If Today was Your Last Day

Chapter 2

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"I beat you!" Declares Clayton, while he turns to face me.

"Only by like five seconds, plus you are a track star or something!" I point out.

"I am not a track star, I am just a very good runner, especially when my education is at risk!"

Clayton pushes open the big school doors and I follow close behind him.

"You? Clayton Hill? Care about your education? Now that is funny!"

"Are you mocking me?"

"I don't know, am I?"

"I believe you are!" Clay fake gasps.

"Oh get over yourself," I sneer.

"One day I'm going to slap that sass out of you!"

Now I gasp.

"Oh get over yourself," Clay mocks me.

"One day I'm going to slap the mockery out of you," I mock him.

"Funny."

"Aren't I?"

"Absolutely!"

"I should probably get to class now Clay, my goody toe shoes self hates being late."

"Oh I know you do, to bad you already are." He smirks

"You know what I mean!"

"Yeah I do but I live for mockery!"

"As I live for sassiness!"

"Haha, alrighty bye Scar."

"See ya Clay."

Walking away from each other, Clay shouts overly loud.

"See you in English!"

"Can't wait!"

I turn and face my door and open it ever so quietly, in case the teacher wouldn't notice me coming in late. No such luck.

"Take a seat Scarlett, I don't expect you to be late understand," spoke my science teacher.

"Yes, sir!" I reply.

Thank god there was an empty seat in the back, i don't particularily like to sit in the front row. I don't know why, I just don't. My best friend waved to me, I waved back and sat beside her.

"Hey! What did I miss?" i whispered to Misty.

"Nothing, really," She replied.

"Ok, ok good!"

Misty is like one of those girls that everyone wants to be like (me included) but isn't rude or a slut. Her and I look similar, except for the fact that she has light brown eyes and slightly lighter brown hair. She is stunningly beautiful, nothing compared to me.

"Alright class, we are going to be disecting a turtle this period, you will need a partner and a written report of your observations on this lab activity."

Misty nudges my arm while Mrs Vanderwheel continues on about the disection.

"Do you want to be partners?" She whispers.

"Yeah, for sure!"

"Awesome, do you want to come to my house tonight to write up the report."

"Yeah, yeah I can totally tonight."

"Awesome!"

"... please Josh, don't fling turtle guts around the classrom understand?"

Josh just scoffs.

"Alright lets get moving then," Mr Vanderwheel says.

Misty gets up and grabs the turtle, she brings it back pinching her nose.

"Eww it smells like something died in there," Misty wrinkles her nose in disgust.

"Umm, Misty. It kinda is dead..."

"You know what, you can just be quiet ok?"

"I was just sayi-"

"No, shush!"

Misty and I get started with the disection. It isn't to hard because we have disected quite a few things before, grade 12 is the year that you get to disect a turtle. This is the biggest animal we have disected and hopefully the last! I do not like cutting open animals and checking out their insides for a mark. Gross! We finish the disectation right on time. The bell rings when we just finish cleaning up our station.

"I will text you later so we can meet up after school ok?"

"Yeah for sure!"

"You have the iPhone 5s right?"

"Yeah I do...why?"

I scoop up my binders and head out of the classroom, Misty follows.

"You are so lucky, I really want the 5s but with my moms work she can only get the 5c for free."

"Misty, the 5c is still an amazing phone!"

"Yeah I know but it would be just nice to have the 5s you know?"

"Yes I guess so."

"It must have taken your paren-dad awhile to save up the money right?"

She was about to say parents I know that, but she tried to cover it up so I pretened like I didn't hear her almost say it.

"Um, yeah sure."

Truth is, I payed for my phone ENTIRELY. My dad really doesn't care about me, but oh well what am I going to do.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen your dad in a while. How come? Is everything alright?" Misty asks.

"Yeah, everythings fine, I'm fine," I force out a smile.

"Scar please you know you can tell me anything,"

I wanted to tell her, tell her right then and there. That I am not happy, that my dad beats me and completely ignores me. That he has been doing this since my mom passed away. He is rarely sober and somtimes even stoned. That I have the biggest crush on Clayton our best friend and I have to eat out EVERY DAMN DAY because my dad keeps no frickin food in the fridge. I work my ass off earning the liitle bit of money for essentials and that I don't feel safe in my own home. I almost told her, but I didn't...

"Yes I know, if anything pops up I will let you know." I smile at her sincerely.

"Umm... alright. I love you Scar,"

"Love you too Mist,"

"I will see you after school ok?"

"Yep, can't wait!"

I turn away from her and walk towards my English classroom, a tear slips out of my eye and I wipe it away before anyone can notice. I have such amazing friends, I don't know why i can' open up to them.