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T H I R T Y - T W O

"woah, holding my breath, won't lose you again, something makes your eyes go cold,"
- Haunted; Taylor Swift.

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"This! Is! Bullshit!"

His voice echoed through the cafeteria and everyone went silence, even the sound of dropping of a needle could be heard.

"Arthur..." I found myself saying his name.

"This is bullshit Ellie," he said.

"Mr. Daniels, my room. Now!" Mr. Sherwood said from nowhere. Arthur grunted in annoyance silently before turned to Mr. Sherwood and walked to his room. I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair. Luke looked frustrated and something was bothering him though.

"Let's go Elle," Luke said after a moment, placed his hand on the small of my back and walked out from the cafeteria. Great. Now from a girl who is one of the top cliques members to a girl who broke up with fake boyfriend because of her love to her best friend.

In Green Lane, the gossip will lasts long for three days or even an hour at least but if this is about me, Edward Jean and Rosa belle Jean's daughter, one of the F4 members and a new hot guy... I guess it will lasts forever. Just one thing that could save us. New gossip.

•••

"Well she is lucky though even the gossip is about her. She had a deal for being one of the hot guys Arthur's fake girlfriend and now she is the real girlfriend to Lucas."

"Teachers are always ship them both since they were a freshmen. They are just in denials all this time."

"Elizabeth is pretty and hot. No wonder she gets Arthur and Lucas."

"I envy her. Arthur and Lucas love her."

"How can she just leave Arthur and go to Lucas? Clearly that Arthur likes her."

All of the talks I get whenever I pass by. It has been twenty hour hours since the magazine was out. I don't know how I still have courage to come to school. It's always true. Girls get more talks than boys. When a gossip floats, the girl will get more talks like; she is a slut, she is a bitch, she is lucky, she should've known it before let that guy fuck her. They all need to stop it. It's mental bully and they all need to stop slut shaming. It is not only a person who need to carry all the faults, especially girls!

It takes two to fucking tango!

"Done talking about me?" I found myself saying this but with a little high pitch voice, which people totally consider me as shrieking. Their heads snapped up at me and hurriedly walked to their classes. Not even one of them dared to say a word anymore. I sighed and violently opened up my locker. I shoved my books inside the locker before closed it with a loud thud and walked to my next class. 

Fortunately the gossip didn't last long. It was just for two days before a new gossip about Ian and Katherine are dating floats. I creep out too about this. I thought that it would be impossible but it's possible. In cafeteria, I saw Katherine was sitting beside Ian and he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. I can't believe my own eyes though that I saw this because all I know is Katherine's type is definitely not Ian Elliott. I turned to our table and I saw Arthur was sitting at our table. I blinked a few times, hoping that my eyes didn't do the second mistake but yes, Arthur was still there. I walked towards them and settled beside Luke. Luke saw me and kissed my cheek.

"Hey babe," he said, smiled.

"Hey," I said.

"Mind if I'm joining you guys?" Arthur asked.

"You already sat here bud," I said and he smiled.

"Is that true?" I asked.

"I can't even believe it too girl," Nate said, shrugged.

"Do you know Dem Boys?" Dana piped in.

"No?" I said.

"Come on, they are now an uprising boyband okay," Dana scoffed and I snorted.

"Like I care," I said.

"You should care because the guys in that band are hot as hell," Dana said and my eyebrow puckered.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah and one of the members is my friend," Luke said. Dana and Chloe practically gaped at him.

"You gotta be kidding me!" they said in unison.

"No am not. Jico is my friend," Luke said.

"Jico?" I asked.

"Jack Isles."

"Oh that Isles kid. It has been a long time. The last time I saw him when we were in Washington for some business meetings our dads had," I said.

"You remember," Luke said.

"Of course I am," I said.

"You don't remember me though," Arthur said and I looked at him in confusion.

"What?" I asked.

"He was there too. You don't remember?" Luke asked.

"Maybe not. Sorry Ed," I said and he rolled his eyes.

"Thought so," he said before he took a bite on his sandwich.

•••

It has been days and I can't believe that Arthur, Luke and I could be like trio because we spent time together and enjoyed every moments we had together. The school ended and I was walking to my locker with Dana and Chloe. Luke and Zach walked out from their class and Luke smiled once he saw me. He bid goodbyes with Zach before approached me.

"Hey," he said before placed his lips on mine for a soft kiss.

"Hey," I said, grinned.

"If you guys being like this since the beginning, my life would totally be paradise," Chloe said and we chuckled. My phone rang from the back of my pocket and I fished out and the screen flashed a call from Perry. I answered it and placed it near my ear.

"Hey Perry," I greeted.

"Hey El, what's up?" she beamed.

"I'm good. What's up you too?"

"I'm coming home but I want to stop by to meet you guys before I fly to New York," she said.

"That's great and I have surprise for you too," I said.

"Can't wait! See you later El!" she exclaimed and we bid goodbyes before I ended the call.

"Perry?" Luke asked.

"Yeah. She said she wants to stop by here in LA before fly to meet her family in New York," I said. Luke looked uncomfortable when I talked about Perry and he just nodded. We both walked out from the school and got into Luke's car before he drove us home.