I awoke the next morning to my cellphone blaring. I rolled out of bed not looking forward to the day that lay ahead of me. Once dressed I looked down at my arm, seeing several scars and almost healed cuts, in the midst of them lay my newest one. I quickly grabbed a thick bracelet and put it over my wrist hiding the new cut and grabbed some makeup to cover the others.
As I walked into school and towards my locker I saw Alexandria leaning against it. My stomach did a flip with the anger I still felt towards her. She looked up and noticed me, so there goes my plan of turning around and walking to class unseen.
“Hey, why didn’t you text me back last night?” She asked when I stopped next to her, sliding her body from in front of my locker so I could access the books I needed.
“I was busy.” I replied, a stoic expression on my face.
“Oh well I needed to talk to you about Steven.” She whispered his name. Steven was her on again off again boyfriend. Not to mention I dated him before she did.
“What about him?” I tried not to let the annoyance drip into my voice as I grabbed my history book
“Well he text me last night about how beautiful I was…” She kept talking but I started to zone out as I closed my locker and motioned for her to start walking with me to class.
“…and then he said he loved me.” I was thrown back to reality when I heard those words leave her lips. I kind of stopped in my tracks as I turned to look at her.
“And what did you say?” I waited for a reply.
“I said I loved him too.” She clearly stated as I started walking again. My heart had dropped when this conversation had begun but now, I felt like I was going to throw up. Being the superb actress that I was I made sure none of my emotions changed the expressions on my face when I looked at her.
“ Well I’m happy for you guys,” I smiled as we approached my science class. “I gotta get to class so I’ll talk to you later.” I said still smiling,
“Okay I’ll see you!” She said as she pulled me into one of her hugs. I tried not to grimace as I hugged her back and then made my way into class.
I didn’t pay attention to anything that was going on in any of my classes, I was kind of like a walking zombie today. Well that is until I made it to music class which I shared with Alexandria and Steven. I took my seat next to my group of friends and barely listened in to their conversation.
“..And you told him it back!?!?” that was Stephanie.
“…Do you really…” Jessica.
“We’ll talk about this later.” Alexandria stated before turning my way.
“Hey Zanna!! How was class??” She asked with a smile on her face.
“As good as class could be.” I replied returning her smile. The teacher started to talk and I quickly zoned out. I wonder if he really loves her, my inner voice whispered. Well it doesn’t matter if he really does now does it, its not like you have anything with him. You don’t even like him for crying out loud. My inner rambling was interrupted when I heard my name being called.
“Zanna, Zanna!” I looked up to see Steven standing in front of me calling my name.
“What?” I replied. This time I showed my annoyance.
“ Class has been dismissed and you are sitting here like a zombie.” Great now he could read my mind I said before he continued, “Are you okay?” he asked. True concern showing on his face.
“Yeah I’m fine.” I said as I got up and pushed past him making my way to lunch. But not fast enough because he caught up with me.
“Don’t lie to me, I know something is wrong.” He said when he finally reached my side. I ignored him as I continued walking. That’s when he grabbed my wrist. I flinched in pain, man that really hurt, the voice inside my head screamed. Steven quickly noticed and he stopped walking causing my to stop to. He looked down at his hand on my wrist then back up at me. I looked at him too, holding his gaze and not realizing what his hand was doing until he looked down and I followed his gaze.
He has pulled off my bracelet, leaving my cuts out in the open. He gasped as his fingers fell against them. With his fingers lightly tracing over them, I shivered getting lost in his touch. When he looked into my eyes and I was pulled back to reality.
“why??” he asked as I yanked my arm out of his grasp, quickly replacing the bracelet.
“Reasons” I said, turning to walk away. But not before my brain screamed out YOU!! I shook my head trying to get the thoughts to go away as I kept on walking. I slightly turned my head when I realized he wasn’t following me. I sighed with relief when I made my way to the bathroom to calm down.
When I entered the bathroom, much to my surprise, their stood the wicked witch of McDougal high school. I tried to avoid her gaze as she was fixing her hair in the mirror. I quickly made my way to one of the stalls, but not before getting caught.
“Hey Zanna.” She said. I nodded my head in acknowledgement as I entered the stall. I took a deep breath and waited to see if she exited. After two minutes I realized she wasn’t going to be leaving anytime soon. I took a deep breath and left the stall. Walking up beside her I waved my hands in front of the motion sensor sink and waited for the water to turn on.
“I wanted to ask you something?” she said breaking the silence. I looked up towards her and she was still gazing at herself in the mirror. I stared at her for a little while, without her noticing.
“Yeah? What is it?” I questioned back as I dried my hands. I looked in the mirror and was suddenly hit with an image I didn’t like. My big brown almond shaped eyes had smudges all around them of black eyeliner. Then I remembered my hands pressing up against my eyes so that I didn’t cry. I grabbed a paper towel and began removing the smudges and fixing my eyeliner.
“Well..its kind of embarrassing…But I wanted to ask you what it was like to French kiss a guy.” She asked. Then I quickly remembered that being as beautiful as she is, she never had a boyfriend or kissed a guy before. I never really have either though. She always just assumed that I have and always came to me for this kind of help.
Instead of telling her that I never have French kissed anyone, since she specified guys, I told her what I thought it was like.
“Thanks!” She said and hugged me again, “I knew you would understand.”
“Yeah, no problem.” I replied. “so why do you want to know anyways?” I asked.
“Well Me and Steven have been getting really close lately and it just seems wrong that I haven’t kissed him yet.” She replied.
“ Oh that explains it,” I smiled. I took a quick peek at the time on my phone acting like I really cared if I was late. “Hey text me, I should be getting to class.” And to my relief the bell rand, signaling our five minute passing period, I sighed in relief before exiting the bathroom.
My mind was elsewhere when I left so I wasn’t really paying any attention to where I was going until I bumped into something. More like someone actually. I looked up to see Jared, one of the biggest jocks at this school looking down at me.
“Sorry, I didn’t see you there.” I mumbled.
“Yeah sure you didn’t, you just wanted an excuse to touch me.” He stated. His friends cheered him on.
“I did not. I really wasn’t paying attention and I ran into you.” I clearly stated.
“Whatever. Why don’t you just go cut yourself.” He exclaimed. His friends gave him high fives while everyone else just stood there expressionless.
“And why don’t you just rot in hell!” I screamed, pushing around him and exiting the crowd before they could see my tears.
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Revenge is Sweeter Than Friendship
Novela Juvenil"I used to have everything. The perfect life. Well now that perfection is gone, and in its place lies a new hate for the world, for life, and for myself. " Suzanna and Alexandria have been best friends for as long as they can remember, but will they...
