The Outsider-Chapter 4

So that's how the first day I met Caleb Grant began. At first he was cautious around me-I think he was trying to decide if I was really as nice as I said I was to the "outsiders". What he didnt know is that, whereas I wasn't outwardly mean to the outsiders, I pretty much just ignored them. They were insignificant to me; that's what I used to think.
This all took place about 2 or 3 months ago. Ever since that first day, Caleb sat at lunch with me, and we'd just make small talk, but the friendship was obviously growing. We even got to where we had nicknames for each other-he called me Zanne and I called him Cale.
"So, Zanne, care to tell me why you don't sit with the other kids?" he asked one day.
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly the most popular girl at school. The other 'outsiders' don't like me because I'm one of them, and the local kids hate me because I don't participate in their pranks on the new kids," I replied.
"Oh...so what makes me different from the other 'outsiders'?" He wasn't really sure what else to say.
Although I wasn't sure where this was going, I decided to respond anyway. "I don't know, I think you'd have to ask yourself that question, since you're the one who decides to have lunch withme. I mean, you're really the first new student who hasn't left me after the first day. Usually the kids sit with me the first day because their scared to go anywhere else, and they know that I have to at least show them around."
"Oh...that's really stupid. Cuz, I mean, you're a really cool personl. People around here are jerks."
I hope he didnt notice my blushing, but I'm pretty sure my cheeks were more red than the feathers of a cardinal. HE ACTUALLY THOUGHT I WAS COOL!!!! The thought of this sent shivers down my spine and excitement through my veins. I've really got to get this under control I thought. He kinda gave me that same smug look that he had the first day I met him when I was speechless. I quickly recovered and said thanks, playing it off as nothing big.
Everything was going so smooth up until then. Later that night was the first of a series of missing teenagers; something strange was about to happen.