The Peterson's

Chapter 10

The next morning, I walk into school ready to talk to Cameron about everything, I want an explanation.

As I'm walking to his locker, I see him standing with James and some other jocks. Cameron is laughing with him and they are acting like nothing happened yesterday. I'm pissed off, James is psychotic and Cameron is ok with that.

I quickly storm off to my locker and get ready for first period. I think i'm starting to see Cameron in a different light now and it is not good.

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I sit at an empty table during lunch. Apparently yesterday's incident is the "gossip of the day" and everyone is talking about it. People are actually noticing me but I don't know if it's in a good or a bad way.

About half way through lunch, Cameron slides in next to me. "You know you can sit with us" he nudges me and smiles widely, I ignore him. I'm still so annoyed at him. "What's wrong Zoey?" he goes more serious and I just look at him "Stop ignoring me"

"Go and sit with James" I turn away from him "You are mad at me over James?"

"You obviously feel like what James did to my brother and me yesterday is completely fine since you were talking to him this morning..so go and sit with him" I stand up and pick my tray up. Cam grabs my arm and pushes me back down "He said sorry about yesterday, it was just a joke"

"A joke? A fucking joke? He could have knocked Dylan out and he lifted me off the ground and basically choked me. How is that a joke?" At this point i'm starting to shout.

"You are overreacting Zoey. I've known James since I was born, he's never hurt a girl on purpose or hit a guy without a reason. I know him"

"Yeah well maybe you don't know him well enough" the bell rings as I say this so I quickly stand up and walk to my last class leaving Cameron sitting alone on an empty table.

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The rest of the school week goes pretty quickly. I found myself continually ignoring Cameron's calls and texts and avoiding him in school. For some reason he is desperate to talk to me again.

Before I know it, it's Saturday and i'm getting ready to go shopping with Melody. She pulls up outside my house in a red convertible looking beautiful as always. I get in the car and she looks at me, shaking in excitement.

"This is going to be so fuun!!" She squels before speeding off down the road. The whole way to mall, Melody lists the thousands of stores we are going to and all of the sales. She's really excited.

Once we are at the mall, she grabs my arm and leads me to loads of shops. We spend hundreds of dollars on makeup, clothing and shoes. She has basically helped me buy a new wardrobe. While we are shopping, we get to know each other. She tells me all about her family and interests. I was completely wrong about her, Melody is actually a sweet and caring girl, she's just a bit blonde and clumsy.

After shopping for hours, We find the closest cafe and order coffee. As we sit down, the lid off my cup falls off and coffee spills all over my lap. We both gasp and I can feel the extremely hot coffee burn through my skirt.

I feel disturbed until I look up at Melody, her reaction is priceless. She looks completely horrified. This causes me to burst out laughing, Melody starts laughing too and we both end up sitting there howling with laughter whilst everyone else in the cafe just looks at us like we are crazy. "I'm such an idiot!" I manage to say.