I walked in and all the seats were taken I recognized Brandi she was talking to some girl I sit in the front of class next to a girl, she was looking down into her lap her hair covering her face. I grabbed my phone and scrolled through my messages that Alex sent me.

“Ok students the person you're sitting next to is your partner in this project,” the teacher said I looked at the girl next to me, for a minute I thought it was Mia but I couldn't see her face.

“Your goal is to make your partner feel beautiful or handsome in a photo, that's all having fun,” he said and sat down in his chair closing his eyes.

Not a very good teacher I thought to myself

“I'm Zeke,” I said looking at the girl next to me.

“I’m Batman,” she said standing up and going over to the tables in the front of the room grabbing two cameras.

“Huh?” I ask her when she comes back.

“I'm just saying you've never seen me and Batman in the same room together” as she said that I saw it was the same thing written on her shirt.

“I'm Lindsey” She finally lifts her head up so I can see her face, she did look almost exactly like Mia.

“Are you…”

“Wait let me guess, you've met my twin sister Mia and we look exactly alike yet I'm quiet and she's, not she's beautiful and I'm not”

I Wasn't gonna say that last part actually you're very beautiful. I said I could see her tense up from here and her cheeks turned a bright red. I laughed and stood up.

“Come on let's go walk around and talk about the project. I said and we walked out of the classroom with the cameras around our necks, we walked out of I hall and outside it was sunny and warm but with a little wind.

“What is your idea of beautiful;?” I ask her

“Watching people bleed out as I sit there with a knife,” she said silence flew over us before she quietly laughed.

“I'm just kidding but to be honest I don't know” she faces me and I stare at her for a second then smiles, I know what I wanted to do.

“So I already know you're coming to the Rimes party because Brandi is making you” she was surprised I knew a brand is what I guessed by the look on her face.

“This is due tomorrow right?” I ask she nods and continues listening

“I want you tonight for the party curl your hair” I finish and smile.

“Na uh, I am not curling my hair,” she said

“Pleaseeeeee I have a really good idea,” I said, actually I got the idea from a magazine I saw on Ms. Lane's table this morning.

“Fine” she groans then smiles an evil grin she grabs my hand then pulls me into the nearest hall which was B Hall she pulled me into what was the cafeteria.

“Lean against the pole,” she said pointing at the pole next to me. I did what I was told and leaned on it. She didn't look happy so she told me to lean on it with my hand, she didn't like the either so she walked over and showed me how she wanted me to stand. I did what she showed me and leaned on it with my right hand and looked down at the ground.

“What's on your arm,” she asked after snapping the photo.

“Oh, it's a tattoo” I slowly said.

“How did you get it?” she asked walking over to me

“Prison,” I said nonchalantly on the outside but for some reason, my stomach twisted into knots when I told her that.

“Awesome!” she said, “I think tattoos, birthmarks, scars are really beautiful and cool,” She said smiling.

“You're not like anyone I've met so far, everyone at this school is scared of me,” I said looking down.

“I'm not, and seeing as you already talked to my sister neither is she” I could tell by first meeting Lindsey she was shy but she opens up once you get to know her.

“So why do I have to curl my hair,” she asks as we walk back towards the classroom.

“I saw this photo of a woman in Alex’s magazine and I'm not very creative so I'm helping that I can make you look beautiful using that photo”

“Thanks,” she said

“For what”

“For even just trying,” she said still leaving me clueless. The bell rang and Lindsey said goodbye grabbing her bag and leaving. I checked out the camera to use for tonight and left the classroom for lunch. I called Alex and he picked me up at the library since I now know where that it. I followed him out of the doors and down to the baseball fields bleachers. I recognized a lot of people on the far corner of the bleachers.

“Hey babe,” Brandi said walking down the bleachers wrapping her arms around Alex kissing him.

“Zeke, hey,” Amber said she was sitting next to Mia and Lindsey.

“Zeke meets everybody,” Mia said standing up. She went from the girls next to her listing them all of to the boy sitting in the far corner

“This is Amber, Brandy, Daisy, Jemma, Brooklyn, Lindsey, and Ashton,” She said

“Oh I see how it is forgotten about me why don't you,” Chelsi said walking up the stairs sitting next to Ashton.

“Hi,” I said quietly

“Awe Zeeky are you shy,” Chelsi said laughing.

“What's wrong with you guys you're seriously considering letting a murder sit with you at lunch,” I said

“Look Zeke you are not a murder you are a kid who saw his mother lying on the floor dead and all you can think about was revenge,” Amber said.

“Now come on let's figure out the plans for tonight,” Amber said.