The Boy Who Cried Wolf!

The Lost Sweater

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7. The Lost Sweater
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After awhile, Clara did come home, drunk as hell though. I was in the bathroom by the time she got home, and Jace was laying on the couch.
Right when I walked outside the bathroom, all I saw was Clara strangling Jace and I had to save him before he actually got extremely hurt.

"How.....how DARE you be alone in the house with my innocent cousin." She slurred. "She's still a virgin, and I want to keep it that way till she gets married---"
"CLARA OH MY GOSH."

Jace sighs and then carries Clara up to her room and finally slept. I hid inside my room quickly, and made sure the door was locked because I didn't want Jace to see my embarrassed face after what Clara just said.

"Charlie, I'm gonna go now!"
The door shuts close, and I was finally relieved.
I didn't want tomorrow to start.

*****

"Hey Wolf, why so gloomy? Did Clara talk about her love life again? Tragic, huh?"
Margaret once again keeps on bothering me with her nonsense while she puts a band-aid on my knee.
The worst time during school was gym, because I always get hurt there. The nurse who used to work here would sometimes let me stay inside the room till class was over, but now that Margaret works here, I'm forced to go back.

"No Margaret, I just hate gym, okay?"
"It's Ms. Vandewood, Charlotte. And really? Don't you have friends to hang out with during gym to make it less boring."
"No, I don't Ms. Vandewood. Because your stupid little niece keeps on making fun of me during that time and I f*cken hate it."

Margaret stayed quiet for awhile, but finally spoke softly. "Sorry to hear about that, Wolf." She says. "Veronica can get a little.....annoying sometimes. But that's just her. You'll get used to it later---"
"I tried to but its been 3 years, I can't take her sh!t anymore."

"Oh...." Margaret stays quiet again, "....maybe it's because of me....I told her one day that I didn't like a girl named Clara Fay Wolf. And well, I guess she found out you were related to her and yeah. So about that, Charlotte."
I furrow my eyebrows at her because she was being very......sorry about it which seemed pretty unnatural.

"Why don't you like Clara?" I asked suddenly. Margaret finished putting the band aid on my knee and leans back on her chair. She puts one leg over the other and folds hers arm. "You really want to know why? It's gonna be a long story." I nod my head, because I dying to know what happened between them.

"Alright.......I'm first going to get a water bottle. You wait here and I'll be right back."
Margaret smiles slightly which caught me off guard as she walks away from me.

*****

She didn't come back after that.

I literally waited twenty minutes for her but she never returned. All she left was a pass on her desk. She still left me wondering about what happened between her and Clara, but I was just glad I skipped gym for a good twenty minutes.

I started to walk back to the locker room to get myself changed, and when I looked inside my locker, my clothes were completely gone. Not even my green sweater. My first reaction was that I started to panic because my freakin phone was in the pocket of my sweater. Then, I told my gym teacher about what happened and being the lazy ass he is, he just told me to go back to class, with my gym shorts and blue gym shirt.

And well I couldn't do anything about it so I walked back to class, which was my last class with Kai.

I walked into class, while everyone was staring at my gym uniform and felt hella uncomfortable. But mainly because Kai was staring at my legs. Clara raises one of her eyebrows and pulls me out of the room.
"Where's your clothes."
"I don't know what happened to them. I was at the nurse and when I came back they were gone. My shirt, jeans, sweater, MY PHONE."