The Wrong Guy

Chapter 3 Winnie Vortex

                When I was done with my cyber stalking, I grabbed some stuff from my locker downstairs. As I was fixing my stuff, some students have barged out from their classrooms. It became really crowded and noisy again. I’m not saying that was a good or bad thing, maybe more or less. I was just about to close my locker because I’ve brought out the notebooks I needed when my locker neighbor –Harvey Tan- started singing his insult song to me. I never really understood the lyrics he kept singing, but I hear my name and the word ‘gay’ come in together. Somehow, that used to piss me off.

                He continued singing while he meddled with his locker. I closed mine –not slammed as I used to because I was kind of in a good mood- and laid my shoulder on it.

                “You know, I’m not surprised you’re still alive.” I joked. He stopped singing and smiled at me, the smiles that were meant to insult me. I’m sure I was way too sick of seeing that every day.

                “And why is that?” he chuckled.

                “Cause God really does protect the fools and the children.” I smiled the way he did.

                “Ouch.” His smiled went down, but I knew he was kidding. “You hurt me.”

                “There you go, Mr. Sensitive.” I laughed. He didn’t say another thing after. He just looked at me like I was weird or something ‘til I finished my laugh. I soon faced him.

                “What’s with you today? I mean, you’d normally want to punch me now, but you’re fooling around with me. What is this, April fools day? Liyah Loveworth is not taking me seriously today. Why is that she’s happy?” he sounded like he was doing a monologue which was a little funny. “Is she in love? Or are you in love with me?”

                “You know I don’t fall in love.” I knew he was kidding, so I didn’t really care.

                “But yet again-” Harvey was about to say something that I was sure was something to insult or intimidate me, but his best friends –Samuel Samson and Jason Cross- came across in our conversation. Oh God, those three were always together. They were like the super bullies that just insults but never fights. I mean, they run when they get someone too angry and never fight back. Basically, they’re cowards, or they’re just some nice guys with nothing to do. They never failed to annoy me just until that day, and I didn’t know why.

                “Dude, Sander just invited us to a party!” Samuel said, and he clearly hooked Harvey’s attention.”

                “Sander’s party?” Harvey asked.

                “No, it’s Winnie’s. Winnie told Sander that he can bring anyone he likes, and Sander asked us!”

                “Are you sure Winnie Vortex wants us there after what we did?” Harvey asked. They were ignoring me which was pretty unusual. They sounded a little serious. I wondered what was Harvey talking about.

                “What do you mean? What did you do to Winnie?” I confronted them.

                “None of your business, buff girl!” Jason rejected. I hated it whenever they called me buff girl. I certainly do not look buff and lesbian in any way. I guess it was because of my reputation in karate. Not much girls in Neptune take karate and do it until she reaches her black belt. Three years ago, a guy in Neptune High insulted me and my mother. I ended up beating him to a pulp even when he fought back. I was called to the principal’s office. Of course, mom was, too. Mom cried that night. She didn’t want me to be in any trouble since I’m the only left in her family. I promised her I was always going to be there, that I was not going to get into any more fights. I stopped taking karate after that. Everyone in school became quite scared of me. It wasn’t a good thing. They became really distant. I felt lonelier than I was before that fight. But everyone forgot when time passed, and I had new friends.