The Lion Game

Chapter Seven

I wake up to find at least fifteen girls huddled around me laughing, right at me. I look around to see if Eleanor and Charlie are in the crowd.

I hear Eleanor yelling and banging from the inside of the bathroom, while Charlie is just sitting on her bed looking away. I sit up rush through the crowd and to the bathroom to let out Eleanor once I manage to open the door I rush in to find Eleanor tied to the toilet.

I mess around with the rope trying to untie it before I manage to free Eleanor. I still hear the girls behind me laughing, so I rush to the mirror followed by Eleanor. I stare at the mirror in disbelief, the other girls managed to write LOSER in huge, red letters across my forehead.

I want to just break into tear right then and there but I try to hold them in. I reach for the soap letting a few tears slip out but I don't think too many people saw. I tried to force a few laughs just to get the other girls to leave. It finally works after about three laughs the girls don't think it's as funny, and decide to leave.

Once the girls are gone Eleanor leaves the bathroom for a couple minutes, while I scrub my skin raw. She comes back with hand sanitizer and a cloth. Eleanor orders me to tilt my head back, so I follow her instructions(like I have a choice). She squeezes a decent amount of on my forehead, before wetting the cloth, and wiping it off. She does this process three times before the word starts to fade. Once the writing was just a giant pink streak across my forehead Eleanor finally gave up and we changed our clothes to head out.

As me and Eleanor open the creaky door into a building with cracked cement walls and a wooden roof missing shingles. Once I enter I instantly smell hard boiled eggs and oatmeal. But then Eleanor and I notice the room is filled with 700 eyes staring at us.

As I walk behind Eleanor I hear people whispering about me. I just keep ignoring them until Eleanor finally reaches the empty table at the very back corner of the room I plop down next to her and we sit in silence for about ten seconds then two boys walk over one Hunter, the boy I met last night.

The other boy looks at least two years older and seems like he could lift the whole table over his head if he wanted too. The boy ends up walking right past me to kiss Eleanor after they greet each other Eleanor introduces me to her boyfriend named Clark. Clark introduces Hunter to Eleanor. But before Clark tells me Hunter's name I interrupt him and say we met last night.

Both boys sit down Hunter next to me and Clark between Hunter and Eleanor.  I turn to talk to Hunter, and realizes he has something faintly written on his head too. I am about to ask him what they wrote on his head, when I notice to boys with mischievous grins on their faces looking straight at Hunter.

So I get up rush to Eleanor and asks her to show me to the bathroom. As we get up I tell her to stick her left foot out when I say so. We take two more steps I whisper now we both stick out our legs trip both guys and the both smash their faces into the big bowls of oatmeal they are carrying.

Me and Eleanor step over both of them holding in our laughs. Once out of the building she asked me why I made her do that and I told her how the oatmeal on them was about to be food on Hunter and Clark.

After we waited about two minutes trying to stop laughing about the guy's look when they were falling into the oatmeal and then walked back into the cafeteria.

We sit back down at the table and tell the boys what happened. Then our table is called and we get to go up to be served. After eating my first spoonful of half frozen oatmeal, I hear snickering behind me so I turn around with two seconds  to react to a hard boiled egg flying at us. Without thinking I reach out my hand catching the egg five inches from Hunter's head and hurling it right back at the guy who threw it. The boy tried to catch it two inches from his face but it just hit his hands and was crushed all over him.