File 2: A Relationship Begins...CRAP!

Christine collapsed onto her bed and yelled her catch phrase: I'M BORED!!! Her mom was out running errands and had taken her younger brothers Steven and Benny with her. Her best friends were all busy either out and about or cleaning their rooms.

She whipped out her cell phone and scrolled through her contacts to see who she could text. First name to catch her eye? Yep, the annoying Andrew. "Why not? I'm bored out of my mind anyway" she said to her imaginary friend Bob.

CHRISTINE: bored, whats up?

Tick tock, tick tock. Her phone alerted her as Andrew replied.

ANDREW: nothin much, same as u. bored.
CHRISTINE: yay, lets b bored 2gether!
ANDREW: lol, sure. doing nething?
CHRISTINE: nope, at the stage of boredom where im just staring at the ceiling.

ANDREW: wow, im playin video games....

Etc, etc. Ok, I won't bore you with all the details and random talk. Let's just say they talked all day, used up all their texts, and lived happily ever after. Alright? Great! Time to introduce more characters!

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Ms. Wheels held a seating chart in her hand, pointing students to their new seat. Are they good seats or bad seats? We'll see.

"Right here, Iris," she pointed Iris to a seat at a table of 5 in the front. Iris was the first at the table to arrive, so who she would be sitting with for 1-2 months was a mystery.

As she wrote down her homework, someone's binder was placed onto the desk next to her. Iris looked up to see Chris, a quiet guy she had seen a couple times around school last year but never talked to. Next, Zach sat down at the seat across from her. Zach was this year's new kid, and so far he seemed like slightly geeky, but as a contrast to Chris, talkative and happy. Diagonally, was Jack. Oh, Jack, the annoying boy Iris met last year that always talked, talked, talked. He meant well, and was very nice, but sometimes, the boy just didn't know how to shut up.

"Hey, what's up, peeps?!" Jack yelled as he sat down. Iris, Chris, and Zach exchanged glances of annoyance, with the look of being freaked out glinting in their eye. "Um..anyways...I'm guessing you're the weird guy in this school?" Zach asked. Iris and Chris sniffled a laugh at that question, while Jack seemed unoffended. "I guess you could say that " he said with a grin.

"Class," Ms. Wheels said, getting everyone's attention. "We will be reading the book WITNESS and each table group will be responsible for taking notes of one to two characters. We'll be doing a project about the book later on. You will be keeping the seats you are in now for about a month."

"Well, I guess we should-" Iris started.
"-get used to each other?" Chris replied, in a straight forward (but not rude) way.
"Hm, yeah, good idea" Iris said, smiling.

"Ok, I'm up for it, hit me!" Jack called, loudly.
Zach turned to him uncomfortably, "You mean I have to deal with this guy for a month?" he said in an amusing way. "Yep!" Jack replied. They all laughed, and Iris leaned over to give Jack a punch.

Zach seemed like a nice and funny guy, Jack was..well..JACK, and there was something about Chris that Iris liked. So the answer to my question earlier? Well, yeah, I guess our seats were good seats. Lucky Iris :D

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Lunch time. The first lunch after the ridiculous food fight that Christine, Iris, Bell, Jenny, Elise, and Andrew had taken a rain check on. For now, the atmosphere of the cafeteria seemed calm enough that they wouldn't have to worry about another food fight breaking out. Just in case, they planned another escape route.

"So, Christine" Iris started. "What'd you do during your weekend without us?" "Oh, this and that, I was pretty bored. I ended up texting Andrew most of the weekend" she replied. "O_O" everyone made a surprised face. "Andrew?" they asked, and Christine nodded. "Speak of the devil" Bell said as she pointed her chin to the table next to them where he was sitting. Sitting next to him and his friend since kindergarten, Diego? Chris.

"Well, if I didn't know any better I would've thought that you and Andrew were boyfriend and girlfriend" Iris laughed. Christine stared at her, "Hey, it's just texting and I was bored. Besides, I have my borderlines." "Sure, tell us when you start going out, ok?" Jenny said in a half kidding tone. The 5 girls continued to eat their lunches and talking randomly, as Iris snuck one last look at Chris again.
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8 o clock at night. Christine and Iris' nightly IM conversation before bed.

IRIS: phew, finished homework, dinner, shower, and everything. time to relax before bed
CHRISTINE: pff, lucky. i still have some hw im doing while multitasking
IRIS: o when u'll learn to do everything u have 2 before sitting down to have fun online
CHRISTINE: :D
CHRISTINE: o hold on, i got a txt
IRIS: k
IRIS: whos it from?
CHRISTINE: andrew
IRIS: again?
IRIS: whatd he say?
CHRISTINE: not much, just asked if i could talk to him if hes free, hes bored again
IRIS: then tell him u have a tornado list of things to do
CHRISTINE: no!
IRIS: ...waiting for u to tell me that u 2 r going out O_O
CHRISTINE: pfff not quite
IRIS: we'll c. g2g bye
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The next night, around 9 o clock.

"RING!" Iris' phone called, alerting her she had a new text. She opened the text, seeing it was from Christine, and read it slowly.

CHRISTINE:
OK, ME AND ANDREW R BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND NOW

Iris' phone fell out of her hand and hit the ground (luckily it's a carpet floor) and she screamed. Once again I ask the question, in a good way or bad way? Um...first off I was kidding about Christine and Andrew possibly starting to go out and never thought it'd become reality. Hint enough for you?