To Love or To Scorn

Chapter 8

January 13th (Five more days till Student Elections)

*Beep *Beep. The sound of my stupid alarm clock woke me up on a bright Saturday morning. I glanced at the clock and realized its 11 am already.

"Wow. Time does go fast when you have the best dream ever." I yawned sleepily.

Then I heard my phone vibrate. I picked it up and peered at the screen.

The text was from Hailee. "Hey do you want to go to the mall today?" It read.

"Can't. I'm grounded. How bout tomorrow? I'll tell you all about it." I texted back.

"Okay." Was her quick but simple reply.

I yawned loudly. "Oh well, might as well get up since I'm already up" I said to myself.
5 minutes later, I finally managed to get out of bed. I head to the shower and you know, just do basically my everyday morning routine. 20 minutes later. I emerged from the bathroom, feeling somewhat fresher and a lot happier, and began walking towards my closet.

Seeing as I can't go anyway today, I might as well wear something comfy. I decided to wear a warm and cozy sweatshirts along with some sweat pants.
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After feeling somewhat presentable, I started heading down to the kitchen to get some food, seeing as it's already considered 'Lunch' time. After debating for a few minutes with myself, I decided to just make myself an 'Em Special' sandwich, which consists of well, basically anything I can get my hands on that looks good and edible.

5 minutes later, I plopped myself on the couch with my sandwich and opened Netflix on the TV.(Yes, you got that right. I absolutely LOVE Netflix. You know, probably just like all the normal teenagers that you've met in your entire life.)

I then started scrolling through the endless TV shows and movies and finally settled on The Notebook. (What? It'll distract me from my own depressing love life. Well, I technically do have a boyfriend but it doesn't exactly count because I'm GROUNDED so I couldn't see him)
Half way through the movie, I got bored because 1. I already watched it numerous times and 2. Zach kept texting me and I figured making my own love life more interesting is way better than watching other people's love life.

"Hey. Wanna do something fun?" He texted.

"I really want to, but I'm grounded." I replied.

"Aw...but I really want to see you.😩" He responded. "Wait are your parents home?"

"I really miss you too and no. They're currently on a business trip and won't be back till late tonight."

"Then can you please sneak out for a while? Pleaaaase. Just for a while. I miss you.😔😭"

I pondered over it for a moment. I technically can't go out but my parents never said anything but anyone coming over. Besides, what they don't know won't hurt them.

"Fine, but I can't sneak out, so I guess you can come over at 5pm." I answered before texting him my address.

"Okay babe. See you then❤️" he replied. That text alone had made my day.

I glanced at the clock. It's almost 2. Well, since Zach won't be coming over anytime soon, I decided to just continue watching the romantic sappy movie. Too bad I couldn't finished it(not really) because 10 minutes after I pressed play, I was fast asleep.
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"We started leaning in, our lips closer and closer-" a loud knock interrupted me from my dreams and sadly woke me up from my peaceful sleep. I stole a quick glimpse at my phone with my eyes half-open and saw that it was already 5 o'clock. "Who in the world dares to wake-" my thought was once again interrupted by somebody shouting.

"Emily? Emily! Its me, Zach." the person yelled.

Oh. "OMG I cant believe I overslept!" I yelled frantically in my mind.

I hurriedly attempted(key word: attempted) to comb my hair with my fingers and washed my face as quick as I can before rushing to the front door.

"Hi Zach." I greeted as I opened the door. He was casually leaning against the brick wall outside next to my door and I have to admit, he looks extremely hot.

Unfortunately, he straightened up as soon as he caught be staring at him, which of course started me blushing what seems to be like the one millionth time.

"Hey Em. How are you?" He asked casually back.

"Well, I'm feeling as good as being grounded could be." I replied and we both bursted into laughter. After a minute or two, when we finally managed to control ourselves, I invited him in.

"Nice house. So what do you want to do?" He asked while looking around.

"Well, I was thinking we could talk?" I offered.

And talk we did. Since we're both a little weird, we talked about literally everything. From the weather to even what we had for lunch. Honestly, I admit I really miss communicating with him. Sure, texting is fun and all that, but talking with him in person seems more real, you know? After talking for at least 20 minutes, we just sat in silence. In comfortable silence.

"Hey Em? You know how the StuCo election is next thursday?" he asked, therefore breaking the silence.

"Yeah? What about it?" I replied. "Maybe he's running for something and wanted me to vote for him." I thought quietly to myself.

"Well, I'm running for this position and I was just wondering if you can vote for me? I mean you don't have to if you don't want to but I would really appreciate all the help I can get. I really wanted this position." He explained.

"Sure! I'm running for a position too! What's yours? Mine's-"

"President." We both said in unison.

I widened my eyes. A few seconds later, he also widened his.

"Wait what? You're the other bloody candidate?" I asked, shocked.

"Yeah. So you're still going to vote for me right?" he asked nervously.

I was fuming with anger. How could this idiot be so selfish??

"Of course I won't! This position is extremely important to me! I've been dreaming of this since I was in 4th grade and now suddenly my supposedly boyfriend is running against me? How could you be so selfish? I can't even believe this crap!" I yelled angrily.

"Me? Selfish? What about you? I've always wanted to be president. If I win this election, then it's going to be a huge impact on my future. And what do you mean by supposedly?? We're not even dating. I knew I shouldn't have kissed you in the library. That was obviously a mistake." he said coldly.

I tried to glare at him but I couldn't because tears were spilling out of my eyes. Before I know it, they had started dripping down on the hard wooden floor. When I looked into his eyes, was that guilt I saw..? No, that couldn't be.

"Emily, I didn't mean it, honestly. I was just so angry that I spoke without thinking. Please forgive-" I cut him off.

"If that's how you feel then get out. I don't want you near me again, so get out of my house NOW!" I yelled, my face red with angry.

"Em...." he started saying but seeing the look on my face, started walking out to the front door instead. Good thinking.

When he was outside, he turned around and was about to say something, but of course didn't get the chance to because I slammed the door in his face. Hard.
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Author's Note:
I'm really grateful to you guys for supporting my story! I would also really appreciate it if you guys vote/comment if you really like my story so I can keep going :) Stay tune because Chapter 9 will soon be right up!!