He's Just a Skater Boy (boyxboyxboy)

Chapter 72: An Uncomfortable Topic

[A/N] I'm updating this at 4:30 in the morning! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ I feeel fiiiiine...

I wasn't sure why exactly but walking home with them was sort of uncomfortable. It could have been that I just didn't really know what to do with my arms. It was fair to say I didn't have many girls as friends and these girls gave me a weird vibe somehow. Maybe it was something to do with the persistent questions and lack of conversation between themselves, or with the way they constantly glanced at each other after every other thing I said.

"Do you not like school?" Bell's friend asked me.

I was groaning in my head as I walked five times slower than my natural pace towards my house, which suddenly seemed so far away.

"It's fine."

"Apparently you got in trouble because you were skipping school." She continued, passing me a pointed gaze as we walked.

Bell nodded along.

Walking with them was uncomfortable, somehow even when they weren't looking at me I felt their inquisitive eyes on me.

I glanced down at her. "Mmm, something like that."

"Now Jacob has to follow you everywhere and keep an eye on you or something because they think you're going to do it again."

I said nothing.

"My brother says you're always getting in trouble, doing things wrong on purpose just to make people mad because you have anger issues. I don't believe that, you seem cool."

"What?" What the fuck are you saying girl... "Who's your brother?"

She shrugged. "Secret... I don't want to get him in trouble with you." She giggled.

I narrowed my eyes at her but she was already turned to face forwards. I took a deep breath.

Bell seemed okay, maybe only because she helped me out in class a while back, but I had this ugly feeling in my stomach like these girls were judgemental pieces of shit. Don't think I'm being sexist, there were plenty of guys that did the same shit, but you gotta understand that its kind of more insulting for a girl to make you feel crap than it is for a guy to do so, at least for me.

"Have you ever fought with anyone?"

For a split second I flashbacked to the first time I got cornered by Atlas, when he smacked me in the face, and I cringed red in the face for a moment, quickly wiping it from my brain.

"I don't know."

The one girl laughed, Tabitha or something. "You don't really look the type." She looked me up and down.

I frowned inwardly. Look the type as in I didn't have enough tattoos or piercings to be wild enough to skip school to sleep or skate around or look the type as in I was too Asian to be doing anything other than studying to become a doctor...

"You're not ugly though." She corrected herself as though she thought that was what I was assuming, I wasn't, but the awkward laugh that followed and the half-hearted manner with which she said it did a great job at knocking me down a peg accidentally.

Her friends glanced at her. She raised her hands. "Really! You're... You are so adorable." She smiled at me.

"Okay."

Her friends jumped in. "Tabby!" Bell shoved her lightly.

"Don't say it like that!" Said the other girl... Ellen?