CHAPTER 4: "BEWARE OF THE PLASTICS!"

As I sit here in English class listening to Mr. Kane butcher Shakespeare, Paige's voice screaming beware of the plastics repeated in my head. She seemed to have a lot of hatred for them, especially Nikki. I'm really curious to know why, but it was clear she didn't want to talk about it. Not surprising, I definitely knew Paige was the stubborn type.

I opened my binder to look at the map that Paige drew for me when we were skipping Health class. One thing I have to say is that Paige is good! She really has talent. Her drawings were very detailed. I had no problems reading this map.

I studied it, especially the cafeteria. It was critical for me to know who was sitting where. Wow, there were tons of groups at his school. It was interesting to see the many different types of personalities all crammed together in one huge building all with the same motives. I chuckled a little bit at the labels she gave some of these groups.

Rookies. Managers. The Funkadactlys, what does that mean? The Lucha Dragons. Tough Enough Competitors. The Shield, oh God those guys! The Wyatt Family. The New Day, those are the guys singing that rap stuff! Valets. NXT competitors. Prime Time Players. 3MB. Los Matadores. RyBaxel. The Real Americans. Rusev and Lana. The Greatest People You'll Ever Meet. Wait, what? Oh, I guess she's referring to her and Santino. Then in big black lettering, 'the worst! beware of the plastics!'

Finally, the bell rang and it was lunch time. I couldn't wait, I was hungry and my dad gave me lunch money so I can eat like the other kids.

I quickly got out of the classroom and made my way to my locker. I was happy, I made it from one destination to another without needing any help. I put my books inside and began walking to the cafeteria. It was really big, but the map that Paige drew me helped a lot. During my wait in the line, I couldn't help but notice those Funkadactic girls fighting. That's weird, I thought they were friends, why were the fighting? I see it all the time, even in the schools I went to. There was always some sort of cattiness when it came to girls. I hate it when I see girls fighting each other, why can't we all just empower each other instead of demeaning and insult each other? They're both really pretty, though.

I grabbed my milk and my tray and began making my way to the table where Santino and Paige sat. Everything was going along fine until one of those guys dressed in black approached me. He was the one who winked at me during class earlier. Oh no! I really didn't want any of them trying to talk to me, and why was his hair so wet.

"Hi! We're doing a lunchtime survey with new students, can you answer a few questions?"

I let out a sigh of relief; Maybe these guys weren't so bad after all. I mean, they're doing lunchtime surveys, asking the students about their lunches I guess. Unless Principal Hemsley made that part of their punishment for being obnoxious bullies.

"Okay!" I answered, hoping this would be quick so I can sit down and eat. I'm so hungry.

"Is your muffin buttered?" He asked I noticed he had some sort of weird grin when he asked me that. The other two guys were laughing also, one of them was extremely handsome with dark hair, the other one was cute as well, but why was his hair half black half blonde? Weird. So much for being caring, though. I knew that was too good to be true.

"What?" I asked I had no idea what he meant. I really need to have a session with Paige so she can teach me all of these cool terms everyone uses.

"Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?" He asked while still grinning that stupid grin. The other guys laughed even harder. Ok, this is some sort of joke, but I still don't know what he means. Can someone help me here?

"My what?" I hope someone can clear this up for me.

"Is he bothering you?" I heard a sweet feminine voice to the right of me, and there she was, The Queen Bee herself Nikki Bella. She looked really pretty when I saw her in gym class, but she's really pretty up close. Summer and Layla were with her as well and they were pretty too.

"Dean, why are you such a sleaze?" She said to him. So that's his name, Dean. Not that I care or anything.

"I'm just being friendly," He said back to her.

"Um, you were supposed to call me last night!" Layla whispered. I began to panic. Layla and Dean are seeing each other? or dating? or something? I mean that's weird if he's dating her, why is he talking to me? What does Layla see in this guy? He's clearly not a good guy, she can do so much better. She could have taken the one of the other guys, I mean really.

"Look, Dean-o, you can not come to a party at my house with Layla and then scam on some poor innocent girl right in front of us three days later! She's not interested!"

Thank you! Thank you, Nikki! I'm kind of glad she came to my rescue. I was trying my best to politely tell him to leave me alone, but this guy looked a little persistent. It was going to take a little bit of aggressiveness that I definitely don't have.

"Do you want to have sex with him?" She turned to me.

WHAT? SEX? Is that what that meant? Oh no! No way! I'm not having sex until I get married! It's gross to even think about some of these students having sex! Everyone is so young! Why be in a such a rush to grow up? There are so many risks with having sex, std's unwanted pregnancies, it's a bit nerve wrecking to know that people my age are dealing with this.

"No thank you," I said, not wanting to cause any more drama. I didn't want the plastics to be mad at me because Dean was being a pervert, and Layla clearly liked him.

"Now, it's settled, you can go shave your chest now! Bye Dean!"

Wooo! She's a feisty one isn't she? Dean got what he deserved, though, that was completely rude!

Dean sighed, rolled his eyes and walked away. I heard him utter the b-word as he walked away. It didn't look like Nikki heard him. I can only imagine what would happen if she did hear him. I quickly began walking to Paige and Santino's table without looking at the plastics. I wanted to say thank you, but to be honest, I got a little scared.

