Fix me

Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

Never never never never never never.

            Jeremy would never leave me alone. He always found a way to keep me on his leash, pulling tighter and tighter until I couldn’t breathe. What he told me in the hallway was true. He could never stop, never let me go.

            It was Thursday.

            I had had two other encounters with Jeremy, but both times, teachers had happened to pass by, saving me by interrupting his tormenting. I knew my luck would not last long. He was more adamant than ever this past week, always making excuses to pass me in the halls or stay after school until my swim practice was over, meeting me outside the locker room. Luckily, he almost always had his friends from the basketball team flocking him.

            Hunter had been suspended from the team temporarily until everything was taken care of. I only knew this because Vanessa had told me and she had heard it from some cheerleader in her French class.

            He had not spoken to me since Monday and the last time he did was only to get his car keys back and to make sure that I had locked his car doors before going back to class. I eventually found out what exactly I had been accused of believing.

 It was said that Hunter was selling drugs at school.

It was absurd, ludicrous, preposterous. It was untrue.

I also found out that early that Monday, about the time him and I would have Spanish together, Hunter had been subjected to a full on locker check in which they found absolutely nothing that indicated that the rumors were true. I was almost relieved when I heard that. Not because that I would think he would actually have drugs in his house, but because I know Jeremy was more than capable of planting them.

However, the school does not take accusations such as the ones said against Hunter lightly. Phone calls were made, rules were set, guidelines were to be followed. The last I heard of the subject was that Hinter would be monitored carefully, at school and at home, until everything was sorted out.  

Never never never never never never.

I could never let Jeremy get away with what he was doing. I couldn’t let him hurt everyone I loved. I was screaming inside, wanting everything to just explode out of me and tell tell tell everyone what he was. An it, a creature, a monster, a nightmare. I wanted to expose him like he had exposed me.

Homecoming was this Saturday. Vanessa had been talking about it nonstop the whole week. She said that she was going with someone, but refused to tell me who. I didn’t push her and she seemed just fine keeping her mystery date a secret from me. I didn’t mind much. I was just happy that she was finally moving on from Jeremy. After the pregnancy scare, I knew she wouldn’t be doing anything stupid for a long long time.

She had asked me who I was going with and when I had replied that I was not going at all, I didn’t here the end of it. 

“How can you not go?” She asked after school when we were studying for an algebra test together. Although we were not focusing much on quadratic equations at all.  “I thought for sure that you were going now that you and Hunter are a thing.”

I looked at her over my bowl of fruit salad. “We are not a thing,” I clarified. “Besides, he won’t even talk to me right now and I don’t think he is going to for a while. At least, not soon enough to take me to some stupid school dance.” I mumbled.