Bring Out The Best In Me

Chapter 21.

Chapter 21

I wave to Sarah and Blair, who are sitting in the car in my driveway, and tip toe inside. After I softly close the front door I sneak upstairs, being as quiet as possible. After watching the movie at the cinema, Sarah invited me and Blair over to her house and I thought I'd only be there for an hour max, but it turned out to be really fun and time flew. 

So now it was 11PM and I'm pretty sure Dad and Mom will freak at me, not even Vanessa and her backing up can help me now. 

But I'll take the punishment tomorrow morning. 

I walk into my room and change into my PJs quickly. 

My eyes land on a picture of me and Ash from 2 years ago, and I hide beneath the covers, suddenly remembering what happened. I still have to call Sam. 

I take out my phone from my skinny jean's pocket and text Sam. 

'hey. we need to talk about..you know..wanna meet? :/ :)' 

I anxiously wait for the reply.

'No. We're through. And after this conversation I'm going to delete you from my contacts so don't text me, call me or look for me in school.'

Weirdly enough, I knew he would do this..

and it doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would. Me and Sam's relationship wasn't "all that". And I'm so glad I didn't go too far with him. Sam and I are over. 

We're over. 

He broke up with me. 

I smiled slightly, sadly, and drifted off to sleep. 

The next day I woke up to my phone ringing. 

I groaned, ran a hand through my hair and answered. 

"Hello?" I croaked. 

"Geez, what happened to your voice?!" Sarah on the other end screeched. 

"I just woke up." 

"But it's 1PM." 

I sighed. "What is it Sarah?"  

"Get dressed and come over, ASAP. There's something here I think you need to see.." 

"But-" 

"Hurry." 

"Okay. See you in a few."

I hung up and dressed quickly, in a simple summer dress (yellow) a light green cardigan and a thin brown belt around my waist, with brown pumps. 

I left a note for my parents and for Vanessa to cover me for last night as much as she can, and then left and drove to Sarah's house. When I got there, her mom answered the door, and I ran upstairs to Sarah's room after a polite small talk with her. 

Out of breath, I said, "I'm here! What was the emergency?" 

Sarah looks at me, biting her glossy lip, and she beckons me over to her, beside her on her bed. Her laptop is on her lap. I go and sit beside her and see the screen. 

It's a Facebook Page. 

"Taylor Bryons is a wh0re everybody! At Sam's last party she not only slept with Sam but went home with Ashton Lyons! Don't believe us? Look at these two pics we scrambled up!" 

There's a picture of me and Sam going into his bedroom and the second one is Ash's arms around my waist, me leaning into him, and he's opening the fron door, probably to take me to his house. 

I was so wasted... 

Oh no. 

"STILL don't believe us? Well, just two days ago she was talking to our Queen Bee, Sarah Smith, and she happened to shout that Ashton Lyons kissed her! So...Taylor Brysons is a big B*TCH everyone! ~Anonymous." 

Sarah looks at me, and hugs me tight. 

Everybody will read this! It's a Facebook Page..but who would do that? 

Nothing happened between me and Ash that night! I didn't sleep with him...

Nothing happened between me and Sam either..

"Who would do this?!" I cried, tears rolling down my cheeks. 

"Don't worry, Tay-Bear. We'll fix this. You'll need me, you'll need some one who's popular to pull you out of this mess. And there's only 1 more week left of school. Chill, I'm here." 

I sobbed into her shoulder and hugged her back. 

"Thanks Sarah." 

She smirked and handed me a tissue. 

And so I spend the day with Sarah, but my mind's on something else. 

Who would do something like this, why would they take pictures of me?? 

I dreaded the next day, when I'd have to go back to school and face everyone. They all thought I was a cheater anyway, but this is just...too much. 

I texted Ash in my desperate moment. He always replied, no matter how late it was. 

'I need you...something terrible happened'

I sent it and waited for a response. I put my phone on vibrate so Sarah wouldn't wake up to the sound of my phone ringing. But Ash never did reply, even though I waited for half an hour. 

Why do I always screw up?