Contagious Chemistry by Sian Webster (books under 200 pages TXT) 📖

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I opened the web browser and searched up my topic, which was the Aztecs, looking for good websites when my school email account opened itself up in another window. I had a message from Emily.

James wants to go to the movies tonight rather than tomorrow night because something's come up. Is that ok with you? I mean, it's not like you're gonna be the third wheel or anything, because he also said he got a friend to agree to come along.

I read through the email quickly and replied.

Yeah that'll be fine. When do I need to be there?

I hit send and clicked back into my other window for my research as Mr Mathers walked behind us. I clicked onto some random website about the Aztecs and scrolled down slowly, pretending to read the information. When he had gone, I heard Emily typing frantically and found an email in my inbox almost instantly.

The movie starts at 7:30.

I typed my reply almost as quickly as she had hers.

What movie are we gonna be seeing?

In the corner of my eye I saw Emily take out her phone and text someone. Probably James. She waited for him to reply before emailing me back.

James says that he's picking and that its a surprise.

I gave her a strange look but she didn't seem to notice.

If he chooses something stupid I'm ditching you guys. No matter how hot his friend is.

She laughed under her breath.

Hey, its your choice, my friend. Maybe he'll choose something good.

It was my turn to laugh under my breath this time.

I highly doubt that.

She gave me a death glare but didn't answer to my email. Then again, her glare was answer enough. I continued my research on the Aztecs and managed to finish my assignment just before the bell rang. Emily, Stacy and I quickly logged off our computers and hurried out of the classroom so we wouldn't get hounded by Alex and his friends. This was how it was everyday, we were always running out of every classroom we ever went in before lunch breaks so we couldn't get held up by some idiot popular boy who had a major crush on me. Sure, he was hot, but I hated him with a passion so he didn't even have that to use against me.

We were almost at our small oak tree we sat under when I tripped over a tree root which I hadn't seen in my hurry to get away from the classroom before Alex got to me. Emily and Stacy must've not noticed because they kept on running. Someone walked across my path as I fell to the ground, and I ended up unintentionally dragging them down with me. I cried out as I hit my head on another tree root that refused to stay in the ground where it belonged, and the root I had originally tripped over grazed my knee. I sat up slowly, my hand held up to my forehead as if to stop it spinning.

"I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going..."

"I'm sorry! I'm so clumsy. I'm always falling over stuff."

We spoke at the same time. I looked up at the boy who I had accidentally dragged to the floor with me and thought that maybe if I would've caught a glimpse of him before I fell, I would've fell on purpose just if it meant he would catch me. He had messy black hair which fell over his bright blue eyes, prominent cheek bones and no acne. He was looking me over too.

"It wasn't your fault, trust me. I fall over everything." I told him, leaning over to pick up my iPod that had flew out of my hand when I fell, but he beat me to it. He pressed the middle button and looked at the song.

"You listen to My Chemical Romance?" He asked curiously.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" I asked him.

"Nothing! They're basically my favourite band." He said, handing my iPod back to me.

"Well in that case, I love them - they saved my life and I want to be Ray Toro when I grow up." I told him, dragging myself up off the ground.

"You're gonna have to do something about your hair then." He pointed out as he did the same.

I thought about this for a moment. "I wanna be Ray Toro with straighter and thinner hair when I grow up, then."

He laughed a little, then his gaze travelled down to my knee. "Hey, you're bleeding,"

I followed his gaze. "I'll live."

"Are you sure? I could take you to the office if you'd like."

"I'll be fine!" I reassured him. "Grazed knees stopped hurting in primary school. Besides, you don't even know my name and you already want to play doctors and nurses."

He gave me a questioning look, as if he didn't want to be rude and ask straight out what my name was.

"Its Absidy." I told him with a smile.

"Jeremy." He returned my smile.

"Nice to meet you, Jeremy." I said, holding out my hand.

"You too," He shook it.

"I guess I'll see you round, then?"

"If you look hard enough." He said cheekily before running off. He turned back when he was about two metres away and smiled at me again before he turned and met up with his friends again, and I walked up to the little oak tree, and Emily and Stacy.

