god, I hate school. I look at the door that leads into my first class of the day.

Math. Great.

my hand goes out to pull the door open but someone comes up behind me and puts their hand over mine, stopping the door from opening.

I turn around and see Leo towering over me, even though I'm pretty tall, 5'10 for that matter. he's still a whole lot taller than me.

"it's a free period," he says "Mr. James is absent today and there's no substitute" I furrow my eyebrows in confusion "you didn't get the email last night?" he questions when he sees my face.

I shake my head no.

"Oh" he takes a pause " do you wanna go do something for the time being"

my eyes widen and I open my mouth to say something but he cuts me off.

"I'm not asking you out or anything if that's what your thinking" he quickly adds.

"I wasn't." does he think I would assume that?

"good, I don't want you to get the wrong idea" he shakes his head and laughs lowly.

"don't worry I won't" I let out a low laugh. I look down in between us and see that his hand is still over mine. Leo looks down at what I'm staring at and quickly retreats his hand once he notices.

"so what do you want to do," I ask breaking the silence and looking everywhere. just not at him.

"I know where. just follow me" he starts walking away and I quickly follow beside him.

we're walking alongside each other, without saying one single word. but the funny thing is. that it's not awkward. not at all. it's almost, enjoyable.

I look up at Leo and stare for a minute as we're walking. he turns his head and looks at me as well.

"How tall are you," I ask, breaking the silence. why the fuck would I say that? out of all the things I can say, I say

"6'2, I believe" he replies. I can see a small smile on his face as he says that.

"Are we almost there" I look away from him and stare ahead.

"Yeah we're practically there, you just need to climb up that" he points to something behind me. I quickly turn around and see a ladder leading up and out onto a roof.

"Yeah. definitely not" I laugh and turn to walk away. Leo lightly grabs my hand and stops me from leaving.

"it'll be okay, just trust me" he stares into my eyes, his voice is low and sincere.

"God, you are the most arrogant person I have ever met, did you know that?" I question.

"I try" he laughs "are you gonna go up or not"

I don't respond, I just slightly push him to the side, away from the ladder and climb up. the ladder slightly shakes a couple of seconds after I get on it. which I'm assuming is Leo getting on the ladder.

a couple of seconds later I get to the top and get off the ladder, Woah.

there are mountains all around us that have snow along the tops. I mean it is the end of November. so there's obviously going to be a bit of snow on them.

"See, I told you to just trust me" I turn around and see Leo getting off the ladder and walking beside me.

"what's your favourite colour" I change the topic and look away from him.

"I've told you this already" he moves a little closer to me, almost to the point where we're touching.

"you did?" I turn and look at him in confusion.

"yeah" he chuckles "the night on the bridge" he smiles and looks at me "you don't remember?"

"I remember having the conversation" I laugh "I just don't remember what we talked about"

"Oh," he coughs "well to answer your question. my favourite colour is purple"

I smile "well mine is-"

"white or red" he looks me in the eyes, "you told me this"

my eyes widen and I still. "you remembered" I say.

I'm seriously shocked.

"it's hard not to" he mutters quietly under his breath.

He's staring straight ahead not even attempting to look at me, i think of things to respond with, but i can't come up with anything good. so i simply ignore his comment.

"what's your favourite movie" i ask.

"I don't know" he lets out a breath "what's yours."

"what do you mean 'i don't know?" I question completely disregarding his question.

"It means that I don't know" he laughs. "stop asking me these questions"

"fine" i pause "you ask me questions then."

he turns and looks at me "why did you come here?"

my eyebrows furrow "you told me to follow you-" he cuts me off and looks me dead in the eyes.

"i don't mean the roof, i meant here" he pauses and looks around "the school."

my eyes widen "i don't see how that's relevant." he nods and then looks away. Leo dosent attempt to ask me the question again.

the wind starts picking up and I shiver.

God, it's cold.

I wrap my arms around myself in an attempt to get warmer.

Leo turns to me and looks me up and down "are you cold?"

I shake my head no.

"you're lying"

"I'm not"

Leo reach's to pull off his sweater, when he does his white collard shirt underneath rises slightly up his back." here take my sweater" he holds out his hands.

"it's fine, I'm not cold"

he glares at me "just take it"

"I don't need-"

"Blair" he laughs "please take the goddam sweater"

I take the sweater out of his hands and quickly put it on "thank you."

"you don't need to thank me."

I smile "aren't you going to get dress coated, you aren't wearing the uniform."

"Nope, I have my old blazer and sweater in my locker" Leo looks at me "the sweater" he clears his throat "it looks nice on you."

