The New Kid

Chapter 1

***Flash Back***

"Justin, mom and I have something to tell you." This can't be good, my parents rarely talk to me together.

"Yeah, what's up?" I try to act cool.

"So you know how I got laid off correct?" He asks me if it is true or false question. I remember the day my dad came home early almost in tears.

"Yeah I remember" I feel chocked up and I don't know why.y

"Ok so the thing is..." My mom say quietly.

"I got a new job an-" my day says but I cut him off.

"That's great! Maybe we can move out of this crappy apartment." I say happily. To tell the honest truth I really just want to go back to my algebra homework. Yeah algebra homework... I'm strange.

"Glad you think that Justin because we are moving. But" he says quickly so I don't cut him off. "But, we are moving to New York." My heart drops to the floor. We live in Texas. And I'm in 9th grade. At the end of the year.

"New-New York?" My voice comes out in a squeak.

My mom clenches her lips together and a tear forms in her eye.

"Yeah, well you get to finish off the year with your grandma. You will stay with her for the rest of May and June and one of us will come pick you up." She says twirling her thumbs. She is really leaving me here? I don't know what to say so I stand up and walk back to my geometry homework. Right triangles! My favorite! Maybe that will get my mind off things.

***Flash back over**

{Justin's POV}

I clutch my overfilled backpack as I wait for the bus. I see my neighbor outside so I know I didn't miss it. The one positive thing about the new school district is that the bus picks you up at your house. There are no bus stops.

"THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT! BOOMDIADA BOOMDIADA BOOMDIADA BOOMDIADA!" I hear a girl voice belt from somewhere down the street. I look around and see a girl about my age, maybe a little older doubled over laughing. I suspect she was the one singing right then.

Of what I can see she has one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. He eyes also sparkle when she laughs. I shake my head to myself. I can't be liking her already. I don't know her, I don't even know her name. But then again she looked so happy, everything I wasn't. She had already made me smile.

I shake it off and focus on reading my schedule.

-1 period: Earth science

-2 period: Gym

-3 period: Honors Trig

-4 period: Lunch

-5 period: Workshop

And that was just an A day, I have A,B,C, and D days.

I stuff my schedule back into my bag as the bus pulls in front of my new house and get on.

"Good Morning" The bus driver says to me happily. I do t get why every one is so happy. It is the first day of school and I am missable. I manage to nod back at him looking for an empty seat. I find an empty one near the back of the bus and sit down looking out the window.

Not 45 seconds later we pull up to the house of the girl who was singing.

She walks onto the bus and says good morning to the bus driver with a small polite smile on her face. But once she steps forward to find a seat she looks utterly terrified.

She scans the bus quickly and her eyes land on the seat next to me. She probably doesn't know that I am squished up against the window. He starts walking toward me and I don't know if I want her to sit next to me or not.

She reaches my seat in the back and looks at me surprisingly not expecting to see me sitting there.

"Can I sit with you?" She says to me in a whisper so small it's barley audible. He voice makes me speechless. Her eyes are small but theta rent looking at me so they are hard to see. I don't know why I am feeling this way already!

After a few seconds she looks up at me questionably. The second before I was about to say she could sit with me the bus starts moving with her still standing. I reach out and grab we arm and pull her into my seat as she starts to fall over.

When my skin made contact with hers it shot electrical currents up my arm.

"Yes, you can sit with me"

{Sophie's POV}

"Yes you can sit with me." The boy that is sitting down says to me after pulling me into the seat. I have never seen this boy before and I think in would have remembered.

"Thanks Frank." I mumble sarcastically to myself. Now I have to deal with the new kid. Sure I'm excited about my first day of high school but I don't like being around people I don't know.

"Th-thanks." I stutter. I don't actually have a stutter only around guys like him.

His eyes are so captivating. They are a deep brown, so brown you have to search for his pupils.

"I'm Sophia, but-but you can call me Sophie." I might as well introduce myself speaking that it's a 25 minuet bus ride.

"Beautiful name for a beautiful girl." He says quietly to me. What!? The dirt think I think of is that he is blunt and a liar. I am 153 pounds and 5'2". Not particularly beautiful material.

"Oh um thanks." I say back. I can't just leave him staring at me. I fumble with my bag to give myself a distraction. And also so he wouldn't see my face turn bright red.

He pokes me lightly on the shoulder so I would give him my attention. I look up at him and get lost in his eyes again. "I'm Justin by the way." He says to me with his head cocked to one side.

"Hey." Is all I say back. I look down at my bags finally being able to pull them onto my lap.

I avoid looking at him for a few minuets hoping he won't talk to me. I don't want to embarrass myself.

I finally look up to find him staring intently at me.

"Oh uh um sorry." He mumbles obviously embarrassed. His face flushed and it was dang hot!

"It's ok Justin." I said his name at the end to find out how it felt on my lips. It's strange but I have never meet a Justin before. Besides hearing about Justin Beiber and Justin Timberlake.

He mumbles something and turns out to face the window. Well someone was moody.

One minuet he is along me beautiful and hitting on me and the next he won't look at me. He probably noticed how ugly I actually am.

I scooted myself to the edge of the seat trying to hold back tears.