Not Your Average Cheerleader

NYAC - Part 9

He stood over me, but his face was blank. I looked down and just continued my drawing, I was already humiliated enough, I didn't need to receive any more of it from the boy I was talking about in my essay. He crouched down and looked at what I was working on, constantly look back and forth between The art work and me. I sniffled and looked at him briefly, I felt like I was about to cry just knowing that he was here in front of me.

"What Dan?"

"You left class. You never do that."

"So?"

"That really embarrassed you didn't it?"

I looked at him and rolled my eyes, shaking my head as I started to shade in some detail. Dan put his hand on mine and lowered my drawing pad so he could get a better look, normally I would have pulled it back up, but I was already hurting from embarrassment, what more could this do.

"what's this?"

"The art assignment"

He seemed genuinely surprised when I said this, He sat on the ground in front of me, crossed his legs and really studied at everything in it.

"You like batman?"

I slowly took the pad from his hands and placed it into my bag. I zipped the thing up and then placed it on my shoulder''s as I got up from the ground. I sighed and looked at Dan, I honestly just felt shame around him, I needed to leave.

"Like I said to you before, there are many things you don't know about me. If you have time tomorrow after school, we can get that math assignment out of the way"

"But tomorrow's Friday night?"

"Tomorrow is the only day I have Dan"

"Okay, tomorrow it is then, I'll drop by around 5:30?"

"that's fine, bye Dan"

I started to talk out from the corner of the library and towards the set of double doors, I was about to place my hand on the handle when Dan called out my name from behind me.

"(Y/n)"

I turned around, giving Dan a defeated vibe so he would just leave me be.

"Who were you writing about, in your essay?"

I turned and opened the door, then I looked back at him with a sad look on my face.

"Oh, no one you know"

And with that, I was gone. I walked downstairs and out the gate, I wasn't feeling well, so I might as well just take the rest of the day off. I walked home feeling many emotions, I wasn't sure how I was going to go to school tomorrow, I can't handle things like humiliation. I couldn't handle a lot of things as much as I put on a face. secret was I was scared of a lot of things, Nicole, Dan, Pressure. It was building. too fast for my liking, what had I gotten myself into. I pulled out my phone and sent a message to Bethany, hopefully she would understand.

"Hey Beth, I'm going home, not feeling well. I'll explain it on Saturday, lunch sound good? xx"

The good thing about Bethany was that we were there for each other at all costs, our messages were always instant.

"Sure honey, Hope you feel better soon xx"

I slipped my phone into my pocket as I reached my home and took the first few steps up to my front door. Both cars were missing, so that only lead me to assume that my parents had gone on another trip. I walked inside and called out seeing if anyone was home, but there was no answer. I walked into the kitchen, and on the fridge was a post it note from my mum.

"Sorry honey but we got called away, see you next Thursday, love Mum&dad"

Great, I had a whole week to myself. But in saying that, I didn't have to go to school tomorrow, maybe what I needed was a weekend to blow the whole thing over. Just hopefully everything would work out. I threw my bag onto the counter and sat on one of the stools, the house was eerily quiet. And I invited Dan over tomorrow night. Oh no. He's totally going to get the wrong idea!