Chapter 8: Rumor Has It

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Monday I arrived at school just before the bell rang, everyone was rushing around but I could feel them stare at me. My phone kept vibrating but I wasn’t about to talk to my friends about this on the phone. Who knows what Nicolas told them, he only knew part of the story and it was because he overheard one of my fights with my bro. he could take that and make me look bad. I was almost to Science class when I head a girl talking to her friend.

“Omg Samantha is such a whore” I stopped and got into her face.

“What did you just call me?!”

“A WHORE, W-H-O-R-E”

“Take that back bitch.”

“What if I don’t want to?!”

“You better or else I will turn your pretty little face into shit”

“I dare you too. Your bluffing” That’s it.

I slapped her before pushing her. By now there was a crowd around us.

“Take what you said the fuck back!”

“NO, it’s true. I mean who sleeps with their Father. I bet you had to beg him to do it since nobody else would ever.”

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!” I was about to punch her when I felt someone grab me from behind and pull me back.

“Samantha, Sam calm down!”  Luke said, by now everyone was going back to their classes.

“She called me a fucking Whore that bitch has to pay.”

“Sammy calm the fuck down you’re not getting anything except a detention or you could get suspended if you fight back” I stopped struggling and saw we were in the indoor pool. Luke let go of me and I was about to leave to get to class when he stopped me by grabbing my shoulder.

“Wait, Sammy…”

“Yes?” I was still mad at him.

“Im sorry, im sorry for making you think that I didn’t… like you… I… didn’t know you liked me and I thought I had messed up our friendship”

“Whatever can we ditch im not really In the mood for school right now”

“Sure…c’mon lets go before Michael starts walking around looking for students. “

We were about to walk out the door when a voice talked behind us.

“Where you do think you’re going students?” It was Mr. Kings. Fuck.

We turned around and Luke quickly lied.

“Sammy was feeling sick so I was going to take her home since she doesn’t have a car”

“Why didn’t you just go to the office, we could call her parents.”

“My parents aren’t here right now, business trip and my brother is an uni” I grabbed my stomach and tried to make it look like it hurt.

“oh ok, well go rest and Luke you come right back.”

“yes sir”

We both walked out and into his car before bursting out laughing.

“I can’t believe he actually bought it!!!”

“I know right!!!!” When we finally stopped laughing and Luke started driving out of the school, a thought occurred.

“Luke what did Nicolas say about me?”

He tensed, “you don’t want to know.”

“Yes, I do!”

“Sammy you don’t need to know, it’s all probably fake anyway”

“No Luke, I need to know. I need to know if he told everyone the truth and I need to know what he lied about”

“Sammy…”

“LUKE JUST TELL ME!”

“They were saying that…you…umm…you had slept with your dad and he said you had done it a thousand times… and that’s why your dad was always working…to avoid you”

I tensed. “FUCK HIM.” Should I tell him?

“Sammy, I know there’s something true in there… did you really….?”

“No, Luke I didn’t, at least not like that, that’s not what happened…” I was about to tell him but he stopped me.

“You don’t have to tell me, I know this isn’t something you want to talk about Sammy” 

“I want to tell you…”

“No you don’t, you feel pressured into telling me because of the rumor, you don’t have to, you can tell me, but when you truly trust me”

 I only nodded. Even I knew the reason I was about to tell him the thing only my brother knows about completely. Nicolas only knows part of it and now the whole school knows another version of it. Great.

“Can you drop me off at my house please?”

“Sure”

When we arrived at my house, I was about to get out of the car but Luke stopped me.

“are we ok?”

“what do you mean?”

“You seem tense, like careful around me”

“Im sorry, iv just had enough for one day”

“ok ill see you at school tomorrow?”

“definitely bye Luke!”

“bye Sammy!”

I walked in to find the house alone. Yay!!! It was better than being at school right now. I know that to try and fix this rumor I had to tell the truth and I couldn’t do that. So I just had to put up with the worthless bitches that spread rumors. My phone wouldn’t stop vibrating but I didn’t care.

There was one thing I had to do… and that was kick Mr. Blackmail’s Ass.

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