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"𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙎, 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏'𝙎 𝙄𝙏 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙏𝙊𝘿𝘼𝙔. Pack your bags and go to your next class.", My History teacher announced once the bell rung, indicating that class is over and students should be heading to their next period.
I put all of my school equipment that was placed on my desk back into my bag and left the classroom, spotting Bill waiting for me by a locker. I walk up to him, waving my hand in front of his face to pull him out of his head since he was zoned out.
"Hey, Bill.", I greet him and smile slightly.
"Oh, Hey, Nicole. You ready for next period?", He asks and we start walking down the hall.
"Yeah, I'm just so fucking tired.", I cover my yawn.
"What time did you go to sleep last night?"
"Around, like, i don't know. Maybe half two?"
Bill looks at me with surprise and asks, "Don't you wake up at seven or eight? How come you were up so late?"
"Hey, that rhymes!", I point to him and he smiles. "And I just lost track of time when i was on my phone.", I shrug.
"Well, don't take any naps today, because then you'd be up all night.", Bill tells me before we stop in front some group of guys in the middle of the hallway.
There were only about ten guys, but this hallway is narrow and if i tried to squeeze past them, I'd get crushed by them and die. They were blocking our whole path and i didn't feel like dying today so i decided to get their attention so they could free up some space to let Bill and i through.
"Excuse me.", I was ready for them to back up to form a little path of some sort but they didn't budge and just ignored me.
I look at Bill in confusion and i decide to say it a little louder.
"Excuse me!", Then they all looked at me, and then looked at Bill, who they seem to know.
"Oh, Bill, what's up?", One of the guys say.
"Looking for Tom?", Another says.
Before Bill could say anything, Tom emerges from the crowd of people and greets Bill. Once again, me being ignored. I don't even react to it anymore, physically. I didn't realize i was staring at Tom before he basically barked at me.
"Fuck are you looking at?"
Asshole, am i right?
I furrow my eyebrows and my face cringes slightly.
"You and your 'gang', are in our way. I gotta get to my next class.", I exaggerate the word 'gang' and cross my arms.
I was nervous because of how many guys were just standing there and staring at the interaction between Tom and i, but I'm mostly nervous because of Tom. He had already made a comment towards me. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he's intimidating me either way, even though deep down i truly am a coward.
