Who's Bad

Casanova

I wanted to pull my hood over my head and disappear, but Mother Nature was on her period. Instead, I keep playing with the strings on my hoodie. I'm the good girl and he's the bad guy. We would never work out. A positive and a negative cancel each other out. Surprising how much you learn in a semester in math, but that's a whole different story.

"So who is he?"
"I'm not in love with anyone."
"You're a bad liar.. Come on, he can't be that bad, can he?"
"I don't know, let me go get him and ask."
"There's no need for the sarcasm in your voice, honey." She said sticking out her tongue and pulling out her phone.

I sighed and went back to what I was doing. Waiting for Mr.Foreman to realize us for lunch. In all my life, I never really had a long-term relationship and I don't now if I ever will. All the guys I have been with either cheated on me, used me to get what they want, only wanted sex, or couldn't handle the distant. Yes, I have had a couple of long-distant relationships. I pulled my hoodie over my head and slid down in my seat. Michael hasn't even been here for a whole day and I've already fallen for him. He was sweet and gentle yet he had that dangerous edge to him. Love has got to be the most complicated and fragile emotion ever.

"Hello!! Earth to white gangster!! Are you in there??"

I snapped out of my thoughts and scanned the room. Almost everyone was gone to lunch. I gave Sarah a apologetic smile and we were on our way. Here's the thing about lunch. We go by ourselves. You have five minutes to get there, twenty minutes to eat, and five minutes to get back. If you weren't back by the given time, you were going to be in some serious trouble.

"So who were you texting?"

I want usually the one to get into other people's business, but I had nothing better to talk about.

"My brother."
"You have a brother?"
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you tell me about him?"
"He was away for a couple of years and I really didn't feel like talking about him. It was already hard enough on me.. Especially with me dealing with school, stress, and depression. That's the reason why we moved down here. He found us and I highly doubt that he'll be here for long."

I stuffed my hand in the pockets of my black skinny jeans. We walked to the cafeteria in complete silence. When we made it there, we walked through the doors and got in line. To be honest, I wasn't really that hungry, so I settled with an apple, water, and a bag of sour cream and onion chips. Once we had our food, I scanned the room looking for Nicole, my other Elementary School friend. We spotted her and she waved us over. We pushed our way through the sea of people and sat down at the table. For the first three minutes, we didn't say anything, which was weird because we always had something new to talk about everyday. I was about to say something, but was interrupted by girls screaming. We all turned our direction to where the screaming was coming from. About twenty girls made their way inside, all gathered around someone. After a few seconds of straining my eyes, I gave up and took a bite of my apple.

"And here comes the biggest casanova I have ever seen in my life." Sarah mumbled while violently shoving her fork in her mash potatoes.

"There goes your brother." Nicole asked while taking a bite of her salad.
"Whatever."

I felt a tiny pain in my heart. So she told Nicole about him, but not me. We promised we would tell each other everything. I pushed my food out the way and laid my head down on the table. Soon after, someone took a seat next to me.

"What's wrong with her?" A familiar voice asked.
"Leave her alone.. She doesn't feel like talking." Sarah snapped.
"Maybe it was because from all that yelling she did in second block."
"What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything."

I lifted my hood up just a little and Michael was seated next to me. He was shooting Sarah death glares and she was sending them back. You could feel the tension between them rise with each heated glare. I'm taking that now is a bad time to intervene. I put my hood down and remained silent. That's when I felt someone poke me. I tried to ignore it, but the person keep poking me. Nine times out of ten, it was Michael. I grabbed his hand and lifted my hood up. I glanced at him and he gave me an innocent smile. I sighed and let his hand go.

"So where's your brother?" I asked.
"You're looking at him." Sarah mumbled and motioned towards Michael.
"Wait.. You're her brother." I said turning my attention to him.
"Yeah."
"Oh.."

Once again, silence took over. I can't tell Sarah that I'm in love with her brother. It seems as if they have some of their own problems to settle.

"I'm a virgin." Nicole said out of nowhere.
"I hate my brother." Sarah added.
"We'll I love my sister."
"We'll if my brother didn't leave me when I was little, I'll still love him today."
"You should love me either way."
"You left when I needed you the most!"
"If you would sit down and let me explain to you, then you'll know that I left to protect you, not to hurt you. If I wasn't a good brother, I would have let them kill you, but I couldn't because I love you with all my heart. I would go crazy if something happened to you. You would have known that, but no you insisted on holding a fucking grudge against me and not getting to know my side of the story."

We all stared at him. Tears started forming in Sarah's eyes. Michael let out a sigh and went over to her. She stood up and wrapped her arms around him.

"Awwwwwwwww.. Such a sweet brother and sister moment." Nicole said while placing her hands over her heart.

After making sure Sarah was okay, he came back and sat down by me. She wiped the reaming tears away and smiled.

"I love my brother." She said softly.

What a heart-felt moment. I wish I had a brother or sister to share special moments with. I smiled at the thought.

"Whatcha smilin' for.. You haven't told us anything." Nicole said smirking.
"Ohhh shut up.. I'm in love, happy?"
"With who?" Sarah said with a grin.
"None of your beeswax."
"That's okay because I already know." She said sticking her tongue out at me.
"OMIGOSH!! Who???" Nicole said jumping with excitement.
"Tell you later."
"I wanna know." Michael whimpered.

Awww how ADORABLE is he??" Something went off and we all took out our phones.

"Well looks like I have business to take care off." Michael said while standing up.
"Awwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzz okay. See you later Mike." Nicole added with a giggle.
"Alright... Sis I'll see you when I get home." He turned his attention to me. "And I'll see you in detention cutie."

He winked at me and was on his way. I felt my face grow hot. I finished my apple and took a sip of my water. Nicole and Sarah were grinning at me like two Chesire Cats.

"What??"
"Since when do you get detention??" They said in union.
"When I met Michael.." I replied softly.
"OMIGOSH!! You're in love with the bad boy.

I groaned and pulled my hood back over my head.. I really have to stop being such an easy book to read.