Chapter Eleven

Juniper

Lunch had begun and I was dressed back in my uniforms as I walked into the cafeteria hoping to run into Jasmine. I immediately spotted her standing by the doors as I walked towards her with a smile on my face.

“Hey” I greeted

“Where have you been?” She asked sounding slightly nervous.

“Sorry I had to change out my gym clothes” I answered as her eyes drifted down to my uniforms which seemed to relax her.

“Oh okay, c’mon let’s go eat” she said as she dragged me towards the lunch line.

The cafeteria was open and really nice, students ate and mingled with their friends. I noticed a particular table in the middle that was really large and I wondered why it was built differently from others.

Jasmine and I picked our food and made a way to one of the tables but my eyes wouldn’t stop drifting to the really large table that sat in the middle of the cafeteria.

“So how was gym class?” Jasmine asked as she took her seat taking a bite out of her sandwich.

“It was interesting” I said not really wanting to talk about my interactions with the Daleton boys. If she knew that I spoke to them she’ll freak out and probably be disappointed about me breaking my promise to her.

Almost immediately the atmosphere became really charged up with murmurs and star struck whispers.

“They’re here” jasmine said turning her attention to the double doors.

“Who’s here?”

“The Daleton boys” she said with a slight shiver making me turn my attention to the doors to find them all standing together with blank expressions on their faces. My eyes met with grayson’s and he gave a raised eyebrow to that causing me to immediately look away.

They all made their way to the large table which sat in the middle of the cafeteria seeming to walk in sync and I realized that that was their table. No one else sat there apart from them and probably a few of their friends from their clique. Archer looked like he was searching for someone because his eyes kept on roaming around the cafeteria.

When his eyes met mine I gave a small smile as I watched the corner of his lips lift up. Some students noticed this and started murmuring wondering about why he was smiling at me. Thankfully Jasmine was still focused on her phone and hadn’t noticed what was happening if not she’d start to freak out.

Their table started to fill up as most of their friends joined in to sit with them. I kept on feeling the stares of someone and I turned to look and notice that it was Grayson. I held his stare even giving him a little smile annoyed at his weird way of noticing me which shook him off a bit.

Guess I’m not the only one intrigued.

I looked over at Archer as he waved for me to come over to his table. I immediately shook my head refusing his offer turning my attention to Jasmine who was thankfully still on her phone and hadn’t noticed anything yet.

I’d really hate to freak her out with this, she’s my only friend here. It’d hurt to lose her company. His friends all wondered who he wouldn’t stop waving over and their eyes suddenly found me and immediately the attention was on me making me break out in cold sweats.

I looked over at archer who didn’t seem like he was giving up on getting me to sit with them, his eyes suddenly turned mischievous and a sly smirk grew on the sides of his lips. He had a look that seemed like he was going to do something really crazy.