Alex told me I needed to stop caring about what others thought.
Well, he wasn't going through what I was. People weren't making fun and teasing him all throughout the freaking school day. His best friend's were not ignoring him.
Deep down, I didn't want him to be here because of pity. I wanted him to be here because he wanted to.
I knew I had feelings for Alex, I even admitted it to Asia and Lexi. I wanted him to like me as much as I did. But it would hurt way more if he hung with me because of pity than I'd he didn't like me back.
I looked around the cafeteria to see that some people were looking at me. They were giggling. I didn't know what for. I wasn't doing anything unusual.
Eventually, I found our why they were laughing. I had something on my back.
I reached for it. It was a paper with words on it. I crumbled it up, not even bothering to read it.
I got up from the table and looked at Alex. "Alex, let me do you a favor. I'm going to leave. You can stay here and not have to worry about being friendly to me. It's okay, I really don't want the pity. You can have your peace and happiness."
I walkedaway, not even waiting for his reaction. I knew I was overreacting. I wasn't being bullied now because it wasn't continuous. But I had a feeling this wouldn't stop. I felt like it would get worse. And I was scared of that.
"Yo, Monica!" A senior boy yelled at me. "You don't want to take a bath in some spaghetti with me?"
Some kids in the cafeteria laughed. I rolled my eyes at him. Suddenly I tripped over some freshman kid's foot. I landed on my butt, and I heard even more people laughed. My cheeks heated up in embarrassment.
A hand reached towards mines, but I ignored it and got up on my own. It was Alex's.
Asia, Lexi, Claire, and even Tyrone were laughing. What a great way to show you want your ex back, Tyrone?
I wanted to wipe the smirks off their faces so bad. I turned to leave but Alex grabbed my hand holding me back.I glared at him. "Alex, I told you! Leave me alone!"
He ignored me as he glared he stared angrily at the kid who tripped me.
"Listen to me, you little b*tch. You see her?" Alex pointed at me to the kid. He nods slowly. "I swear- if you do that sh*t again, I'll make sure you have no f*cking feet to trip no one with." I stared at him in awe. His jaw was clenched, and there was pure anger in his dark eyes. I could feel myself melt.... and the fact that this anger was all cause of me.
I looked back at the kid, which ruined my froze my melting state. I giggled when the little freshman put up his arms up in a sign of surrendering.
Alex tightened his grip on my arm and he started to lead me to the exit.
Before he could lead me fully away, I looked back at the numbers of students sitting in the cafeteria. I spotted Asia, and suddenly I was in a better mood, when I saw the jealousy in Asia's eyes as she eyed my hand in Alex's. Then I looked at the freshman kid. He looked at me. I used my free hand and threw up my middle finger at him. I heard the whole cafeteria gasp. They probably were surprised to see the quite and uninteresting Monica doing something like that.I didn't care. If they were going to continue to do things like this to me, they would get a whole other part of Monica they never knew about.
I plastered a huge smile on my face as we stepped out the cafeteria.
"Alex." I looked up, smiling at him. "I-"
He didn't let me finish though. He still looked mad. "Monica, don't ever say that sh*t to me again. I'm not being fake to you. Stop believing that stupid crap. I ain't got time for that."
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Tough Girl Out, Soft Girl In
Teen FictionMonica is a quite girl with two best friends that she knew ever since kinder garden. She has a passion for singing and is hardworking. Everything is going well for her....until she meets Alex. Alex, the new kid with the handsome face has Monica in...