Beyond Doubt. (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 17. Strawberry and Cheetos.

I walked in the school's hallways feeling nothing. I don't know what I was thinking, I wasn't happy or sad. I don't know what was wrong with me. I felt blunt. I felt something was missing.

I sighed.

"Hey sunshine," Aria smirked.

I just glared at her. Ugh.

"What?" she asked frustrated, "you are such a boring person," she remarked.
"Why are you so happy?" I asked.

For god's sake, you broke up yesterday. Have some feeling, pig.

"As if you don't know," she shrugged.
"No, I don't know," I pointed.
"You sent Aaron to clear up things with me. Remember?" she said.
"I didn't send him, it was his idea," I remarked.
"But you made him realize," she pointed.
"Never mind, I don't want to take any credit," I said, closing my locker and walking towards my class.
"Oh my god, you are such a saint," she sang, "what's up with you?" she asked.
"Nothing," I said.
"What's wrong?" she asked, jumping in front of me.
"I have classes to attend," I said, ignoring the subject.

Aaron popped in front us, making me take a few steps back, scared.

I stared at Aria and said "look, your boyfriend is here," with a smirk.
I punched Aaron's muscles and said "hey handsome."

We all laughed, and Aaron pecked Aria's cheek.

"Oh my god, don't touch her," I screeched, "just kidding," I finished.
"Get out," Aria said.
"You are breaking my heart, you were cheating on me all this time," I said stabbing my heart dramatically.
"Leave," Aria said, and Aaron kept on laughing like a madman.
"Fine I'll leave," I said, waving them off.
"We love you," Aaron yelled.
"Sucker," I yelled back.

I didn't see Shawn in school. I called him, but he didn't pick up.
This is insane. He isn't talking and I don't even know what's wrong.

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Jay-jay and I talked over the phone for some time. He was so happy, because he could watch Pokémon all day, and no one would stop him. He told me how good Aunt and Uncle Collins were. He talked about how BAD they cooked the foods. He said that they were the worst cooks ever. They could like, kill a puppy if they fed them. He told them to get him some cheetos instead, and I laughed so hard.

Later I called Aria to come over, and she agreed.

After 15 minutes...

Aria and I were sitting on the couch watching Teen Wolf and eating ice-cream. Not to add, we were eating Strawberry ice-cream.

She was head over heels for it. If you ask me, I would say it tasted like cough syrup.

I told her all about this weird feeling I was getting about Shawn and the way he reacted. I added the part that he didn't pick up any of my calls and ignored all my texts straight away. This was so ridiculous.

If he came in front of me right now, I would seriously smack him hard.

I told her how Jay-Jay told me about everything that was going on in the Collins' House, but he didn't say anything about Shawn at all.

Like Shawn was invisible or something.

"This ice-cream, my friend, is r-e-a-l-l-y good," she said licking her fingers.
"Aria you are no help, atleast listen to what I have to say," I said in a monotonous voice.
"I listened to everything Mel," she said flatly.
"So?" I asked, wanting to know her thoughts.
"So?" she asked back.
"Tell me what to do," I gasped.
"Calm down, woman. Why don't you ask Jay-Jay to spy on him?" Aria said smirking.
"For god's sake, he is only six years old Ari," I pointed out.
"He is smarter than you are. You have got the brains of a snail honey," she said.
"Can you help? Is it too much to ask for from you?" I said exasperated.
"Okay, so call Jay-Jay and ask him about everyone. Check up on him. Ask him about Shawn too," she said in a matter of fact-ly way.
"This will work?" I asked.
"Of course," she said, taking more ice-cream onto her bowl.

I looked at the amount of ice-cream she was going to have and then ignored.

"Okay," I sighed.

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A/N- I finally uploaded again. I was so lost in my own story. I had no idea what to write next. Tbh, I wrote the whole story ones, but I wanted to change it a bit, so I ended up getting no time and NOW it's finally here.

to the people who read my story... you guys mean a lot to me.