Scrambled

Chapter 8

"Alice! Alice!" I breathlessly ran up the stairs and ran into the room.

I kept screaming her name over and over again. Suddenly, I timid little head bobbed into view from below the bed. She hugged me and started crying. I was in shock. I gave her a tight squeeze and led us to the bed while letting her cry on my shoulder. My shoulder was drenched and it felt uncomfortable as hell but that didn't matter. 

"Alice, what happened?"

"N-Nothing." she sniffed.

"Now don't give me that trash. What happened?"

She explained and I knitted my eyebrows together.

"Can we go to sleep?"

I gently stroked poor Alice's hair.

"Of course, tomorrow again?"

"Okay..."

I kissed her forehead and let her lay down. She was out within three seconds. I quietly stood up and went to the bathroom. My left shoe was dragging a bit and I sat on the toilet to check it out. I must have stepped on something going up. I saw a blob of pink gum. Did Alice have this on her? Or was it... I punched the wall and screamed a low throated growl. If it was him... I swear to God. I didn't know what else to do. But Alice was older now. I had to tell her in the morning. I went back to bed and fell into a restless slumber.

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"So how was your date?" 

"Alice, you have got to stop waking me up at ungodly hours." I moaned.

Violet rolled over and curled up into a fetal position but I didn't want to feel alone right now.

"Violet!" i said, shaking her shoulder.

She got up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

"It was fun, I guess."

"Anything special?"

"We kissed," I said under my breath.

"You WHAT?!" I flew up from the bed and started pacing about.

"You rant on about hard to get and suddenly locking lips isn't hard to do, so yeah."

"Look, he kissed me."

"Yeah, and you enjoyed it."

She looked away and said in the most give away tone of the year: "No."

"Haha," i scoffed.

"Breakfast Joint?" she inquired.

"Fine. Get ready."

 

We arrived there and ordered the usual. While waiting for our orders who should we see but Terep. I waved to him and he turned revealing his seatmate. My jaw dropped.

Samantha Burkins. 

She was the total diva and ultimate crush of everyone. What was she doing with Terep??? I nudged Violet. She saw the epidemic and gave a curt nod. But Terep was walking this way. And Samantha was following. 

"Hello, Alice. Who's this you're with?" said Terep pleasantly.

"Uhm.."

"Why hello there, Loser twins." butted in Samantha.

Violet was looking away but I could she her shoulders tensing up. This was not good. We weren't in the mood for this.

"What are you doing with her?" I said in a cold tone.