Always

Chapter 4

I woke up, to my blinds open and my heading pounding. Ugh, what the hell did I drink last night? I went straight into the bathroom to throw up then shower. There was a knock on the door, apparently I can never get peace when I shower. Ugh. "Hurry up. I got to shower too." Jack calls through the door. "If you're in that much of a rush then get in now or leave and wait." I replied. "You'd love that." It's not that Jack was ugly, but his personality was. He was popular at our school and every girl fell at his feet. He was the definition of a dick.
    I get out of the shower and open the door in just a towel. He looks me up and down and smirks. Gross. "Looks like you would actually love it." I shoulder checked him and walked to my room. Gabriella was waiting for me on my bed. I smiled at her. I don't feel hungover anymore which is good. "Hey beautiful best friend, how's your morning?" She says with her cute soft voice.
I love my best friend, we've known each other since elementary school. She's the opposite of me, she's always nice to everyone even if they aren't to her. She's gorgeous, she's 5'6 with cute brown curly hair. I was 5 '2 with black straight hair. "It was good until your brother was a dick." We both started laughing. "I think I might go back to school today." I say as I'm getting dressed.
"Really? Are you ready to? I mean, I would love to have you come back with me. I miss you, but you don't have to if you don't feel ready.'' She's seriously always this nice. "Yeah, I think I'm good to go back." I say. She jumps up and hugs me. "Okay, I'll meet you downstairs for breakfast!" she says and shuts my door behind her. I decided to go with a black and white plaid mini skirt with a one strap tank top crop top. Our school isn't strict at all. I paired it with y white air forces and some gold hoops. I let my hair be natural today.

"Ow ow" Gabriella says when I walk into the kitchen and grab an apple. I blush knowing I do look really good today. "I normally ride with my brother. Do you just want to ride with us?" she asked me. I definitely didn't want to ride in a car with Jack, but it'll be a hard day so I didn't want to drive even more. "Sure" I say.
We get into Jack's car and he takes off for school. It's a 10 minute drive from their house so I just stare out the window. It's February 18th, but 60 degrees out. I hope the weather doesn't drop by the time school gets out. I should've grabbed my coat just in case. It's too late now. I look up and Jack is staring at me through the rearview mirror. "It would be better if your eyes were on the road. I don't want to die." He looks back on the road but doesn't respond. Weird.
We get to the school and I jump out of the car to walk up with Gabriella. I can feel everyone staring at me and it's so annoying. Yes my parents died, move on. I felt someone slap my ass and I turned around to see who it was. Theo. The biggest man whore here. He thinks he's so cool and so hot. I snatch his wrist and bend it backwards, he falls to his knees. "I bet you're used to this position." Everyone around us starts laughing and I can see he's getting mad. I lean down close to his ear. "If you ever touch me again, I will snap your wrist." Then I use my foot to push him back on his ass.
"Bitch." was his only comeback. I could feel everyone's stares and hear them whispering. "I can't believe you just did that! That was awesome!" Gabriella says with awe. "He deserved it." I said without any care. We headed to our lockers since they were right next to each other. "I'm going to class, I'll see you at lunch k?" I said after I grabbed my books for my next 4 classes so I wouldn't have to come back to my locker until lunch. "Okay, have a good day!" Gabriella replies with. I just smile and head to class. I get there as soon as the bell rings.
There's only one seat left and of course it was next to Theo and Jack. Ugh, why does my life hate me so much? I try to pay attention to the teacher the best I could but I ended up just staring at my desk the whole time lost in thought. So much I barely heard the bell go off to dismiss us. I got up and grabbed my stuff. "Isabelle, stay after class please." Mrs. Loren said. Ugh, why? Everyone soon leaves and I walk to her desk. "I know you're probably having a tough time right now, but all of your teachers aren't using passed assignments against you, all your grades are the same as they were when..." She stops. "When my parents died." I finished her sentence for her.
Every class until lunch was like this. I couldn't focus and all the teachers wanted to talk to me privately. So much for people not treating me differently. I get to my locker, but I don't see Gabriella anywhere so I decide to message her. She texts me back saying she's already in the cafeteria. Dumb teachers holding me after class. I turn around and run into something rock solid. "Ow" I mumbled.
"Watch where you're going." A familiar voice said. I look up to see it's Jack. I'm not sure why he was standing out here, but I didn't care. I roll my eyes and walk away until he grabs my wrist. "What now Jack?" I said annoyed. "You really shouldn't dress like this at school, you look like a whore." What did he just call me? "Why do you even care?" I asked him. "I don't, I was just saying, guys wouldn't slap your ass if you didn't dress like that." He said while letting go of my wrist. I roll my eyes again and walk toward the cafeteria.
I have lunch with Gabriella and finish out the rest of the school day that's filled with 'I'm so sorry' and 'I hope it gets better for you soon'. Just leave me alone! I walk out towards the car and Theo's best friend Mark stops me. "Isabelle, Isabelle!" He calls out for me. This man is fine, he has barely talked to me, but he was nice when he did. He had shaggy brown hair, no facial hair, but a nice smile. He always wore nice clothes, but old shoes.
"What's up Mark?" I ask, because why is he talking to me. He started playing with his hair acting nervous. "Um, well, you see... I just, would you want to go out on a date with me this saturday?" He finally gets out. I was in pure shock, my mouth actually popped open. I forgot to respond and I'm just sitting there dumbfounded. "So, would you?" He asks again. "Um, yeah I would like that." I take his phone and add my number into it and wave bye.
I walk to the car seeing Gabriella and Jack staring at me. "What was that about?" Gabriella asks me. I just smiled at her. "NO HE DIDN'T." She screams. "Oh he did, Saturday!" "OMG, what are you going to wear, where are you guys going to go, did you give him your..." Jack cuts her off "oh my god", he mocks, "Shut up." I roll my eyes and look back at him through the mirror. I just see so much anger in his eyes as he looks at me. I don't know what made him hate me, but geez.
I get through the rest of the week and it's finally Saturday morning. Mark is picking me up at 7pm, but the date is a surprise. It's currently noon and I couldn't be more excited.