"Why don't we add it after giving it a little heat?" I rolled my eyes putting the test tubes back onto the test tube tray so shift my head towards his.

"Why don't we follow the rules instead so no one does something stupid?" I faked a smile, not even bothering to be a bit subtle about it. He mocked my careless use of sarcasm and huffed turning around turning off the Bunsen burner.

As you could tell. I haven't changed partners. No, I've tried. I really have. But my AP chemistry professor thought it would be very unnecessary to change partners during the middle of the school year, when everyone is very comfortable with their partners. He just simply forgot that Sadie Princeton works alone, and if ever worked with someone it wouldn't be with the scrape of the pot.

"Not everything has to go your way you know" He pushes into my thoughts to propel enough guilt to reconsider his ways. I admit, under normal circumstances I was a hard shell to crack, but now you could define me as a brick. I had tuned him out, but he constantly had tuned back in. Couldn't he have just left me to finish this alone? He had gotten what he wanted, but I was still striving to be top notch unlike this flea bag.

"I didn't ask for your opinion" I muttered pouring the potassium permanganate into the Sulphur solution with care an ease. I swiftly took off my gloves and chemistry goggles and grasped my notebook from the side of our desk and began observing the solution transform while jotting it all down for our lab report.

"Don't be so uptight Sadie. Let's just see and try it my way" He smothered, filching the test tubes from right in front of my eyes and applying it onto the gauze before putting it above the Bunsen burner.

Fuming I dropped my pencil with force and giving him an instant glare. "What is your deal Jaxon!?" I hollered catching his attention very quickly. He too very bemused with this sudden act of rage had had no words for it. I cut myself off, laughing bitterly.

"Wait, that's the thing about you people, you think you can just swoop up at whatever time you want thinking you can just change the rules of the game as if it were your own, completely ignoring the fact that there are people who've been playing that game much longer than you, and to them the rules are fine!"

Jaxon pulled aback, deciding my rage had come all sorts of places. The chemistry reaction had been one, but of many points that had clearly released an explosion, right here, in our AP chemistry lab. Trying to sooth me, he reached an arm first brushing his brown locks to the back of his forehead before putting it onto my shoulder.

"For the record, I never the said the rules were broken, I just think the players are a bit too stiff"

"I'm not stiff!" I protested swatting away his latex glove covered hand away from my proximity.

He smiled mocking-like and pinched the notebook I was using from under my arms.

"You're as stiff as I am Jaxon"

I scowled at him arms crossed against my chest and my goggles intact across my face saving me from bursting at him.

"Like I said, I didn't ask for your opinion. So, either you do it my way or you can go hit it with the bimbo"

He'd suddenly furrowed his eyebrows hindering his pen from reaching the paper.

"Willa? We're not even dating" He explains confused as to why I'd suddenly brought her up in the midst of our argument on chemistry guidelines.

Yet I continued to hit him with sheer bullets as my frustration against It all oozed out and I had lashed it out on Jaxon who played his own role in this whole mess.

I taunted laughing slightly against his perplexed eyes. "Why? Has she finally come to her senses that you're a phony?

He cleared his throat dropping the pen as furious as I had earlier and closed the notebook as he'd raised his finger.

"First of all, I'm not a phony" He mentions as if I needed him to tell me what he was or wasn't. It was already very clear and bold. He was a phony.

Mocking his clear misassumptions, I retrieved my pen from under his arms and quickly turned around gazing my eyes at our project instead of an enraged Jaxon.

"You're not a phony as I am unpopular" I shrug trying to giving my opinion a full stop, but he'd kept pushing against my thoughts forcing me to clarify.

"Funny" He grunted, suddenly shying down to a much more serious note.

"Anyway, I haven't found the time to ask her yet" he mentions with a nervous laugh that had escaped his lips. Question me if I'm not even the slightest bit of surprised. The schools no one-turned someone turned back to no one. He can't even ask a girl out. I had clearly known helping him was a waste of time, a for what? An English assignment? I could have bloody finished it on my own.

"And by time, you probably mean courage" I rolled my eyes observing the test tubes.

"Yes, is that bad?" He questions curiously without trying to show any concern. With a sickening look I glared at him and shuddered.

"You make me nauseous" I spoke with honesty. If I'd been Willa, I'd change schools as quick as possible.

"That isn't helping. What do you think I should actually do?"

I laughed slightly realizing he doesn't see how small I care about his problems. I smiled friendly, batted my eyelashes and reached out for his hands to slowly explain my point. Completely oblivious, Jaxon had accepted my hands and look for some piece of mind.

"Listen Jaxon I don't give a flying carp about it, at all; I don't hand out free opinions you bug. And neither am I interested in this love charades of yours. I'm not sure if I should write it for your or is reading an issue? I have an A+ to acquire for chemistry, and your love trance rambling is very sidetracking. So why don't you go somewhere else, where you can find some groupies who will listen"

He sneered. "I have no idea why I even thought you'd be of help"

"Honestly I'm asking myself the same question, but then again, I am not as dumb as you are" I shrugged mockingly to just get on his nerves.