I wiggle my eyebrows eye my eyebrows "it does?"

"Blair" he turns his head away from me but I can still see his cheeks grow slightly red.

"are you blushing, Leo?" I laugh. then I move and stand in front of him.

he turns around and faces away from me again "I am not blushing."

"Whatever you say Leo" I shake my head and smile.

"thank you," he says sternly, or at least attempts to. I hear Leo's phone ring in his pocket. He pulls it out and looks at it and then puts it back in.

it starts to ring again a couple of seconds later "what the fuck does she want" he curses under his breath and pulls out his phone once again, this time he declines the call and puts his phone on silent.

"who's calling you?" I question. I'm curious.

"Clara" he simply responds.

"Clara jones?" I heard from a girl in our class that Clara is on again and off again. guess it's true.

"yeah" he sighs and shakes his head "god, I don't know what's she wants"

I furrow my eyebrows and look at him "aren't you guys like-" I start to say but he cuts me off.

"together? no"

now I'm confused. "what do you mean? I heard you guys hooked up at a party earlier this year"

his eyes widen "where did you hear that-" he cuts himself off "you know what, it doesn't matter" he pauses. "we did hookup" he pauses once again "more than once actually."

I throw my hands up "Leo! What the fuck! I don't need to be informed on how many times you guys hooked up" I laugh.

he shakes his head and then stops a second later "I can give you the details if you want" he wiggles his eyebrows.

I place my hand on his mouth "I'm fine!"

I can hear his muffled laughter under my hand.

his hand moves on top of mine then he lightly grabs it and pulls it away from his mouth. he checks his phone once again "second period is starting soon, we better get going" he puts his phone into his pocket. "what class do you have" he asks.

"history and then science," I say, god I hate history.

"I have a free period" he pauses "and then science"

I smile "guess I'll see you there"

"guess you will" he walks past me and then goes down the ladder, a couple of seconds after, I go down too.

history was shit, the teacher wasn't even there and we had the worst substitute.

now I have science, with Leo. if I'm being honest, I'm excited.

I walk into the classroom and see Leo sitting down in the back near the far right corner. I pull out the chair beside him and sit down "hey" I look at him.

he glances up from his book and gives me a head nod.

"What book are you reading?" I look down and try to look at the title. he looks up at me and puts a bookmark in the book and then closes it. he hands me the book and I read the small blurb on the back.

I hand the book back to him "seems interesting"

"it is" he looks back down at his book and continues reading. the teacher walks in a couple of seconds later and Leo puts his book down.

"Alright, today we're going that be doing partner work! you will be working with the person beside you!" the teacher then goes into an explanation of what we're going to be doing.

after a couple of minutes, he's done and tells us to get started. I walk away from the table and grab the supplies we need from the shelves. when I get back I see Leo preparing the tubes.

"So what do we start with?" I ask Leo. he grabs a liquid from supplies and puts it into the tube "that."

I look down at the supplies and then pick up the other liquid "now I know" I pause "we add this after" I pour in the other liquid.

"yup" he throws a pair of goggles at me "you need to put these on"

I catch them and then set them on "I look like a scientist" I look in the reflection on my phone and then set it down.

"I look like one too" Leo puts on his glasses.

my eyebrows furrow and I get an idea. "A cute scientist" I wiggle my eyebrows.

his eyes go wide and his cheeks grow slightly red again "for your information I'm not blushing, I don't blush"

"Whatever you say Leo" I grab the next liquid and mix it in.

Leo opens his mouth to say something but the door opening cuts him off.

Lewis Hart walks into the class "Mr, hart. you're late"

"My class ran late, Mr.Kelly kept us longer than expected. I'm sorry" he looks at the teacher.

she looks at him sighs "don't be late next time" she pauses "and go pick a group to work with, there's no other partner available unless you want to work alone"

he nods and turns around, he looks at me and then at Leo behind me. he smiles and then walks toward us.

"Hey Blair" he looks at me and smiles, he then looks at Leo "Leo" he nods

I look back at Leo and see him staring at him "Hart"

this is awkward.

Lewis turns his attention back on me "do you guys mind if I work with you?" I look back at Leo who has stopped staring at lewis and has started working on the assignment again.

"yeah sure," I nod. Lewis smiles "great" he walks away and then pulls an empty chair near us and sets it down beside me.

"so what are we doing" Lewis questions, he looks over the supplies and then back at me. I hand him my notes on the instructions and he reads them over.

Lewis leans over and grabs powder from the supplies adds it into the tube "I think we have to leave it for a couple of minutes now" I say and look at both of them.

