He was starting to panic about it when Parker raised his head. The chair his fat ass was sitting on squeaked backwards. "Mandy Green come here please?"
Mandy Green. Holy crap. His new heroine was in his math class. She must be completely beautiful and full of life. He'd have his chance to introduce himself after class. He turned, watching openly, who was the girl with the beautiful name.
He blinked as he saw a small, overweight girl stand up next to him. She kept her head down, avoiding eye contact with anyone. He recognized her as the girl with the best test scores in the eleventh grade. He'd thought about trying to beat her test scores, but playing hockey was far more interesting than studying. Plus, he'd been dating Cassie Morgan most of the hockey season, who was considered the prettiest girl in eleventh. Kip managed to keep the relationship going for that sake, but eventually he grew tired of her lack of interest in anything besides herself and her friends. Cassie had no interest in Kip except for being seen with him in his Mustang. Despite that, he'd let Cassie take up a large portion of his time.
When she returned to her desk beside him, he looked at her openly. Underneath her glasses she had dark brown eyes. Her hair was long and stylishly done, soft curls falling around her face. She was intently writing on her paper and he could see that she wasn't working on her math. Her paper was half filled with the same meticulous handwriting that was on the hallway essay.
She must have felt his eyes and looked up at him. When she saw he was staring at her, she looked quickly away, flipping her page until she was back on her math work.
Kip tapped his pencil on his page. Her larger body size didn't show on her face. Under those terrible glasses that were a few years out of date, she was lovely.
After class he was going to introduce himself, but his friend, Matt, was calling for him for whatever reason. By the time he pulled himself away from that conversation, she was gone.
He passed her in the hallway as she stood at her locker. She glanced his way, but when she noticed he was looking at her, she buried her head deep in her locker.
Okay, Mandy Green was painfully shy. That made sense, since no one knew if she had any friends at all. Most of what he knew of her, he had heard from his friends making fun of her. It was hard not to the way she sat in the library at lunch periods alone.