𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 ~ A Slipknot Fanfic

Chapter 14

[The week before Christmas break]

"You ready for history?" Joey asked me as we walked down the hallway. "I guess." I shrugged. "Everything okay?" he asked. "Yeah. I just don't really wanna go to class. I didn't fall asleep until 1 last night so I've been kinda anxious all day." I replied. We walked into the classroom and went to our desks. "Why do people have to be so loud?" I groaned, putting my head on the desk. "Put your earbuds in." Joey suggested. I did that and it helped a little. "You okay Bella? You've been quieter than usual today." Mick asked as he approached my desk. I nodded and put my face in the crook of my elbow. I felt tears come into my eyes, and I'm not really sure why. We had been in class for about 10 minutes at this point, so the hallways were most likely empty now. "Joey." I said, just loud enough for him to hear me. "Yeah?" he replied. "Hall." I motioned towards the door. He nodded and followed me into the hallway. "It's a good thing the teacher could care less about what we do." he said, attempting to lighten the mood. I nodded in response and stared down at the ground.

"You wanna talk?" he asked. I shook my head."There's nothing to talk about." He held his arms out and I leaned into him. "It's gonna be ok." he said, rubbing my back. We hugged each other in silence for a few minutes before I finally spoke. "What are we gonna do if a teacher catches us out here?" I joked. "What do you mean?" he asked. "PDA." I laughed a little. I felt his shoulders move as he laughed. "Let's sit down." he said. I let go of him and we sat down on the floor. "What are you listening to?" Joey asked me. I pulled one of my airpods out and handed it to him. "Van Halen." he said, nodding to the beat. I laid my head on his shoulder and we sat and listened to music for awhile. "I'm hungry." I said after a few minutes. "Me too. Wanna go down to the vending machines?" he asked. "I left my wallet in my bag." I said, looking
back at the classroom. "Shit. Me too." he sighed.

"Everything okay out here?" Jim asked as he and Mick came out into the hall. "Yeah. I'm bored but I'm not ready to go back in yet." I replied. "Hold on a second." Jim said before going back into the classroom. He returned with a box of Uno cards. "You guys better prepare yourselves, I'm the Uno master." he said. "We'll see about that." I said as he shuffled the decks. Jim dealt out the cards and I got a little nervous hearing Mick's reaction to the cards he got. I'm pretty sure we all did actually. The first card was green, which I happened to not have. "Bella, you're probably gonna lose." Jim teased. "Shut up." I said as I put down the wild card I had just drawn. "I wanna change it to yellow." "I can do that." Joey said, putting down a reverse card. After we were all down to four cards or less, it was between me and Jim, as we both had two. He put down a blue 2 and I had to draw. "Uno!" he said. "Not anymore. Uno!" I said, putting down the card I had just drawn, which was a Draw 4. "Oh come on!" Joey groaned. "I wanna change the color to red," I put my last card down. "And I win."

"That was good, but until you win 3 games in a row, I'm still the Uno master." Jim said as him and the other guys kept playing. I ended up trying to help Joey cheat, and somehow he still lost! We ended up playing 3 more rounds and I only won one of them, meaning Jim got to keep the title of Uno master. "Wanna head down early?" Mick asked us. "Our stuff is still in the classroom though." Joey pointed out. "We can sneak in and get it. It'll be fine." Jim reassured us. We got up off the floor and prepared ourselves to go in. "Just, be casual." Jim said as he opened the door. We all walked in, grabbed our stuff, and made our way back towards the door. "Hey, where are you guys going? There's still 10 minutes." the teacher said. Me and Mick both bolted out the door once we heard the teacher start talking, leaving Jim and Joey to get in trouble. We hid on the stairs and waited to see if the other two were able to escape. Sure enough, they both came running around the corner. "Run." Joey laughed. We all ran down the stairs as quietly as we could and made our way to where the buses pick up. We decided to stand inside by the door until the bell rang in case there were any teachers outside. "You guys wanna do anything later?" Jim asked. "I'm going home and taking a nap before I do anything." I sighed.

a/n: if you read this the first time it was posted (before i changed where it was at in the story), no you didn't lol