Lewis nods and Leo doesn't answer.

Lewis looks at Leo "Are you excited for the game on Friday?" Lewis asks Leo.

"yeah," Leo says lowly and nods. I look at Leo in confusion, game? "what game?" I ask Leo.

"Lacrosse" Leo answers, he looks at the tube and then at me.

I can't believe that I don't know this.

"How didn't I know this," I ask Leo, and furrow my eyebrows.

"because it's your first year at this school?" he answers as if it's obvious.

"well obviously" I pause "but you were the one who never told me"

"well now you know" he grins.

"I think it's done" I hear lewis say from behind us, I look at him and then at the tube "yeah it's done" I pause "I guess now we just sit here"

"oh, Blair! I needed to ask you when you wanted to work on the art project" Lewis asks.

"is Thursday good?" I ask him.

"that's tomorrow right?" he asks and runs his hand through his hair. I nod.

"yeah that's good for me" he leans back into his chair, I look beside me and see Leo watching the exchange between us attentively"

Lewis gets up from his chair "I'll be back" he walks away and leaves the classroom.

"he's so fucking annoying" I hear Leo mumble under his breath.

"what?" I look at him confused.

"nothing" he shakes his head, looks away from me and he leans further in his seat.

a couple of minutes pass by and Lewis walks back in, and I swear that I can see Leo clench his jaw from beside me.

he walks towards us again and while he's about to sit down the bell rings.

Me and Leo both get up from our seats, "Blair do you wanna go get lunch?" Lewis asks. I look at him "ye-"I start to say but get cut off.

"Me, Blair, Rowan and Luca are actually getting lunch today sorry" I hear Leo say from behind me, I turn around and look at him confused. "you're welcome to join us though" Leo adds.

I see Lewis shake his head "Nah, it's fine" he grabs his bag "I'll see you tomorrow Blair" and with that, he walks away.

Leo starts walking out of the classroom and I follow. "what do you mean we're having lunch?" I question.

He stops walking and looks at me "you don't remember?

"Remember what?" now I'm utterly confused.

"Rowan told all of us that were skipping 4th and 5th period today" he pauses "and to go to his dorm"

"wait that's today?" I'm shocked.

"yeah," he nods.

"shit"

"We should go to his dorm now, Rowan hates when I'm late" he starts walking again and I follow. "yeah we should"

"I don't understand why we need to go to my dorm" Leo groans "because my tv is broken" Rowan shakes his head as if it's obvious.

I look over at Blake and Vivienne who don't look surprised at the fact that they're arguing.

"well then we can't watch the movie" Leo shrugs, he goes back onto his phone and then Rowan slaps it out of his hands "we are going to your dorm"

"what the fuck was that for!" Leo leans down and grabs his phone off the ground.

"we're going to your dorm" Rowan states once again. "fuck! fine! just don't throw my goddam phone on the ground!"

"thank you" Rowan smiles "and I'm sorry about that"

"Whatever you say Rowan" Leo shakes his head.

"well let's go to your dorm and watch the movie now" Rowan gets up from his bed and walks outdoor.

I look at Leo who's shaking his head laughing, Blake and Vivienne are laughing too and Luca's eyes are wide. I get up from the bed "we should follow him"

everyone nods and then we all get up and walk to Leo's dorm.

we finished watching one movie hours ago, we've now watched about 5. it's midnight and mostly everyone has fallen asleep.

Leo is sleeping on his couch, Vivienne and Rowan are sleeping on one of the spare beds, Luca is sleeping on the floor and Blake is sleeping on the bed beside me.

the tv is still on playing a movie, but it's muted now. I can the sound of wind blowing, rain falling, and leaves ruffling.

I grab the tv remote and turn off the tv, there's no way in hell that I'm waking everyone up just so that we can go to our dorms.

I pull the blanket further up so that's it's covering my waist, when I turn on my side, I face the night desk beside me, the drawer is open and I see a picture frame in there.

is that?

quietly I sit up, making sure I don't want anyone up and take a closer look.

it's a picture of Blake, Vivienne, Luca, Rowan, Leo and someone else.

Blake is standing at the far left end beside Vivienne, who's also beside Luca, Rowan is at the far end beside Leo who's standing in between someone else.

I try to look closer without taking the picture out of the drawer, the guy is wearing a green hoodie with the letter E. on the front.

I feel and hear Blake move beside me, causing me to stop looking at the picture and lie down quickly.

after a couple of seconds, she stops moving.

I find my eyes shutting. and a couple of minutes later I fall asleep.