I place the gift and bag of stuff on the coffee table as I go into the living room.

"What did he want?" I hear and turn to see Astor leaning in the door frame to the living room.

"Clarissa asked him to bring me some meds and soup and stuff." I shrug, not telling him what Chris said.

"Oh. Ok." He nods and looks at the clock. "We better go. We only have 20 minutes to get to the school." He grabs his keys and his bag and I do the same. I grab my coffee mug and pour it into a tervis before heading out the door and locking the house up.

"Are we taking both cars or just yours?" I put my keys in my bag.

"We can just take mine. I'll drop you off after school." He goes over and opens the passenger door for me. I smile in thanks and get in, setting my bag in between my feet. A few seconds later, the driver door open and Astor climbs in after throwing his bag in the back seat.

"Thank you."

"For what?" He glances at me as he's driving, curiosity all over his face.

"For everything. For taking care of me." I lean over and peck his cheek.

"No problem, princess." I see a slight blush creeping on his cheeks and start to tease him but stop myself. I don't want to be a mood killer.

"Thank you, too." He smiles and carries on before I ask. "For everything."

Even though I have no idea what he means by that, I just smile at him as he reaches over. He takes a hold of my hand. Intertwining out fingers, he places our hands between us. Our hands stay that way all the way to school. He parks the car in student parking and walks around the car and opens my car.

"Ever the gentleman." I smirk at him and he returns it. Helping me down from the tall truck, he grabs onto my waist to steady me. I start to blush but he stops it by grabbing my book bag. Putting it on backwards, so it's like he's pregnant, he grabs my hand. After closeing the door behind me, and locking it, he leads the way into school. People start to stare as we walk by, gawking at our intertwined hands.

"What's he doing with her?"

"Are they a thing?"

"Ew. He's with that thing again."

The last one comes from Anna who steps in front of me, all her minions in tow.

"Awe, is miss fake-ass-barbie jealous?" I turn around and see Claire, Abby, and Nick glaring at Anna. They got my back.

"Excuse me?" Anna fumes.

"You heard them, you two faced, fake ass, plastic Barbie." I let go of Astor's hand and step forward. Her glare turns to me.

"Oh no you didn't." She snaps.

"Oh yes, I did." I smirk and barely see her hand flying up till it's an inch in front of me. I whip my hand out and grab her wrist. Thank God for my fast reflexes.

"If you ever, and I mean EVER raise your hand to be again, little Barbie doll, I WILL kick your ass. Is that understood?" I get into her face, each word containing more venom as I go on. She looks shock for a few seconds before putting on her fake smile.

"Girl, I don't even think you could beat a babies ass, what with how small you are." She tries to pull her hand away but I keep hold of it, gripping tighter. Her eyes widen, the only proof she will show of how scared she is.

"Don't underestimate me, bitch. Because when you do, I'll be there waiting to beat the living daylights out if you." I let go of her wrist with a push and she stumbles into the people behind her. I finally notice that the whole hallway had stopped to watch. Hell, even my drama teacher is watching! And she's not doing anything! If anything, she's proud of me!

"Don't you all have somewhere to be?!" I hear from behind me and see Astor glaring at everyone around. People scatter in all directions. Weather they are scared of me or Astor, I'm not sure.

"That was.... Wow..." Claire and Abby gasp and stare at me in shock. Nick doesn't look the smallest bit surprised.

"I knew you would do it eventually." He shrugs, as if he could read my thoughts.

"Your boyfriend seems lost without you," Claire whispers in my ear as she and Abby give me a hug before heading to class. "He's proud of you. Go." She nudges me alittle before all three of them take off to class.

I stumble into Astor and he uses his arms to steady me.

"I think I'm a bad influence on you." Is the first thing out of his mouth. I burst out into a fit of giggles and he looks at me, confused.

"I think quite the opposite." I giggle.

"Maybe, maybe not." He smiles and grabs my hand.

"Rebecca?" He gets all serious and I look at him, my smile fading slightly.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" The only show of fear I see is in his eyes. He's scared I will reject him.

"Yes, I will be your girlfriend." I launch myself at him and pull him into a hug. "Of course I will be." I lean up and press a kiss to his soft, pink lips.

"Thank you, for everything." He leans his head against mine and whispers.

"You're most certainly welcome." I smile.

He smiles back at me and I can't help but to giggle.

Oh mom.... If only you could see me now....

Next update will be here in a few days. Maybe a week.

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•Marissa