Chapter 4

I turned my lock to the right then to the left and then to the right again. A click was heard after I turned the combination and I opened my locker. I jumped when Riley screamed, "Hey!" I turned around and did a sort of you-scared-me-to-death-why? Face.  

"Hey!" I said back sarcastically.  

She ignored me and continued talking, "After school there's track practice..." I stared at her for what seemed along time trying to figure out what she's up to. She completely ignored me again, "Anyways, Jared has track," she raised her eyebrows as if she was trying to make something obvious.  

"Jared..." I stared at her, "the one...who...I-"  

I looked at her as if she was out of this world. "What are you talking about?" I told her. "Haven't I told you about the-" then her face lit up. "I need you to keep a secret," she whispered.  

I took my math workbook and science textbook from my locker and locked it with the lock. I turned back at her, "Sure. Tell me,"  

She pushed me to the closest corner and then turned left and right to see if anyone would hear. "You know Jared?" she whispered. When she said 'Jared' she relaxed a little bit. She almost looked like she was going to faint, but then she got focused and got all stiff again. "Of course you know him, Jared, right? Everybody does." She said happily. "But I just got here, I don't know who he is," I said but then I noticed something suspicious, whenever she said his name, "I get it now," I sort of chuckled, "you like him!" I whispered. "Yeah, I do" she started to day dream. I tapped her shoulder to get her back on planet earth. "So, do you want to go with me?" she asked. I nodded my head. "Great!" she left to go to science.  

Right at the corner of the hall Riley stopped and yelled, "Meet me at the gym after school." Then she kept walking. 

At lunch I looked over at Wes he was sitting all by himself. He looked like a loner. I felt bad. "What if we sat with Wes?" I asked Riley.

"Yeah, I don't think--"

"C'mon he looks lonely."

"Uhh...no!" 

I got up and she couldnt refuse. She followed me  towards Wes's table. "Hey," I looked at him, "is it okay to sit with you?"

He had a smile on his face but then he looked at Riley, besides me, and then he looked down at the table. "Uhhh no."

"But why--" Riley didnt even let me finish and pulled me away.

"See I guess he likes being a loner."

"I was just trying to help him."

I met Riley at the spot she said she would wait. By the time I went to the gym Riley was already waiting for me. "What took you so long?" "Ummm... nothing I just took my time to get here that's all." She didn't look completely convinced, but she didn't complain about it. She walked me out of the gym and onto the track. I followed her into the bleachers trying to figure out who Jared was.  

Once we sat down I heard the coach say, "Okay, you guys you got to make this the best record yet," he positioned his hands into fists, "we've got to win nationals!"  

"Yeah!" they all screamed. The coach took out his clip board and took attendance. When he was taking role I decided to look around the bleachers. I saw a couple of other girls also watching them with their expensive photo camera. Then I saw one of the dark strawberry's friends from the cafeteria yesterday, walking in. She carefully took a seat in one of the front rows. She lightly dusted off the dust on the bleacher before sitting down. She then screamed, "Go Mark!" she clapped her hands like a little baby.  

"Who's Mark?" I asked Riley. 

"He's Lucy's boyfriend or at least that's what's rumored." I looked out the track and recognized a familiar face. Riley tapped my shoulder, "Look, look, look it's Jared!" 

"Which one?"  

"The one next to the blonde." She pointed to a guy that had tannish skin and a sort of good-looking face. I noticed that they look like the perfect match.  

I heard Lucy scream again, "Go Mark!" and this time Mark waved back to her. He was the blonde next to Jared. "On your marks," the coach raised his hand, "get set, GO!" he blew his whistle.  

The runners ran like a speed of light especially-... Wes! Wes is in track?  "Hey, um, I didn't know Wes was in track." "Yeah, he is. I saw him the first time I came here, but didn't know if he still was in track." She said totally focused on Jared. No wonder he was running fast yesterday in P.E. 

"That's why I'm asking you!" I said.  

"Well, I've never noticed because I was busy watching..."  

"Watching Jared or should I say stalking Jared." I said.  

"I'm not stalking him." She said laughing a little bit.  

"OH-huh." I said focusing back on the runners especially at, Wes.

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Sorry the chapter was shorter but I'll keep working on it. Hope you enjoyeed! Comments......