"Pillow Buddy" ✔

Big Heart

Chapter thirty-one: "Big Heart"

In the third period, I sat at the very end and corner of the class, it's not that I'm sleeping again but I am hiding from the very people who are now gossiping about me because at the corner of my eyes I saw two girls that were in Danny's clique who was talking to each other and sneaking glances at me every now and then

Aiden didn't help and so did that fly of a teacher too, the two girls walked up to me as they fixed their short plaid skirt that was almost too short to function properly and we can almost see their lady parts. They took seats around me and asked "so you know French?" The brunette girl asked me

I wasn't speaking and only gave them a serious look, they both looked at each other and realized "oh damn, we forgot to introduce ourselves" the raven-haired girl said to the brunette

She mustered up a forced smile at me "I'm Janet and she's Deandra" the raven-haired girl named Janet told me, I was not interested in even knowing their names, to begin with
It was so obvious that they're faking that smile

"You must be Penelope that Danny used to talk about" Deandra's fingers touched my hair and was playing with it

"What is she saying about me?" I asked Janet and she put two-finger up like a salut "our gossip is only maintained within the clique but I guess you would be an exception since you are the topic" she shrugged and pulled out something in her body bag

It was a notebook and inside that notebook, there was an old piece of ripped paper that is folded in half, she gave it to me and I opened the paper

"Penelope's secrets" I muttered as I read the title, the secrets aren't even my secrets, to begin with

"She told you all this?" I raised my brow to Deandra and she put up both of her arms, "well she didn't technically tell us but that paper fell off in her notebook so we took it"

"Listen here you two, these are not even my secrets, to begin with, and even if they are she should have used these to blackmail me a long time ago"  I gave back the paper to Janet

Deandra looked at Janet and pointed to the paper "Then whose secret is this then?" They both looked at me for answers but I didn't care so I went back to preparing my notebooks

They got bored since their questions are left unanswered by me so they went back to their seats and class soon started, it was in the middle of the class when we heard someone open the door. My eyes went wide to find Cloud who now has a small bruise on his cheek
Oh My Shit! They did fight!

He ignored the students who were eyeing him as he passed by them, the teacher asked him why he was late and he told her that he was in the clinic. He sat next to me and gave me a boyish grin
What the fuck is wrong with him!?

After class ended I pulled Cloud into an empty classroom and I interrogated him about what happened, "calm down Angel we did fight but not in a public place" he said to me

"I don't care about that! Look at your face!" I pulled out a compact mirror from the pocket of my bag and gave it to him, he checked himself out in the mirror

The bruise was small but evident, he gave back the compact to me "it will disappear anyways"

I grabbed his collar so he could look at me properly "fight with words Marshall that was I was meaning to say back there" I took a closer look at his cheek and a sigh escaped from my mouth

"You are smart but you haven't thought things through" I sat at a desk across from him who was also sitting at a desk, he didn't even try but he still looks like a model who was posing

He smiled at me with hidden mischief "are you worried about me?" He teased me with the question

"Why would I be worried about you? You could fight a wrestler and be in the ER for all I care" I retorted as I stretched my legs a bit before I got off at the desk

He snorted "you don't mean that"
"Oh yes I do"

He went silent and the air around us became serious "you didn't listen to me" he kept stepping to me closer as soon as he stood up from the desk

I was retreating as he kept walking towards me "I was just curious about the guitar music I didn't expect it would be him"

"But even if you know it was him you will still get close to him" he stated, he was right. He knew me well that I was stubborn and hard-headed as a child, all of that didn't even change until now

We can't avoid fate trying to keep us bumping into each other like this, I expected Cloud to be in a prep school but here he is in an average community high school wasting his potential. As soon as I was near the door I went out quickly and managed to avoid him almost trapping me between him and the wall

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School ended like normal but I have to keep an eye out for Cloud and Aiden who were persistent in trying to talk to me but I wasn't in the mood, I took a stroll out of school and passed by the kinder school where I used to work in teaching kids about the piano years ago

I was only standing outside the gate and was looking at the new art wall that the little kids designed during their art class
"Penelope?" I heard a voice behind me

It was Miss Flora a Kindergarten teacher in the school which she made into her second home, she was holding a lot of groceries "here let me help you" I said as I took the grocery bag in her left hand

"Thank you, it's been year's since I haven't seen you" she said as she compared our heights to each other "you've grown a lot"

She opened the door with her keys as we go to the second floor of the school which is her home, the school was big which she inherited from her father and grandfather. She didn't want to sell the land but made the building into a school and her home

It was a bricked building surrounded by wild berry bushes and some dandelions that grow in the front yard, the playground that I remember a long time ago was wood but now it was made in smooth plastic

"You've changed the playground" I commented and she looked at it from her window

"Yeah I did, many children were getting splinters here and there so I save up and bought a plastic one" she gestured for me to sit on the sofa in her office

"How's High school?" She asked behind her desk as she continued to work on her laptop, I played with the plastic ball that was near my feet from the ball put "it was okay, I still haven't caught up much with the others though"

She raised her head from her laptop and closed it "you are still having a hard time?" She sounded concerned for me, Miss Flora used to be my kindergarten teacher too when she was in her younger years so she knows about my problem all too well

She pulled out something from her drawer and slide it on the desk to me "do you remember this?" She asked me as I opened the polka dot box

I gasped as my eyes set to the charm bracelet I made for her and the stickman drawing I made for teachers day "you may have not been the smartest but you never forget every important event in everyone's lives. You have a big heart Penelope"