Chapter 5 To Catch a Cool Girl

Are they serious? They're really going to transfer here? Why?! I continued to stare at them until their eyes found mine. I have to fight the urge to look away when they did.

"Alright! How about you take your seats so we could now proceed to the lesson?"

Leo smiled at the professor and nodded. I couldn't help but notice that his eyes darted to me for a second before he and the other student councils followed him. Everyone in the class followed their every step with their eyes. Giggles of excitement came from the girls whenever they pass by them.

I, for one, would have been too if I hadn't noticed that they were headed in my direction.

Oh crap. Act normal act normal. I told myself

I look up at them as Leo stopped right in front of me. I have to keep my body and eyes steady knowing that we have a crowd watching us.

"Hey." Leo smiled and raised a hand at me in greeting.

Noting all the people who were watching us, I crossed my arms over as chest and raised an eyebrow at him. All the while, mentally slapping myself for doing such a thing to Leo. With this, I heard a random girl somewhere in the classroom screaming.

"Go, Hailey!! ILOVEYOUSOMUCH!!!"

Crazy people....

Seeing that he wouldn't get a response to me, he dropped his hand to the side, but his smile never left his face as if he was already expecting this kind of reaction from me.

What have I done to deserve this!!

 He turned around and faced the professor once again. "Um, sir?"

The professor stopped writing on the board to look back at him with an eyebrow raised. "Yes, Mr. Waynard?"

"My fellow student council members would like to sit with Ms. Hailey. Is that okay?"

I'm pretty sure that my eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets at that time and I was thankful that all eyes were on Leo as he said it. Our professor's mouth hang open. 

"I'm pretty sure that it would be possible if your classmates would allow it." At that moment, I would really like nothing but to give our professor a look saying: 'I know what you did. You're passing this responsibility to your students you coward.'

And of course, I'm pretty sure that, with my popular rank as the cool girl, no student who is seated near me will comply with their wish. I mean, not that I am boasting, but who wouldn't want to sit beside me? The cool girl? 

But as soon as our professor said it, the people seated near me; front, back, to my right, and diagonally to my right, beamed brightly at them and vacated the seats willingly. 

"Here, Leo! Take mine!"

"Over here, Xander!!"

"You can take my seat, miss Sandy."

"Oh my, Sheeeeenn!!! Take my seat! I insist!!"

Sheen had a sweet and flirty smile on his face as he winked at the girl. "Well thank you, love." 

WHAT!?! How can this be? They weren’t supposed to sit beside me!! And my ex-seatmates shouldn't have left!! They were supposed to say no!! 

TRAITORS!!!!!!!!

I watched in horror, well at least that's what I'm doing in my mind, as the student councils thank my traitorous and unworthy classmates. After that, they all took their respected seats near me. Sandy sitting to my right(insisting that she wanted to sit next to me and fought Leo for it.), Sheen sitting diagonally to my right and just in front of Sandy, Leo in front of me, and…

...Wait, why do I feel someone starring a whole at the back of my head?

I suddenly felt a shiver ran down my spine. I gulped and twisted my head a little to look behind me. And sure enough, I saw the person who was drilling a hole at me.

Seated behind me was none other than Xander. His eyes were cold and hard as he looked at me. Since I was still in my cool girl form, I managed to counter it with my own cold stare as if it didn't bother me. 

Suddenly, the coldness in his eyes disappeared when the girl beside him said 'hi'. His facial feature became more friendly and there was a smile on his face that makes me doubt that he was the only one making such a murderous look at me earlier.

What the heck? Why did he give me that look? Wasn't he suppose to have a friendly face to everyone?? Why am I an exception to that?? Freaky bipolar dude......

But going to the matter at hand, I took note of the situation that I'm in. I'm trapped. Does this mean that I did all that escaping thingy that I did earlier for nothing? I fought the urge to bury my head in my hands. If I do that then I would be showing weakness, not to mention that it would affect my cool image. 

