Admiring From Afar

It was Monday morning and Cassandra was screwed. She had a test in AP Chemistry and she was already failing the class. She couldn’t afford to do poorly on the test. She decided to grab an apple and she drove to school early so that she would have a few minutes to study. She walked into the library and sat a table and opened up her textbook. After fifteen minutes of hardcore studying, the bell rang signaling that it was time to head off to her first period class, which was gym. She figured that she could afford an unprepared today. She walked up to her teacher and quickly made up a lie in her head.

“Mr. Davis, I can’t do gym today,” Cassandra said.

“And why is that, Cassandra?” Mr. Davis asked while his eyes were glued to her boobs.

“Well, you see, I just got my period and I have really really bad cramps,” Cassandra said with a painful grimace and she placed her hand on her lower stomach.

“Oh. Well, I’ll let you go this one time, but next time take something before you come to school,” he said as she walked towards the center of the gym to take attendance.

Once the teacher left, Cassandra smiled to herself. She knew that she would be able to get out of gym today. After all, Mr. Davis was an old horndog and she just so happened to be wearing a low cut shirt today. She went back to bag and took out her AP Chem textbook and started studying. Suddenly, she felt something hit her face.

“What the fuck?!” Cassandra yelled. She looked at what had hit her and saw it was a basketball.

“Sorry,” one of the guys on the court said while chuckling.

“Yeah, right,” Cassandra muttered as she moved her seat. She hated the jocks that thought that they could just walk around like they owned the place. They really pissed her off.

Thankfully, the stupid jocks knew what was good for them and didn’t hit her again for the rest of the period. She walked off to Chem somewhat prepared for her test. When she walked in she saw Jenn sitting in her seat which just so happened to be next to Cass’s.

“Hey, Jenn. So where were you all weekend? I tried making plans with you but you were always busy,” Cassandra said.

“Yeah, sorry about that. I was hanging out with Garrett. He leaves tomorrow for Arizona so I have to get as much time as I can with him,” Jenn said with a frown. “Hey, what happened to your face?”

“Fucking jocks threw a basketball at me,” Cassandra muttered. She sat down in her chair and got out a pencil. Her teacher handed out the test and she was relieved to see that it was multiple choice. She was very surprised to see that she knew almost everything on the test. She handed in her test and began doodling a picture of Jack. The class ended and then she walked off to French III. She arrived at her class room and greeted her teacher.

“Bonjour, Madame Chevalier,” Cassandra greeted. [Hello, Mrs. Chevalier]

“Bonjour, Cassandra,” Madame Chevalier said. [Hello, Cassandra]

Cassandra sat down next to Alex and started talking to him.

“So, guess who didn’t fail their Chem test?” Cassandra asked with a smile.

“You? Cass, what happened to your face?” Alex asked with a smirk.

“Some stupid douche bag hit be with a basketball,” Cassandra said with a glare.

“Hahaha, well he got you good,” Alex said while smiling.

“Avez-vous quelque chose à partager, Alexander?” Madame Chevalier asked. ?” [Do you have something to share, Alexander?]

“Non, madame,” Alex replied. [No ma’am.]

“Arrêter de parler et commencer à écouter, Alexander,” Madame Chevalier said. [Stop talking and start listening, Alexander.]

“Je suis désolé,” Alex said. [Sorry]

The teacher went on with teaching the lesson. Alex spent the whole period just staring at Cassandra while Cassandra listened to the teacher and took notes. They had to be good note since she was sure that she would have to photocopy them for Alex. The class ended and it was time for lunch. Cassandra and Alex went on the lunch lines and Cassandra got chicken fingers with fries and barbeque sauce while Alex got spaghetti and meatballs. The food at Dulaney was surprisingly good for cafeteria food. They walked over to their usual table. Cassandra sat next to Jack and Aelx sat across from them.

“Hey baby,” Jack said while hugging her. He leaned in to kiss her when he saw a big red mark on her cheek. “Whoa, what happened babe?”

“Gym class happened,” Cassandra muttered.

“Do you want to go to the nurse and get an ice pack?” Jack asked. He was ery worried for his girlfriend.

“Nah, I think I’m good,” Cassandra said with a reassuring smile. She started to dunk her chicken into the barbeque sauce and ate it. A few minutes later, Rian, Kara, and Jenn arrived with their trays of food.

“Cassandra! How can you eat that?” Jenn exclaimed.

“Like this, “ Cassandra said while shoving a piece of chicken in her mouth.
“That’s so fattening for you and it’ll give you zits all over your face,” Jenn said while pouring dressing on her salad.

“I’ll deal with them when they come,” Cassandra said while putting a fry in her mouth.
“I like it when Cass has this type of food,” Jack said with a smile, “it means that I don’t have to buy food.”

“Okay, enough food talk,” Alex said, “we need to talk about the auditions.”

“Right, I put up fliers everywhere,” Rian said.

“Good, hopefully a decent amount of kids show up,” Alex said with a smile. Jack just nodded with a smile.

“Hey, Cass-Bear, do you wanna watch the auditions with us?” Jack asked with a smile.

“Sure, I have nothing else to do,” she said with a smile.

“Awesome,” Jack said while pecking her lips.

“Gross,” Rian and Kara said in unision. Jack and Cassandra just responded by sticking out their tongues.

They discussed the auditions they were holding that afternoon some more before they headed off to their other classes.

At the end of the day Cassandra drove to pick Kelsey up to find out that she already left with her friend, Hailee. Makes my day easier. Cassandra thought to herself as she drove to Alex’s house.

“Hi Isobel,” Cassandra greeted as she walked into the Gaskarths’ home.

“Hi dear, they’re down in the garage,” she said.

“Thanks,” Cassandra replied. She walked to the garage and saw all of the boys minus Jack sitting in folding chairs.

“Hey, Cass,” Rian said from his chair. Alex got up and got a chair out for Cassie to sit on.

“Here, ya go Cass,” Alex said with a smile.

“Thanks, Alex,” Cass said. She sat down on the chair. A few minutes late Jack came running into the garage.

“Sorry,” Jack said while grabbing a chair of his own and he put it right next to Cassie’s chair.

“Hey, honey. Are you ready to hear some music?”

“Totally,” Cassandra said.

“Okay, let’s get this started,” Alex said with a smile. He went to the front of the garage and lifted the garage door. Cassandra looked out into the driveway and saw about ten people standing there with their basses ready. “Okay! Guys! We’re going to start the auditions now! Who wants to go first?”

A guy with a light blue polo and khaki cargo shorts raised his hand. Alex nodded and the guy walked into the garage and started playing. He was good, Cassandra had to admit that, but she didn’t think he was what they were looking for.

“Wow, you’re really good. What’s your name?” Rian asked nicely.

“Justin Links,” the guy said.

“Cool. Can you leave us your phone number and we’ll call you back,” Alex said with a smile.

Justin scribbled his phone number down and left.

After all of the guys and girls played their piece the boys started to talk about who they
thought was the best.

“So, I personally think that Justin kicked ass,” Jack said with a smile.

“Yeah, me too,” Rian said.

“I think that girl Lia was good,” Alex said.

“You’re only saying that because she had big boobs,” Cassandra said while rolling her
eyes.

“Whatever,” Alex said with a frown.

“Hey, is it too late to try out?” someone asked.

“Sure play away,” Alex said with a smile. Cassandra looked up to see who was playing and was very surprised.

“Stalker guy! What are you doing here?”