Tongue Slip

we meet.

Dedicated to Deeeemmmm
Thanks to all those who have read my book I immensely appreciate your presence. And I love you...that sounds creepy but its true, really.
This is not actually the original version of tongue slip and its taking me sometime to reframe it to sort of work out as relevant to the title and as much as I hate to say this...I need help here. U need to hear your voices and views on anything and everything. Inn other words please comment. I hope it is not too much to ask.
Spoiler alert: Jake Austin is almost showing up... some really intense tongue slip...and we also get to meet Rita Edwards. What do you think she is like?....please tell me what you think before you continue.*****
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"So..." Rita says in her thick British accent prolonging the 's' making it sound like"sssso"
I pushed my glasses up my nose and lifted up my eyes to her makeup caked face.
"I'm sorry." I say and moved past her... Well more of tried to.
"Wait." She says flipping her long straight hair. I stop but do not turn around to face her." Spring is rather excited, don't you think so?"
Now where the hell does my brother come into this?
Immediately my protective nature is triggered and I clench my fists.
"So? Should he not?" I ask with a tinge of clear dislike for her and her prodding into our lives in my voice.
"Oh of course he should" she smiled exposing her perfect white teeth.

Did I just say perfect?

"And do you know why?" She asks still smiling.

Is there something about spring that I do not know? I go over my mind counter checking through to see if there is something that might push Rita to me.
Um....it must be the point where it has finally got to her that I will be sitting with Spring and his lame excuse of friends which she is part of.
Spring is definitely happy about that.

A  ghost of a smile spreads across my face as I reply confidently "of course."
"So you have already heard it, right?"
"I don't have time for this." I mutter under my breath and take a step forward.
She waited until I was at the end of the hall before she shouted back at me. " you have heard that I am officially dating Spring Waverly."

I froze. And so did everyone else in the hall who we busy reuniting after the long summer holidays.
Everyone else recovered before me and their conversation turn from 'what was summer like for you?' To 'is that true? That Spring and Rita are dating?'
In as much as i did not voice it out like the rest of the school fraternity I had the very same questions in my head.

It took a few minutes for m to earth to and begin feeling my body again.

How could he?

How could he just do that?

I mean,...

"Heeey." My best friend's ever cheery voice suddenly broke my thoughts as she fell in step with me.

"Hey." I whispered my voice low in a somewhat cold way but that did not seem to get to her. Besides I was always like this ninety nine percent of my lifeline.
So cold...and lifeless and... Pathetically shy and controlled. Like a robot....I never felt anything about myself or my skin or even towards myself.....except where  Spring was concerned. He was...my everything.
My thoughts, my breath, and my only valuable treasure.

Nothing else mattered apart from him and whatever he ever needed.
..

"Are you even listening?" Carlie asks as we near the door of our...first class. Advanced the mathematics.

"Yeah, I was." I lie but then force a little false smile on my face to ease up a little of the arising tension.

She smiles back, large sweet and carefree almost longing in a way.

I walk to the lone desk at the very back of the class and place my back pack on it before drawing back the chair.

It was very nice of Mrs Sinclair to have organised for me to have my lone desk at the very perfect place. I hoped I could smile to the very least at the thought of  it bit I do nothing but draw my lips in a tight line.
Before I can seat, Carlisle come w over to me and I halt my movement and stay on my feet.
"Then if you really were listening to what I was saying when we were coming, I was hoping that you would repeat what I said." She smiles slyly but I see right through it and glare at her.

I don't say anything instead I just stare at her. My mouth opens to say something but I just can't find anything to say. She knows I was not listening.

"Well?" She wiggles her eye brows at me.

"I...I'll tell you after you repeat whatever you were saying." I finally blurt out my cheeks flaming with embarrassment.

She feigns disappointment and u shrug." Sorry." I mumble.

"We both know you have to pay me back right?" She smiles and just on cue Mrs Sinclair entered the class saving me from Carlie's wrath.

"Everybody sit." She shouted over the noise.
Carlie hands me another chair and smiles again. "Thank me later."

Then she goes back to her desk where she sits with her boyfriend Gerald.
She turns and winks at me.
I move my bag to my seat and the seat suddenly breaks and falls on the floor with a loud wreck sending prices of wood all over the classroom.

The room went silent all over sudden as I drew attention to myself.
I felt a blush creep to my my face as I bend over to pick up my bag from my  the floor.
"We shall have the janitor take care of t after class if you don't mind miss Waverly." Mrs Sinclair says with a little smile and I nod in agreement.

I send Carlie a curt nod to tell her thanks and she smiles at me.

What's with everyone smiling? I scowl as i sit and take out my books.

"Alright! Now let's begin our senior year." She says as she writes on the board in bold letters "SENIOR YEAR!! ADVANCED MATHS."

The rest of the lesson was quite uneventful  considering I had already gone over the whole year's syllabus. The bell rang and everyone rushed out. I took my sweet time to put my book's back in my  bag.

Carlie waited for me by the door with Gerald Smith conversing in low tones.
They smile as I  approach them but I narrow my  eyes at them and they burst into laughter.
I pass them and they fall in step with me.
"Thanks" I say to Carlie and she loops her arm on my shoulder and i flinch  but she does not remove it until a snippet of last night's night mare  comes up in my head and I shove her hand and and away.

"You know how I feel about being touched." I say with a light
Scowl on my face but she small led telling me she understands.

"So AUT, when were you planning on telling us that we have been invited to seat with the jocks" she asks as we stop at her locker to collect her books on the next  lesson by good grace I already had mine.

"Do you want to?" I ask.

"Did you say yes?"she like looks at me and I nod.
"I would never let you go to those hyenas on your on, would i?" She smiles again and I frown at her smile.
Does she ever get tired of smiling at nothing?

She shuts her locker and we walk of. As we round the corner we bump into a couple  making out against the wall.
Its Spring and Rita of course.
My defences kick in immediately and I take quick strides to them.

"E..excu...excuse m..me?" I starter as I stand right beside them.
It takes forever for them to notice me

Rita has her manicured fingers inside my brother's waistline