My sunshine

Chapter 3: Left behind

     The week was very stressful. Midterms, test, projects, everything was getting to me. It sucks because I'm only getting a 71% in geography, that may not sound bad but for my parents it was. Ever since my parents are on my ass and wants me to get at least over 80%.
     Throughout the week people started hearing about my break up and consulting me. I didn't think much of it since Glenn and I were officially end things tomorrow and go back to the friends we were. Although I did hear rumors that he liked this girl he was friends with back in elementary, I didn't want it to bother me but it did. He said he wasn't ready for a relationship so why ask out another girl? I mean we only broke up about a week ago.
     As I was studying my phone began to rung and it was my cousin Victoria. "Annabelle! Are you free tomorrow?" Victoria is only a year younger then me but we're really close. Whenever we went out as kids we would tell them we were sisters. We would always have sleepovers, go to the movies, bowling, you name it.
      "Vicki! We haven't talked in forever!" I answered back through the phone, "yeah! So I was wondering if you wanted to meet at the mall or something?" I was about to respond to her when I remembered I was meeting up with Glenn. "Um... I kinda have plans tomorrow sorry."
       I felt bad for turning her down and picking my ex boyfriend over her, I could already hear the disappointment in her voice. "Oh okay... What are you doing?" I really didn't want to answer her cause she would kill me. Ever since I told her what happened she has a hatred for him. She never really liked him in the first place, she just accepted him for my sake.
      "I'm going to meet up with someone..." I didn't want her to be suspicious and find out but of course she didn't quit, "who?" I didn't want to lie to her so I sucked it up and told her the truth. "Glenn said he wanted to meet up and end things properly." She was silent for a few minutes, which scared me because for all I know she's already on her way to straggle me to death. "GLENN! You're meeting up with that jerk!" She all of the sudden yelled through the phone almost giving me a heart attack. "I'm sorry-" "AND YOU'RE CHOOSING HIM OVER ME!" She cut me off yelling even more.
     I understood why she was so pissed off, if it was the other way around I would have acted the same way. "Why are you doing this to yourself Annabelle?" She said acting a little more calmer. "I just want to end things right and be friends again..." She sighed, "he best not mess this up or else I'm going to asphyxiate him." I laughed, "well damn. Anyway I got to go, I have a test coming up and if a fail my mom will kill me!" She laughed and we both said good bye.
Before I was about to go to sleep I felt really anxious. "We're meeting tomorrow..." I whispered to myself, it's been so long since we saw or even spoke to each other. We would always ignore each other in the hallways and we stopped messaging each other. I just hope I made the right choice.
The last bell rang and I was off to my locker to get ready and head over to Starbucks. Marie came over and asked if I was free to walk with her but I told her I had plans, all of a sudden Danica came and slammed my locker. "Annabelle! Is this true?" She showed me a conversation she had with Victoria through Instagram.
Victoria: hey it's me, Annabelle's cousin Victoria. Can you make sure she's doing the right thing, she's meeting up with that jerk after school. Thanks it'll mean a lot
I rolled my eyes and cursed Victoria under my breath. Danica and Victoria were kinda alike, the only difference is Danica can hurt me but Victoria can't because she lives in another city. "It's nothing big, don't worry about it..."
Both Danica and Marie looked at me worried, "you don't have to do this, he's probably just playing with your feelings-" "look I have to do this okay! I wanna say good bye properly so I can move on! Do you really think I'm going because I miss him!" Tears almost formed in my eyes, "I wanna be friends again! I don't want to lose him entirely, he promised we were going to stay friends no matter what!" I slammed my locker and hurried down the stairs. I didn't want them to see me cry, I just wanted to get this over with.
When I got to Starbucks I took a couch seat in the corner so no one could really notice me. Glenn wasn't here yet so I thought I came early because of what happened between Danica and I. I ordered a venti caramel ribbon crunch and was watching Netflix on my laptop waiting for Glenn to come. Soon enough it's been an hour and he still wasn't here, I suddenly got a message hoping it was him explaining why he wasn't here yet but it was Danica. I was actually happy she messaged me because I felt bad for yelling at her earlier.
Danica: hey sorry if I offended you earlier... I was just worried
Me: no it's fine, I should be the one apologizing
Danica: so how did it go... You okay?
Me:...
Danica: why? What happened?
Me: he never came... I'm still at Starbucks
Danica: WHAT!
Right after that last message she called me right away, "HE REALLY DIDN'T COME! WHAT THE ACTUALLY FUCK, I'M GONNA KILL THIS ASSHOLE!" I really wanted to laugh but instead tears came out. I was suddenly crying in Starbucks, I panicked and hid my face so no one could see me.
The coffee shop's door suddenly slammed open and it was Danica and Victoria. "Annabelle where are you!?" Both of them said looking around the shop, I stood up and both of them came running to hug me. I stood there shocked but tears still coming out, "it's okay Annabelle, we're here now it's okay." Danica said patting my back.
Everybody in the store was probably staring at us but I didn't really care, I just really wanted to get out of here. Victoria and Danica packed all my things and we were walking to the bus stop so they could take me home. They could tell I was mentally unstable, I was quiet the whole bus ride but I was still wondering how they got to Starbucks so quickly.
I stopped walking so I could get their attention, they turned back to look at me and Victoria grabbed my hand telling me I had to get home before my parents get worried. "How... How did you guys get to Starbucks so quickly?" I said shaking a little trying not to cry again. They both sighed and sat on a near bench and signaled me to sit, I sat there waiting for them to tell what they were up to. Danica talked first, "I was going to the library to study and no I didn't do it because I knew you were going to Starbucks. Victoria then called to see if I convinced you not to go and how she was at your house." She motioned for Victoria to explain next, "okay so then Danica told me to meet her at the library so we can check on you or something but then she told me what happened between you guys and we just decided to wait for you to get home and tell us what happened. That's why we made it there right away." I nodded and tried to take in everything. I felt really stupid and embarrassed. I felt lied to, I didn't want to think about it too much because it hurt, a lot. I couldn't feel anything but pain, I didn't want to talk anymore or eat. I just want it to end. I wasn't feeling this way just because of Glenn but because of everything. All the people whose ever left me and hurt me. When will it stop? Would it ever stop? I was starting to give up. I'm tired of being left behind.