Emma's POV

Brendon looked at me then at Levi, and his jaw clenched.

I could see his hands forming into fists, I exhale calmly and said bye to Levi. He looked confused but I gave him an assuring look so he said bye and left to his car and drove off.

I'm glad he didn't ask any questions, but I'm sure he will later on.

"Hey," I say as if nothing happened. "Was that Levi?" He asks, raising his eyebrow.

"Hello to you too and yeah that was Levi," I say calmly walking to my front door and unlocking it. "What were your doing with him?" Brendon asked coming inside my house without even asking.

"We are partners for a project," I say shrugging. "You picked him to be your partner?" He says, crossing his arms. "No, the teacher made us write out names on paper and he put the names in a bowl and yeah, why are you acting like I just committed a crime?" I ask, crossing my arms over my chest.

"I'm just asking because you know he is like one of the worst players at the school," Brendon said.

Like your not.

"How do you know," I ask. "He is the most popular guy. Everyone talks about him" Brendon says.

"I don't believe in rumors, so whatever, he is still my project partner and it isn't my fault," I say.

I'm still quite pissed about yesterday, the fact that he didn't even bring it up until now. "Where were you yesterday?" Brendon asked, sitting at the kitchen island.

"At school, where do you think," I say."No, after, when you..left my house" he says, looking down at the table. "I came home, where would I go?"I say.

"But I ran after you and came to your house, Becky said you weren't home and she thought you were with me. "Brendon says. "Well, I took the bus and stopped at a few stations after the station near my house, so I had to walk," I say, sitting down as well.

"Wait why didn't you get off in the station nearest to your house?" Brendon suddenly asks after a few seconds of silence."Because I wanted to," I say, getting quite annoyed by all the questions.

Just then someone walked into the house and looked at me and Brendon. It was Becky. She glares at Brendon then came to us, she looked at me and I think she got a hint that I was annoyed.

"Brendon, I need to talk with Emma, and its private, so like is it okay if you could finish whatever you guys were talking about another time?" Becky says, trying to be as polite as possible, if I hadn't been here, Brendon wouldn't be alive right now.

Brendon looks at me and then at Becky."But- well yeah sure, we can talk later," Brendon said, sighing and got up and walked to the door, he turned to face me, waved and left the house.

We stayed quiet until we heard Brendon's motorcycle roar, and when the sound of his motorcycle slowly faded, Becky pulled me to the stairs then we walked up and into my room.

"What was that about?" Becky asked as she closed the door behind her. "I don't know, Levi dropped me off and Brendon was here at the front door and yeah, Levi left and then yeah," I say shrugging.

"Well, thankfully I came back at the right time girl," Becky said, falling onto my bed." yeah thanks," I say sitting down next to her and grabbing a book.

Suddenly Becky snatched the book out of my hand and shook her head, while I just glared at her."I want to read, give it back" I said, trying to grab my book back but she got off the bed before I tried to.

I groaned, "Fine," I say. She came back and sat on the bed."Oh yeah, Eric is coming over during winter break!" I say, remembering all of a sudden.

"Wait- Oh yeah your right, damn I miss him, how long has it been?" Becky says, grinning.

"A year. He came last winter too, remember? But it still felt like it was years ago." I say, rolling my eyes.

"Exactly, I can't wait till he comes back for the winter break," she said, excitedly.

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The rest of the week was full of revision lessons, I avoided Brendon as much as possible, thankfully he bunked most of physics and chemistry classes, I couldn't help but get a feeling that he was avoiding me too.

The past week, I've been thinking and what I realized was that I never really had a crush on Brendon. I just thought he was attractive, but of course, that's exactly what makes him a fuckboy, he is a player, he messes with girls' feelings, I hate that.

The bell suddenly rang, interrupting my thoughts, I gathered my books and got up to leave the class, while walking to my locker, I put my books in my locker and suddenly heard a voice sobbing in the janitor's closet nearby.

I looked around, and saw people just walking and talking to their friends, it was obvious that they were aware of the sobbing sounds, but of course, they didn't care and walked on.

I shut my locker and walked towards the closet and opened it, I walked in and flicked the lights on.

For a moment I regretted coming in.

I saw Mackenzie sitting on the floor with her knees brought up to her chest and her arms wrapped around her knees.

She was crying. And in the janitor's closet, I know how she absolutely hated this place because of its so 'disgusting', 'not clean' and stuff.

She suddenly looked up and her face turned red, her eyes narrowed as she glared at me."A-are you okay?" I ask, taking a step forward.

