Saving The Nerd *SLOW UPDATES*

Chapter 13

A week has passed since the incident with Lola. As soon as she came, she left. I guess she was the one that was finally scared, instead of me. I've been worried about Corey since she basically sexually harassed him. Every time I ask him if he's alright, he brushes it off like it's nothing. He doesn't seem unaffected by it, which might mean he's bottling up his emotions. If he explodes, I'll be there to catch the pieces.

After I told Belle about what happened she was just as angry as me. I think Corey has really grown on her, even though she hasn't talked to him much but she cares for him, especially since I think of him as more than a friend.

I wake up at the sound of my alarm at 6:10 in the morning on Tuesday. After reaching over and hitting the off button for my alarm, I look up at the ceiling for a moment, wondering why I should have to go to school, when I'm so close to graduating.

I'm so close to being done, why should I go? Wait, Corey.

The thought of his name sends my heart fluttering. With the new energy in my system I swing my legs out of bed and walk over to my closet, staring at the hung up shirts and folded up pants before me. I look at my phone for the weather, seeing that it was going to be in the mid 60's, since I realized that it's now March 3, and I didn't even know that February ended.

I pull out a plain white t-shirt and black jeans, along with silver sandals. After getting changed into my outfit, and putting on light makeup, I put in gold hoop earrings and decide to quickly straighten my hair to change it up from my usual very wavy black hair. By this time it was 6:45 and realized I needed to leave to go pick up the other two. I rush downstairs and grab my backpack and keys and rush out the door with my phone in my hand.

After I picked up Belle and Corey, we started to drive to The Crushed Coffee Bean again since we were all craving a breakfast burrito. After grabbing the delicious burritos, and a dangerous drive to school because I refused to wait to eat my burrito, we finally arrive in the parking lot and I park my car.

"Maybe next time you should tell your stomach to be patient. You could of killed us," Belle jokes to me. I shrug my shoulders and chuckle in response. All three of us walk towards the building while the other two munch on their burritos and I sip on a mint mocha latte.

"Alright you two," Belle starts with a mouthful of her burrito. "I'm going to find Max."

"Alright bye Belle." I lean over and hug her tightly, making sure not to knock her things out of her hands. Corey gives her an awkward wave before she wraps her arms around him quickly then walks away to find Max.

"Why did Belle hug me?" Corey questions me once she was out of sight.

"Because she cares about you." I state matter-o-factly. He gives me a confused look but then shrugs his shoulders.

"Hey, do you know what we got on our scene in English?" Corey stops and asks.

"You know, I don't know. Get out your phone and check your grade and I'll check mine." We both dig in our pockets and get out our phones. After several minutes we both are on the same page.

"Mine says we got an A-." Corey states.

After my page loads, my jaw drops. "What's wrong?" He asks once he saw my reaction. I shove my phone in his face. After a moment of reading it his face becomes shocked as well. "Why does yours say we got an F?"

"I have no clue. And now I'm failing the class because of it." I say out loud, feeling anger travel through my veins.

"Look Zelda, I don't know what's going on but after English we'll both go up to him and ask what happened. Maybe it was a mistype." Corey says to comfort me. His words soothe me slightly, but not much.