My eyes darted around me. While the teacher was busy writing on the board, Sandy took that opportunity was trying to have a conversation with me."Hey there, Hailey. How's it going? You know, I really think your awesome, not that you already didn't know. Would you like to be friends?"

Instead of answering her, I decided to shift my gaze to the other two SC's who were in front of me. Sheen was flirting with the girl beside him and the girl laughs at something that he had said. 

Then my eyes darted towards Leo, who was the only one among the SC who wasn't chatting with anyone and was busy taking down notes. Handsome, diligent, and smart. Who wouldn't like him, right? Behind my cool girl mask, I was gazing at him dreamily. 

Hmmm.....I guess having them here has some perks. Now I can watch him all day. Not in a creepy way, mind you. Just creepily in my mind. 

Oh, wait. Shouldn't I start panicking that they're here with me? Oh gosh. I'm starting to become bipolar as well.

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When we had our break, I was lucky enough to have avoided them and managed to come back just in time as the bell rang and our next teacher came. But now, on our lunch break, I wasn't that lucky.

As soon the bell for our lunch break came, I couldn't help but notice them getting up rather quickly and blocked my escape by pretending to fix their table when, in fact, they were using it as a cage by making a circle of it around me. They did it so simply that our classmates didn't noticed what they were doing as they headed out of the room. I looked back at the door where the last student, besides us, just exited before I looked back at the student councils's faces once again.

"Look, Miss Hailey. We just want to-"

Before Leo can finish his sentence, I quickly grabbed my bag and hopped on to the table, jump down, and made a quick run towards the door, but just before I could run away, someone grabbed my arms and turned me around. It was Xander.

The action completely cut me off guard that, on instinct, I kneed him in the gut. Making him loosen his grip on me. He sank to the ground and muttered a few curses as he clutched his stomach. The rest of his friends quickly ran to him to help. 

I blink a few times before I realize what I had done. I just kneed Xander in the gut. As soon as it dawned on me, it was as if half of my cool girl act vanished. I was left there standing while feeling pity, horror, and regret over what I had done to Xander.

"Yo, Xander. Are you okay man?" Sheen asked as he and Leo helped him up.

"Yeah. I'm fine." He managed to croak out. Once he was finally settled on his feet, his eyes met mine and immediately, one of his eyebrows raised.

I was still in a daze of the horror of my doing that I didn't notice Sandy sneaking up on me and grabbing me by the shoulder. "I got her!" She announced happily and snapping me back to my current situation.

"What the? Let go of me." I said as I tried to shook her off. Normally, I would have escaped from her grasped by pushing her back, but since I was a bit shaken by the whole 'kneeing in the gut thing' I became more gentle considering that Sandy is a girl.

But I immediately regretted that decision when the boys started to join Sandy to hold me. Wait a minute! 4 against 1?! That doesn't seem fair!!

"Hold still, love." Said Sheen when he was almost hit by my shoulder from struggling.

"Let's get her out of the room. Quickly!" Leo ordered. Then as a team, Xander and Sheen pulled me by the arm, Leo pushing by back to help move me forward, and Sandy opening the door for us. I basically didn't resist going out of the room. In fact, I wanted to leave this room immediately. I'm just pretending to struggle so they wouldn't know of my plan to escape.

But once we got out, all thoughts of escaping and running quickly fled when I saw how crowded the hallway was. And I mentally did a face palm and reminding myself that it was lunch break. Of course you'll find the hallway crowded with students coming out of their class.

"Don't even try to run." Leo whispered behind me. He was so close to my ear that I could feel his breath coming down on my neck. I could feel my face starting to heat up and I was thanking my lucky stars that he was behind me and couldn't see my face right. "If you do, you'll have to go through them. We just want to talk so please, come with us quietly." He gave me a gentle push.

Seeing as how I have no other choice, I decided to just go with it. Well as long as I'm going where Leo's going.

