My Rivals Daughter

Chapter Six

I arrived at school and saw Valerie and Kate. As I was walking up Kate waved at me causing Valerie to turn. With a big smile on her face she runs up to me. "Hey! Dude! You won't believe what happened to Kate and I this morning!!" Then Val paused for dramatic effect. I chuckled and asked, "what?" She can't stop smiling when she says the next thing that has me stunned.

"So Kate and I were standing there where you saw us and the Seattle group walks up to us and asked us how we were. We talked for a bit and one of the guys, a total hottie, asked about you!"

Dumbfounded I asked, "ME?!" With an unintentional squeak coming out.

Val laughs and says "YES! YOU!!"

I look over at Kate who has a smile on her face as wide as Valerie's. "I think they were impressed the way you handled yourself yesterday with Ella."

"What exactly did they ask about me?"

"Just what your name was, how long you lived here, where you're from.. that sort of thing." Hmm, curious. As I stood there thinking about it I look up at Val staring at me and I say "huh?"

"I said, he wants you to go by during lunch so they can meet and talk to you." She said with excitement in her tone.

"They?"I pause. "As in..the whole group?"

The girls both nod in unison. I didn't really know how to feel about that. I wasn't trying to be humiliated like Ella yesterday. The bell rang just then which gave me an out to giving Val an answer right away. We all turned and walked up the stairs to the school and as I entered the building and walked through the halls I saw them, all staring at me some with smiles on their faces. I turned away. Val and Kate walk to their first period while I walked to my locker to quickly grab my Geometry book before the second bell and saw Ashley standing at her locker next to mine.

"Hey Ashley! Good morning!"

She turns and smiles at me. "Hey. Good morning. You got Geometry with Kendall right?" I look at my schedule and nod yes. "Wanna sit next to me? I don't really understand this stuff and I may need your help."

"Of course!" She smiles at me and says she'd see me in class. I take out my english book from my bag and put it in the locker so i can put my Geometry book in the bag when I feel someone come up beside me.

"Hey Katherine." I look over and see one of the Seattle boys standing next to me with a smile plastered over his perfectly chiseled face.

"It's Kat." I say a bit annoyed at the use of my full name. "And you are?"

"Asher. Pleasure to meet you." He says extending his hand which I take and shake.

"I'm sure. So I hear your asking about me." I say taking back my hand and turning to my locker to close up before heading to class.

"You don't waste time do you?" He stated with an amused look on his face as he leaned against my locker after I close it.

"No, normally I like to cut to the chase and find out why people are asking personal things about me." I say with a raised brow.

"Just trying to get to know you." Asher says.

"Any reason in particular?"

He stands up straight which makes me have to look up at him and he inches close to me standing so close I can hear his heart beat in his chest. He whispers, "Does there have to be? Cuz, I'm sure I can come up with a few..reasons." He brushes my hair back from my eyes. I'm dazed. Breathing fast, feeling like my heart is pounding in my chest. But, his touch isn't what does it.

I see someone standing a distance away looking in my direction. It was Chris! The guy who bumped into me the other day. And he looks pissed. Asher's chuckling made me snap back to what was going on between him and I and I realized he had a hand around my waist. Panicked I jumped back.

"I- I gotta go!" I turn and head to class just as the second bell rang. I got to class and felt out of breath by the time I got to my seat. Ashley looked over at me with a confused look on her face. "You okay?"

"Huh? Oh..yeah! I'm good." She smiled at me and faced forward. The class felt as though it was taking forever to end. When the bell finally rang Ashley and I jumped up and rushed for the door.

"Ugh! The agony!! I hate Geometry class!!" Ashley says and I laugh.

"Really? I like it!" I say

"Could've fooled me. You looked distracted!" She laughed.

I sigh, "I honestly was. I don't know why!"

Ashley laughed and I said goodbye and said we'd see each other at lunch. I walked through the hall and bumped into someone that stepped in my way.

"Oops! I'm so-." I begin to say sorry and stop cold. It was him again.

"Hi." He says.

"Hi" I say and after a few seconds of awkward silence, "is this gunna be a thing now?" And he looks at me with a raised brow. "You bumping into me?"

"Uh I think you bumped into me this time." He said with a smirk.

"Hmm, agree to disagree." I said with an eye roll. I tried to walk past him and he stepped in front of me again.

"What's your name?" He asks.

"Kat."

"Short for?"

I just look at him, and he says "Chris."

"Ya, heard your friend say your name before you rushed off yesterday."

He smiled at me looking amused."So, where are you off to?"

"Well, if you'd step out of my way you'd see I'm trying to get to my next class. But why do I get the feeling your trying to stop that from happening?" I say with my arms crossed in front of my chest.

He steps close, and looks down at me as he speaks. "Is that what you want? You want to go?" Our eyes were locked and I didn't realize he had me backed against the wall. My breathing was becoming shallow. He leaned down and whispered in my ear. "What's the matter? 'Kat' got your tongue?" He whispered seductively using my name in his twisted way of luring me. He pulled back and looked at me, as if he was seeing right into me. My eyes wandered down to his lips and I sucked in a breath. His eyes wandered down to my lips and he smiled.

I blinked and turned my face away. "Very clever." I whispered back at him. "And yes. It's what I want." I say as I step around him and walk off leaving him alone in the hall, the way he did the other day. I felt very proud of myself as I looked back and saw him staring after me.

I got to my class and was relieved to find my teacher Mrs. Ruelle wasn't in class yet. I sat at the back with Val who sent me a questioning gaze. I smiled sheepishly as if she caught me with my hands in the cookie jar. Mrs. Ruelle walked in moments later and apologized for her tardiness. Val looked over at me smiling and winked at me!

Mrs. Ruelle started the lesson, and I was able to finish her class work and get a jump on my other class work. The day went on and I couldn't wait for lunch to see the girls and tell them about my interesting morning.