Roses and Kisses

Embarassment

As I entered my Spanish class, my heart stopped racing. My teacher was instructing what to do in our group project. Because Ethan was smart, we had many classes together except for orchestra and Spanish. I played violin. I was first chair and I was really proud. Anyways, even though Ethan wasn't in my class, Hayden was. Hayden tells him everything. So if you embarrass yourself, he starts a rumor, a large one. My teacher passed out the paper for the project and put us into groups. In my group I had, Hayden, Marisa, and Dylan. As we started brainstorming, I saw Hayden looking down at his phone. The person he was text was Ethan. They were talking about ME?! I wondered in shock on WHY they would text about me. Hayden looked up and asked me,"Do you like Ethan?" I hesitated not knowing what to do. "No," I calmly said. "You hesitated," Hayden exclaimed. "Why do you want to know," I said not knowing what to do. "Nothing," he said shrugging and loudly smacking his gum. I looked back down at the brainstorming paper and we finished brainstorming. As I stood up to go qualify if our paper was good to our teacher, I felt something tugging on me. I looked behind me and Hayden had a smirk on his face. I looked down at my shoe and I saw a large wad of gum on my shoe. I screamed and took off my shoe. Everyone looked at me but I didn't care. I gave Hayden a rude look and ran to the bathroom. I started crying softly. "T-t-this were t-t-the shoes t-that my m-m-mom gave me." My mom died about a few months ago and before she died she gave me shoes that were customizable. I chose something that would pop with color. A galaxy. I grabbed a handful of paper towels and proceeded to try to get the gum off. With all my effort, it wasn't able to get off. I knew it was meaningless and walked back to class.