I wake up Monday morning not wanting to go to school. Like at all. I still don't have any of my thoughts figured out. I look at my clock to see it's 7:40.

SCHOOL STARTS AT 8.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.

I grab a random hoodie and pajama pants. I wash my face and throw on some mascara and put my hair in a messy bun. And not the cute little bun that takes 20 minutes to actually do. No the I haven't washed my hair in 4 days and I'm not leaving the house type of bun.

And that's how I ended up running into yearbook as the bell rings looking like absolute trash.

"You look like you got trashed last night and then woke up late, and then you ran here." Kena comments. I glare at her to let her know that I'm not in the mood. I don't feel like doing anything today because I don't have enough pictures to start editing or choosing, so I put my head down and fall asleep on the desk for the next 115 minutes. I wake up to the bell ringing, and see Kena and Maddie looking worriedly at me.

"I'm fine guys, I just didn't sleep much last night."

"Is that why you have Noah's hoodie on?" Maddie asks.

I look down and sure enough, I'm wearing Noah motherfucking Eades' hoodie. I groan.

"Fuck dude. I woke up at 7:40 this morning after breaking my alarm clock." I say.

"Okay so that's why you look like a homeless man styled you!" Kena says trying to brighten my mood. I laugh a little feeling a bit better after my nap.

We walk into bio with Mr. Hamilton who btw still hates me. I'm like the only person passing his class though so... I sit down in my spot and drop my bag down next to me putting my head back down. I'm about to fall asleep when I hear someone loudly sit down in the chair on the other side of me. I don't really care who it is so I don't bother looking up.

"Hey." the guy whispers.

Poke.

"Hey." again.

Poke.

"He-," I grab his finger and look at the boy who turns out to be Seth.

"Poke me again and I'll break all of your fingers." I threaten. He swallows knowing I'm not kidding.

"I need your guys' help." I look at him.

"Okay spit it out." I say about to put my head back down and not put up with his bullshit

"I wanna ask Maddie out." He says quickly. "Hey is that Noah's hoodie?"

My head shoots up.

"YOU'RE ASKING HER OUT?!!?" I scream not really caring who hears. "Oh my god this is amazing! You should do it after practice. Be confident she likes that about you. Oh and-,"

"Be yourself when you ask her out, she'll say yes. Just tell her you actually like her because that's the only thing she's debating with about you. Tell her something real, don't pull your usual shit." Kena cuts me off.

I nod at him because Kena's right.

"Okay. okay. I can do this. After practice." He takes a deep breath. "I can't do this what if she says no what will I do then?"

"She won't." Me and Kena answer together.

"Okay. okay." Now he's talking to himself trying to 'get his head together'.

I feel a pencil hit my back. I turn around to see Noah looking at me then his eyes drop down to his hoodie then back at me with questioning eyes. I mouth 'later' to him and put my head back down.

"Mr. Hamilton I need to use the bathroom." Noah says abruptly interrupting his lesson.

"Okay Mr. Eades make it quick." Noah walks past me subtly setting a paper down on my desk.

meet me at the bathrooms.

After a couple minutes I raise my hand. Mr. Hamilton calls on me.

"I need to go to the nurse."

"Why? You look fine."

"Thank you but that's not the point." I hear Kena snicker beside me. "I mean unless you want me to bleed all over your seat then I guess I don't have to."

He takes off his glasses and rubs the bridge of his nose. Scrunching his eyes shut.

"Go."

"Thanks Mr. H!"

"Don't call me that."

"Okay then." And with that I leave.

I walk towards the bathroom mentally preparing myself to explain why I'm wearing his hoodie to Noah.

"Hey," I hear a whisper from the janitors closet.

"Hello closet ghost," I say now walking towards the closet.

The door opens wider and I see Noah in there. He grabs my wrist and pulls me in.

"The principles walking around campus so we can't just be out in the open and I assumed you didn't want to go into the men's room so..." he trails off. "Why are you wearing my hoodie?"

"Right! Sorry I didn't mean to I'll give it back right now if you want, I just woke up late and it was the first thing I grabbed, and also hence why I look homeless."

"You can keep it."

"What?"

"The hoodie. You can keep it."

"Why?"

"It looks better on you."

