What Hurts the Most

Wait What?

I'm standing on the stage, in the school's auditiorium and I can literally feel my body shaking , the shaking is enough to shatter my bones. I can't believe I'm up here about to give this speech all alone. I look into the crowd to see  thousands of beady eyes staring into my soul, but I meet one pair of emerald eyes that makes my heart melt. These eyes are filled with passion but the eyes out strectch a hand, that touches mine and I feel a spark of electricity run through me. The hand touches my face and I look up to see that the hand and eyes belong to Aaron. His face which is now inches from mine, is moving closer. Before I feel his skin on mine I drown to the bottom of the ocean, Huh ? ?

I try to regain composure of my thoughts, but how can I when someone is shouting? 

"Kimberly, Kimberly, Kimzie, Kimberly Jennae Henry" My eyes flutter open to see my shirt almost soaking wet and my friend Helena standing next to me with an empty water bottle in her hand.

" Are you crazy, why did you just throw that bottle of water on me?, I blurt out trying to sound as stern as possible. She laughs at my failed attempt to sound serious.  

"Well what did you expect me to do? The bell rang like 3 minutes ago and you were just staring into well, nowhere. Excuse me but I didn't want my best friend to spend Friday night in school with the janitors." she says holding her heart pretending to feel hurt. I swear Helena is such a drama queen."I'm not" she interjects. Did I say that aloud. "Yes you did, you're lucky I consider you my sister or I would seriously hurt you.", she says between laughs.

"Let' just go before those populars hide my car again" I say picking up my bags and walking towards the door.

"You should really tell someone about that it's not fair. Those kids think they can do what ever they want because they're on the cheerleading squad or the basketball team."

" It's fine in the next couple of months we'll be gradutating and I'll never have to see any of those jerks again. After you." I say opening the door allowing her to go through the door first. She laughs at my sillyness and goes through the door. I follow her, closing the door behind me but when I proceed to move I can't. My stupid shirt is stuck in the door. Helena just watches me and laughs her head off. "A little help over here." I say irritatedly, indicating her to help me .

She opens the door letting me escape from the grasp of the door. "If you didn't wear such big clothes you wouldn't have this problem" she says between chuckles.

"Oh stop being so over dramatic ,will you ?" I retort.

"I'm not .I literally saw some potatoes at the grocery store yesterday wearing that exact sack, except the sack the potatoes were in was tighter" She tells me oblivious to the fact that she's hurting my feelings.

"Whatever" I mumble as I storm off leaving her there alone.

"Kimzie, wait! " Helena says running behind me, almost out breath.

"What?" I shout turning around

"What  did I do?" she asks worriedly .

"You know, I have enough people on this campus  teasing me I don't need it from you too" I say trying to show her how much it hurts being picked on by your friends., but she won't know that because she's semi-popular. She's in the band. I know strange that she's in the band and popular right, but in this school, band memebers are like third on the social pyramid. 

"Okay, I'm sorry, it won't happen again . I wouldn't have said that if I knew it would hurt your feelings" she says apologizing.Now there's an awkward silence between us. Breaking the silence she begins to speak "What was that all about back there?" she says tilting her head questioningly.

 "What was what?" I reply .

"That whole space out after class, you looked super cray cray just staring ,almost blushing." Helena responds. Her ocean blue eyes staring into my brown ones making me nervous. It doesn't makes sense for me to lie to her, she can see right through me anyway. Truth is ,since Biology I can't get that stupid Aaron kid out of my head, but I can't tell her that.

I just try my best to change the subject" It's nothing, now although I'm a nerd I still don't want to spend the entire afternoon in school, race you to the car?." I suggest.

"You're on!" she responds and with that we're off, running through the halls of Eastbridge High like crazy lunatics. I look around to see Helena on my tail and to prevent her from beating me to the car I turn around, only to hit my head on someone's locker door. I feel myself falling back ,but before I can Helena catches me.

"Watch where going loser." Aaron says. Great of the hundreds of lockers in this hallway I run in to his. Why me? And this isn't the first time today!

"She has a name you know!"  Helena says defending me . I honestly don't know how the two of us are friends. I mean we're nothing alike. She's outspoken ,funny and really pretty with her long, curly, dark hair and light brown skin. I would never think of speaking up to a jock.

"Oh, wait your'e that nerd doing my Biology project ,right?" he utters.

"Yes, she is . I mean no she's not! It is a group project you guys are supposed to do it together" she retorts.

" I will be helping her, as long as she does all the reasearch, typing and printing and when she's finished she'll write the two of our names on it and I'll hand it in." he tells her with a "duh"expression on his face.

I believe they have forgotten I'm here because they continue to go at it without even acknowledging my presence. Helena just continues arguing with him " You're right there will be two names on the project, her first name and her last name!" That makes me chuckle , triggering their memory that I'm still there.

" Look is she gonna do the project or not ?" he asks as if we're annoying him, tapping his feet, which if you ask me makes him look really gay , which makes me  want to chuckle again. "What's so funny?" he inquires. I just shake my head.

" Look, just  make sure I get an A and we  won't have any problem's." he mutters getting closer to me than I'd like him to.

But the space between us is widened when Helena jumps in front of me " If you want that A you're gonna have to work for it, with her, By the way her name is Kimberly. You should really learn her name since you guys are gonna be partners for a whole month." she announces sarcastically.

"Okay fine , dweep-" he starts but is interrupted by Helena clearing her throat. "Kimberly" he  says correcting himself. Wait did he just call me by my first name? "Can we meet by your house Saturday at 10 ?" he inquires .

But before I can respond Kimberly is handing him a paper with my address on it "That's great! It's perfect, don't be late." she says a little too excited. With that, Aaron takes the paper and leaves, without even saying a word. "See now you won't have to do the project all alone, Aaron will be there at ten for your study date."

 Did she just say study date with Aaron... Wait What?

A/N Girl to the right is my impression of Helena