"Your too stupid to be a nerd, and no obviously I'm not, why the hell do you care anyways," She said in her usual mean aggressive tone while rolling her eyes.

I was kind of hurt by her little comment but I pushed the thoughts aside and focused on what is the 'right' thing to do.

"What's wrong?" was the first thing that came into my mind.

Mackenzie's eyes suddenly watered up a bit more. She stared at the floor then suddenly glared at me again."Why do you want to know, huh? You want to know what happened so you can go tell the whole school about what happened and try to make my life more miserable then it already is?" Mackenzie spat out, getting up from the ground.

I was just trying to help jeez. Plus, I wasn't the one making your life miserable. It was the other way round.

"Mack-" Mackenzie pushed me out of the way and walked out of the closet and slamming the door behind me before I could continue.

I sighed and stared up at the ceiling for a few minutes and finally walked out of the janitor's closet and looked around, no one was around, which meant I was late for class.

I started running to my photography class. When I got in front of the door, I let out a sigh and pulled my hair to tighten my ponytail and walked into the class, causing everyone's eyes to land on me, making me feel nervous, I started to fidget around with the ends of my shirt.

The teacher glared at me "Why you late?" he said, putting down his board market on his desk." I- was um...I couldn't find my notebook?" I say, it sounded more like a question to me, but I guess the excuse was good enough for the teacher he just waved me off to go to my seat.

I looked around and Levi waved at me, patting the seat next to him, I walked slowly to his seat, while a lot of girls gave me nasty looks and glares.

When I finally got to the table Levi was sitting at, I took a seat next to him and took out my notebook and a purple pen.

"Hi," Levi said, while I opened my notebook to take down the notes. "Hey," I answered, putting my pen down. "what happened the other day...after I left?" He says, referring to when Brendon came over to my house.

"Oh, nothing he left really soon afterwards," I say shrugging. Levi nodded, opening his mouth to say something but then closes it.

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School ended and I was walking out of the girls' locker room because I just had Gym. I was tired and was craving a donut from Dunkin Donuts and some hot chocolate.

I walked down the empty hallways when I suddenly heard someone call me from a distance behind me.

I turn around to find Brendon running towards me.

This is going to suck.

"Emma, wait I need to talk to you," he said, as he stood in front of me, breathing heavily, from the running.

This already sucked, I wanted the conversation to end.

"Yeah, what do you want to talk about?" I ask as if I don't even know what he is gonna say.

"It's not what you thought you saw," he says, referring to the day I caught him making out with Mackenzie.

"Hm wait let me think, oh yeah, when I walked into your room and found you making out with Mackenzie? I think it's exactly what I thought I saw." I say, crossing my arms.

Why am I acting like he cheated on me or something?

"Well, it's your life I don't care who you kiss, just why Mackenzie?" I say, making him sigh.

" I didn't really- she came like a minute before you did and she was the one who kissed me, I didn't tell her to come over either, I'm sorry," Brendon said.

I didn't care anymore, but I was willing to give him a second chance.

"Why are you apologizing?" I ask, trying to keep the conversation casual and not awkward. "I'm saying sorry because I want to tell you that I'm on your side, not Mackenzie, don't think I betrayed you and went with her..." He said, his words trailing off when his phone started to ring.

He fished his phone out of his pocket and looked at the screen then looked up at me. " Sorry, I really need to take this," he mumbled. " Its fine, I got to go anyways," I say.

"So are we cool?" He asked, before answering the call," Yeah, sure" I say, then waved and walked away.

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Finally, home sweet home.

I'm tired and wanted to sleep. I dragged myself to the stairs and plopped down on my bed. At school, I thought I was going to fall asleep the second I laid down but I ended up rolling and tossing around the bed, not being able to sleep.

Soon I finally gave up trying to take a freaking nap and went downstairs for some food. Becky was watching the tv so I went and sat with her.

When she saw me. She instantly turned off the tv and gave me a serious look. "Um..what's wrong?" I asked, getting a weird feeling something isn't right.

"You won't like what I'm about to tell you Emma.." Becky says, fidgeting around with the hem of her sleeves."Just spit it out already Becky." I say, rolling my eyes. She is probably exaggerating about whatever is happening.

"He is coming back, Emma," Becky said, biting her bottom lip.

"Who?" I ask, not knowing what the hell she was talking about.

"J-Jesse. Jesse is coming back here and he is coming to school again" Becky says hesitating between each word.

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Heyyyyy guys, so who would this mysterious guy named Jesse be????? *wiggles eyebrows while sipping tea- wait, cross that out, sipping on...anything but tea, since I'm not a fan of tea*

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