When the ice melts

Chapter 3

Samantha’s P.O.V.

Wow, what the hell has just happened? I have never seen a girl as beautiful as this one! Well, I am pretty sure she is the most beautiful human being walking on this Earth! Wait, Sam chill, please...

Her eyes. Oh boy, you should’ve seen her eyes! Her piercing eyes. They were gold at one moment then blue, after that completely grey!? That’s insane! You probably think I am the insane one, even I thought that for a moment. I thought I’m losing my f*****g mind! But no! I swear, it really happened. They changed color!

I think I will remember the moment we met for a long time, and I don’t even know why. Why am I acting like this? Why am I talking like this about her? Why on Earth am I even thinking about her? But that moment when our eyes met when our hands touched... I thought I would die! Her smile, oh god! Her smile is perfect! Like everything about her. LITERALLY!

The last hour has finally finished, and I was walking with Ana and Emili out of the building. Damn, how much I missed Elena! I can’t even talk properly with these two. We are going to meet boys next to the front door and wait for Mia to meet us with the new girl. Great, just another new student here. I rolled my eyes at that thought. She will probably be in our “popular” group and I’ll need to pretend to like her. Ugh! Ana can’t stop talking about her and she didn’t even meet her, oh god. We left the building and the boys were there. They greeted us and then Jon comes with his bullshit. “Do you think she is hot?” we all know who he was talking about. I rolled my eyes again.

“Mia said she is!” Ana said excitedly. I leaned on the wall of the school’s building, shadow was covering my face and I closed my eyes. As so-called Ice queen (stupid thing, I know. My name is Samantha Mett, can’t they just call me that for god’s sake?) I don’t care about what they are going to talk about. I have so many things going through my mind. My family is the richest one in the USA and the second richest in the world. Yup, that’s me. I have always had a good life. Well, I have a good life but I am not good, at all. Not anymore. I have wounds, a lot of them. But they are invisible and they are the kind that hurts the most. I go to one of the best high schools in New York (which is mine btw) and have some friends. I actually never wanted a lot of friends. Even if I wanted I probably wouldn’t get them because people are “scared” of me. The only person I can completely trust is Elena, and now she isn’t here. Great! Mia, Ana, and Emili are really good persons too, but I don’t have that freedom with them like I have with Elena. I have never shown my emotions in front of them. People here know me as the Ice queen because of that. I turned my emotion off. Literally! I build walls around myself and I have a good reason for that. No one has ever broken my walls... Yet. And I am sure no one will. I just… don’t care about people. Well, I do about some, okay.

I’m the captain of the school’s cheerleader team. Dance relaxes me. Maybe that’s one of the rare times when I smile, maybe fake but smile is still a smile, right? Emili and Elena are part of it too. Elena is my co-captain. Mia and Ana are volleyball players and they are pretty good! Don’t get me wrong, I care about my friends, I don’t have many of them but these four are something else. They are idiots sometimes but I can handle that. I don’t show them that I love them by physical touch or even saying that to their face, I just do it with actions, and I hope they know they mean a lot to me.

I have never had a boyfriend. I don’t even want to. I don’t want to connect with someone in that type of way, you know, sometimes I don’t even think I can. I can’t let someone in. I feel like I am not capable of love.

People used to say I am beautiful, but I think beauty is inside of someone. And please tell me how can someone be beautiful if they are so f*****g ugly inside? Guys would always hit on me when I was a normal teenage girl, but that time has passed. Now they are scared to even look at me. But it’s not like I care.

Ana's voice brought me out of my thoughts. "Why are you acting like that when you are so f*****g perfect?” she asked.

I gave her a confused look and then rolled my eyes. “No one is perfect,” I said coldly.

At that moment I heard “Ain't My fault” of Zara Larsson playing somewhere. I looked in front of me and saw one girl parking a car near us. Everyone turned around to see who it was. I couldn’t see her well because of all the people who were there. She parked not so far from us and then climbed out.

That’s the moment when I laid my eyes on the most beautiful girl I have ever seen! Her long black hair going down her back. Black skinny jeans and a red blouse. She took something from passenger seat still music playing loudly.

“I can’t talk right now, I’m looking and I like what I’m seeing

Got me feeling kinda shocked right now

Could’ve stopped right now, even if I wanted

Gotta get it, get it, get it, while it’s hot right now

Oh my god, what is this?

Want you all in my business

Baby, I insist, please don’t blame me for whatever happens next”

This part of a song that played right now was explaining how I felt when she runs her hand through her beautiful long, black hair and took the red beanie which says “Bad hair day” and put it on. What the hell! She was so freaking beautiful! Oh god! The music turned off. She looked around and noticed that everyone, literally everyone was staring at her with their mouth wide open.

