c h a p t e r • 5

-That's my seat-

Lili's POV

I walk into literature class and sit in the back of the class, next to the window, under the a/c.

I cross my legs on the chair and bury my face in my arms on the table.

A few minutes pass by and the class begins to be filled with student and noise.

I hear footsteps walk to the table I'm at, where I'm burying my face but I ignore them.

"That's my seat." The voice which I recognise as Mr, Giraffe's voice says.

"Good for you." I mumble with my face still buried.

I hear his footsteps walk to the other side of the table and the chair metal scraping on the floor, making an irritating noise.

Ugh, great, now there's a giraffe in a leather jacket sitting next to me.

"Okay, class, today is pop quiz day!" The teacher says and I lift my head up and start paying attention.

I hate pop quizzes.

The teacher hands out the paper and lets us start.

This is easy.

I tap my pencil on the desk while thinking.

"Stop doing that." Mr. Giraffe says through gritted teeth.

"You mean this?" I say innocently, tapping the desk even faster and louder.

"You better stop, that." He warns.

"I'd rather not." I say shrugging.

He snatches the pencil from my hand and I glare at him.

"Give it back." I say. I hate loosing my stuff. Especially, if a fucking giraffe stole it from me.

"Oh, you mean this?" He asks innocently, repeating what I said earlier.

I glanced at his paper.

"Why'd you draw a giraffe on your paper?" I blurt out.

I caught him off guard and snatched the pencil back from him.

"You know-"

"Ms. Liliana Ava and Mr. Ryder Blacc. Is there something bothering you two?" Miss Jessica asks. In case you're wondering, why didn't she say my last name and not Ms. Liliana Ava De Ville? Well, my parents told them not to because I didn't want people to know. And 'cause it's really long I guess.

"Yes. Praise the Lord, this Giraffe tried copying my answers and I told him to stop but he wouldn't and he even threatened to punch me if I didn't let him." I faked a pout and pretended to look scared of him.

"I did not! She was being irritating- actually, she wanted to have a little meeting with me after class and wouldn't take no for an answer." He smirked.

That, snake with a giraffe's body.

"But- that's not what happened!" I defended.

"No need to cover it up babe." He smirks.

"Don't babe me, jerk." I hissed.

"Whatever you say, babe." He mocks me and I growl.

"Both of you! Enough! Detention after school! If both of you aren't there, detention for a month." Miss Jessica says and we glare at each other with our mouth shut.

"Giraffe." I mumble.

"Shortcake." He mumbles and we glare at each other again.

That was how it went for the whole class.

I walk to my locker to see Sam on her phone.

"Hey." I say putting my stuff into my locker which I really need to decorate. When I'm not lazy.

"Hey." She says. "I heard about what happened at the gym and last period."

I groan. "I hate that Giraffe." I mumble.

"Aww, you have nicknames for each other." She coos.

I gape at her.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I ask as we walk closer to the cafeteria.

"Ryder Black, QB bad boy, one of the hottest guys in school, closed off, only stays in the group and also, your brother's bestfriend." She explains motioning towards where Kyle, Landon and a bunch of guys are sitting at.

Including,

Mr, Giraffe.

I gape at her again.

I seem to be doing that a lot today.

"No way." I say as we got our food.

"And that's exactly where we're sitting at." She says.

"Nuh-uh." I say.

"Yuh-uh." She says pulling me towards them.

"Hey, guys." Sam says. A chorus of hey(s) came from the guys and girls.

"So this is Lili, Kyle's sister." Sam says.

"Hey." I wave a little.

Take note that Mr. Giraffe isn't paying attention to us because he was busy typing away on his phone.

Another choruses of hey(s) came from the humans on this table.

"Kyle, you didn't tell us you had such a hot sister." One of the guy's say.

"Lili?" A familiar voice says.

"Liam?" What was he doing here?

"Lili. I didn't know you were attending here." Liam says smiling.

I smiled back. "I didn't know about you too."

Ryder looks up from his phone, looks at me, glares at me and looks at his phone again.

Someone's PMS-ing.

"Hey, I'm Natasha. Nice to meet you." A nice brunette says to me.

"Nice to meet you too." I smile back.

"I'm Alex." A blonde hair guy says.

"James. James Bond." A guy with black hair and brown streaks says and I chuckle.

"Hi, James." I say amused.

"Jk. It's James Thorne." He says. I smile at him. I like this one.

Also, why is everyone on this table hot asf? Including the girls.

We all start chitchatting and at least Mr. Giraffe isn't on his phone anymore because it was annoying as hell. One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses their electronics when everyone else are being social in real life and having fun.

My phone rings and I look at the caller ID.

(Mr. Meyer)

I let it ring but mute my phone. I feel Ryder's gaze on me.

He starts texting me. Asking me to take the call.

I feel my heart clench and I try to look calm.

I should move on.

At the end, I had it. It was getting harder to ignore.

"Excuse me." I say and walk away with my phone, feeling his eyes on me.

He tries calling me again and this time I answer it when I get to my locker.

"What is it?" I ask with curiosity. "Did you guys get any leads?"

"You didn't tell me you were moving." He states.

"Now you know. Can you please answer my question?" I say.

"I'm sorry, Lili. We had to drop the case with the cause of death as commit suicide." He says sadly.

"No! He didn't! He couldn't have-" I swallow the lump in my throat.

"I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do." He says

"It's okay. It isn't your fault." I say and hang up.

I felt so frustrated and I wanted to cry!

I tugged on my hair and punched the locker next to mine, making a dent on it.

I didn't know I was that strong.

"That's my locker you know." A voice says.

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A/n: Lili sure has a past huh