"Come on Parker, why are you being such a brat about it?" Avery asks as she sits next to me in the oven hot classroom. It's the second to last week of the school year and right now the last thing I want to do is talk to her about why what she did was wrong.
"Avery you left Levi and I and went with Nathan to watch him do illegal shots at a bar while you looked like a show girl standing next to him!"
She gave me an annoyed grimace - one that shows she's clearly disgusted that I had just called her out. I know she knows what she did was wrong, but Avery of all people will never admit it - or at least not in this lifetime while I'm still living and breathing .
"Parker I was having fun. Don't know know what that is? Fun? Maybe you never heard of it," she shoots back at me while flipping open her textbook and leaning on her hand while her elbow rests on the gross and sticky table in front of us. I don't want to start a fight with Avery, especially not in front of our whole science class, so I just let it go.
I don't look back at her or try to defend myself, because I know I'm right. I mean, how can I not be? All I was doing was trying to enjoy a nice date with my new boyfriend while I had the company of my two best friends. It's not my fault that she and her boyfriend went and ruined everything.
Avery scans her eyes over me and waits to see if I reply, but my quiet manner and subtle sighs that prove I don't care are beginning to aggravate her. She puts down her pencil on top of her notebook and stares at me.
"Look Parker, I was just doing what Nathan asked because he was beginning to feel uncomfortable. I was being a good girlfriend." Yeah, as if the rest of us weren't uncomfortable. As I remember, Levi and I were basically targeted by every sentence that left Nathan's mouth. Yet, I'll never tell Avery that. I'll never give her the pleasure of know that her and her boyfriend won in terms of who made the other more unwelcome.
I keep my eyes locked on my notebook as I take note and make organized headings across the lined paper. Ignoring Avery isn't so hard - not when I know that it's the right decision.
"Well?" She asks as her voice begins to rise, causing a few students around us to turn heads and see what the commotion is about. I shrug my shoulders and smile to myself in relief as I begin to study the periodic table laid out neatly in front of me.
Avery lets out a loud sigh and turns her back towards me - an immature move on her part - while she begins scribbling down notes in her notebook. I continue to stay silent, until a crumbled up piece of paper hits me in the side of the head and causes me to flinch. I look up, but Avery's still ignoring me and breathing heavily in anger. I unfold the note carefully and begin reading the writing that's messily written across the page.
Parker,
Just agree to whatever she says to make her happy. To make me happy.
-Nathan.
I turn around to see him peering up from his paper and slightly pleading with me to compromise under his breath. I shake my head and roll my eyes at him as I turn back around in my seat. For two seventeen year olds who think they're old enough to handle alcohol, they sure are acting extremely immature. But then again, that's the way it is with most high schoolers - or at least in my school.
It may sound a bit inconsiderate and mean, but at this point I truly don't care how Nathan feels. After he left me with Levi, we ended up having an amazing night that included ice cream and a horrible romantic drama that involved a werewolf fighting a vampire. It was extremely cliché and cringeworthy, but I've never laughed so hard with Levi before. Plus, I haven't felt this excited to see him in only a few hours from now. It's like we realized how much we enjoy each other's company, and it's been going uphill for days now. Truthfully, as much as my friends are mad at me, all I want to do is be with Levi and tell him all of my problems - all of the things that I find wrong with this whole fight between me and Avery.
The bell rings and I close my textbook to place it in my bag, only to be stopped by Avery grabbing my wrist and sticking out her bottom lip in a final attempt for me to agree that I was wrong - which I never will.
I yank away and throw my backpack over my shoulder to go to my next class, leaving Avery and Nathan alone with only each other in the classroom, just like they had done to me only days before.
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The Quiet Ones
Przygodowe"Don't go outside after dark." This was a well-established rule in the whole community. After dark, groups of rebels emerged onto the streets of town and vandalized everything in their sight. Parker Reynolds knew this, she knew this rule almost too...
