Joel sat in the back row of his Science class. He leaned over to Benji. "I hate biology."
"Don't we all?" The girl sitting next to him said. Her violet eyes seemed almost sad. Her brown hair was all bunched up in a very messy bun. She had things written all over her hands, in different hand writing, like 'Freak', 'Loser', 'Outcast' and 'Bite me' to name a few. She was tall for being a seventeen year old girl.
Joel had seen her around school, but he didn't know her name. She always wore long sleeves and bondage pants. He'd spoken to her once and that was when the cheerleaders took her clothes from gym and gave them to their boyfriends. Shortly after he'd given her back her clothes, Joel was attacked with Ben Gay.
The teacher, Mr Shmit, came into the class room. "Pop quiz time."
The class moaned. Joel's head fell on his desk.
The girl sighed and tried to find a pencil. She looked at Joel. "Uh, Joel, do you have an extra pencil?" She whispered.
"Yeah." He said, handing her a pencil.
She took the pencil. "Thanks." She smiled sweetly.
At lunch, Joel and Benji sat at their usual table with Billy and Paul.
"Benj, what was that girls name?"
"What girl?" He asked, poking the mystery cafeteria food with his spork.
"The girl from Bio."
"Oh, her? I think her name is something like Pazeley. That's not it, but it's something like that."
"Oh! You mean Pixley." Paul said, pushing his lunch away.
"Aren't you hungry, Paul?" Billy took a mouthful of what looked like mac and cheese and almost choked.
"My cheese moved." Paul explained.
Joel laughed at Billy who was choking on mac and cheese. Pixley tapped Joel on the shoulder. Joel turned around and smiled. "Hi, Pixley."
"Uh... Thanks for the pencil." She smiled akwardly.
"Oh, no big thing. Glad I could help."
Pixley smiled shyly and blushed ever so slightly. She turned and walked away. Joel watched her until he could no longer see her.
Benji, Billy and Paul just laughed at Joel. "What?" Joel asked.
"'Glad I could help'? Is that the best you can do?" Benji asked.
Joel rolled his eyes. "What was I s'pose to say? UH... 'Hey, go out with me?' I mean get serious." He tried to force himself to eat his lunch. He only poked at it with his knife.
The bell rang. Benji sighed and grabbed his back pack. "No dude, you're s'pose to ask her to come to our gig tonight." Joel stopped dead in his tracks. Benji turned to his brother. "Don't tell me you forgot our gig."
"OK. I won't." Joel grimmaced.
Benji hung his head. "I can't believe you forgot our gig."
"It's all Mr Shit's fault. Him and his pop quizes."
Benji laughed at Joel's nicname for their teacher.