Girl Meets Plus One || BOOK 2

We Meet Mr. Squirrels

IDINA

My brown boots beat against the ground, my black leggings lets a breeze cool my legs as I walk the hall, unzipping my red hoodie to reveal my Paramore band t-shirt. Missy stands at her locker and laughs with her friends.

"Hey bundle of problems, why don't you just go back to a ditch in Texas where you belong and die?" she sneers. I take a deep breath and turn around.

"I think you're thinking of the ditch known as your home. Oh, wait that's where you belong," I taunt back, she scoffs as me, and I smile at her, "At least I know I have issues." I turn back and catch my breath, still feeling a tinge of pain as I walk down the last flight of stairs towards the lockers, prepared for an all out battle.

"You stood up for Lucas and not me!" Maya's screaming at Riley in the middle of the hallway next to lockers of yellow and red.

"I'm not standing up for him!" Riley yells at Maya near her locker as I lean against my own.

"But you didn't disagree with him," I remark, she turns to my anger in her eyes.

"Well, when you really think about it, he wasn't wrong," She says.

"Who cares?" Maya shouts.

"Oh, because right and wrong don't matter now?"

"The only thing that matters is us. When have I ever not stood up to you?" Maya asks.

"When I'm wrong!"

"You're always wrong!" there's a pause of silence after that comment, "Or you're always right? Who cares? The point is that I do it automatically."

"I'm not gonna be the cause of this," Lucas says near the vending machine with Farkle and Zay. I glare at him.

"Too late for that now," I reply

"Yeah Huckleberry, the damage is done," Maya mocks. Lucas smirks and walks over to the smaller blonde.

"You know why it happened Maya. All you do is call me names, and for once I finally struck back!"

"Shut up! This happened because she stuck up for you," Maya says gesturing angerly at Lucas.

"I didn't stick up for him!" Riley shouts on behalf of herself.

"But you didn't disagree with him Riles," I acknowledge.

"How could she disagree with him, he's right?" Zay adds from behind Lucas.

"You're next!" Maya shouts.

"You know I wanna be first sugar," he says winking at her, she scoffs at him.

"He is right, you know, I wasn't wrong here," Lucas agrees.

"Why does that mean so much to everybody? Is being right more important than knowing where your loyalties lie?" I ask no one in particular.

"Well, when being right is more important than being friends... Then that's the end of being friends," Maya says turning to Lucas who's slowly advancing towards her, "You're up Cowboy!" she shouts starting forward as well. I push Lucas farther back from the blonde, wedging myself between the two who look like they're about to pounce.

"Maya stop! This is not the time to do this!" I shout at her, then turn to Lucas, pushing him back towards the boys, and pointing my finger right in his face, "Just because I saved your butt doesn't mean I agree with what you did. It's not okay. You're a big boy Treetop, you can take it. Think about others, they're not as strong as you. Now stop it before you cause more problems." Zay moves forward from the vending machine.