Ana gasped when the girl looked our way. Then she smiled! Guys were speechless like everyone else. I was pretty sure she couldn’t see me because the shadow was hiding my face.

“Do you remember when I said no one is perfect?” I asked. No one even bothered to turn around and look at me, they just nodded. “Well forget that s**t, because this girl is f*****g perfect!” I said and they turned with a shocked expression on their faces.

“It’s true!” Ana said. “I really need to know this girl.” I took another glance at mysterious girl and she was now casually leaning on her car with her arms crossed over her chest.

Every guy and girl was looking at her, and at that moment Mia ran through the front door. Girl seemed to see her so she took few steps toward us when Mia jumped on her wrapping her arms and legs around girl. I looked at them, they both crying while kissing each other. It was so adorable! They were like sisters. But I couldn’t watch it anymore, so I went inside. After some time I saw she reject Jon and I smiled at that. I think she is the only girl that rejected Jon! Ever! Mia introduced her with our friends and I went outside to meet the girl myself.

Oh god, her voice! Melody for my ears, the most beautiful sound I have ever heard! When our eyes met I died for a moment. When our hands touched I felt like they were meant to hold each other. Oh, what the hell am I talking about!?

Maybe I won’t need to pretend to like this new girl...

Now we are waiting outside for her and Mia to come back from Principal. Everyone (except Jon of course) are here waiting for them.

“I really can’t believe I met such a beautiful girl!” said Emili.

“I know right! Plus she seems to be really kind.” Ana added without blinking.

“Well, lucky you! You will spend more time with her than us.” Emili said with a sad smile. Oh, she is bi! Bisexual!

“Do you really already have a crush on her, Emili? Like seriously?” I asked and rolled my eyes. She blushed slightly. “Well... Umm...”

“Whatever,” I said coldly not wanting to hear it.

“But seriously Sam you have to admit it, she is hot,” said Ana. I rolled my eyes again and couldn’t even answer because Emili said “And we all saw how these guys were looking at her. Not just guys, girls too! I can bet that even half of the school or even more already have a crush on her!” It was Tom’s time to roll his eyes.

“Girls, just chill okay? You both will meet her because she is the best friend of my girl. And I am pretty sure we are going on lunch now with her.”

What? Lunch with her? Now? Oh my god!

“Seriously?” they both asked in unison, they were so excited.

Tom smiled “Yep!”

Oh god, oh god! Wait... Why am I even so excited?

“Did you all come to school in your car?” Tom asked. It was weird of him to ask this.

“I did,” said Ana. “Same” answered Emili quickly.

“What about you, Sam?” he asked.

“Me too,” I said lazily.

“Eh, too bad then,” he said with a devilish smile. I had a confused expression on my face.

“What do you mean?” asked Ana like she was reading my mind.

“Well if you didn’t, you would probably drive with Dušica when we leave for lunch,” he said casually leaning on Mia’s car. “You are f*****g kidding me right?” Ana gasped.

“No, I am not!” he said. “Because I come to school with Jon today, I will drive Mia’s car while she’ll be with her friend.”

“f**k!” cursed Emili. It was really weird to hear her do that because she never curses.

“Do you guys even know how to pronounce her name?” asked Tom. Well, to be honest, I don’t.

“I heard Mia saying that all the time so I remembered it. Well, I hope it’s good. I wouldn’t like her to think it’s so complicated for me...” Ana mumbled. “We’ll just ask her to teach us,” said Emili.

Yeah, I can already see how annoying they are going to be! Poor girl!

Dušica P.O.V.

After meeting Mia’s friends we went to see the principal. The building inside was amazing!

“Do you like it?” Mia asked in clear Serbian.

“Yeah, it’s amazing,” I said with a smile and looked at her. “I missed you so much, you know that?”

“I missed you too, love!” she said and pulled me into her. She hugged tightly. I was enjoying her smell. It was the same as I remembered.

“Come on, the principal is waiting for us,” she said and pulled away.

“You are on edge of crying! Again...” I said while watching her face.

“Oh shut up!” she said and punched my arm playfully.

“Ouch! That hurts!”

“Oh my god! Sorry!”

“I was kidding Mia” I giggled but it still was so cute!

“You are such an i***t!”

“Yeah, I am. But you love this idiot.” I smirked.

“Nah... don’t be so confident.”

We both laughed. I was thinking about Sam. Maybe I should ask Mia to tell me something about her.

“Mia?”

“Hmm?”

“Who is that Sam girl?” I watched how her expression changed.

“Well, don’t mess with her. She is so-called Ice queen of this school.” she rolled her eyes.

“What do you mean?” I was confused.

