Especially because Emily showed up. Natalie was sitting in class when the teacher walked in and announced "class met our new...well somewhat new student Emily!" her mouth flew open and she stared at Emily. Emily had moved away to New York with her boyfriend Jake. "Who moves in with a guy at the age of 16?" A million questions came rushing into natalie's mind and she continued to stare into emily's eyes. "she's back" she whispered. She looked back at collin and saw him looking down at his hands. Only 4 seats away from her yet she felt so far away from him. "Emily why don't you take a seat next to collin?" mr.brown smiled and looked over at collin. "It's like he's reading my thoughts!" A voice in natalies head yelled. Collin flipped his hair and looked up. "mr.brown there's an open seat next to Henry can't she sit there?" Emily put her bag down in the chair next to collin's and answered for mr.brown "because I like this spot." she smiled and put her hand through his hair. Natalie pretended not to notice. She turned her head towards the window and a tear escaped from her eyes. Collin focused on Natalie for a second and pushed emily's hand away. The bell rang for lunch and Natalie ran out of the room as fast as she could. Almost tackling Kayla again as she rushed passed the spot they went to before lunch to get together. "Omg Natalie there you go again trying to tackle me!" Kayla laughed until she noticed collin ran out of the room. "Omg are you running away from collin? Natalie pushed past a bunch of people trying to get in line. "can I explain after we sit down as far away from collin as possible?" they paid for their lunch and sat down in a corner of the cafeteria. Collin sat 2 tables away with Zach his best friend, but all he could do was look over at natalie's table not listening to what Zach was saying. "she's here" Natalie looked over at Kayla and then back down at the food he was playing with. "NO WAY! Emily's here?" Kayla's eyes got wide and her mouth flew open.
Emily walked in and sat in front of collin. Kayla said "I'm going over there" she picked up her tray and walked over to where collin, zach, and Emily were sitting. "I'm sitting here today." she smiled at zach and sat next to him. "so I was thinking.." Emily started talking and she stared into collin's eyes. "maybe you should come over to my house tomorrow!" she smiled and reached over for collin's hand. He moved his hand away and whispered "I-I don't know. I'll think about it, ok?" Kayla moved next to Emily and said "actually he can't! Tomorrow night he has a date with his girlfriend" she smiled at Emily and said to collin "don't you collin?" Emily asked Kayla in a low voice "wait your going out with collin?" Kayla laughed and collin shock his head. "of course not silly!" she gave Emily a little push and laughed harder. "then who is?" Kayla yelled. Kayla stopped laughing and turned around to face Natalie who was stabbing her mashed potatoes with her fork. "Natalie is. Isn't she gorgeous? Perfectly straight brown hair, light brown eyes, light colored skin, tall but not too tall, and skinny. Boy isn't she perfect?" after that Kayla got up and said "well lunch is almost over and my AMAZING best friend is waiting for me." she winked at Emily and walked toward Natalie. Zach couldn't help it and he laughed! "hey I'll catch you later man I have to run to my locker" zach got up and ran out of the cafeteria. "your dating another girl?" Emily looked at collin with tears in her eyes. "don't act like I'm the bad guy. You left me to live with Jake. I have the right to move on." collin got up and Emily graved his arm before he could walk away. "well have you moved on collin? Have you really? Are just using Natalie to get over me? Because that's low even for you. Come to my place tomorrow and we can pretend this never happened." she let go of his arm and stood up. Collin looked at Emily then at Natalie sitting with Kayla and laughing about something. "She really is gorgeous. Especially when she laughs." a voice inside his head whispered.