Pita, continued

Chap.12, Lies.

I was sitting on the bus on the last day of March, Friday, when I got a text from Alexa. It was like deja vu.

"Uhm..."

"Uh?"

"Tarik o is telling Haris you're convinced that he likes you back. And Haris is like 'that's crazy'"

"STOP. WHAT!!? WHAT THE-"

"And he's telling him our code name for him"

"EWW DO SOMETHING"

"-And that Allie is your spy. What am I supposed to do?!"

"I don't know!!"

"Sorry!"

Well, that royally messed up my weekend. So much for relaxing. Not like I was going to do much of that anyways.  I was supposed to help my grandma set up for an easter egg hunt for our church that weekend, but we had to cancel because of the wind. The wind was so loud it sounded like it was screaming. Oh, how I'd wanted to scream with it. 

I spent the whole weekend with my grandma, which made me feel a little better. I'd sort of reflected on what had happened Friday. I wasn't sad about what I'd heard as much I was angry. On Monday, I knew that Tarik was going to say something to me. And I was prepared to confront him first. Did he really think that I wouldn't hear what he said about me? I was waiting for my opportunity. Once everyone had sat down in our spots in PE, I didn't even have to say anything. HIs spot was right next to mine and Allie's. 

"Hey, you didn't hear it from me, but-"
He then proceeded to tell me everything I already knew, except for,

"They also said that you called him babe? A girl in our grade told me. You didn't hear it from me though, I'm just the messenger." (Sure he was)

Allie and I kept questioning him, but all he would say was he heard it from a "source". Whatever that meant. I wasn't even mad that they were talking about me at this point. I was mad for Allie's sake. They were talking about her too. And what Allie ever done to anybody? I was determined to find out who this "source" was. I spent all of Monday and Tuesday night thinking about it. I crossed out all of the suspects who it could possibly be. I had a hunch, but I wasn't going to speculate anything yet. So I was going to have to wait 2 whole days before I could ask Tarik more about the situation. On Wednesday, nothing happened. I was just still pissed off. But when I came to school Thursday morning, I had my suspicions confirmed. My friend Alex, whom I trusted to tell the truth, told me something.

"Hey, something happened that I need to tell you about. But you didn't hear it from me. First, I just have to ask you, do you like Haris?"

"What?"

"I don't care if you do or not, it's just important to the story."

"Well, I used to." 

It was true. She just didn't need to know I still did.

"Again, you didn't hear it from me, but I heard Stella K talking about you with Tarik O in health. They were just talking about how you liked Haris and compiling a list of all of your secrets. Malia was in on it too, I don't know why though."

My suspicions were true, and I was infuriated. 

I thanked Alex for the information and promised not to tell anyone what I heard from her. I still wasn't sure Stella was that rat. Not that I didn't trust Alex, it was just hard to believe. Anyways, I always had a hunch there was something up with Stella, but Malia? Well, it's not we were friends or anything. I just couldn't understand why she was involved. I mean, we'd never spoken to each other. She didn't even know me. I still have no idea what vendetta she had against me. Those days it seemed like everyone who didn't know me had something against me.

After advisory we PE. I told Allie how I was going to confront Tarik. She said go for it, but when I sat in my spot he wasn't there. This foiled my plan because this was the time Allie, and I were going to talk to him. He came back when it was time to make teams for soccer. And as luck would have it, Tarik and Haris were on my team... Oh, what joy. So I decided to just pull courage out of who knows where and go over to them. I started accusing Tarik immediately. Telling him I knew who his little "source" was. He denied it, of course. To my surprise, our team actuallu won. And I kind of got over my anger towards him. Kind of.