Faking It

2:Faking It:2

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Chapter 2

 

Aiden

We all hovered over her body in the middle in of the cafeteria. “Well,” I finally say, “I, for one, think that it’s pretty funny how she always ends up fainting because of me.”

Sorita gave me a hard look, telling me not to push it.

River ran a hand through his hair. “Mom’s going to kill me.”

“Well we’ve got to take her to the nurse,” Tyler said to him.

“We could just try to make her wake up,” River said.

“How?” Nutterwall asked.

Suddenly, a stream of water spilled in front of me and right onto Alina’s face. She sputtered for a bit before rubbing the water away from her eyes, glaring at Sorita, who was holding an empty water bottle upside down over Alina’s face.

She opened her mouth, and momentarily, I forgot that she couldn’t speak. It was a shame, really. The more you can’t hear a person’s voice, the more you’re just dying to hear it.

It pissed me off.

Alina got herself up and brushed herself before looking River in the eye. Using her hands, she indicated between them two and then Sorita and me, and then drew a house out in the air.

“Yeah, we’re living with them! Isn’t it great?”

She folded her arms together and shook her head, no, before glancing at Sorita and giving a small smile to her and sending me a hard glare.

She’s got a problem with me? What for? It’s not like it’s my fault that she’s light headed around me.

Before anyone else said anything, the bell rang and Carter, Walsh, Ferrell and my sister dragged her off and out of the caf, leaving me alone with Tyler, River, Nutterwall and Mitchell.

We ditched Nutterwall and Mitchell in the crowd of people swarming the halls and took a route Tyler discovered a couple years back through a door that was part of a wall and had to be pushed to be opened.

“Where’s this lead to?” River asks once Tyler shuts the doorway.

“The unused stall in the boy’s locker room,” I tell him, leading the way. “What’s your next class?”

“Gym.”

I nod. “Us too.”

When Tyler pushes open the entrance to the unused stall, he says, “Holy shit,” and shuts it quickly.

“Dude! We’ve gotta get to class!” I whisper. “Why did you shut it?”

“It’s the girl’s locker room!”

“What?” I stupidly ask, reaching out to open the door. “What are you talking about? There’s no way, it always leads to the boy’s-mother of god,” I stare at girls who are dressing and undressing. “This is heaven. It really is-hey, is that your sister, Raft?”

River thumps the back of my head. “Stop staring at my sister!”

“Geez,” I mutter, “I’m a guy; I can’t help it, man.”

“Well learn to help it,” River snapped.

Tyler shook his head, shutting the door. “We have a bigger problem,” he says, “than your sister freaking undressing, okay? If we go in there, they will maul us, okay? They will not stop!”