Liar Liar GirlxGirl

Chapter 6

I thought all between Aysha and I would be forgotten on Monday. I was wrong.

After Government ended, I went to my locker to put my books away for lunch. When I was crouching, I heard a thump against my locker.

"We need to talk," a voice said.

I looked up and saw Aysha leaning against the locker next to mine. "About?" I asked, standing up.

"The party," she answered.

"Okay?"

"That kiss. It meant nothing. We were drunk, playing a game. It was just a drunk kiss."

That hurt. I didn't know why. It's her tone, I told myself. Nothing more.

"I didn't think it meant anything more." I decided to try to push. "Why are you getting so defensive over it?"

She stood there, silent. She glared at me. "Don't ask stupid questions."

She walked away. I walked into the lunchroom and went to my table. I was eating my sandwich when someone pulled a chair across from me.

That someone was Melinda Wincock.

Great, I thought. More bullshit.

"May I help you?" I asked after swallowing my sandwich bite.

"You think you're so great," she said.

"Okay?" I said confused. "I never said that. What's your point?"

"You got that solo. What makes you so god damn special?"

I laughed. I saw her in church. She acted so religious

"That's not Christian-like behavior," I laughed.

She glared. "You're going to tell Bender that you don't want the solo. You're going to recommend he gives it to me."

"Um, no I'm not." Who did she think she was?

"Yes, you are."

"No, I'm really not.

"So be it," she said, standing up. "Watch what happens."

I wasn't very scared. I forgot about the whole encounter when I ran into Sarah in the hallway. "Hey," I said.

"Hey yourself," she replied. "Do you want to come to GSA?"

We stopped at my locker. "What's GSA?" I asked.

She looked at me weird for a moment. "Gay-Straight Alliance."

I froze in the middle of taking my German textbook put of my locker. "I told you I'm not gay."

"That's why it's the Gay-STRAIGHT Alliance," she replied, emphasizing the 'straight.'

I sighed and shut my locker. "While I have no problem with it, my mom will go nuts. Out priest gave a whole rant on this Day of Silence thing and she's going nuts on "homosexual indoctrination."

"Tell her your staying after for tutoring. Government."

"Fine," I said, stopping at my German classroom door.

"Good," Sarah said. "Oh, and Aysha will be there."

"What..?"

"You already agreed. See ya."

Before I could protest, she walked away. I sighed. I didn't understand why Aysha bothered me.

It distracted me throughout German. Why did I think about her so much? Why did her defensiveness over the kiss bother me? Why did the condemnation of gays in church hurt?

I wasn't gay. I was just confused. I just haven't met a good guy here, I told myself.

During band, I texted my mom telling her I was staying after for Government help. She said it was okay.

Eventually the day ended and Sarah led me to the room for GSA. Surprisingly, it was Frau Schwarz's room.

A few of the desks were set up in a circle. A few kids who I didn't recognize were sitting on a some. I saw Aysha sitting on one and another girl she was talking to was sitting next to her.

"Hello Sarah," Frau Schwarz said happily. "Hello Riley."

Aysha looked up and was going to hop off the desk but her friend grabbed her arm.

I pretended not to notice.

"Take a seat," Frau Schwarz said.

I hopped onto a desk across of Aysha. Sarah hopped up next to me.

"How was everyone's weekend?" Frau Schwarz asked.

A few kids said good and another shrugged. "What about you Aysha?" she asked.

"It was okay, I guess. Nothing too major," she responded.

That hurt as well.

"Dammit Aysha," the girl next to her said. "Tell Schwarz what you told me."

Aysha gave the girl a glare. The girl ignored her. "Aysha finally has a crush," she said.

"It's not that guy you mentioned last month still?" Schwarz asked.

"No," Aysha responded.

Before she could continue, the few kids I didn't know said they had to leave. Practice. Frau Schwarz wished them a good afternoon before telling Aysha to continue.

Aysha looked pissed that she didn't forget.

"It's not the guy," she quietly.

"Would you like to tell us who?"

"It's a girl."

Frau Schwarz smiled. "That's great," she said.

Aysha shrugged. "I guess."

"Would you like to tell us what she's like?"

"She's quiet. She's nervous about a lot. She's religious."

Sarah looked at me. No. That wasn't me. There were a lot of kids like that in school.

Frau Schwarz smiled. "I hope it works out for you."

Aysha smiled in response. She gave another glare to her friend.

The rest of the meeting involved discussions for Day of Silence and fundraising ideas.

I said goodbye to Sarah at the end of the meeting. All the way to my mom'a awaiting car, I kept thinking about the meeting.

Aysha didn't mean me. She couldn't have.

Right?