"Who's that hottie?" Emily asked excitedly.

"No one," I muttered, smiling to myself.

"Well 'no one' seems to be pretty into you!" Stacy pointed out, nudging me in the shoulder.

I laughed and looked over to where Jeremy stood with his friends. He caught my gaze and smiled before turning away. I saw one of his friends punch him in the arm, nod in my direction and start laughing with him.

Then I saw Alex.

Alex Parker, the most popular boy in school who could have any girl he wanted, looked absolutely heartbroken after seeing me, one of the most hated girls in school, with another boy.

3. Unacceptable Elevators

The rest of the day was uneventful. Alex never came up to me in any of my lessons or at second break. I found it strange actually. For a second I started to worry about him and wonder what had made him so distant, but I pushed that thought out of my head because worrying about him meant I actually cared about his feelings.

After school I went home and did my homework as usual, had dinner with my parents which was awkward as ever, before I ran back upstairs to get ready to go to the movies with Emily, James, and this mystery hottie James had picked out for me. If he wasn't good looking I'd have to have a good talk with James afterwards. I was just reapplying mascara since I hadn't done that since this morning before school, when Emily pulled up in front of my house and her car horn blared out. I grabbed my bag which had my wallet and phone in and ran down the stairs and out the front door before my parents could say I wasn't allowed to go out.

"Ready?" Emily asked me as I fastened my seatbelt.

"You bet." I laughed. "If this 'friend' of his isn't hot, I'll have to shoot James."

"Shoot James, I shoot you." She said.

"Shoot me and I'll come back and haunt you."

"That's a bit mean." She muttered.

"So is shooting me!"

"So is shooting James!"

"Hey! It'll be his fault for bringing along an ugly friend!" I told her.

"What if his friend is hot?" She asked.

"Then I won't shoot him, duh." I said cheekily as Emily pulled into a parking spot right next to the front of the cinema.

"Are you sure this isn't disabled parking, Em?"

"Yeah! Ichecked first, idiot." She told me.

"Ok! Ok! I'm only making sure you don't get a parking ticket!"

"I won't, trust me."

We got out of the car and walked into the cinema to find James waiting in line for the tickets. We skipped through and stood with him, which got us some dirty looks from other people in the line but we didn't really care.

"Hello gorgeous," He smiled, wrapping his arms around Emily's waist and kissing her lightly on the lips.

She smiled back. "How's school?"

"Boring as ever," He laughed. "Still no boyfriend, Absidy?"

"Actually, yes! He's lovely!" I told him, getting an odd look from Emily.

"Really? Can't wait to meet this guy." James said.

"Me either!" I smirked.

"...Still no boyfriend, then." He guessed.

"We'll just have to wait and see until your friend gets here." I laughed.

"He'll be here soon." He promised me as we walked into cinema 3 where the movie was being showed.

"He better be, I'm only here because I was told I wouldn't be the third wheel!"

"You won't be," James laughed, showing me the tickets. "They gave us four tickets but we'll be seperated."

"So if this friend of yours doesn't turn up I'll be a loner." I stated.

"He'll come, Absidy."

"Fine! I guess I'll have to trust you then."

"You will." He smiled and gave me my ticket. Emily and I walked in together and she sat in the seat next to me until James came in, who was waiting outside for his friend with their tickets. The lights dimmed while James was still outside, so Emily ran over to their seats to make sure no one took them and never ended up coming back. The movie had just started when my "date" joined me.

"Have a good afternoon, Absidy?"

I turned around to see Alex Parker walking down the stairs and sit next to me.

"You can't be serious." I said. "You're James' friend?"

He smiled and shrugged.

"Looks like you'll be watching this movie by yourself then." I muttered, standing up and walking out of the dark room into the second floor lobby.

"Come watch the movie, Absidy." Alex said as he fell in step with me. "Just as friends."

"Nothing with you is ever just as friends, Alex."

"Come on, Absidy. It'll be fun." He tried convincing me again.

"I didn't want to watch the movie anyway. James is never good at choosing." I told him.

"What do you wanna do then?" He asked me in earnest.

"Go home." I snapped.

"Emily gave you