seven souls seven sins

chapter 44: changing rooms

Natasha's pov:

I'm walking with Xavier to our last class, P.E. After I found the twins on the steps, we had a little chat and then they unsuccessfully tried to force feed me a DISGUSTING starburst from Xavier's pocket. That thing was practically there since 900BC. We then scurried off to our classes.

Not gonna lie, they're actually kinda funny, but I'll never tell them that.

Then lunch came around. I met up with Flynn and I told him EVERYTHING. He didn't witness the fight because apparently he was at the vending machines which was on the other side of the school. He told me that he was kind of bummed that he missed the fight, but he was mainly concerned about me.

He's such a softy when it comes to me.

He assured me about everything and we talked it through. It was weird how I couldn't find Nico or the twins in the cafeteria. Strange. My thoughts transport me back to the present. Xavier and I walking towards the changing rooms. "Hey uh Xavier.." I begin slowly.

"What's up Nat." He encourages me to continue.

I stare at the two changing rooms in front of me. I bite my lip in hesitation. Xavier tilts his body to face me. "What is it Tash?" He looks at me with concern laced within his eyes. I don't want to disturb Xavier any further so I just sigh and mutter "Never mind." I begin to walk towards the female icon above the door, but I feel a veiny hand wrap around my forearm which stops me from moving.

"No Tash, tell me." He urges me with worry laced within his voice.

I pull away and continue to walk through the door. I hear my name being called behind my back but I choose to ignore it. I walk towards a gym locker and begin to unpack my clothes from my gym bag. As soon as I entered, the whole room went quiet. I feel stares behind me. I turn around to face majority of the girls in there looking at me.

Their eyes are laced with agitation.

As soon as I glance at them they continue to do whatever they were doing and act as if they weren't staring at me mere moments ago. Weird. I change into my clothes that I packed earlier which was a pink shirt and white Lululemon shorts. I plop on my shoes and change my socks.

The atmosphere in this room feels off.

I hear faint whispers in the background. I turn around to face most of the girls and I watch their hands over their mouths, whispering into eachother's ears. If they wanted to gossip about me, they might as well say it to my face. They're such cowards for shit taking about me behind my back.

I'm standing right here, ya know?

I sigh in frustration and continue to pack away my uniform into the bag. I should've told Xavier about my hesitation. I had suspicions that this would happen which was purely why I wanted to talk to him earlier, but I didn't want to be a nuisance so I dismissed it.

Maybe I should've mentioned it to him.

I hear something drop to the hard floor and I look over towards the noise. A pandora bracelet had just fallen and the charms had scattered across the floor. I immediately bend down to pick them up and gather them into the middle of my palm. When I get back up to hand it to the girl I see her trembling.