I stop in my tracks as soon as I hear his name. "Julian..."

"Yup, that's name." Julian says as he gives me a dashing white smile.

Easton's face grows bright read when he looks up at his dashing face. All he does for a straight minute, is stare at that smiling face until he realizes that Julian is starting to look a little uncomfortable. 

"Ah yeah um well... I'm going to head to class. So I'll see you around." As soon as I say that sentence I can feel my feet lunging forwards towards class.

"See you around?" Julian says questionably. He then turns back around and starts heading towards the office again.

As he says that I turn around slowly to see him walk into the office.

Oh god, I'm so stupid! I start to hit my head when I see my best friend, Mark, standing near my locker (which happens to be close to our homeroom). As I come closer to Mark, I notice some bruises on his face. How in the world did he get those! If I ask him he'll probably just shake it off like he always does. So I should just ignore them right now.

"Where the hell have you been shortie!" Mark says jokingly. "I was even asked by the teacher to go find you."

Mark is the type of guy who would never help a teacher out. So I figured he used this as an excuse to leave class. "Ah you know just taking a smoke break."

"Haha very funny! Now what were really doing?" Mark says sternly. 

 When I was just about to explain my boring morning, the teacher called us in. Mark gives me a look of were not done here as he turns away and walks into class. I just shrug as I shamefully walk into class. It's not everyday you see the quite kid walk into class late. I take my seat quickly as the teacher resumes the lesson.

 An hour later (right before lunch starts) Julian walks into the classroom.

"Knock, knock..." Julian says as he walks into class.

My heart starts to get faster at the sound of his voice. Why is it getting faster? I've only embarrassed my self a little bit. At least, I don't think I embarrassed myself that bad.

"Class, I would like to introduce you to our new student, Julian." The teacher says while pointing at a seat for him. 

I look up when I see a bag plop down right next to my chair. My heart starts to beat faster and faster. I look up to meet the eyes of the person sitting next to me. I start to heat up when I notice it's Julian and his ridiculous smiling face.

When all of a sudden Mark jumps out of his seat, "Yo Julian, glad to have you back!"

Back?! What does he mean by back? I look towards Mark with concern. Is he going crazy? Julian has never been in this school, or town for that matter. Just as I was about to ask Mark what kind of trick he was playing, Julian stands up and gives Mark a pat on the back.

"Thanks man that means a lot!" He says excitedly. As he turns around he mutters something under his breath. "At least you remember me..."

I look towards him as he sits down, wondering if he was talking to me. "Sorry did you say something? 

Julian looks at me surprised. "Um... no sorry."

"That's okay! I sometimes hear things when nothing was said in the first place." Damnit that was a horrible response. Now I sound like I'm going crazy! I hope he'll just ignore what I said.

Julian starts to laugh, "Your a funny kid, you know that?"

I look at his confused. What does he mean by that. Is he trying to make fun of me? No... I'm just reading to much into this. Let's just pay attention to the lesson.

A little bit later

"Pss… Easton can I borrow your notes for a second, I have no idea what's going on?" Julian looks toward me with puppy dog eyes.

I wish I could help him but I forgot my bag at home today... "Sorry Julian you'll have to ask someone else, I forgot all my supplies at home today." 

"Ah that's fine..." I notice Julian looks away for a moment a little frustrated.

Why in the word is he angry! He was the one who hasn't been here all year. It's not my fault if you don't understand what's going on!

All of a sudden, Julian looks toward me excitedly, like he just won the lottery. "Hey Easton, do you mind if I come over to your house afterschool... you know to just copy the notes down."

I look over at him stunned... I have no idea how to respond to him. First, he doesn't even know me, so how can he trust me to not be a murder or something like that. And second, how do I know if I can trust him. It's very suspicious to ask a person you just met to go over to their house. Does he really plan on murdering me?! 

As I was lost in my thoughts, Julian waits patiently for my answer. "So what do you say?"

Still stunned I look up at his smiling face. "Um... sure if you want to?" 

What the hell am I doing. My mind is saying one thing while my mouth is saying another.

"Great! I'll meet you by the gate after school." Julian says as he goes back to listening to the lesson.

What just happen?!