VICE

| DESIGNATED STALKER |

"Yea, what's wrong with you?" Someone asked from behind , startling him.

He looked through the mirror and saw Claire's image reflected on it. He turned abruptly and faced her, clearly surprised to see her, "What the fuck are you doing in here !"

"My lady business, what are you doing in here." Claire responded with much curiosity and dry annoyance.

Before he could answer, he decided to take a second to look around and noticed there were no urinals and the toilets looked way cleaner.

"Oh.." was all he managed to say after realizing his mistake.

"Yea, oh! "

"I gotta go," he said shyly and started for the door. What the hell was he doing in the girls' toilets. Was he really that flustered over some random dude to forget his geography?

"Are you hiding from people because of what they're saying about you ?" Claire suddenly asked before he could make a break for it.

He froze on the spot and spun so fast -any harder and he would have gotten whiplash.

"What are people saying about me ?!" He asked, absolutely clueless of the meaning behind Claire's words.

"Come here." He moved closer to her as she pulled out her phone and unlocked it. As soon as she found what she was looking for, she turned the screen so that Austin was able to see it clearly.

Playing right before his eyes was the video that Nicky had taken last night.

"I know what happened at my house, so, why are showing me the video?!" He asked, confused.

"Because everybody in school received it." she answered.

"What are you talking about?!" Words were not registering in his brain through his ears quick enough as they should have been.

"Looks like Nicky Text  Blasted it to everyone in school by accident."

"What!"

"Text Blast. It's when you send a text to a lot of people at the same time." She explained to him as if he had no idea what that was.

"I know what that is!" He said , full of impatience and agitation." What did you say Nicky did ?"

"You heard me."

"I'm gonna kill her!" he shouted, reaching for the doorknob but froze for a few seconds before pushing his way outside.

"Austin...." Claire tried to call him back but he was already off.

As soon as he stepped into the halls , every eye was on him. Others were talking shamelessly about him while others just stared. He couldn't believe this was happening. The stares from everyone made him want to curl in on himself.

The realization that this might be the day his life as he knew it was about to end terrified the crap out of him.

The coos, murmurs and some outright sneers sent his way were almost numbing.

He tried to ignore them the best he could and started looking for his sister, roaming the halls, trying to spot her.

"Fag!" Some random guy said to him.

"I'm not a fucking cigarette!" he said simply and continued with his search .

The second he turned a corner on the second floor, he came face to face with Lucy. Her eyes were bloodshot., like she'd been crying. She looked like she was finished crying and now she was just angry.