Sophomore year

Chapter Seven (7)

I began to eat my food, pizza!!! I LOVE PIZZA!!!
"What's your name again?" Haru asked her.
"Hu? Oh I'm grace" she said
"I love your name" i said with a mouthful of food. I choked when I coughed. Due too trying and not let her see I was talking with my mouth full.
"Awe thanks!" She replied smiling and looking over to me.
"Yeah um...no problem" i said scratching the back of my neck, and tilting my head to the left. The smile still spread across my face.
"What is your guys name?" She asked in that sweet shy sounding voice of hers.
"Oh...well I'm haru, this is hana, and that is aiko." Haru said.
"Well it was nice to meet all of you, but I really must be going..." she said looking at her phone for the time."oh, okay." I said obviously a little sad...
She smiled and walked away throwing her leftover food away. I looked at haru and hana.
"So...what do you guys think?" I asked
"You're so obvious, I swear..." Hana said.
"Not what I meant!" I replied. "What did you think about grace?"
" she is reeeeeally shy,but she's nice from what I could tell..."
My smile grew again, "I really like her but I don't know much about her, what do I ask to know more about her?"
"Well ask her to come over but make sure you're dad isn't home before you do so..."
" won't have any problem with that..." i said under my breath
" Okay what happened yesterday that we don't know about!?"
"Okay, come with me" i told them while getting up and throwing up my food away. They too got up and walked with me...I went to the bathroom and told them the long story.
They both hugged me and said they were sorry, "stop it you know I don't like sympathy." I told them pulling away. Little did I know there was someone in those stalls. More them one...multiple someones...

*two weeks later*

Grace and I have been talking a lot, she's invited me to go to her house but I've always declined her offers, I don't want to make a fool of myself more then I already have been. I don't know why but I've made a pretty big idiot of myself not wanting to draw attention.
I've been staying with Andrew and Miss.B. It's not bad at all I get a hot meal everyday and a bed that's not just a few pillows on the ground, oh yeah and no psychotic dad with a gun.
"Hello?" I supose I was zoning out because I didn't even realize grace was snapping her fingers in front of me. "You were mumbling gibberish " she said laughing a little bit, OH MY GOD!! her laugh is so cute!!!
"What? Oh sorry, I didn't realize."
"Its cool." She said tilting her head to the right. "You okay?" She asked
"Yeah, I guess i'm fine, why?"
"Well, you've been zoning out quit a bit these past two weeks." :/
"Oh, well yeah I'm okay, I do that a lot. I'm sorry"
"Again it's fine, you don't need to say sorry again..."
"Oh...okay...I'm, I mean thanks...I guess...".
"Yeah."

I was walking back to Miss.B's house when I saw someone following me.
I turned around to see... Rebecca!!! (-_- is the face she is making) "what do you want?"I asked her.
"I've seen you around school with that girlfriend of yours...what was her name again? Grouch? Gabe?she looks like a Gabe... "
"Her name is Grace, now quit following me!!!"
"Grace? Suprising... she doesn't have grace at all...she's actually the complete opposite from what I saw..."
"What do you mean?" I asked very confused...
"You don't see her going around school flirting with every guy and girl there? Oh come on I knew you were blind but I didn't know you were THAT blind..."
" She doesn't do that!?" I yelled at her " why would she do that to me?"
"Because she doesn't care about your feelings. Hell...no one does... not with all that baggage you carry around..."
"Baggage?"
" you know...that stuff with your dad...and your mom dying... man... who would have thought..."
"You don't know anything about me...why are you doing this?"
" I know plenty about you, and I know that grape is cheating on you."
" Okay for the last time it's grace, and she can't be cheating on someone she's not dating!" She twirled on her heal and began walking the other way, I did the same...my heart was shattered though I knew what she was saying was a lie...