Ivory’s POV
I walked into the cafeteria and lined up to buy lunch. After a couple of minutes I was sitting at my usual seat, in the corner alone with my tray of a ham sandwich, an apple and a juice carton. I heard people laughing; I didn’t even need to look up to see that they were laughing at me. I have no idea why, but I know that they are. I hid my face with my long red hair and munched on my sandwich.
“What a freak”
“Ya and a loner too”
“I bet she’s, like, totally poor”
“Totally, why else would she be wearing that?”
“Seriously, she’s ugly AND has no fashion sense”
I looked up at the two blond bimbos who were talking about me, and sent them a death glare. They both were wearing matching, pink track suits and had their hair tied up in high ponytails. One had bleach blond hair with pink highlights and blue eyes, while the other had dirty blond hair with pink highlights and brown eyes.
As soon as they saw my glare towards them, they both practically got up and ran out of the cafeteria.
I let out a frustrated sigh and looked back down at my lunch. I had finished my sandwich so I got up and carried the wrapper to the trash. I took a bite out of my apple while walking out the doors.
“BOO!” someone shouted as the jumped out of the corner
I didn’t even flinch, just gave them a flat stare when I realized who it was. A small smile made its way up my face, but turned into a frown when I remembered what Nate had said to me.
Drake stood there making a face, which I only assume, was to scare me
I just turned around and started walking the other way when Drake grabbed my wrist and spun me around to look at him. His eyes were full of hurt and confusion “Did I do something wrong?” he asked
I let out a small sigh “No Drake, but you can’t keep talking to me, you’re going to get hurt” I told him
His face twisted in anger “I don’t care what he does to me, I made that clear to him. You’re a nice person and it’s not fair what you have to go through. I want to be your friend, and nobody can stop me” He half shouted at me.
I flinched and he looked at me with guilty eyes “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to shout” he muttered in a soft voice
I couldn’t help the smile that made its way across my face. “Thank you Drake, but it’s not fair that you get hurt because of me too” I argued
He rolled his eyes at me “They can’t hurt me” he stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world
“And why is that?” I asked curiously
“Why?” he asked with a smile “do you care so much?”
“I’m just curious” I told him
“Well, you know what they say, curiosity killed the cat” He joked
“Well I’m not a cat, so tell me!” I said a bit annoyed at his stalling
“your no fun” he pouted, but once he saw my glare he put his hands up in the air “I’m kidding, I’m kidding! Sheesh”
I kept staring at him, waiting for him to tell me
He let out a chuckle as I started tapping my foot on the ground impatiently. “Ughh! Drake, are you going to tell me or not?” I asked
He let out another chuckle “ ’cuz my mom’s a lawyer and my dad’s a cop, if your brother or any of his friends even touch me, I can get him arrested and set to jail” He explained
My eyes widened “Ya but if you do that my parents are going to be arrested and charged too” I started panicking. If that happened, I would go into foster care, and Nate told me once what happened there. He had told me that the foster parents are worse than him. He told me how they took belts and whipped children with them and how they would starve me. He had told me many other horrible things about them too. He said that I would---
I was pulled out of my thoughts when Drake put his hands on my shoulders and shook me. “Ivory, It’s going to be fine” He assured me “I’m going to let him know about my parents and threaten him with them. He’s not stupid enough to do anything to me or you after I do.”
I looked up at him and let out the breath that I now realized I had been holding.
I'm really sorry that I keep posting so little, but I'm really busy with school and Family right now, hopefully, I'll start writing proper chapters next week :S But for now, I hope you like what i posted! Really sorry,
Diya
