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Chapter Ten -- Sick Again?!?

I opened my eyes grudgingly, a bright morning light entering my vision. There was a little petite silhoette sitting on a chair in front of me, and she was carressing my hair lovingly, smiling slightly while doing so.
"Mum?" I croaked out drily.
She looked up, to the realisation that I was awake, and her smile grew even wider.
"Cherlyn, rest, " she soothed."You're actually really sick, right now."
I thinned my lips and sighed. I knew I couldn't possibly ignore my problems day after day after day. I mean, I have to face them sometimes.
"Actually, I think I'm alright, " I said firmly." I'll go to school. "
" But - "
"No," I cut in, softly but sternly. "I know my body best, okay?"
Yea, don't be stupid, you're having a high fever.
But I dismissed the annoying voice in my head and stood my ground, staring challengingly at her.
It was one of my rare moments that I actually went against Mum, so she was momentarily shocked, and her eyes widened and her whole face was just tight. I could tell she was hurt, and a little indignant, that her own daughter would stand up against her.
She nodded stiffly, her whole figure rigid and unmoving, and her fingers tightly clenched, and smiled a smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes, turned on her heel, and stalked off.
I just wish she would stop being so sensitive all the time.
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Once I stepped into school, all thoughts about my little disagreement with Mum totally vanished. There are definitely more things to worry about. First, the neverending rumours.
Once I entered the hallway, I could hear whispers and feel stares down my back. I could randomly hear the few words, 'Cherlyn', 'Xavier', 'seduce', over and over again, and it honestly made my already cottonwooled head even more stuffed.
"Hey, Cherlyn!" Jazryl greeted cheerily, any traces of her flu gone, with Kimberly trailing behind her.
"Hi."
Immediately, she detected the lack of enuthusiasm in my monotone, and her eyebrows furrowed and she stared hard at me.
"What's wrong?" she asked worriedly,like the little night chat last night didn't exist. "Whatever happened to your bubbly self?"
"Don't you know?" Kimberly intervened from behind. "Lauren's been spreading fake ass rumours about her seducing Xavier."
Then, as if she had regained her memory, she slapped her forehead and laughed at herself.
"Oh right! Ohmygod I have such goldfish memory! "
Despite her humourous, or an attempted humourous outcry, none of us laughed, or even smiled. And it was obvious my situation was quite dire.
"So... do you want to clear up the misunderstanding or something?" Kimberly asked.
I shrugged helplessly. I really didn't know what to do.
"It's not like they will listen to me anyway, and Lauren is their queen. "
" Neither will they listen to any of us, " Jazryl muttered under her breath.
We sat there for quite a long time, thinking about this predicament, until I finally concluded.
" Guess we will have to wait till it dies down. "
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By the time class started, my head was in a whirl. I couldn't feel my fingers and my legs were numb.
To add salt to my wound, Mrs Chavela was droning on and on about Math, not caring tuppence about me.
Perspiration dotted my forehead as i rested my heavy head on the table. But despite my already pale face and white lips, Mrs Chavela just strutted past me, not even giving me a second glance.
So I let my droopy eyelids close, and that was when I heard a loud sound of wood in contact with metal.
My eyes fkuttered opened and I sat up straight, only to find Mrs Chavela standing in front of me with pursed lips and a metal ruler that bounced off my wooden desk.
"Cherlyn, no sleeping in class!" she reprimanded furiously, her arms akimbo. "Out now!"
I slowly stood up and took my own sweet time to heave myself off the chair and out of the classroom.
"Hey!" she screeched loudly, obviously pissed at my demaneour. "Move quicker! Do you think you're a snail?"
So I quickened my footsteps and stood outside of the classroom, my back against the wall and my hands above my head.
It was her classic punishment. And honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit fazed if she punished me when I was well and the world wasn't spinning before my eyes.
Inside the classroom, I heard her continuous rambling about Algebra, and it quickly turned into a bunch of alien language. My vision blurred and I seemed to have difficulty breathing. I was trying my best to stay conscious. "Hey Cherlyn," I heard a farmilar voice. "Been punished?"
I turned my head, only to see a built silhoette coming out from the toiilet due to my blurring vision.
I didn't know who he was, and I didn't get any chance to reply, because the next second, I totally blacked out, and the last thing I heard was frantic shouting and rushed footsteps approaching me.
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"Hey, you're awake. "
It was Xavier, towering over me as I laid motionless on the sick bed.
Wait, why was I here? What happened?
As if reading my thoughts, he explained,"You fainted."
I tried to sit up but he held me back. I was too weak at the moment and I let my body flop on the bed again.
"Thank you for being there for me, " I managed, feeling my dignity shatter into a million pieces, but I felt better and a smile creeped up my face.
But instead of smiling back like I thought he would, he just nodded stiffly with a forced 'no problem'.
I frowned. "What's going on then?" I asked softly. "Is anything bothering you?"
He avoided eye contact pursed his lips.
"Yea, and I'm going to solve it. "
I nodded and whispered, more to myself than to him,"Okay."
That was when he marched out of the school clinic and Jazryl and Kimberly came rushing in, asking me frantically if I was unwell. They were waiting outside for Xavier to go away, and They were actually just eavesdropping, which kind of made my blood boil.
But I didn't really have any energy left to get mad at them, plus it was totally directionless, and I guess I will forgive them just this once because they stuck by my side when everyone else was agaibst me.
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