cutthroatpixie | Of First Meetings

Title: Of First Meetings
Author: McKenzie
Pairing: Selene/Jeremy
Prompt: #40- School
Rating: PG-13

Senior year of high school is the best, everyone said. Jeremy just scoffed at them all, knowing better than to believe such folly. “It’s still school,” he said. “It’s still another year here, and then you go to college. More school. Nothing good about any of it.” He had a thing for stomping on the joy of others, which was why most of his classmates avoided him.

Another year. Another first day. He was in his first class of the day (couldn’t remember what it had been at the moment) and he was at the back of the room. There weren’t that many people in the room, so he was the only person in that particular row of desks. All the others were more toward the front, telling their friends of their summers. He hated talking to people.

Halfway through the period, a girl walked in, looking a bit flushed, and her hair was all mussed up. “So sorry, haven’t lived here long,” she said, adding, “Got lost.”

The teacher just shrugged and told her to take a seat. She passed plenty of vacant seats, then looked up, saw Jeremy, and smiled a smile that was obviously pure seduction. She sat in the desk next to him, causing a few people to stare in their direction.

A guy a few rows up looked back at her. “Come on, cutie, you don’t want to sit next to him. Not human, that one.” Jeremy rolled his eyes as the other boy laughed at what he must have thought was a funny joke.

“Looks like one to me,” the girl replied, glancing over at Jeremy and grinning. “You, on the other hand, are most definitely part gorilla.” She smiled sweetly at the boy as his (yes, very ape-like) face contorted with anger.

“Fucking bitch,” he mumbled as he turned back and around and proceeded to ignore the laughter of the people around him.

“I’m Selene,” the girl said.

Jeremy looked at her for a moment. Very pretty, and very small (but obviously not timid). She had wavy blonde hair, almost of a golden colour, and the best smile Jeremy had ever seen. He figured she could not be all that bad and grinned slightly at her. “Jeremy,” he said simply. He held out a hand to her and she shook it.

Selene then cast a most lecherous grin in his direction. “I can tell you’re a fun one, I just know it.” How she knew that was never actually said, but Jeremy decided she must be insane, so he trusted her to know what she was talking about. “You’ll need to show me around sometime after school. You know where all the fun places are, right?”

“That depends on your idea of fun.” Jeremy didn’t get out much.

“You’ll just have to figure that out, now won’t you?”

Sometime after that, somebody made a comment about Jeremy “tainting the souls of the innocent” and Selene threw a stapler at them (where it came from, nobody really knew). Jeremy just laughed as she was carted off to the principal’s office, and decided that his senior year was indeed turning out to be his best year yet.