Elle and the Exchange Student

Chapter 15

Elle's Point of View:

Days turned into weeks.

All I wished was that things would just go back to the way they were. Everyone at school learned about our little fight, if you could call it that. Luckily, nobody found out the real reason. Everyone just thought I was a jealous and clingy bitch and that Dae had done nothing wrong. Dae got to be the hot bad boy everyone continued to adore, whereas I got the dirty looks and whispers as I walked by.

Even though, it was very uncomfortable to suddenly be in the centre of attention, it was better than the alternative, of people knowing how he humiliated me with the whole French project scam. I still can't believe I fell for it. Why didn't I go talk to Miss Stephanie about it first, like Fannie had suggested?

I thought Dae would at least skip our French classes or stop coming to lunch with us, but no, he keeps showing up. He's fucking everywhere. It's so hard to ignore him when he's everywhere all the time, like he purposely wanted to annoy me with his stupid presence.

For the past two weeks or so I have made everyone miserable with my pouting. Everytime someone mentioned Dae, or whenever we saw him at school, I would immediately become moody.

Even Fannie and Delilah were getting a bit sick of it. They swore to hate Dae forever but I guess they wanted to move on.

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." were Fannie's words to me the other day, once again quoting someone.

And I knew they were right, but I was beyond hurt and angry, I just couldn't get past it. It would be easier to forgive and forget but I didn't want to do either. Not yet anyway.

At the moment, us girls were sitting at our usual table in the cafeteria. Just as I'm about to take the first bite of my chicken sandwich, I see my phone screen lighting up with a new notification.

'Hi Elle,
could you please come see me in the nurse's office when you have a moment? I'd like to discuss something with you. Thank you.
- Janet'

My first thought: What the hell have I done wrong now? Why would Janet want to see me?

"What's wrong?" Fannies asked, probably noticing my confused expression.

"The school nurse wants to see me" I replied, showing her the text.

"Why?" Delilah joined in the conversation.

"I don't know, she didn't say" I shrugged.

"Weird" both girls said in unison.

At the same time Dae walks in, coming straight ahead towards our table. I didn't want to be around him, so using Janet's text as an excuse, I got up and started to walk out of the cafeteria before he could get to us.

Unfortunately I had to walk past the bastard on my way out. He refused to move and stood in the middle of the narrow aisle between the tables, so I had to go sideways to get past him. Still, there was so little space that our hands touched as we passed.

We both stopped and turned around to look at each other.

A huge mistake. An enormous one.

The way he looked at me, I was almost ready to get down on my knees and beg him for forgiveness even though it was him who needed to apologise. Pathetic.

As we just stood there staring, my heart began to race. But that's because I was already a little bit on the edge with the nurse's office-thing, right?