The pact

When I walked into the cafeteria I saw Jessie sitting with her lunch group. She waved at me to come sit with them.
''Okay everyone, this is Luna. She's new. Luna, this is the group.'' Jessie said and I sat next to Peter, a guy with short brown hair and blue eyes. They all introduced themselves to me, even Ryan, who acted like nothing had ever happened between us. I was happy for that, after all the stories I have heard of him I knew that him being mad at me wasn't a good thing.
''So, you're the British Chick right?'' Peter asked, I noticed he moved a little bit closer to me.
''Yeah, that's me. Except if there is another British girl at this school.''
They all laughed, I didn't see what was funny.
''Oh my god, you're in my science class right?'' Miranda said, she had black hair which didn't fit her skin, so it probably wasn't her real hair colour. ''You were forced to sit next to Victor Fuentes!''
I hated that she brought Victor up. I didn't really want to talk about my weird lesson next to him. I still didn't make my mind up about him.
''Really?!'' Isabel screamed out before I could confirm it. ''Oh my god, poor you. He is so weird.''
I was going to open my mouth to say something, but they didn't give me any space to talk. It was obvious that I had to earn my spot in this group to have something to say.
''It was sooooo funny though'' Miranda said to Isabel. ''He just kept talking to her and she just kept ignoring him. Like, I felt bad for her, but it was so funny to see him try. Like, stop talking to her weirdo, she might be your lab partner, but she ain't gonna talk to you.''
The situation became more and more uncomfortable. What were they going to if they knew that I did talk to him? I saw Ryan's hands become fists and he looked like he was going to kill someone, but he didn't say anything.
I was glad that Jessie changed the subject. ''Oh my god Luna, you need to go shopping with me this Saturday!''
Of course she was only saying that because she didn't want to be seen with me wearing this clothes. I wore an extremely ugly orange blouse, so even though it was really vain of her to take me shopping with her for that reason, I understood where she was coming from.
I did need new clothes. I hated my clothes. I didn't really knew what kind of clothes I wanted but maybe I could figure it out this Saturday. I did need to make sure that I choose something my mom would accept, otherwise I would buy something I wasn't even allowed to wear.
''Yeah that's cool.'' I said and forced a smile. She smiled back.
I didn't really pay attention to the rest of the conversation. They were talking about some show I had never seen, because I never watched TV. And again, that was because of my mom. She only let me watch boring documentaries.
I looked around the cafeteria and my eyes stopped at Mike's lunch group. They were obviously talking about something they were really passionate about, because they were almost screaming at each other and they made big arm gestures.
Jaime saw me and waved at me. I smiled at him. He looked at my lunch table and he made a disgusted face, like he was saying 'Why are you sitting with them?'
I giggled. Believe me, I would've preferred sitting at his table, because the people at my table were incredibly stupid, they would believe me if I told them that the capital city of Europe was France. oh, and they used the phrase 'oh my god' way too often.