“Well, she has never shown her emotion to anyone, except to her best friend. Ever! She is so cold to people. She barely laughs or smiles. Even if she does, it’s all fake! Everyone here is afraid of her. She is also the queen Bee.”

“Wait, but why are people afraid of her?”

“She is the daughter of the richest couple in the USA and she has that power to expel anyone from this school just with one simple call. Also, did you see her eyes?” oh yes I did! They were the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen! I got lost in them. They were blue like the sea and they were shining.

“People are afraid to look her in the eyes because they are afraid of it.” she giggled then looked at me “I would be more afraid of yours!” I blushed slightly and she laughed even more.

“You are not funny!” I said and pushed her playfully.

“Oh, yes I am!” and then we both laughed.

After two more minutes, we came in front of a big black door.

“Here we are,” she said. “Should I come with you or?”

“Yes, you should! You are my best friend and I want you by my side.”

“Chill, Dušica, it’s not like he is going to kill you” she rolled her eyes.

“I am not sure anymore!” I smiled as she giggled.

I knocked two times and heard faint “come in”

I opened the door and Mia and I walked in. I saw a man around his forty writing something down. He has black hair and green eyes. Next to him was standing some woman about my age. She had long, brown hair and she looked so beautiful. Is she a student?

Anyway, no one of them bothered to look at us. I guess this woman was waiting for him to give her the paper. I gave Mia a confused look and she just rolled her eyes. Then the man finished his writing and looked at the woman next to him.

“Here Ms. Smith, this is your schedule for this new student, so like I said she was one of the best in London so I am pretty sure she won’t have any problem with your classes,” he said and gave the woman papers. Wow, she was my teacher?

“We are here, by the way,” Mia said and laughed a little. I smiled at how careless my best friend is.

They both looked at us with their eyes wide open and jaws almost touching the floor. I wanted to laugh so badly. I looked over at Mia who was biting her bottom lip to stop her from laughing.

I couldn’t stop myself, I let out one low chuckle and not long after Mia joined me. Man and woman looked at each other. Then the principal get up from his chair and walked around his table to stand in front of us. He looked at me and tilted his head.

“Are you sure you are in the right place?”

I gave him a confused look and he just smiled which made me even more confused. “I mean, casting for Victoria’s Secrets isn’t here.”

Um, unprofessional much? But anyway I felt how heath raised to my face and I really didn’t know what to say.

“Oh, yeah I know sir,” Mia said and we all looked at her. She had that big grin on her face. “But I just wanted to meet my friend with you and then I’ll go there. I’m sure they are waiting for me!” she winked to me and we all laughed. “Hey, I was serious!” she groaned.

“Oh, we know you were.” Man said. God, he even pretended to wipe his fake tears away. Wow, this guy was pretty cool. He looked at me again and said. “Anyway, I’m glad to finally meet you Ms. Nikolić,” he said and I gave my best to stop myself from laughing at how he pronounce my last name.

He saw my expression and chuckled “You can laugh if you want because I know I pronounced it wrong.” and right then like on cue Mia started laughing like crazy.

I looked over at her and saw her holding her tummy.

“I am so sorry sir,” she said after she calmed down. “But that was hilarious!”

“Oh, I know I am funny Mia.” then he looked at me and held out his hand while saying “I’m principal of this school, Mr. Nicolson.”

I took his hand immediately and shook it. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Nicolson. I’m Dušica, Dušica Nikolić.” I said with the best smile I could manage.

“Oh, so that’s how you pronounce that!”

“Yes, sir!” I said with a smile.

He looked over to the woman next to his chair where he was sitting when we came in. I almost forgot she was there. I looked at her as well and then she smiled. Aww her smile is so cute!

“Oh, I almost forgot!” he said with an apologetic look. “This is your new favorite teacher!”

Wait... What? Teacher? Seriously dude? I smiled while she rolled her eyes.

“Ms. Smith, your English teacher,” she said while holding her hand to shake it.

Her voice was so beautiful. I took her hand and looked her directly in the beautiful forest green eyes.

“Nice to meet you, ma’am,” I said and couldn’t decide should I say what was on my mind but I decided to tell it anyway. “I need to be honest, when we come in I thought you were a student.” here, I said it.

I saw her blushing and heard Mia and principal giggle. I giggled as well!

“Well, yeah! She is pretty young and this is her first year teaching so I hope you won’t give her any troubles.” said principle and eyed me.

“You shouldn’t worry about that, sir!” I said with a big smile.

He smiled back at me and walked around his table and sit in his chair. “You two may sit down” he motioned us to sit on chair and couch on another side of the table. Mia hurried and sat on chair. I rolled my eyes and sat on the couch. “You, Ms. Smith can stay with us and meet our new student more or you can go if you have something else to do,” he said and looked at the brown-haired woman next to him.

