The Artificial Bad Boy

N i n e t e e n || basically

I worried my ass off the whole period.

I just couldn't get my mind off of Cole. Thinking back, I realized that he really did care for me. The minute Conner said a disgusting remark, he didn't hesitate to beat the shit out of him. He didn't care about the teachers whom were near by.

But even though I was grateful for his help, I detested it when people stood up for me. The whole experience made me feel weak. Made me look like I couldn't fend for myself. I was a independent women and unlike most girls - didn't need a prince to save me. If I could turn back time, I would have barged in and beat Turner up myself.

The reason why I couldn't barge in was because of Cole's scary face. Cause damn that boy is freaky as hell. I was frozen the whole time and my mind went blank. I replayed his face in my head, how his eyebrows scrunched up, his eyes narrowed, and he would grit his teeth. The experience made me make a mental note to never make Cole mad. I didn't want to be the target of that anger.

I pray for all his victims. Except for Turner of course.

I looked at the teacher who was writing numbers on the board. She was yapping about some calculus thing. Today was an important math lesson but I couldn't help but doze off. I'll just study it by myself , I thought. Whenever a lesson didn't make sense, or if I didn't listen, I would usually teach it to myself. Sometimes, self teaching is so much better than listening to the teacher.

"Psst Riley," I heard to my right. I looked over to see Maya leaning over towards me. Her blonde hair cascaded down as she bent forwards. I looked around to see if the teacher was watching, thankfully he was occupied with the lesson.

I twirled my pencil with my fingers, "what is it?"

"Are you alright? I heard about the morning."

I nodded, "well yeah. I wasn't the one getting hit."

She chuckled. I was glad that she was worried about me. But I wondered why, I mean I wasn't the one that was brought to the nurses nor was I in deep shit.

"What happened back there with Cole and Conner," Maya asked.

I leaned over, trying to get as close as possible. "Conner was being a perverted dick towards me, so Cole beat him up."

Maya gasped, "really? That's exactly like a romantic scene I saw in a teenage soap opera..." She clasped her hands together and looked up, imagining the scene in her head. She sighed and looked at me with puppy-eyes.

I rolled my eyes, the experience wasn't romantic at all.

"I heard Cole beat him up bad, apparently Conner went to the hospital," Maya continued. I raised an eyebrow, that wasn't true. Conner wasn't that hurt when he went to the nurse's. I assumed that people just stretched the truth.

"Not true," I said. "Conner wasn't that hurt." Why would people think that? It was pretty clear to me that Conner wasn't that hurt and besides, there was a lot of people watching. That made me ponder, I wonder which rumors about Cole are true and which are stretched.

Maya cocked her head sideways, "really?" I nodded in response.

"Oh, well I guess people are spreading shit..." She said, "They also think that the guys were fighting for your love." She giggled when she mentioned the horrendous "L" word. I choked on my spit when I heard her statement. Why would they thing that? "That's why I asked if you were okay or not."