''Hey wanna walk home together again?'' Jaime said when I walked out of the school building.
I was happy to see him, I felt like he was the only one I had a connection with till now.
''Yeah, sounds great!'' I said and we started walking.
Jaime started talking about band he liked, but of course I didn't know him.
''WHAT?! How can you not know linkin park? They are like one of the best bands ever! I need to give you some music education, otherwise we can't be friends.'' He said
I laughed. ''My mom doesn't let me listen to that kind of music. She says it's bad for my mind. What kind of genre are they? Pop?''
Jaime made a throw up gesture. ''Ew, pop music sucks. You should come over at my place sometime, so I can let you listen to real music.''
''I would love that.' I said 'The only music I know is classical and to be honest I don't really like it''
We talked a few minutes about the genre that Jaime liked, which was hard rock. I had never heard a rock song before, but of course I've heard bad things about it from my mom. The way Jaime talked about his kind of music made me want to listen to it though. He told me pop music was mostly about the same kind of lame subjects and that the lyrics of rock music were about real problems which people could relate to. It sounded interesting, I was still kind of scared of listening to it though. But I realised that I needed to come out of my shell and create my own opinions about the world and not blindly follow those of my mom. Sometimes she was wrong. I didn't know what brought me to this realisation. Probably the fact that I had a chance to build a new life in America and that I wanted to do things better than I did in my old one.
After a while we fell silent and I saw my change to find out more about a subject I wanted to know his opinion on. ''Uhm, so I heard this story at school about Victor Fuentes and uhm, I wanted to know what your thoughts are about it.''
The colour drained from his face. He was quiet for a few seconds, obviously thinking about a way to express his thoughts. ''I knew the guy before the whole pact started. Not that well, but I had talked to him a few times and he seemed really nice. I don't know what happened to be honest, so I don't know if I believe Ryan's side of the story. Not that I have a choice, I heard about people being beaten up because they didn't ignore him and those weren't even the worst rumours. It's just all so mysterious. Mike also refuses to talk about it. I just don't know what to think of it to be honest.''
I was glad to hear that he wasn't sure about it either. ''Did Mike ever try to stand up for his brother?'' I asked.
''Yeah, in the beginning he did, he was only eleven back then and he saw his big brother as someone he looked up to, it was really hard for him to see Vic being treated like that. One day he suddenly didn't care about it anymore, he started ignoring him too. Me and Tony wondered what happened that made him change his mind, but he ever opened up to us about it. He has changed so much since that day and nobody exactly knows why. Do you see what I mean? The whole story is full of questions!''
He looked really worried and I patted him on the back. He shot a quick grin at me, but I saw that the subject was a really big deal for him.
''Yeah I know right! As the new girl I just don't know what to do to be honest. Ignoring someone's existence seems so harsh...and I'm his lab partner so that makes it even harder for me.''
Jaime looked up surprised. ''you're Vic's lab partner?'' He stopped walking and looked at me with a serious look.
''Yeah...'' I stopped walking too.
''I'm gonna give you some advice, Luna and please take it. Don't talk to him, it might seem harsh and maybe it is, but you don't know what Ryan and his friends are capable of, I don't want you to get hurt.'' He looked me in the eyes and the seriousness of his look scared me.
Even after what Jaime had said I still felt a weird urge to talk to Victor and to help him, and I didn't know what to do with it.

I was sitting on my bed reading when my mom came upstairs and handed me the phone without saying anything and walked out again. Oh hey mom, nice to see you too. I rolled my eyes. I brought the phone to my ear ''Hello?''
''Hey hottie. What are you wearing?'' yup, it was Casey.
''Casey! I miss you so much!'' I screamed out. I was so glad to talk to hear. She was probably the first nice person I had talked to for days. It was 3 days after I last walked home with Jaime, he has been sick at home after that. And well, he was the only person I liked out here.
''wow, I can feel the desperation through the phone, Luun. Are people from america really that awful?''
''Well no probably just the people at my school I guess, I've made some friends but I don't really like them except for one...I just miss you a lot.'' I meant it.
''Aww honey, I feel bad for you, but it's gonna be okay though.'' That's just what I needed to hear from her, I felt so alone here. I'm like an alien, everyone is different than me.
I didn't want her to worry about me though. ''It's okay, I'll be fine. I did use the tea come back though.''
''HAHAHA did you really?'' I told her the story of my first day at school.
''That's brilliant, Luun. I didn't knew you were capable of that to be honest.'' she said we kept laughing about it for minutes and we talked about other simple things.
I wanted to talk to her about the whole Victor thing, but I had no idea how to explain it to her. And let's be honest, if I wanted to get through my school years I needed to forget about it. Which was hard when you had that person as lab partner, but I didn't really have a choice.
The last three days I had science two times, but I hadn't sad a word to him. That was a good thing, but I just needed to let go of the guilt that came along with it.

Notes

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