Cry of the Broken Hearted

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Pulling myself together, I ran to my next lesson trying to stop the tears leaking from my eyes. My eyes were dry by the time I got there but what happened next made me want to start crying all over again... "Oh, look! It's her! She's the one who spread that rumour. So pathetic..." someone called out.

"Yeah, just look at her. Been crying have you? Haha! You deserved it!" another voice said that sounded like Sophie's. Swallowing back my tears I calmly walked past everyone to my seat at the front, next to some popular boy. Mandy sat behind me and I could feel her glaring at me, her eyes were daggers, stabbing me in the back as I tried to succomb the pain.

"Turn to page 257 and do questions 1 - 5. I expect to see everyone's books at the end of the lesson so don't think you're getting out of doing work!" the teacher snapped. Oh, why did Mandy have to say that? She's got everyone against me already! I knew that gossip spreads quickly, but that was incredible! Sighing, I got to work. "Alice?" Tom, the popular boy said. "Are you alright?"

Looking up at him, the look on my face screamed "DO I LOOK ALRIGHT?" but I actually smiled weakly and said, "Yeah."

"'Course you're not! You would never spread a rumour like that. You're too nice. Don't worry, I know it wasn't you." Tom surprised me by saying.

"Thanks. I didn't do it. She just wouldn't listen... What is the rumour anyway?" I replied, feeling slightly better that someone actually didn't believe it.

"Didn't you know? Well apparently Mandy and Alex... y'know..." he whispered.

"Oh!" I said. "Right. Anyway, gotta do my work. Thanks for that, nice to know someone didn't believe I spread the rumour!" Tom just smiled and said nothing. Feeling a lot better, I got on with my work.

 Soon, it was time to finish so I handed my book in and got out of the class before anyone else could say anything. Yes! That was my last lesson, I could escape home and try and stay as far away from people as possible. In my haste, I bumped into someone. "Oops, sorry!" I exclaimed and rushed off, but this person didn't seem to want to let me past. "Alice?" he asked.

"Oh. It's you."I replied. Harry was standing in front of me, looking worried.

"Are you in a rush, because I can talk to you later if its a better time...?" he said with a frown.

"Yeah, much better time." I mumbled and ran off, leaving Harry standing alone, watching me go further and further away from him. As soon as I'd left the school the tears came back again. This time, even harder and more powerful. Nobody was around, so I slowed down and made myself stop so I had time to breathe. Eventually, I managed to stop crying and walked the remainder of the way home quietly and slowly. It gave me time to think.

What did Harry want to talk to me about? I hope he hadn't heard about the rumour thing. Why was Tom so nice to me? What made Mandy think I spread the rumour? What had gone wrong? So many questions, so much to think about, so much to try not to cry about. Suddenly, I had a bright idea. If I told Alex my side of the story, maybe he could get that across to Mandy since he was more likely to talk to me! Yes, thats it! Excited by this lame but hopeful idea, I sped up and got home as quickly as I could.

Ding da ding ding da dingggg! My phone rang as I lazed about on the sofa watching TV. I took it out of my pocket and the text read:

Hey Al, you ok? You looked on the verge of tears when you bumped into me earlier. What's up? If its about that rumour thing, don't worry, I know who spread it!

It was from Harry. How on earth could he know who spread it?

Oh, well apart from the fact that Mandy hates me for spreading a rumour I knew nothing about and that she turned my whole class against me (well most of it)... yeah I'm fine!!! How do you know who spread it? Who was it?

After a few minutes, he replied:

Aww poor you :( And don't worry it was that idiot Freddie! Hope you're ok:)

Ok? I was more like ecstatic! I knew who spread the rumour and I could make it up with Mandy. That is if she ever wanted to speak to me again... Oh, Harry, I love you so much... Why can't you love me?