My boyfriend is a ghost

Chapter 8

I go back to the classroom I was in. No one was there. The room was completely dark and everyone had left. 'Where is everyone?' I ask myself. Oh yea there at lunch. I quickly grab my stuff and pack it in my bag and leave. I keep my head down as always and go to find Kelsie who was probably wondering why I was so late meeting up with her for lunch.

As I keep my head down I walk into a kid from my class. I look up and see him sitting on the floor in front of his buddies. I quietly apologize under my breath. I turn away from them, trying to quickly walk away. As I turn to walk away I feel a hand grab my arm with a tight grip. I'm quickly pulled to face them again. It was one of his friends. The guy I bumped into was now on his feet behind the guy that was in front of me. "Yo, watch where you goin bruh." The guy said, still holding onto my arm. I try pulling away but can't. His grip is too strong for me to slip my arm from his hand. "So you're the person who got our friend killed huh?" Another boy says walking up to me. I feel my anger kicking in. I'm tired of people blaming me now. I'm done with this shit. I lift my right leg up. My head still down, I knee him in the nuts. He lets his grip go off my arm. I see a friend of his go to help him up and the rest of his friends standing right in front of me. "Ayo what's your damn problem bro? You gon kill him like you killed Rhys?" He chuckles. "I didn't kill him..." I say quietly under my breath. He doesn't hear me from how quietly I say it. "Whatcha say emo?" "I DIDN'T KILL HIM!" I yell and push him to the ground. "You have NO idea what happened that day so SHUT UP! All of y'all are pissing me off with this bullshit. JUST STOP FUCKING BLAMING ME!" I ran off. Leaving the boy on the floor surrounded by his group of friends wide eyed. I walk outside, bumping into Roseanna. "Oh look it's the boyfri-" She's stopped by me punching her in her jaw. "The fuck?" I look at her face. Her jaw looks out of place and is starting to bruise and bleed. "Ugh what the hell is your problem?" She asks me, holding her jaw. "Stop. Blaming. Me." I say as I turn away from her. I finally reached Kelsie. She's sitting on the steps eating a piece of pepperoni pizza. "Hey...sorry I'm late." I say to her sitting down next to her. "What happened? Where were you?" She asks me while handing me her extra slice of pizza. "I..." I pause. "It's a long story..." I look away eating a piece of the pizza in my mouth. "Dude...obviously something happened. You're never this late to lunch." She's right. I'm never this late...but if I told her what happened in Ms. Bradshaw's room, and those boys that were bullying me, and my run in with Roseanna...she would be quite worried. "Just tell me Alec...you know you can tell me anything.. right?" She asks. "Ok fine..." I pause. "I'm getting kicked out of school....I can't come back." I look away. "Wait what!? So you're telling me you're getting expelled?" She turns to me. "Yea....I am." I'm not proud of it...I'm really not. But if they're kicking me out because of a little accident that happened over the weekend then....I can't do anything about it. "Why are you getting kicked out? What did you do?" I turn to her. I feel the tears in the corners of my eyes ready to fall. "Nothing...I didn't do anything.." A tear falls from my check. "They're kicking me out because of what happened to Rhys. They're saying that I...I killed him but I didn't." I silently eat my pizza as Kelsie thinks about what I just told her. "Wow...they're petty." She says, turning towards me. "So now what?" I look at her. I didn't think about what was gonna happen after I left. "I....don't....know." I really didn't think that after all I've been through...everyones been so rude and mean to me. But as I realize...that's not new... "Off that topic..what else happened?" I look at her again, giving her a puzzled look. "What you mean?" I ask her. Then I realize what she's talking about. "Ohh... Well um.. a group of boys, I think they were seniors, jumped me." Again I'm not proud of this situation either. She doesn't say anything. I take off Ryhs' hoodie from me being hot. I notice she's looking at my arm. The same arm that the boy grabbed me on. "What happened?" She asks, pointing at my arm. "One of the boys grabbed my arm really tight and didn't let go until I kicked him in the balls...." I look at her with a gleam in my eye. Now that I was proud of.

She examines my arm. "Wow, he has a nice grip." I look at her with annoyment. "Really?" She looks at me. "What I do?" I look at her, even more annoyment on my face. "You saying "Wow, he has a nice grip." Isn't helping my situation ma'am." I take my arm back from her hand and pull the hoodie back on to my body. I don't know what to do now... I'm getting expelled for something I didn't do. I'm being bullied more than I used to be. And even worse...I don't' have Rhys to be by my side. I hear the bell ring from outside. Everyones going inside now. I look to Kelsie and she looks back. "I don't know what to do now.." I tell her, looking down at the step I was sitting on. "I'll come to your place this evening after school. We can talk about the situation then ok?" She stands up looking down at me with her hand outreached toward me. "Ok..." I take her hand and stand up. I turn around.. watching my friend and the other students walking back into school. I turn back around, now facing the street.... "Well this is it I guess...."