As we walked, I started to notice that we were attracting the attention of the students who we're passing by. Their eyes would go from me to the student councils. Some seemed really amazed and excited while the others have a confused look on their faces - probably wondering what the cool girl was doing hanging around with the student councils.

Well that's a good question! Even I don't know what I'm doing here walking with them. They're probably gonna throw me in a sack and toss me into a river for discovering their secrets. If that's the case then....BEHOLD!! This will be the last time that wou guys will ever see such a fine and good looking creature as me walking in the school hallway!! Better take pictures as some sort of remembrance.

I looked around me to see if there was any chance of me escaping. Sandy at my front, Sheen to my left, Xander to my right, and Leo at my back.

Nope. No escape. Just like in the classroom.

They then lead me to an oh so familiar room. One which I never wanted to see after I brought Patrik here, a.k.a Xander's little brother. Call me over dramatic but as soon as they opened the door, I was seeing all fire and red and someone was giving off an evil laugh.

I gulped.

They stopped and Xander and Sheen lead me to a couch while Leo close the door behind us and Sandy going to their handy dandy mini kitchen. Probably to get something for us to eat.

After that, Leo, Xander, and Sheen sat at the couch opposite of mine and I sat up straight, not wanting them to notice how nervous I was. In front of me, Xander was giving me a scrutinizing gaze in which I have to fight the urge to shrink back into the sofa. Leo was slouching with his head rested on the back of the sofa. Sheen? Well I kind of assume that he was flirting on his phone judging by the smirk on his lips. 

What a playboy.

Since I was too afraid to look at Xander and too shy to stare at Leo, I decided to stare at Sheen instead. 

He flipped his hair and licked his lips while typing on his iPhone. I frowned at him. He better not be messing with a poor girl on the other line.

As if finally noticing my stare, Sheen's head perked up and he met my gaze. Once our eyes was locked that's when I looked at him without blinking. A look that makes everyone, even the bullies, cower. And judging by how Sheen reacted, I can say that it still live by it's name. Sheen's lips trembled and he sunk lower in his seat and shielding his eyes by inching closer to Leo. Leo raised an eyebrow at him in confusion - probably wondering why he was acting that way. I bit the side of my cheek to keep myself from laughing.

"Sorry to keep you waiting! I made some tea and prepared the cookies that I brought. Help yourselves!!" Sandy announced gleefully and placed a tray to the table in front of us. There was a teapot and 5 cups sitting on the tray. To the side was a plate full of chocolate chip cookies. I looked up again to the student council kids on the other couch, including Sandy, and thought about how spoiled they are for having an apartment-like room for themselves as their SC room.

"Sheen? What happened to you?" Sandy asked once she took a seat beside him. "You look like you've seen Death."

"Uhh....no. Don't mind me." Sheen murmured and I pursed my lips. 

Sandy just stared at Sheen in confusion before she decided to serve the tea herself since no one made a move to pour themselves a cup of tea. She handed one to Xander, Leo, and Sheen before handing on to me. At first, I thought about not accepting it, but that would just be rude. Not to mention how that would make her feel. When I reached out to take the cup, I couldn't help but notice Xander's gaze following the gesture. I quickly ignored him as I nodded a thank you to Sandy.

"So." I said and sat up straight while balancing a cup of tea on my lap. Their eyes suddenly shifted in my direction as I spoke. "Would you council members care to explain why you were following me?" I managed to ask and mentally patted myself on the back for keeping a straight face and character as I spoke.

Leo took a sip of his tea before placing it back down on the coffee table. "Well, it's basically about keeping our secrets-"

"I already told you that I won't tell anyone. It's not my style to gossip." I cut him off.

"Well yes." He agreed. "But we just wanted to take extra precaution. This type of secret isn't a simple matter."

I managed to roll my eyes at him. Yes, I rolled my eyes at Leo. It happens. After all, I'm letting my other side, the cool one, take over. "What do you want me to do then? Sign a paper binding my silence? Make an oath?"

"Join the student council."