Chapter 1
I opened my eyes and looked at the alarm clock ringing loudly besides me. 9am. SHIT. I was late, I had to drop my assignment, and I was two weeks late as usual. I had promised Miss Sanders I’d give it in today anyhow. I showered and dressed as quickly as I could making a mental note to myself to eat as little as I could since the dance was getting closer.
I was ready and out in less than twenty minutes, a feat for someone who took hours on any other day. I got into my newly serviced Honda and drove as fast I could to reach school.
Basic introduction, Shay Anderson, that’s me. One of the popular girls at Ridge High School, I had the perfect long blond hair and ocean blue eyes that everyone envied. I was dating a rather cute guy who worked on the yearbook, I KNOW! A total shocker right? Everyone always expected the popular girl to date the football captain, but I was different.
Okay, maybe not.
I had a deep dark secret, but lets get to that later.
I entered school and spotted Hannah and Lacey hanging out with their boyfriends in the hallway.
“Hey, whatsupp Shay!” Hannah’s boyfriend spotted me first.
I balanced my assignment, cellphone and other stuff in my hand as I walked towards them.
“I have to submit this thing to Mrs Sanders right now or im dead . Okay not dead, but ill definitely flunk if I don’t. ill catch up as soon as im done with this”.
Their conversation continued as I left I submitted my assignment and texted Ron, my boyfriend, to meet me on the fifth floor. That was our usual meeting place.
I received a “ok” from him immediately. I took the stairs and reached the fifth floor panting.
He was standing there in front of the washroom waiting for me. I went and hugged him tight.
“missed me?” he asked
“Not even a little” I laughed
We walked towards the stairs and sat down. Fifth floor was always deserted, none of the staff or anyone ever came up.
“so are we up for later?”
“up for what?” I looked at him a little panicked.
I had already agreed to meet Sean…
“I thought we were meeting at your place today?” he looked at me in a weird way
“oh that.. oh yeah rght. I forgot, I promised mom id help her buy grocery and stuff today. Raincheck?”
“uhm alright”
He didn’t suspect anything wrong, I was a bit relieved. We made out for a while and bid goodbye as the bell rang. I was skipping classes a lot this week. I just couldn’t make my mind to go.
I was going down the stairs when my phone beeped.
I had a text from an unknown number.
“U hv a choice, tell hannahs bf about her little FWB or I tell Ron about Sean. ;)”
Okay. The fuck. Who was this weird person and how the hell did he/she know about Sean and me. Hannah has a FWB? She’s cheating on Tim too? WITH WHOM?!
I decided to not let it bother me much but I had to talk to Hannah. If there was someone who knew about both of us, about something that no one knew, it was creepy.
Not just creepy, it was scary. If Ron found out about Sean, everything was going to be a mess. We were dating since the past 2 years and the dance was so close, I couldn’t mess things up now and go to the dance alone. If the story spread, that’d be even worse, I have to change high schools.
I was panicking.
I texted Hannah to meet me in the parking lot ASAP.
She was standing in front of my car, she had a weird scared look on her face too.
I ran to her and literally screamed, “YOU have a FWB??! Since when?! And why do I not know about it?”
“SHHHH!”
She put her hand on my mouth and told me to unlock my car. I unlocked it and we both sat inside.
“HOW the heck do you know about it?” Her eyes were wide.
I looked at her.
“Okay, I just got this randomest text from an unknown number telling me to tell Tim about your FWB or he would bust my case about Sean.”
“WHAAAT? Do you even believe him? Him or her?” she asked me
“Im not sure, but if this really is true, one of us is going down in the history of Ridge High School as a cheater”.
“Okay so what do we do? If you don’t tell Tim, Ron will know about Sean. BUT if you tell Tim, you’re out of this mess”.
I looked ahead.
“First of all, I don’t know if we should even believe any of this bullshit, it could just be some lme ass nerd trying to bring us down to get popular..”
We heard the bell ring.
Hannah opened the door and about to get out.
She looked back and said, ”Okay in any case I think its just a stupid text meant to scare us hoping we’d fall for it and wreck ur own lives. Ignore it Shay. Ive got to get to class, you should too.”
I attended the last few lectures before school got out, later all of us hung out a bit outside school, but I couldn’t help but get a little scared.
My reputation was my everything.
Finally I decided, it surely was a lame ass nerd trying to scare us. I decided to let it go and wait and see what happens next.
