New Beginnings

Chapter 12: Leaning into you

Ava's POV

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I can definitely agree why everyone hate's Monday's now. You don't ever wanna get out of bed, you just wanna lay there forever. Unfortunately, school is sort of a huge priority to my mother, therefore I am being forced out of  bed by her.

"Aves, hurry up and eat the breakfast I made for you." My mother said lecturing me.

"I'm coming, geez. It takes a couple of minutes to get ready mother." I said putting on a yellow dress and white converse. I then applied a quick layer of mascara, and let my freckles show.

You could tell my mother was making an effort in me not being upset with her. She even went to extreme measures, and made her famous apple jam. She knew it was my favorite thing to eat. I appreciated the fact that she was trying to be better. After all, she was still in the house talking to me for more than a minute.

"Hey, mom I was thinking about something.." I said shoving a piece of toast in my mouth.

"Which is..?" My mother said dumbfounded.

"A car! I'm 17 and I still don't have a car. I mean, I need to drive myself to school now. I can't keep relying on my friends." I said trying to reason with her.

She kept thinking and didn't say anything for a while until, "You know what? You're right. We do have some extra money from the move, so consider it done." She said smiling

"Wait?! Really?!?" I said jumping up. She shook her head smiling, and I ran over to her and gave her a big hug that took her by surprise. She then said, "I'm off today, so take my car to school, and we'll go to the dealership after you're home."

"Omg! Yeah of course," I said grabbing my school bag, "I can't wait mom!" Then I shut the front door, and made my way into the garage. I turned on the car, plugged in my phone to the AUX, and played Stir Fry by Migos. I dashed out of the house bobbing my head to the music. 

Eventually, I got to school and parked right next to Lizzie.She saw me and her eyes widened, "OH EM GEE! YOU'RE DRIVING! AND You look so cute in that dress, by the way!" She then gave me a tight hug.

"Liz- Can't Breathe." I said out of breath. She then mumbled a quick sorry, and we made our way into the school. I didn't really know what I was gonna do about Peter, considering we had most AP classes together. He sort of hated me at the moment, and i'm pretty sure we both didn't want to see each other. If he apologized for being a HUGE dick, then we'd be okay.

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I stood at my locker, and all of a sudden it slammed closed. I was about to tell off the jerk, when I was caught up in his eyes. Chase stood looking me up and down with a huge smirk painted on his face. My face was red, and we both knew that he was the one causing it. "Hey hotstuff." Chase said winking.

"H-hey!" I said stuttering. Why the hell was I tripping over my tongue?! I was never like this before, I always had a snarky comment to throw at him. He was obviously aware of the fight I was having in my head because he threw his head back and laughed at me. Something he had been doing often. I punched his shoulder as hard as I could, and he actually felt pain! I was so proud of myself.

"Ava! What the hell are you made of? Steel?!" Chase said rubbing his shoulder.

"Hmm, guess so." I said laughing. I shut my locker door, and walked off to first hour. Chase followed behind me, and we both made small chat about how we slept. We walked into the class, and all eyes were on us, including Peters. We both made eye contact, and you could tell by the look on his face, he was not happy about me being with Chase. Farfukus wasn't in the room, so everyone continued on with their conversations.