Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Jax’s POV
(2 months later)
All right! It’s been 2 months since Pomni joined the school and she was fitting in quite nicely. She had mastered some English but her accent was still very strong, but it just added to her charm. Now she was able to introduce herself, sing the ABC’s and say most of the teachers names and all of the friend groups names. And the group had welcomed her which was really rare. We are a tight knit group and rarely ever branched out.
I was eating breakfast with Pomni like always and we were able to have an actual conversation now with Google Translate. Then my parents walked in suitcases in hand. “Hi Jax!” Mom said realizing we have a guest over. Otherwise she would’ve ignored me. “Who’s this?”
“Hello! I Pomni. It nice meet you!” She said with a smile. She was really trying hard to make a good impression. “Jax who is this and why does she have an accent?” Dad said.
“This is Pomni. She’s from Russia I’ve been letting her stay here since she goes to school with me.” I said. “I only texted you about it 40 times.”
“Ugh. Well Poppy-“ mom started.
“Pomni, mom.” I said.
“Whatever. What do you do for work?” Mom asked still looking bored.
“I figure skate.” Pomni said then took another bite out of her toast.
“I doubt that even makes you a quarter.” Dad scoffed.
“I made $37,500 for winning Gold in Olympics.” Pomni said.
I was shocked. I worked at a damn Dairy Queen! And here this random girl that I found at an airport and decided to let stay at my house, was an OLYPIC FIGURE SKATER?! I need to get my life together…
(Authors note: me too Jax, me too😔✊)
My parents however looked shocked. “That much?!” Mom asked.
“No, then more from sponsors.” Pomni said.
My parent’s jaws were on the floor. And I loved it.
“Look er up dad.” I said with a smirk.
Dad scoffed and pulled his phone out then looked her up. Then he went dead silent. “Kate come here.” He said. They both looked at his phone and their eyes widened. “You’re her?” Mom said taking the phone from my dad and showing it to Pomni.
“Yes that me.” She said.
“Holy crap… well you’re welcome to stay as long as you’d like!” Mom said.
“Kate…” dad warned.
“John she’s a multi millionaire and she doesn’t even know it. Let her stay.”
Pomnis eyes lit up, clearly not realizing what my parents just said, she thanked them and we were off to school.
We went to all our classes and most of them went good. Math was boring as usual. ELAR was long. Science was torture. I hate science. Then lunch.
We sat down with our treys. “So Pomni, make any friends other than us?” Ragatha asked. “No only you.” Pomni said with a smile.
“Good everyone else here are total jerks.” Zooble said.
Pomni stood up. “I use restroom be back in minutes.” She said and walked away. I watched her go with a grin.
“Someone’s in loveeee.” Ragatha taunted.
My face flushed red and I put my hand over her mouth. “SHUT UP.” I growled. And everyone burst into laughter.
Around 10 minutes later and Pomni came back. “Sorry, got lost.” She said rubbing the back of her neck with a shy smile on her face.
She sat down next to me and we continued our meal. Pomni gathered out treys and went to throw the trash away. “You should ask her out.” Zooble said with a smirk.
Again my face flushed. “I don’t think I should.” I said. I mean I wanted to. I really wanted to but I was scared if she’d say yes or no. “We’ve only known each other for 2 months.”
“Come on Jax.” Ragatha said. “Y’know what! Me Gangle and Zooble will ask Pomni if she likes you in dance. Then we’ll text you if she says yes or no!” And I gotta admit this could work.
“Ok.” I said.
The lunch bell rang and we all carried on to our next class. It was gym. UGH I DESPISE GYM. Mainly because Canine taught it and he would always make us do stupid things. And because it was me, Kinger and all the annoying Jocks. You don’t wanna see how fucking competitive basketball gets. But it was forced unless we wanted to do choir and I can’t sing to save my life. So gym it was.
We got inside and Canine announced that today was dodgeball. NOOOO. Why dodgeball of all things. We played for around 20 million then we got a water break. I went out into the hall and luckily our gym was right next to the girls gym so I got to see Pomni, Ragatha, Zooble and Gangle do their thing. Zooble was forced into it by her foster parents so they were sitting on the bleachers with a “sprained ankle”. Then Ragatha saw me and asked her coach to get water. When she finally got over she excitedly said, “POMNI LIKES YOU!”
“She does?!” I said, a smile exploding on my face.
“YES! OH MY GOD ASK HER TO PROM!” Ragatha said.
“YOU’RE RIGHT, PROM IS IN A FEW WEEKS!” I said. I hugged her tight, “Thank you Ragatha!” I said.
“You’re welcome! Now how are you gonna ask her?” Ragatha asked.
“I dunno to be honest, but it’s gotta be something special!” I said.
“Slow down lover boy!” Ragatha said with a laugh. “You’ve got 2 weeks. Ok?”
“Ok… but I’ll ask her soon!” I said.
I’ll just have to hope she says yes…