She bit her lip like she was debating with herself what to do. Then she looked over at me and sighed. “I can stay” she gave me a warm smile and came to sit next to me. Oh god!

“So, Dušica I heard you were one of the best students back in England, right?” I blushed and they chuckled.

“Yes, I guess that’s true”

“That’s great! Also, I heard that you are a really good volleyball player,” he said with a big smile on his face.

I smiled too, just mention of volleyball can make me smile.

“Really good?” asked Mia with confused expressions on her face. We all looked at her. She was glaring Mr. Nicolson and then she looked back at me and smile. “She is literally the best! I swear I have never seen anyone play as good as she!” I bushed even more.

Oh my, I am pretty sure I looked like a tomato! Screw you, Mia!

“Well that’s great, we need one more player before the league starts. So, your first day is on Monday and here’s your schedule,” he said and gave me my schedule, and I look at it, I have the same classes every day and that was so cool.

1. Math

2. English

3. P.E.

Lunch

I frowned at the fact that I will start my day with math but it still was great.

“This is great!” I said with a smile.

“You will be with Mia in every class by the way. I did that so you wouldn’t feel lonely but now I see that would be your last problem!” he chuckled. “Also you have forth class too, but you need to pick what will that be. That’s some of the languages.”

“Which languages are there?” I asked because I speak ten.

“Well, we have French, Spanish and Italian,” he said.

“Oh god, seriously?” I asked and sigh. He looked at me with a confused expression.

“What’s the problem?”

“Well... I speak all of them actually. I just hoped I will have the opportunity to learn some new language.”

His, and Ms. Smith’s jaws were on the floor. Once again. I looked over at Mia who was fighting with herself to not burst out laughing! I rolled my eyes and she put one hand over her mouth.

“You speak all of the mentioned?” asked my English teacher. I looked at her and nodded.

“Yes, I speak ten languages. That’s what is expected of you when you are Nikolić.” I said and shrugged.

They just looked at each other. And didn’t know what to say. It passed a few moments and the principal decided to speak again

“Well, that’s impressive! I guess you will need to pick the one you love the most then,” he said and gave me apologetic smile.

“Then, that’s French!” I said happily.

“Then we finished this. So every day you will have four classes and after that you have volleyball practice, starting on Monday. Well, they need to pick you to play for our team and you’ll show them what you can do on Monday. If you get in, and I don’t doubt it after what Mia said, you start with practice every day after your fourth class and weekend at 7 in the morning.” Mia and I both groaned and he and Ms. Smith just giggled. “Oh and also, girls you will be together with cheerleaders. I hope you don’t mind it but you will have a practice together every day. They will be with you every game this year. And I hope we will get trophy this time!” I smiled at how positive this guy was.

“Oh don’t worry about that sir.” said Mia “With Dušica by our side we will win every game! I promise you that”

“Wow, you are so confident!” woman next to me said.

“Hey, I just believe in my best friend!” said Mia and winked. We all laughed.

“I hope so!” said principal and smiled warmly at us.

“Anyway, I guess you are tired of your trip and I won’t bother you anymore. You may go,” he said and smiled once again. I smiled too.

“Thank you so much for everything!” I said and Mia and I got up. Ms. Smith got up as well.

“I should go too Mr. Nicolas.”

“No problem! See you on Monday Dušica,” he said while we were leaving.

“Goodbye!” tree of us said in unison.

When Mia closed the door we all laughed. It was funny how I laughed with my teacher right now.

“So, Dušica” she started “If you need help about anything you can count on me” she put her hand on my shoulder and smiled. I smiled back

“Thank you so much! It means a lot!”

“I’ll leave you two now” as she said that she went on another side of the hallway. I looked at her way little more then I should and I heard Mia speaking on Serbian again.

“I thought we will never left that room!” she breathed out and I laughed.

“Same! Oh my god, this man is so funny to talk to!”

“Yeah, I know right!”

“Oh, by the way, this English teacher... Umm, how old is she?”

“She is 23! The first day she came I thought she is a student too!”

“Well she looks like one,” I said with a smile. “Mia?”

“Yes?”

“Do you think I will be accepted in the team?” I was kinda nervous.

She stopped walking and I realized that just when I was about three meters in front of her. I turned and saw her staring at me like I was the stupidest person ever!

“What?”

“Do you really think they won’t accept you? I mean, damn girl, you are the best!”

“But-” I tried to speak just to be interrupted by her.

“No ifs, buts or ands! You will be in, I know that. Come on now” she said and walked towards me. “Guys wait for us outside, we are going to get some lunch!”

“Oh god, I forgot they are waiting for us!” I said and remembered that Sam is there too. And just like that, I got excited! What the hell is going on with me? I hope I will find out soon.