"Oh um. Thanks, it's kinda cold too so if you had decided to take it back you would have to deal with a frozen Carter."

He laughs at my attempt to make the conversation lighter.

We step out of the closet and head back to class together. We walk in together not really giving a fuck. I see all the girls in this class staring at me like I'm literally the devil reincarnated.

"Why do all the girls in the whole class look like they want to murder me?" I whisper to Kena and Seth.

"You're wearing Noah Eades' hoodie AND you both left class then came back together." Seth says.

"Your their competition." Kena further explains.

"Competition?"

"For Noah."

I laugh.

"That's a joke right?"

Seth shrugs.

"Come on he doesn't even like me like that."

Seth shrugs again.

I look at Kena for help and she's looking at me like I'm stupid.

"Watch out tho. Some of these girls..." Seth shudders, "Lets just say it can get ugly."

Amazing... I have half the student body after me.

Plus the gays.

I walk into the cafeteria right next to Kena and sit at our normal table where Jake and Mads are already sitting. Jake is yelling about something which doesn't surprise me and Mads is pretending to listen.

We sit down and wait for Josh, half listening to Jake's rant.

A couple minutes later I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around to be met with Shelly standing there with her arms crossed.

"Can I help you?"

"Yeah I need to talk to you."

"Okay so talk."

"Why are you in Noah Eades' hoodie?"

"Because he gave it to me."

"No. You didn't understand. Why are YOU in Noah Eades' hoodie?"

"I think I already answered that question."

"YOU CAN'T BE IN NOAH EADES' HOODIE!"

"Quit yelling. Jesus Christ, you're going to break my eardrums. Fuck dude."

She screeches a little, throws her hands up in the air and walks away with her little minions.

"Did you just fucking defect her question?"

"Well it made her go away didn't it?"

"Why was Satan yelling?" I hear a voice behind me ask.

"Michelle? Oh she was screaming that Carter couldn't be wearing your hoodie, Noah." I turn around and see the four boys standing there slightly awkwardly.

"So y'all going to sit down somewhere or just stand there awkwardly?" Josh says sitting down in the seat next to Kena.

"Oh uh- Can we sit here."

"Sure." They all relax a little. I don't know why they thought we would say no.

Noah sits next to me, Seth next to Maddie, Dylan next to Kena, and Ollie next to Josh. Big surprise.

I hear a high pitched annoying ass laugh from the table behind us. I turn around and see Michelle and her minions sitting there. They weren't there yesterday. I make eye contact with her and she glares at me. I turn back around to the table.

"Y'all have a stalker."

"You mean Michelle?"

"No I mean the guy in the corner watching us, yes Michelle. She wasn't sitting there yesterday." I point behind me very obviously so she probably knows we're talking about her, but I don't really care.

"She kinda follows us around." Ollie explains.

"That's extremely creepy and desperate," I reply looking at all of them, and they all just shrug.

I guess she took me pointing at her as an invitation to come over to this table. She walks over trying to sway her hips, which btw isn't working, and sits down in between me and Noah. I immediately stand up grab my food and walk away. This action is followed by Noah and then the rest of the table.

"Wait Noah! Where are you going?" She asks trying to act all flirty grabbing onto his arm. I roll my eyes and keep walking.

"Away from you." He deadpans.

Thats fucking great oh my god. Seth bursts out laughing and I try to stifle my laugh but am failing miserably.

She glares at me and he finally yanks his arm out of her grasp and walks away. We all walk out of the cafeteria and then the bell rings. Kena loops her arm through mine and pulls me to gym.

Basically I hate running. And this stupid teacher that can barely jog is making us run. So I'm hiding out in the locker room showers to avoid this very situation. Kena however is out running. I texted my mom to tell her to call the school and say I had a doctors appointment or something so I get out of this but she said she's busy, so here we are. In the showers that smell like B.O. masked with a hundred different flowery perfumes.

Finally the bell rings and all the girls come flooding into the locker room and I step out of the showers and go to Kena's locker.

"Dude, he didn't even notice you weren't there. You're one lucky bitch. We're doing dodgeball on Wednesday though, so you have to come." Kena exclaims, probably mad that I got out of running.

"I'll think about it. Now we have to go watch a bunch of sweaty boys run around body checking each other!"

"Yay!" We both laugh and we head off to the back field.

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