Maisie's Pov
Did I do something wrong? Was it something I said? Or am I just simply unattractive? I sat across from the gorgeous girl from earlier, whose name I had learned was Riona but preferred to go by Rio, I sat on her table surrounded by her friends, and after attempting to have a conversation with her, she stormed off with a lighter she took from the red-haired boy that looked like he was a model, he had introduced himself as Jayden but told me I could just call him Jay. I was left stunned and confused as her friends looked at me apologetically and then glanced at the cafeteria door worriedly while my cousin Beitidh looked like she was solving a puzzle and had finally found the last missing piece. To summarize, the mood had become shitty and awkward, and I felt like I had a significant role to play in fact.
Earlier
Katsumi had indeed known someone in my advanced biology class, and that's where I met Taylor Smith. He explained that he and Sumi were in Riona's friend group and he was the captain of the swim team and throughout the class, he kept giving me advice and telling people to leave me alone every time someone attempted to approach me, I seemed to stick out like a sore thumb. Someone literally walked up to me to ask me if I wanted to fuck. Still, I politely declined them even though they were attractive. Still, I couldn't stop thinking about Riona. Then after, I had advanced chemistry and economics, and I had chemistry with a guy called Santiago, who explained that he showed my brother around, and I had economics with Grant.
I thought my first day at the school was going well. Although I had gotten a few weird looks from my classmates. I was a bit uncomfortable after introducing myself to people multiple times. I could barely contain my excitement when Sumi and Taylor picked me up from my 3rd period and guided me to the cafeteria. They informed me that Riona would be at the table as she planned on bringing a new friend she had made. I assumed it was my cousin, considering they were in the same year group.
I arrived at the cafeteria, and Sumi and Taylor introduced me to all her friends. There was the linebacker Christian Andrews who I learned was Riona's best friend and who kept staring at me as if I was the solution to his problems, he had a girl on his lap, and his hand was currently fiddling with her boobs. He had a buzzcut with green highlights in his blond hair similar to his best friend, Jayden, who was currently on the basketball team and kept glancing around for someone while trying to roll a blunt. I noticed he had small tattoos on his wrist, and Ronen, who was also in my year, I was told he was an artist, but he barely spoke to me, he had a nice bulky build and brown wavy hair tied down into a man bun. He looked like he could kill a man easily, but he just sketched quietly on the table.
We left the table so I could get lunch, and Taylor followed us. As we were in the line to pay for the meal, I heard a loud noise. I noticed my cousin had burst through the doors, and beside her, dragging her along was none other than the girl that had been plaguing my thoughts all day, looking more disheveled than the last time I saw her. I quickly paid for my meal and waited for the other two to finish, and made our way back to the table. I sat down, and that's when I saw her coming. To be honest, I smelt her first, her scent seemed even stronger than before. However, it had a smokier smell, she was still dragging Beitidh, and then she plopped down on the chair in front of me and hurriedly introduced my cousin to everyone, and that's when she noticed me, the sides of her mouth curled into a snarl and her eyes seemed to narrow in disgust.
"Hi, I'm Maisie, you bumped into me earlier but I couldn't properly introduce myself" I stuck out my hand for her to shake it, but instead, she rolled her eyes at the gesture, " I find you extremely enchanting and I hoped we could get to know each other better, are you in a relation..."
Before I could finish my sentence or at least get acknowledged, her eyes widened, and her nose flared up. She grabbed her backpack she had discarded on the floor and stretched out her hand towards Jayden. He seemed to immediately understand but hesitantly reached into his bag and brought out a small black lighter in the shape of a dragon, he looked at the lighter, then looked back at her and seemed to change his mind, but she snatched it from his hand and stormed off. It was completely silent for a few seconds then her best friend Christian pushed the girl on his lap off him and hurriedly stood up and ran after her.
All that was going through my mind was that I had screwed up.
Present
To say it was awkward was an understatement. The tension in the air seemed too thick to cut " I'm so sorry for whatever I said to offend her, I'm a stranger to you guys, and I just caused you guys problems, so I apologize " Before I could continue apologizing, the guy named Ronen burst out laughing he had looked up from his sketch and had thrown his head back and seemed to be crying from laughter, I didn't know what was so funny but all a sudden every one of her friends started cackling, even Sumi was laughing into her hand, I looked and Betty for answers but she also looked utterly confused.
"What's so funny ?" I had started to get upset, were these people just jerks who laughed at others' expense? I was going to scream at them, but Taylor tapped my shoulder to grab my attention. " We're so sorry for laughing and for Rio's behavior, we're not laughing at you. I promise it's just her reaction we're laughing at" Taylor's face had turned red as he tried to rush out his words while trying not to laugh.
" I don't understand, so you're laughing because she rejected me? "
"No no no, sweetheart, of course not, and she didn't reject you, rather she's disgusted with herself, it has nothing to do with you, yet it's completely your fault but it's perfectly fine ", Sumi informed me, she smiled softly at me and rubbed my back gently in an attempt to soothe me, but her words just made me more confused and to top it all off Betty just sat back and ate a snack while looking down and smiling softly as if she had been told a precious secret. In the chaos, a tall black boy with blond dreads, a septum piercing, and black studs, wearing a black chain and a few matching bracelets and silver rings walked up to our table, he was wearing a hoodie with what I learned was the school mascot so I assumed he played some sport. He walked straight towards the small boy with red hair and effortlessly picked him up, at this time Jayden had stopped laughing and began packing all his things before hurriedly leaving the table with the dreadhead in tow.
Maisie, Ronen will like to take you to your next class and Katsumi will take your cousin Betty to hers, we'll talk more later okay? " Taylor sighed as he told me, I didn't have time to argue, I wanted answers and I planned to ask the Ronen kid for answers, considering he was the first to start laughing, I was also curious as to how Riona actually felt about me if she truly wasn't disgusted by me.
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