"Wait!" Nikki stopped me, "Sit down."

Holy crap! Is Nikki inviting me to eat lunch with her and her friends? That's really sweet of her! I'm glad she's not mad at me, but oh no Paige and Santino are signaling me to move away from them. What do I do? I like Paige and Santino, but do I really want to turn down Nikki? I mean she's the most popular girl in the school and she did just get Dean jerkface away from me. Why is this so difficult? This really shouldn't be.

"Seriously, sit down," Nikki said again.

I quickly sat down. I didn't want to upset Nikki. I'll explain to Paige and Santino later.

I took yet another look at Nikki. She had great hair.

"Why don't I know you?" She smiled at me.

Ok, play it cool Eva, "I'm new, I just moved here from Spain."

"What?" Nikki said in surprise. She seemed to be interested in getting to know me, so far so good.

"My parents were in the military so I lived in Spain for the past three years."

"What, what?" Nikki asked again. Now I'm the one who's surprised, maybe she doesn't know where Spain is?

"Spain, it's a country, across the Atlantic Ocean," I began to explain to her.

"No, no, no," She cut me off, "I know Spain, I'm not stupid. Did you actually go to school there and stuff? Do you know Spanish?"

I nodded, this is going great, I think.

"Shut up!" Nikki said with a smile. I'm confused, why is she telling me to shut up and why is she doing it while smiling? Oh, crap! Did I say something stupid?

"Shut up!" Nikki said again still smiling.

"I didn't say anything," I said trying to be polite.

"That's really interesting!" Nikki said while crossing her arms. She gave me this funny look, was she examining me or something? Nikki's body language is hard to read. I can't tell if she's thinking. I guess that's what everyone finds so interesting about her, besides the fact that she's so pretty. Did I mention she's pretty?

"Thanks," I said back. I didn't have anything else to talk about. I'm such a dork.

"You're like really pretty!"

My smile was from ear to ear at this point. I was trying to hold it in, but I really couldn't. Did Nikki Bella just tell me, I'm pretty! Me? Pretty? It's the hair, everyone loves the hair.

"Thank you."

"So you agree?" Nikki's tone changed a bit, "You think you're really pretty."

"Oh, I don't know…" Oh, crap! Was that the right answer? Wrong answer? Was I supposed to agree?

"Oh my God! I love your bracelet! Where did you get it?" She asked as she grabbed my wrist and pointed to my lucky bracelet my mom made me when I was a little girl. She gave it to me for my 9th birthday. Haven't taken it off since, well I take it off to shower, and, oh God! I'm getting nervous again! Calm down Eva, you can hold a decent conversation.

"My mom made it for me."

"It's adorable," Nikki said while still smiling. She is really nice! Why does everyone hate her so much? Maybe they're just jealous, I mean she is better looking than any girl in this school.

"That is so not booty!" Ok, what did Layla just say? Is she talking about my butt?

Nikki rolled her eyes, "What the hell is booty?"

"It's like slang, for bad, but I was saying it's not booty so that means it's good! If I said that's booty, that means it's bad!"

I sighed, these slang terms are killing me.

"So if you're from Spain, why aren't you Spanish?" Oh, there's Summer, bless her heart. She, um means well, but I'm curious to know how she made it through elementary and middle school. How is she even making it through high school now? How do you not know how to spell orange?

"Oh my God Summer! You can't just ask people why they're not Spanish, now that is booty!" Layla snapped at her. She has to stop with this booty thing. I even know that's not right. Nikki looked a little annoyed with her comrades, I wonder what their conversations are like on a daily basis.

"Can you give us some privacy for a second?" She asked.

"Sure." I said, but I was obviously interested in what they were saying. Were they saying good things or bad things about me? Maybe Nikki's advising Summer and Layla not to talk. They whispered for a few seconds and I turned my attention to Paige and Santino. I hope they aren't mad at me, thank God they didn't seem to be, but they seemed to be interested in my sitting with the plastics. "What are you doing?" Paige mouthed to me.

I didn't have an answer for that. I really didn't know what I was doing. I quickly shrugged because I didn't want Nikki to see me looking at them. It's clear they have some history between them. then Nikki turned to me.

"So you know, we don't do this a lot, this is like a really huge deal."

"We want to invite you to have lunch with us every day for the rest of the week!" Layla said after her, then I remembered Paige telling me to stay away from these girls, I had to decline.

"It's okay I-"

"Coolness!" Nikki cut me off again, so much for not staying away from them. "We'll see you tomorrow!"

I guess I will.

"On Wednesday's we wear pink!" Summer said after her.

I nodded, it seemed as though I had no choice. Nikki does seem like a nice person to talk to, I don't know about the other two. They seem a little, um, off, and Layla with that booty stuff? Hopefully she finds a new slang term quick! I let out a long sigh and tried to enjoy this interesting conversation. I think my school year just got a tad bit interesting.slang term quick! I let out a long sigh and tried to enjoy this interesting conversation. I think my school year just got a tad bit interesting.