• tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab Chapter 3

    tab Finally after class ended Alice quickly got out of her seat. She rushed to the door not even hearing Taylor call her name. Even if she did hear her name she would have ignored it. Alice followed the river of students to her locker and got some books. Once she closed the door her heart began to race.
    tab "You know I called after you, right?" Taylor asked, looking into her eyes.
    tab "S-sorry, I didn't hear you." she hugged her books to her chest, embrassed.
    tab "Well, anyways, I have something to ask you after school. Would you mind waiting for me at the front door?"
    tab "Oh! Um... sorry but I have somewhere to go after school." Alice looked down at her feet.
    tab "Okay, then how about some other time?" he leaned against the locker beside her's.
    tab Suddenly, Alice felt stares on her. She began to hear whispers from some upperclassman. Alice never liked attention so she tried to avoided it at all costs. Just like in the class room she hated having every one's eyes on her.
    tab "Um, I can't, sorry," she noticed Amy coming down the hall and smiled in her direction.
    tab Taylor noticed the sudden smile and looked in the direction Alice was gazing in. "Why?" He brought her attention back to him. His eyes were locked with hers.
    tab "Oh, uh," she tired to look away but couldn't, "it's just that I have to get going."
    tab "Alice, come on or we'll going to be late." Amy looked over to Taylor, finally noticing him, "Hey, you're the guy who help Alice this morning, aren't you?"
    tab Taylor was about to speak but Alice jumped in before he could answer her question, "Yes, he is, Amy. I was thanking him just now." she turned back to him and smiled her usual smile.
    tab "Is that so..." Amy sensed something amiss but ignored it, "So what class do you have next?" Both of Amy and Alice's eyes fall upon him.
    tab He pulled out his class card and looked. "Um, Mrs. Bostic for math."
    tab They both stared at him then said at the same time, "That's our class!"
    tab "Come on we'll show you where it is. Don't worry, leave it to us." Amy grabbed his wrist and dragged him in the direction of the classroom.
    tab Alice felt invisible to her friend. Amy had completly forgotton her, leaving her alone. Then the warning bell rang and Alice snapped out of her trance, gathering her books and bag. She rushed down the hall to the class but then remembered her hair.
    tab Not wanting to draw anymore attention to herself she ran to the restroom before one of the teachers noticed her in the empty hall. When in the restroom she grabbed the brush out of her bag and ran it through her hair. She looked in the mirror at herself. She kept stareing at her refelction forgetting all about her messed up hair.
    tab Alice didn't stop looking at herself. She felt something. Something that didn't make any sense in her looks. "What is wrong with me?" she looked down covering her right eye.
    tab In the silence she began to hear footsteps. At first she thought she was just going crazy but they grew heavier and louder. Then, finally, she broke out of her trance once more and hide in one of the stalls.
    tab "Is anyone in here?!" the teacher opened the door and yelled. Seeing no one in the mirrors the door slammed close and Alice was safe.
    tab Climbing off the toliet Alice checked her watch for the time and seeing how there was only half-an-hour of class left, she decided to wait it out in the bath room.
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    tab "Hey,Amy," Taylor whispered.
    tab "Yeah?" she leaned a little closer to him.
    tab "Where's Alice?" he looked around the class room.
    tab "Don't know..." Amy said sounding a little dissappointed. "We'll probably meet up with her a lunch, so don't worry 'bout her."
    tab "Okay," he didn't believe her though.
    tab Taylor looked down at his note book. Something was poking out at the top but he pushed it in, not wanting any one to see it. Unfortuatly, out of the corner of her eye Amy saw what he did. And everyone knew that Amy was one of the nosist people you could ever meet.
    tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab To Be Continued...