A Little Cinderella Moment

Chapter 115

Holiday season is now over, and we are now back in school feeling refreshed. Walking into school feels different somehow. It feels more calming and less intense, could that be possible? Thinking back to the day on the beach when I told my friends and Chase what I saw when I went home and why it took me a little longer to meet up with them than expected.

Jen was in total shock, she couldn't speak, and that's a first for her to be like that to me. Selena wanted more details on how they met, was it love at first sight? Who said I love you first? More questions than what I wanted to know she asked. Greg asked if she was hot and that got him a punch in the arm by Chase and a smack around the back of the head by Jen. Lucas asked if I knew my dad could play the guitar and I told him I had an idea that he did but I didn't know how skilled he was until I heard him play that song. Chase however left it short and sweet and asked if he was happy, and when I told him that he's been the happiest I've seen him in years he said then there is nothing more to talk about. After that the six of us enjoyed our day together at the beach.

Now that we're back in school it's time to buckle down finish off our senior year and head on off to college. Walking toward my locker I see Jen and Chase already standing there waiting for me. Jen hugs me and Chase gives me a quick peck on the lips before we talked about where we planned to meet during lunch and what we would be doing after school today.

In English I put my book and notes out of my bag and place them on my desk just as Adelaide came up to speak to me.

"Hi, Savannah, can I have a word with you before class starts?" She asks me as she takes a seat at the desk next to me.

"Uh, yeah sure. What do you wanna talk to me about?" I ask her curiously. Having an idea what she is wanting to talk about I need to be certain that she will not mess around with me again or from now on. We are graduating this year it's time for the silly high school games to stop.

"I just want to make it clear that I had nothing to do with what happened with Candace and all of her schemes. The one she pulled on Chase at his party was the last straw I am no longer wanting anything to do with her. My friendship with her is over." Wow I was not expecting her to say that I thought she had something to with some things. But all of them? Well call me a duck and cook me for Christmas. I am surprised with that.

"Oh, um I don't know what to say to that Adelaide. But I appreciate you coming to me and telling me this. Thank you."

"Thank you for being so calm about this Savannah. I honestly thought you wouldn't have given me the time of day because I was always there."

"That's where I am different to Candace, Adelaide. I give people a chance, I get to know a person before anything happens. I have never had anything bad to say about you or any of the other girls who hung around Candace when she was here. You doing what you have done just now to me and telling Chase goes to show how much of a better person you are to her, and you deserve so much better of a friendship than what she ever gave you."

Adelaide smiles and says thank you for my comment and I return her smile just as the lesson starts, we turn toward the front of the classroom where Mr. Turner tells us what our upcoming assignment will be.

Walking out of English Adelaide stops me again just to show her appreciation for my kindness towards her. I give her my gratitude for who she is as a person now and not who she thought she should have been. Unexpectedly Jen and Chase were waiting outside my classroom for me so we could walk to History together. Chase asked me what Adelaide wanted and what did she say to me, so I told him everything. I have nothing to hide from him and I hope he feels and acts the same way to me.

Arriving at History Chase walks in holding my hand and seeing some of his team sitting on their desks laughing they suddenly turned quiet as they watch us. Chase feels my uncertainty from being watched by boys who he's supposed to call brothers. He pulls me closer into him and he takes the hand that was holding mine and drape it over my shoulder and hugs me into him as he whispers against my forehead to relax he's not going to let anything happen to me and he lays a soft kiss on my head where he said them words sealing them in as his promise to me.

We walk up towards the big guys and Chase tells them about us and about what Candace did and if any of them joke about his little performance at the party he would hurt them. I knew Chase could be protective but isn't this taking it a little too far?

"Not when some of these guys were so far up Candace's ass they couldn't see if her hair was naturally blonde, or box dyed," Chase whispers in my ear as I lower myself in my chair.

"What?" I couldn't have said that out loud, could I?

"Yes, you did sweetheart. You seem to do that more than you think."

Oh, my god that is embarrassing. Face palming and hiding my face against my desk trying to hide how red my face has just turned. I can't believe Chase can hear the things I think in my head, well I think I'm thinking in my head. But it turns out that I am saying my deep thoughts out loud for anyone and everyone to hear.

Everyone settles down and takes their seats just as class starts. Mrs. Basset tells us that we are continuing our study of WWII and going into more depth of Pearl Harbour. Oh, that will be fun, least it would be easier to research and do assignments on than Jen and I's project on Belgium 1831. Don't get me wrong we enjoyed that project and we did amazing with the presentation, enough to give us As but it was difficult to find good notes to make on that subject. At least with Pearl Harbour there's a movie we can watch and get stories from actual veterans who were serving on the ships that sank and survived.

Just as the bell rang and the class got dismissed Graham Monroe one of the guys on the football team came up to me and apologized for his behavior since I started here at the start of September. He said to me just as Chase came up to me that he was wrong to treat me the way he did, and because he sees now how much Candace influenced him he hates the way he's behaved and how he spoke to me and Jen like we weren't good enough to clean the dirt off his cleats.

Chase and Graham got into a little argument from the way Graham treated Jen as Chase had no idea. It wasn't until Graham said that Chase wasn't much better than they were treating her, but Chase said something to Graham that made him almost shake in fear.

"Jen is my twin sister. Of course, I treated her like dirt but what brother wouldn't do that? That doesn't excuse anybody else treating her the same way I did if not worse. I know I was a shitty brother to her, but we are working on repairing that and moving forward from the past. What was your excuse to do it?"

Graham and a small handful of the other players on the football team all said the same thing. "Candace had more control over us than we thought." Was Adelaide telling the truth that all Candace ever wanted was control and power? Surely nobody is that self-absorbed. But what I don't understand the most is if Candace wanted control over Chase why wouldn't she try and become friends with Jen and gain her trust? Or did she want Jen out the picture so she could be the only woman in his life? That seemed more logic as from what I remember Jen telling me is that her and Chase were inseparable until Candace came into his life and that is where things changed between them.

Jen, Chase and I walked together to our next lesson that was Earth Science and I just hope that this lesson has no drama in it. Today so far has been so full of it with every class I just want one that seems normal. Whatever normal is nowadays. The lesson today seems like an interesting one from reading the topic bulletin. We are learning about the earth's surface environments. Looking deeper into the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and the biosphere. Today was solely focused on the hydrosphere and we were told that next week would be an experiment on how to clean water. The lesson turned out just as I had hoped it would. Drama free. I just hope the rest of the school day will be exactly the same.

Home Ec was an easy class today we did a practical on healthy smoothie making and made samples for everyone in the class to taste and write a small report on how we made it, what we think could have made it better, and who we thought had the better tasting smoothie. All because we were told we couldn't pick our own.

Now it's time for my favorite part of the day. Lunch. Because I stupidly skipped breakfast this morning I am starving. My fault for sleeping through my alarm for the first time in my life but I was just so exhausted from spending the day yesterday with my dad and Hazel. The six of us agreed to grab lunch and meet up at the bleachers and have lunch there. Just wanting to be by ourselves because there have been some comments made here and there about the scandal that Candace has now created.