I'm Over It

Chapter Five: More Than Friends

"Is she gonna wake up?"

"I don't know, but I've never seen her sleep so long before."

"If you guys are done talking about whether or not I'm gonna wake up," I said pulling myself up, "I'm gon see what your mother is cooking." I was almost to the door when I heard "You are such a fake, Natalie!" from behind me. I turned around with utter rage. Rose face had dropped all color as she stared at Susan in horror. "Nat! She didn't know, she didn't know!" Rose screamed as she saw my fist ball up. At first, I was just going to leave it alone, but then I saw her smirk behind Rose.

I charged at her but was held back by Rose. I could have easily broken free, but it would've hurt Rose, so I just threw on some clothes and headed downstairs. "Hey sweetheart, what's got you so upset?" Ms. Rogers asked as she put the pancakes on the table. "Nothing." I responded through gritted teeth. I was quieter than usual and when Rose and Susan came down, I began to clench the butter knife in my hand. "Hey Rose, do you know why Nat is so upset? I haven't seen her act like this since..." everyone got quiet. "Well," Mr. Rogers said trying to lighten the mood, "What's wrong Nattie?"

I tried to stay upset, but I couldn't when he called me that. "Nothing just a... misunderstanding between Susan and I." Everyone at the table looked over at her as she was staring me down. "What was the misunderstanding about?" Lucas walked into the kitchen.

"What are you doing up," Rose said looking at him suspiciously. He just sat down beside me and said, "No reason." He began to smile at me. "Why are you so smiley this morning," Ms. Rogers asked from across the table. "Because he got some from her," Mr. Rogers said bluntly. Lucas and I both became flustered at the idea. "D-dad we didn't do anything of the sort." Mr. Rogers looked up from the newspaper. "Oh, so did you tell her how madly in love you are with her?" Lucas put his head in his hands. "Yes dad, I did."

Rose got super excited "OMG!!!! ARE YOU GUYS DATING!?!?!?!?!?!?" She literally dropped her orange juice all over Susan. I couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, we are." I sat up straight. "What you mean we dating? I thought we agreed," He put his finger to my lip. "I didn't agree to anything. The only thing that really connected last night was-" I put my hand over his mouth. What was that idiot thinking!?

"So, are yall dating?" I looked at Lucas and even though my hand was over his mouth, I could tell he was grinning. "Yeah. Yeah, we're dating."

"You can tell me all about it at school."

Shoot I forgot I had to do that today. I ran upstairs and threw some business casual clothes. "What you looking all cute for?" Lucas asked me that as I was walking down the stairs. "This what I usually wear." He twirled the car keys. "Whatever, just don't be letting no other boys be touching on you." He grabbed me by the waist. I shoved him and said, "I don't let no boy touch on me." Then I walked out the door and he followed like a love-sick puppy.

When we got in the car, Rose and Susan sat in the back. I was about to sit in between them when Lucas opened the passenger door for me. I adored him for being a gentleman, so I got in the passenger seat. They were making out the entire time that we were driving. When it was time for them to get out, Rose had to button up her top button. I was enraged beyond belief. As I was glaring at Susan, Lucas grabbed my cheek and kissed me. I was flustered at first, but that wore off a little bit later.

"Rose, where is Nat?"

"I don't know. She drove to school with me." Rose said looking really confused. "I can't do this without my assistant teacher." I ran down the hall as fast as I could. "I'm so sorry I'm late. I got a little distracted."

Rose's eyes were so wide it looked like they were about to pop out.

Let me give you some insight: I showed up with my first 3 buttons undone and 5 hickeys on my neck. My hair was kind of messed up and you could kind of see my bra. I scrambled to put myself together. The first thing I did was button my shirt and fix my hair. One kid was about to say something, but when I looked him in the eyes, he shut up real quick.

"Are you alright Ms. Thomas?" The teacher was trying to hide her smile, but it was seen quite clearly. "Like I said, I got distracted." The rest of class went by pretty smoothly though, so I didn't make a big fuss about it or anything. However, when we got out of class, the boys football captain walked up and slapped my butt. "Nice body pretty lady." Without realizing, I grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against the lockers. "What did you just say, perv?" He didn't answer, probably because I was choking him too hard.

"Hey Nat," Rose and uneasily, "I think you might want to see this." I let him go and went over to her. There, she showed a pic of me half naked. I had a suspicion who did it, but it was confirmed when I saw the name of the person who posted it. As if he sensed me thinking about him, Peter showed up. "Well, look who it is." Sarah clinging onto his shoulder and making eye contact with Susan who quickly looked away. Peter was talking all this crap, so I decided to put an end to it. I found a small pedestal and said this:

"Alright, listen up. I know just about all of yall saw the pic. I'm going to tell you right now that I don't care and if any of you try anything, I will not hesitate to put you in the hospital. I know I'm sexy, but that does not give you the right to violate me. So, test me if you want to."

Rose held my hand as I got off. Peter walked up as if he was about to do something when Susan came and kicked him in between his legs. She grabbed his shirt and pulled him in, whispering something in his and the loudly said, "Try to touch her again and I'll destroy you." I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and me, Susan and Rose walked down the hall laughing. Nothing really happened after that. My speech went viral and while I was grading for some of the teachers, they bought me food.

I had almost forgotten what happened until I got home.