What She Didn't Expect...

Chapter 4- I gave him my heart on a post-it note...

  I come to school the next day and feel people's eyes on me.  I walk up to Tiffany and Mikaela  and ask them why everyone is staring at me. Tiff looks up solemnly whispering,"James told his ASB (Assistant Student Body)  friends.... I'm so sorry Car..."  I feel my eyes begin to water but I hold them in. I thought I could trust him. I literally gave him my heart on a post it note and he sent it to everyone in the world.  Logan and Mason walk down the hall and see me rushing up with sad, knowing looks to hug me.  I realized then that right now I couldn't be strong. My tears come out in strangled sobs as their uniforms become soaking wet.  They don't care and just hug me tighter.  My four friends lead me to the office where they ask to call all of our parents.  (They faked not feeling well too. The whole fake coughing and red spots on face act.) We got permission slips to leave and jumped into Logan's car.  

I kept sniffling with now silent tears rolling down my face and dropping onto my skirt.  They drove to my favorite place,  the look out.  That was the only place I could go without my parents freaking out. It was the place where many poems had been made and where ice cream had been dropped.  It was the only place where I felt peace.  We laid down on the grass each taking turns to comfort me and hand me tissues, but none of them speaking.  

Finally I try to speak and with a broken voice I ask Logan and Mason to recount everything that James had done.  Both hesitate and then Logan speaks up,"Everyone knew you and James like each other or at least thought you did and then saw you two not talking lately and began wondering why their schools top best friends were ignoring each other.  Word spread fast and Badda Bing Badda Boom the ASB kids overwhelm him with questions about you two.  He didn't need to say anything about the note, but noooooo the stupid asshole had to go and tell the whole ASB about it." 

Mason finds his voice adding,"Then those stupid people went and told their friends who told their friends and so on.  We love James he's the best bro ever but he is so crappy around those people it's like he changes into a whole different person or something."

I speak up and ask,"Why is it such a big thing? Honestly is it that weird to have the girl ask the guy? Like come on people we are not in the good ole' days this is the 21st century! Get with the program! I don't have to follow tradition!"

Mikaela takes out her phone and shows me something... It's our school's gossip blog and I'm all over it.  The title of the post is "Carson: Bold Move or Big Fail."  The tears blur my vision and I go into another fit of sobs.  Finally my mom calls and Mason picks it up telling her that I am okay and that we will be home soon.

We drive back to my house watching the sun set paint the clouds a sorbet pink color.  Since it's a Friday I have them sleepover and we all pile in to the guest house in our backyard.  It's pretty small just one room with a bathroom and shower.  Each of them come over so much, that they all already have collections of clothes in my house so they begin to go through their specific drawers to find PJs and other things.  I go to the garage and find our extra mats and we roll them out.  We talk for a while with Mikaela doing her weird pressure point therapy on me which was supposed to help.  We decided to stay away from the topic of James and focused on bad mouthing our teacher Mrs. Helmer and complaining about her project on the way our bodies develop.  Yeah it's not fun...  We talk and talk until our eyes begin to droop and we are about to fall asleep when all of a sudden, our phones light up simultaneously with a notification from the blog.  

"Breaking Blog News: Is This The End of Our Favorite Best Friends James  and  Carson?"

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