Mika and Emily

Mallory...again

Emily’s POV

Ahhhh. I couldn’t wait for the concert. Mika was on my mind for the rest of the day. After school I walked to my car and quickly drove to my house. But when I got to my car, there was a note on my windshield: “Give your ticket to see Mika. –Mallory.” Aw great. Is she gonna ruin it for me again. Everybody at school loved Mika. But Mallory, oh she just WORSHIPED him. I grabbed the note and tore it up. I opened the door to my car and she was suddenly right next to me. “Hand it over… now.” she said in a low voice. “No way, Mallory.” She grabbed my wrist as I started to jump in the car.

“Give them to me. Or else.”

“Or else what?” I asked her with an attitude.

“Or else, somebody is going get suspended for ditching for half the school day.” She wouldn’t! Our school had a very very strict policy on ditching school. If you got caught doing it, then you could get suspended for at least two weeks. And, depending on what you were doing during that time, could cost you another month. And well… I was smoking during that time so I could get in a lot of trouble. I couldn’t believe she would blackmail me like this. I slowly took the slip of paper that Mika had given me and gave it to her. Mallory’s face broke into a wide smile. “Thank you so very much Emily” Mallory then looked at the paper. Her eyes widened, then narrowed. ‘You have to come with me.” she said.

“Really?” I asked excitedly.

“Yes. But only to get me in. You see, this pass says that it’s only for ‘Emily’. So you’ll have to come and tell them that you gave the ticket to me. And then you can leave.” My stomach felt like it dropped a million miles an hour. “Okay.” I said.

                I settled on a leather tank top and red skinny jeans. Even though I couldn’t see the show, I wanted to look presentable in case maybe I saw Mika. I know it’s stupid, but I was kind of hoping he would talk with me more after the show. But he probably didn’t have time for such things. I’m just another crazed fan in his eyes. I spiked my hair up a little and wore black mascara and pink lipstick. I grabbed my gold clutch bag and drove off to the concert that I wasn’t even watching.

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                Mallory was waiting next to Eric already when I got there. She looked very nice as usual. A black crop top and a baby pink high wasted mini skirt. She wore red high heels and big dangly earrings. “She pretended to hug me and then pushed me Eric. “Hello again Emily.” he said warmly with a smile. I smiled back and forced myself to say: “Hey. I’ve decided I didn’t want to see the concert tonight. So I gave my friend Mallory the ticket.” I turned towards her and she waved at him and said “hi”. Eric was very confused, “But just hours ago... you… okay…are you sure?” I gulped, “yes. I am.” I looked at Mallory and her mischievous grin was showing again. “Thanks again, love.”  She faked a hug again and skipped off into the arena. Eric nodded at me and said ‘Goodbye, now Emily. Mika was really looking forward to seeing you tonight.” I started crying. I didn’t know why but I couldn’t even stand in front of Eric. I ran fast back to my car and sat there in the dark for a while and drifted off to sleep.