WALKER

WALKER

"You said something?" I asked the petite girl sitting next to me.

"No." She turned to say but realizing whom it was her eyes bulged.

"So you speak?" She asked.

I picked offence, feeling insulted.

"That's supposed to be funny, because, hahahaha it's not funny." I replied.

"You can start by apologizing." I said to cover up for sounding rude.

"I already tried to, but your right hand man wouldn't let me." She said furrowing her brows and shaking her Head.

"You didn't try hard." I told her.

"Maybe if you'd said something, it'd have been better. All you did was play dumb, and look, I've coined a name for you." She told me, spiking my interest.

I laughed at the way she kept her face, her small lips, forming a pout.

"Dumb friend." She said, inciting more laughter from my end.

That was absurd, honestly. I don't think anyone has ever called me dumb, ever. Except maybe, Luke, my best friend.

"You didn't." I said, running a hand over my face.

"Found something funny, Walker?" Darius, the English teacher asked, instigating laughter from the whole class.

"There should be some kind of Thanksgiving, " I smirked, "Looks like your class might be interesting after all, Mr Darius."

My comment instigated another round of laughter from the whole class.

"Walker?" The beautiful girl looked at me, trying to confirm that was my name for certain.

"Walker." I confirmed.

I watched her frown from the corner of my eyes, wondering if I'd said something bad.

"I'm Steyn, even though you didn't ask." She told me.

Ah. I realized why she was frowning.

"Page 364." I said quietly, referring her to the textbook page, and after a while added, "Steyn."

She stretched out her hands for a handshake, but I couldn't take it. I hoped she didn't pick any offence.

I guessed wrongly.

I watched as she put her hands down, frowning slightly. She was cute when she did that, I thought.

"Stupid people everywhere." She muttered

"You said something?" I asked intentionally, getting in her face.

"Nothing that I can remember." She replied, sounding a little bit edgy.

Whatever. I thought, taking out my phone to text Luke.

"Walker- you won't believe whom I shared homeroom with.

Luke- who else? Jenner.

Walker- LMFAO. Jenner? Really? Mate, I discarded that scum moments ago.

Luke- Fucking bastard.

He sent a laughing Emoji.

Luke- you broke jenner's heart, you mean to say?

Walker- Whatever mate, you're spoiling the fun. Guess who?

Luke- She was my last guess. You tell me who?

Walker- remember the girl from earlier? The one with a nice butt and a fine face.

Luke- Waoh. Way to go mate. You talking about the girl you bumped into on purpose?

Walker- Think what you want. But yeah, it's her.

Luke- way to go walking Walker!!

Walker- you're fucking corrupt. I know what you're thinking, but it's none of it. I'm only out for the fine face

Luke- finally, something of interest in Darius's class.

Walker- thought so too. What are you up to?

Luke- Thinking of ways to get miss valerie laid

Walker- you scum!! By Miss Valerie, you mean our history teacher?

Luke- yeah man.

Walker-That shit is not gonna walk.

Luke- yeah. It can crawl.

I got stuck at some point, thinking what he meant by it'll crawl when I saw the typo. I had typed walk instead of work.

Walker- you bitch!

Luke- you'll do worse.

Walker - you need to see this.

I texted, taking an unlawful picture of Steyn sleeping and sending it to him.

Luke- she's dang pretty.

Walker- Thought so too.

I texted back, pocketing my phone.

"You've caught the Darius disease." I whispered in Steyn's ear, rousing her from sleep.

"Where's the rest of the class?" She asked, frowning a little.

"Homeroom ended in about," I stopped to look at my watch, "Five minutes ago."

"Dang!! She exclaimed, reaching for her map and running. "Why didn't you wake me? I'm late for biology class!"

I smirked in amazement. What is it with newbie's and school maps anyway?"

I slung my bag across one shoulder, and left hoping to catch up with Luke before he left for class.