Are You Afraid of Musicals?

Chapter 2.5: She knows

Gabby's pov:

The beginning of the week hits hard, my lack of sleep making Monday barely survivable.

On Sunday after driving Dani to get her car, I got home with only one thing in mind: going straight to bed. But as soon as I took one step inside my house, my mom asked me to help her with a few things.

To summarize, when I actually got to go to bed it was already 12:30 am and when I got up on Monday at 7 am to go to school, I was exhausted. Apparently six and a half hours of sleep are not enough when you haven't slept at all the previous day, who would've thought?

The thing is that getting through Monday was a challenge, and it got even worse when the moment of talking with Hanna came.

My anxiety was not doing well. I was tired, nervous and my head wouldn't stop spiraling through the worse case escenarios, so while waiting for her at the school main entrance, I found myself scratching my right forearm. As soon as I realized what I was doing I stopped, afraid of making it a habit again.

The talk with Hanna ended up going really well. I was concerned about her wanting everything to be normal after an apology, but she completely understood that it might take time. She apologized and just asked for the opportunity to make things better, knowing that she would have to work to earn my trust back.

After my talk with Hanna, I went straight home and straight to my bed, falling asleep at 6 pm feeling relieved. So right now after a whole night of good sleep, I feel lighter as I make my way to the school cafeteria for lunch.

I'm good at math and my teacher usually lets me leave when I finish the day assignments, so my friends are still on their classes as I got to leave mine early.

I take a sit on our usual table as I wait for them, scrolling on my phone and glancing towards the door every few minutes in case I see them.

I'm relaxed, enjoying a bit of normalcy after the crazy few days I have. It's been already a couple of minutes since I last checked, so I rise my head to look towards the door and instead of my friends, I see Jave heading on my table's direction.

Oh no.

I quickly low my head, pretending to be busy with my phone and hoping that would make him go away, but I know that there's no use.

This guy has been making my life impossible since... well, since forever. Back when Big Red was a part of our fiend group, Jave wouldn't leave us alone.

Big Red's a redhead and I used to wear glasses and that was apparently more than enough for Jave to mess with us constantly.

Then last year Big Red left our group and joined Dani's, he was under their protection or something like that, so Jave started messing even more with me.

He was the one who outed me even before I knew I like girls saying some stupid shit about my nails being short, and seeing the TikTok comment that started the whole Dani rumor, I'm pretty sure he's behind it too.

I don't know what he wants this time, or what is he going to do, but I know better than hoping for him to just leave me alone.

My heart races as I hear strong and confident footsteps getting closer, knowing that this time I'm all alone and regretting the moment I decided to wait for my friends in the cafeteria.

I'm with my gaze locked on my phone, not really looking at it as I wait for the inevitable to happen.

-Hey Gabby!-

I quickly turn my head following Gina's voice, finding her and EJ smiling and waving at me, as they make their way to my table.

Jave passes by without saying or doing anything.