Care For You, Care For You Not

( no offense when I say popular people are snobs, I didn't mean you =). I meant the people in this story)

Chapter 1: Couldn't Care Less

As I stared out the window, looking up at the sky, I thought about everything that's been happening in my life.

Life sucks. I have no friends in my school because I think they're all jerks. I hang out with them, but I never liked any of them and I don't ever plan to.

As for the guys, I don't think much of them. Not in the school I go to. No way. They're all so immature and .. well, some of them just seem so gay.

I was still staring off into space when my alarm clock rang. I slapped my hand down on the bell and the the alarm continued to ring silently with the sound of soft thuds.

Slowly, looking slightly cranky, I got ready for school.

First period was literacy and it was my worse subject. Looking down at the stairs, I continued to walk up until I walked into something hard.

I looked up and saw Chris. He was just standing there looking down at me incredulously. Obviously, he expected me to apologize.

I pointed to the right with my thumb, which was the direction of where the other staircase was. There were two staircases and Chris was walking on the one with the sign that pointed up.

He looked surprisingly at the the right, then stared down at me again. He had this look in his face that said-or should I say yelled-, "Apologize now!."

I didn't care. I didn't need to apologize when I didn't need to. I walked to his left and continued upstairs.

"Kristine!" I turned around. Didn't see anybody but I couldn't care less.

Today was going to be a long day. Junior High is no better than Elementary school.

Throughout the whole period, all I did was play with my pen. Finally the bell rang and everyone pratically ran out of the classroom.

Honestly, I feel sorry for Ms. Larie (literacy teacher). I walked quietly down the hall on my way to the next classroom while listening to my so called friends yapping and cursing.

I studied the floor and bit my lip. It was all I could do to stop myself from slapping her. It's not because she's cursing but because she's acting like a total jerk.

I don't know how I survived through the next 2 periods. Probably because I didn't pay any attention to any of the teachers. I stood up as the bell rang for lunch.

I was hoping to walk down to the cafeteria alone. But no such luck. Katie and Danielle quickly fell in step.

I sat across from Danielle and Katie sat next to her.

"Do you think I look pretty?" Danielle asked Daniel, batting her eyelashes.

"You shouldn't think too highly of yourself," I butted into what was supposedly a start of a personal conversation.

Danielle turned to me and gave me that glare that said, "Shut up."

I smirked. It was funny seeing Danielle feel stupid. "You're conceited." I added.

She ignored me and continued to flirt with Daniel.

As we lined up to pay for our lunch, I saw that Katie's shoelace was untied. I couldn't help but snicker.

Believe me, I'm not mean or anything. It was just funny to see snobs make such huge mistakes in front of their crushes.

Oh.. I forgot to mention, Katie was flirting with Chris. Chris is supposedly the most popular guy in school.

Most girls think so, but I don't. I don't know much about him, but seriously, personaly, honestly, whatever, I think he's fit to be another snob.

I shouldn't judge, but he hangs out with all the snobs. When I say snobs, I mean the popular people. True, not all popular people are snobs, but in this school, it is.

Just after Katie took her lunch tray in her hands and took her first step, she stepped on her shoelace and tripped herself. She went smack facedown on the floor. No, I'm kidding. Not facedown, sideways. And her food was all over her, - face, clothes, hair, everywhere.

It was kinda funny. Especially the part when Chris stared at Katie like she was some kind of tall geeky klutz (Sorry if the describing is offensive. But I really don't like snobs). Katie flushed a deep red and quickly stood up. She stepped on her food and slipped again, quickly back down on her rare.

I went to the corner of the lunch table and sat down so I could eat silently, alone. But again, no such luck. Guess who came to sit next to me. Chris.

"Hey, wha ja doin?" Chris asked.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" I looked at him like he was stupid. And to make it easier for him to get the answer, I took a spoonful of corn and stuffed it in my mouth right in front of him.

Surprisingly, he didn't look surprised or taken back. Instead he laughed. Laughed!

"What's so funnY?" I asked irritably.

"Nothing, you." Chris answered with another soft laugh.

"Okay, look, there's a reason why I'm sitting here alright." I said, staring pointedly at Katie and Danielle who were both flirting with Daniel.

"I'm not Katie, I'm not Danielle." He said it like he had answered a very hard question.

"Potato, potato." (uh.. actually, those two are supposed to be pronounced differently -the a in the first potato is how you pronounce the letter a and the a in the second potato is pronouned like how you say the spanish letter a)

"Alright, stop dissing me, i'll leave." Chris said.

And then he brought his hand to my cheek. But I shook it off and glared at him.

I got up and got ready to throw away my lunch when I saw Danielle slap Katie across the face.