What If?

Betrayed

My eyes shoot open as I sit upright in my bed. The curtains, which I forgot to close last night, let the bright morning sun shine on my face. I hit the off button on my alarm and hop out of bed. Usually I'm not this cheery and eager to get going in the morning, but today is different. I decided to not let Timothy and Monica bother me. So today I'll be happy, I'll have a good day. Nothing can ruin my day. Hopefully... No. I have to stop myself from thinking negatively like that. "Be positive" I tell myself. "Nothing good ever came out of negativity." And with that I went to the bathroom and started getting ready.

I walk down the hall and see Nate pouring his cocoa pebble cereal. They've been his favorite since childhood, which he still hasn't really grown out of. "Hey Nate! How'd you sleep?" I ask as I walk through the doorway. I go to the cabinet and get out some wheat bread for toast. "Pretty good I guess. How bout you? You seem chipper this morning. What's up?" "Nothing really." I push down the handle on the toaster and take a seat to wait. "I've just recently decided that I'm going to have a better attitude about things. A more positive outlook on life." I couldn't ever bring myself to tell him about Timothy. They're best friends and I didn't want things to be weird. I also didn't tell him for this exact same reason, if things didn't ever worn out I didn't want to burden him. "That's great sis. But hurry up with your breakfast. I want to get to school a bit early today." My toast popped out and I start to butter it. "Okay. Any particular reason why? Oooohhhh.... I bet it's a girl. What's her name?" I take a bite of toast and give Nate a smug smile. "There is no girl. I was just late to class last time and I don't want to be late again and get detention." I think I see a slight hint of a blush creeping up on his face. I can tell when he's lying and he totally is. I won't pressure him though. I've kept Timothy a secret, so he deserves one too. "Okay. If you say so. Let me get my bag and I'll meet you in the car." I grab my bag and then we're off to school.

As soon as I walk through the doors I know something is off. People are huddled in groups whispering with an occasional laugh. They all give me stares and whisper some more. I don't know what's going on and I need to find out. I finally spot Kadence and Katherine after walking down a couple halls. "Hey!" I call out. They turn to look at me but they have a worried look in their eyes. "What's going on? Everyone is staring at me. I don't have something on me do I?" They share a quick glance at each other before Kadence speaks up. "Um... Nothing's wrong. You look great. Hey where did you get those shoes? I absolutely love them." Somethings definitely wrong. "Don't change the subject. What's up?" Before they can speak Monica walks up right beside me. She looks at me as if I'm a piece of garbage. "I heard about your stupid little crush on Timothy. I'm here to tell you something. It's pathetic that you think he would ever like a piece of trash like you. He's with me. Get that inside that oversized head of yours. He'll never want to be with you so do t think even for a moment that he does." And with that she turns on her heel and walks off. I'm heavily crying now and I look to Kade and Kat. "How does she know? How does the whole school know? You didn't tell did you?" They look guilty. No matter what they say I know they did something. "We can explain." Kat says "We told our friend Heather about your crush because she's friends with Monica. We were hoping she could do something about Timothy. Maybe see if he actually likes you. But instead she told her and then Monica told everybody. We're so sorry. We did mean for any of this to happen. We were just trying to help." She has tears in her eyes now. For a moment I'm tempted to forgive them and just leave it. But the remember, I trusted them with my biggest secret and they let it spill so now the whole school knows. There's no coming back from this. "There's no excuse for what you did. I trusted you both and you betrayed me. How could you do this to me? After all we've been through?" Kade tries to hug me but I back away. "I don't feel so good. I'm going home." I turn away from them and wipe my eyes. Why does everything bad have to happen to me? I finally get a grip on life and then I'm cut down from my under feet again. I wish I had never come to public school. I wish I had never met Timothy or Kadence or Katherine. I just want to be left alone. But that never happens. I'm almost to the front entrance when someone steps in front of me and cuts me off. It's the last person I want to see right now. Timothy. "Please move." I say trying to get out of the way but he just moves with me. "Is what they say true? Did you really like me like that? How come you never said anything?" I'm getting really frustrated. All I want to do is go home. "What does it matter? You're with Monica anyways. We're friends and that's all we'll ever be. Now excuse me." I push him out of the way and push the doors open. "Ellie!" I hear him call after me but all I do is run. I run right by our house not even registering that I passed it. I just run until I physically can't go on. I lean against a tree to catch my breath and wipe away my tears. I take a look at my surroundings. I must've run at least 10 blocks. I'm at a park that no one really knows exists. Except me and my brother. We used to come here as kids. I sit down against the tree and unwillingly doze off. When I wake up it's because of a buzzing in my pocket. I look at the time 3:15. I also have 3 missed calls from Kadence, 4 from Kat, 35 text messages, and a very worried brother. I ignore them for now. I can't face anyone right now. I'll deal with it later...

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