Seabrook, Hadley

Looking at a Wall

"You are being completely and utterly unhelpful," I muttered to Luke, who was sitting in the passenger seat playing Flappy Bird. Sarah had loaned me the car to go to school, and Luke had lost his driving responsibilities for a while.

Big surprise there.

Luke looked up from his phone, the first time he had done that since he got in the car. I sighed in frustration as I turned left, hopefully in the right direction of the school.

"Where the hell are we?"

I rolled my eyes. "You're hopeless. You are absolutely hopeless."

"Hadley, unless you're looking to go horse riding, we are on the exact opposite side of town that we need to be on."

"Maybe I would know that if you would look up from your damn phone and help me out. I've only been here for three weeks." He sighed in frustration but slid his phone into his pocket.

"Hang a left here and pull over. I'll drive."

"Oh, hell no. I'm not letting you drive, your mother would kill me and Sarah would not be happy that someone without driving privileges was getting behind the wheel of her car."

"You are such a goody-two-shoes. I lost my driving privileges because I was drunk, and I'm not drunk now, so let me get behind the wheel."

"I don't care whether you're drunk or not, just give me the directions."

"Hadley, we're going to be late to school."

"We already are late to school," I pointed out. "And since I'm obviously not going to let you drive, you should just give me the directions."

"Didn't Sarah already give them to you?"

"Yes, she did. She said it all very fast before running out to her bike and speeding away. Now I have forgotten what she said, so would you just tell me where I am supposed to go?"

He rolled his eyes, but craned around to see out the back window.

"Let's see what mess you've gotten us into, Hadley."

"Only a minor mess."

"No, we aren't even in Seabrook anymore," he said, groaning and rolling his eyes.

"What?" I said, pulling over and taking out my phone. I looked at our location, and sure enough, we were a couple miles beyond the city.

"You had one job, Hadley," he said, shaking his head, "and that was to just get us to school. And now look where we are."

"I would have been able to get us to school if you answered my pleading calls for directions instead of sitting there with your thumb up your butt playing Flappy Bird," I muttered. He rolled his eyes and chuckled.

"Turn the car around," Luke said. I did as I was told and followed the directions as he gave them to me. Soon the school came into view. Luckily it was big so I probably wouldn't have to see Luke's dumb attractive face. I locked the car and trotted into the building, Luke out of earshot. It was nice to not have to hear the annoying noise that was him speaking.

With my head held high, I walked into the building, a smile on my face. it was then that I realized I had no idea how to get to where I was going.

And Luke was gaining on me fast.

I desperately looked around for a student to help me withy dilemma, but we were half an hour late to school, and all of the late students had found their way to their classes. I cursed myself.

I did not want Luke figuring out that I was lost.

I did not want to let him see me weak.

Suddenly the school door swung open, revealing Luke and his stupid smirk.