Drew Briggs has it all.
He's the cliche popular boy, tall and built with dark tousled hair and dreamy eyes. He's smart and sly and to top it all off, he's dating the most popular girl in school.
Or at least that's how everyone sees him. Just the po...
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Stepping into the classroom I instantly felt the air thicken with tension.
I literally had to karate chop my way through it just to get to my desk. As I sat down and surveyed the classroom that was filling up with students I caught a glimpse of Drew speaking to our English teacher, Mrs. Larsen. To their left in the back of the classroom was Jessica sitting with her minions, she had a hard look on her face, the only way to explain it was like a five year old who didn't get the pony she asked her daddy for.
Drew seemed tense as he spoke to Mrs. Larsen, his hand was crushed into a fist on his left side with his right gripping his backpack strap. After a few more words from her he spun on his heels walking towards my direction.
I looked away quickly focusing on the notebook in front of me. Once he settled into the desk to my right he started to set all of his things out. Usually he'd be sitting behind Jessica being surrounded by her group of friends but since they broke up, and might I add that it ended very badly, he changed his seat.
It wasn't really a problem since the seat next to me was empty but it seemed to be a huge problem for Jessica. She was glaring across the room at him, I could feel the the piercing stare burn into the back of my head. I turned to Drew who seemed to be avoiding the eyes that bore into him. He turned to lock eyes with me for a brief moment as I sent a small smile to him. His lips twitched up slightly at my gesture and turned back to face the front of the classroom.
Since we only spoke a couple times I wasn't very comfortable in starting up a conversation with one of the most popular guys in school, especially with his ex girlfriend calculating each and every one of our movements. It seemed that Jessica wasn't the only one staring at him, a lot of eyes were glued to him actually.
Then my stomach did this weird flip, like it just did one of those routines for gymnastics, I almost forgot about what Jessica put on Twitter and that must've been the reason why everyone was staring at him. On Saturday when I went to the movies with the group, Emma caught me up on everything. She even showed me the tweet Jessica posted, and it was extremely personal for Drew. It was brief but it said enough to get the point of it and it was completely heartbreaking.
'He isn't even worth enough for his mom to stick around.'
I didn't feel pity for him, I did feel sorry but those are two different things. The one thing I felt after I read the sentence was complete understanding. My heart sank when it reminded me of my mom and the lump in my throat returned.
I was snapped out of my thoughts as Mrs. Larsen spoke,"now discuss with your shoulder partner about the book you've been reading for your project." I sighed in relief as I remembered that I've already finished the book report we were assigned to a week ago. It wasn't due until Friday but I finished it early. It was one of those situations where either I got it done and over with early or I wouldn't finish it until the night before it was due.
