Chapter 40- Break
Paige's POV
This morning is definately a new expirience for me. Now that the news has all spread that Jake and I are together, everyone is acting strnagely. I'm getting stared at, with dagger eyes and eyes of girls who are in awe of me ... taming Jake Lincoln. I ignore it. No one even comes up and talks to me, but I catch thirteen different girls just in my dorm staring at me. They all look away as if nothing is wrong, and they start whispering to another girl. I grab a pop tart for the road, and decide to just get to pratice. I park my car, check my reflection in my mirror. Yes, I do want to look nice today. My hair turned out very nice, and I decided to wear my one and only romper I have. It's black with white flying bird outlines as pok-a-dots. Grabbing my things I head inside and go in the back. I set my bag down in the usual spot, and I go over to the costume rack grabbing my dress. There are other people here, already changed and ready to begin. Again stares and whispers.
Once I half my hair up into the ponytail, I leave the locker room. Priority list at the moment, get dress zipped, talk to Jake. Hopefully I'll be able to kill two birds with stone and just have Jake zip my dress. It's not like he hasn't ever done it before. I head back to the auditorium looking for him, but he isn't anywhere for me to see. I peek out on to the stage The only people out there are Mrs. Oliver and Robbie. I move away from the the curtain when Robbie sees me, I don't want to talk to him right now. In fact he is the last person I want to talk to right now.
"Paige wait!" I hear him behind me, and I stop. There is no use trying to get away, he'll follow me. "Hey... we should really talk." He says stopping next to me.
"About?" I ask facing him, I'm mad at him yes, but I don't need to be mean to him. Actually looking at him now, I notice a couple slight changes. I haven't really talked our been with him for almost a week, and his hair has grown and he has obviously been working out.
"The whole Carm-"
"No." I say flatly. "We don't need to talk about it. I'm working on forgetting about it." I sigh, wishing I never would've found out about them in the first place. I'm happy that Wyatt knows the truth and all, but for me all it's done is cause trouble!
"Oh... well that's great!" He says, with a smile. "It wont happen again and Carmen is really sorry too."
"Yeah... she stopped by last night." I inform him, even though we didn't talk about this at all. She questioned me about Jake and acted like nothing was wrong. With is what I decided I'm going to try doing. "No worries... I'll get over it eventually." I finish the conversation, ready to stop talking about it.
"Well that's great! Maybe after school we can hang out or something?" he asks, I look away now unsure what to say exactly. It's not that I don't want to.. I do actually want to. I miss hanging out with him, and all the fun we had. But I still can't look at him the same. Yes, I'm trying to forget about the whole sex thing, but that doesn't mean everything will go right back to the way it was. "Maybe....?" he asks again. I look around trying to see if an answer pops into my head. When I see Jake come in all dressed in his Hades costume, I get my answer.
"I don't think today will work." I tell him flatly. "Maybe... late this week." I shrug my shoulders, and walk away. I walk past Jake back out the door, knowing he will follow me. I stop at the end of the hall where we will have the most privacy. I know he is there, before he actually touches me. It still sends a shiver up my back as he zips my dress. "We need to have a talk." I say, right away.
"We sure do." He agrees, wrapping his arms around me and laying his head on my shoulder.
"We're probably being watched..." I sigh.
