength isn't anywhere as strong as he is so I just stand there.

I don't like Jasper, not one bit. He might be my best friend's twin but that does not mean by any means that they are alike. Sure Aubrey can be a bitch sometimes but Jasper was just an ass all the time.

I swear it's just his everyday goal to make every day of my life a living hell! One time when we were in the ninth grade he put a stink bomb in my backpack and for the rest of the day I had to walk around the school smelling like a skunk, and that's not even the worst of it. I know you're probably wondering, Chloe, why don't you fight back? Well, like sister like brother...he's like the king of the school and with that also means that you can't fight back because it'll just make it worse for yourself.

The only question that is on my mind right now is why Jasper us talking to me. The dude literally hates my guts so whatever it is that he's stalling for its not good.

" Is there something else you need Jasper? Need someone to make fun of? To embarrass? Go ahead I've already seen a lot of that today." I snap at him. Jasper seems shocked by this and I roll my eyes.

" Look Jasper whatever it is I really don't care. Go ahead poor goo on my head, shove me in a locker, something, but whatever it is can you please get it over with because I'm leaving afterward."

" Did I do something?" Jasper asks in an offended tone. Oh, so the guys offended? Well, that's new.

" Seriously? Did you do something? I think the better question here is, did I do something, because I'm not sure what I did to make you think that you can stop me from going wherever I please."

" Are you on your period or something?"

" Why would you like to know that? W-will you just let me go, please?"

" Whatever, screw me for trying to ask why you are so upset. Clearly, it was just me that was making you this way so....." He tells me then starts to walk off. Usually, this would've seemed like nothing but I've already messed up a lot today, so for what I do next, better be worth it.

" Wait," I say hanging my head " Would you like to grab something to eat? With me?" I know that we're like not friends and all but I've already had to deal with a lot and probably some more today, but that's beside the point. I'm sorry I took it out on you I shouldn't have done that but I really-"

" You're paying right?" He asks with a smirk and I sigh in response. Why am I even doing this?

" Fine."

" Then what are we waiting for?"

••••

As we walk out of school I'm starting to regret inviting him. I'm going insane! What am I even doing inviting someone to have lunch with me that hates my guts while skipping school? That's it, take me to the insane asylum where I belong. Then I remember, I don't even have a car to drive to.

" I don't suppose you have a car?" I ask him with a pleading grin. Jasper gives me a big smile showing his perfect white teeth and winks at me.

" Well actually I have three, but I can only drive one at a time. It's over there." He says pointing to the direction of where it was. Looking over to where he was pointing I fell my jaw drop. The car was hideous. I was expecting it to be like an expensive Ferrari or something but no, it was just an old beat-up truck that had painting missing from various areas and dirt covering the tires and the bottom of the truck. This was nothing of any sort of what I was expecting it to be. Aubrey has such a nice car so why did he have this trash? Then again why am I judging I can't even afford a beat-up truck.

" Not what to were expecting huh?" Jasper asks as if reading my thoughts.

I nod and clamp my mouth shut from any words that shouldn't come out. It's not like I was making fun of it I was just surprised, he has three cars and he chooses to ride in this one. I'm surprised that his parents would even let him rode in it. Weird.

" I-I just didn't expect it. Aubrey had such a nice car that I thought that...."

" You thought that I would have one too? Don't get me wrong I do have a nice car but I don't use it ever."

" Why?"

" Because my parents paid for it and I didn't. I think that to get something you want you to have to work hard to get it and that's how I got Ms. Blue right here. " He says gesturing towards the truck and I smile. " I believe that there are also other people that could use the money more than us."

All of what he was saying surprised me. I thought that Jasper was the devil himself, but for once he proved me wrong.

" I never thought you were-"

" What? Nice?"

" Let's not go too far," I say and Jasper chuckles in response.

" C' mon let's go get lunch. I'm starving. "