Suddenly he'd stood silent. Having figured out maybe that I had been right and he'd been tired of trying to defend what's not true. But I had severely pushed my thoughts. I was not exactly trying to sabotage his early blooming relationship with Willa Mantle as pleasing as that had sounded, but I guess the wreckage of my own relationship had caught me off guard and wouldn't let me accept Jaxon's growing happiness in something that took me years to have formed. And funny enough, it's all because of me that he's happy. Yet I was taking it away from him again, finding it hard to give something so special who didn't know the value of it.

I didn't want Jaxon to be popular, because that wasn't his role it was mine. He didn't belong her, and even though he had only done it for here, he was still going to turn into one of us in due time. And maybe one day he'll be student body president and I won't. I couldn't let that happen, if popularity I won't have, then what is it that I will?

"Here" He spoke suddenly in a slow deep tone, passing over the heated potassium permanganate in Sulphur dioxide dilute that had changed not only color but had transformed its figure, surprising not only me, but those who sat behind us. Maybe having heated the solution wasn't all that bad. I retrieved the test tube applying the substance with a spatula against a cool rack for observation.

"Sometimes, just sometimes" He adds with his thumb and index finger near pinch position.

"You should actually listen to what people have to say. Not everyone is your enemy Sadie. And not everyone wants what you do"

He'd spoke and left class and so had other students since the bell had rung. But he'd walked out with a tint of disappointment in his face. Baffled, but pleased with the chemistry project I'd ignored his storming off and began noting down the physical changes and results, before handing it over to Mr. Gemar.

I'd been filled with fear and anxiety as I'd made it into the cafeteria. The place where division begins. The place where I'd sit beside Connor and in front of Melisa and Taylor. The place where I'd be seated into the middle of the room to be able to see drama and be drama all at once. But mostly it wouldn't feel the same. Especially ever since Connor pulled the 'we need to talk' move. It could mean so many things. He'd gotten a new gaming console and wants me to come over play. His dog had just passed away and wants me to help him burry the poor thing. He thinks we should move in together. Or he wants to break up. And I think I'd honestly chose everything but the last one.

"Sadie?" He startled me with his voice knocking me out of my thoughts.

"Connor" I smiled nervously as I'd reached our lunch table and only, he was seated. He smiled back as I pulled out my strawberry granola bar from my purse. I had absolutely no idea how to start the conversation, as the past two days without Connors beautiful words and his pearl white teeth had been dreadful, mainly because I didn't get you and Connor are so cute, get married already, get a room phrase anymore. It had adaunted me as the thought of spending high school alone and moreover losing one portion of my popularity web. And so, I went for it. I didn't care if had been to desperate, I wanted my boyfriend back.

"Listen I-

He began but I'd cut him off.

"I know what you're going to say. But I will not accept it. I love you and-

"I love you too" And suddenly my heart had warmed and my mind settled. He still loved me. He still loved me. I hadn't expected that. I didn't even think I'd deserved it, since my I love you was bland and insincere. I had an agenda, and it was for me and Connor to be the power couple once more, so I had my shield again, and smoothies at the Mall.

"So, you're not breaking up with me?" I question slightly happy with is first response. He'd swatted away his blonde strands of hair from his face, stood up quickly to take off his varsity Clarison High jacket and draped it over my shoulders.

"No. Of course not. I miss you. I miss us. And mostly your bossy attitude" He chuckled at the last phrase and I'd already squealed as he'd mentioned he was definitely over his break trauma.

"Well that's just amazing!" I smiled as he'd leaned in to kiss me, but the clearing of a throat had cut the kiss short, followed by two tow people I'd least wanted to see.

"Oh, hey Jaxon, Willa, come sit" Connor welcomes both of them to take. Seat across from us as my eyes burn glares at the couple. "What are you doing?" I whispered to Connor confused as to why he was inviting complete stranger onto our very respected table. "Don't worry I know them" He whispers back, as if that easing enough.

"Sadie this is Jaxon, he's new on the team. And you know Willa from cheer"

I forced a smile as so did Jaxon, but Willa and Connor had been too oblivious to had felt the tension arise.

"And this is my girlfriend Sadie which you probably already know because-"

"Were the it couple, the best couple in all Clarison High" I finished for him. Trying to emphasize that we were the big ones in this school, and their excuse of a relationship is but a deceitful one.

"Hello Sadie" Jaxon greeted with a wide smirk obviously thinking it had bothered me, but I had kept my cool and proved him wrong. "Jaxon" I greet, and look over to the red headed female with hazel eyes and a look that screamed I am totally not feeling any tension.

"Hello Willa"

Welcome to hell.

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