I Won't Give Up

Cupcake; Not A Relationship (9)

A/N: I go back to school tomorrow so I won't be able to post that much tomorrow so I'm trying to post a lot today. :) - Taylor <3

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Harry is going to take me to school today because I'm still at Matt's and he doesn't want me to walk that far by myself. I was putting on my make-up when Harry knocked on my door, "Come in."

 "You know you look perfectly fine without that stuff," he says picking up my concealer. I'm not even wearing concealer. My mom bought it but I never use it. I usually only wear eyeliner, and sometimes eye shadow. "I don't even wear that," I say. "My mom bought it for me but I don't like it, it makes me feel like a cupcake," I say facing him. He laughs.

"So I know what I'm not getting you for your birthday," he jokes sitting on my bed.

I put all of my stuff back into the small bag , set it back on my dresser and stand in front of him. "You know you'd  be a very beautiful cupcake," he says. "Is that a fat joke?" I laugh and push my bangs out of my face. I look over at the picture of my dad on my nightstand and my smile quickly disappears. Then I remember to get my phone out of the nightstand.  I open it and pull my phone out then turn it back on. "Why was your phone in the nightstand?" Harry asks as we leave my room and head towards the front door.

I shrug my shoulders. "Amanda was pissed and kept texting me a lot of shit, it was nothing,"

"Don't lie to me Jess," he says. "You got more messages didn't you?"

I let out a breath and nod my head. "Why didn't you tell me?" he asks.

I couldn't help but glare at him. "Can we please just talk about this later?"

He goes quiet, and opens the front door. The ride to school is awkward, and silent. Of course I felt bad for not telling him but I didn't think about it was a matter of life or death. When he pulls up in front of the school, he grabs my hand as I go to get out. "I'll see you this afternoon," he says. I fake a smile at him and nod.

The first person I have to put up with today is Jacob. He stood in front of my locker. I'm in no mood for this "What do you want?"

"I wanna know what you told my girlfriend," he says.

I roll my eyes, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't even, she called me the other night bawling. She said that you told her what 'really' happened between us," he says. "I told her that your are a complete douche and all you wanted was sex," I say opening my locker  "Why would you tell her that?" he asks.                                                                                      

"Are you being serious right now?" He didn't say anything, I scoffed,"I'm not answering that question," I say.

He rolled his eyes and I shut my locker. "You know what," he says angrily "The entire school already knows that you're screwing around with that older guy, Harry, I think that's his name." My heart stops right there. Only one person here knew how I felt about Harry.

 Amanda.

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"You  bitch!" I say finding Amanda in the hallway. "Jess what's your problem?" Amanda asked trying to sound innocent. "You were the only one who knew," I said. She smirked, "I don't know what you're talking about."

I rolled my eyes. I could not believe her right now. My best friend for as long as I can remember is going to chose a lying douche over me...

"Are you serious! I've been going through hell all because you're pissed at me for telling the truth? I thought you were my best friend, I was trying to look out for you and this is what I get?" I say backing away from her and running my hands through my hair.

The rest of the day kind of flies by. It was terrible, and I knew what was coming when I saw Harry in less than ten minutes. While I was sitting in study hall, the vice principal came in and started whispering to the substitute. Her eyes locked on mine. "Jess, I need you to come with me," the vice principal Mrs. Sullivan speaks up.

I sit there for a second, "Today would be nice," she adds. I  roll my eyes, stand up and grab my bag. I follow her down the hall to her office, and she opens the door to reveal Harry. Oh shit.

"W-what's going on?" I ask. "Please just sit down," Mrs. Sullivan says. I sit in the chair next to Harry. I look at him worriedly. He gives me a small reassuring smile. It doesn't really make me feel better.

Mrs. Sullivan sat behind her desk and started talking, "I understand that there is a rumor going around about you sleeping with an older guy. I talked to Amanda and she said that you were with her for an entire weekend together," she points at Harry.

"No," I say. "My aunt was with us Friday and Saturday, and we were at my brothers house Sunday, with my mom,"

A weird look takes over her face, "Why would Amanda, lie about that? she asked. I scoffed, "Because she's a-" 

Harry cut me off "We aren't in a relationship, and we sure as anything aren't having sex," Harry blurts out. I don't know why but his words hurt me. "I wouldn't do that she's just a kid," I couldn't help but want to cry. Maybe this was wrong. Maybe it never could work out, I mean it was a matter of time before we got caught, right? The saddest part of it all is that I have to play along with it, so Harry didn't get in trouble, and it broke my heart.

"Well she is a kid that you see constantly, and we just wanted to clarify that Jess is old enough to consent she is still considered a minor," Mrs. Sullivan says. Is she serious? Today can't get any worse  can it? "Look, there's nothing going on between us. He's my best friend, and my brothers. That's all can I go now?" I do not feel like this.

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When we get in his car, he loses it. "What the hell did you do? Do you know what could happen if anybody finds out?"

"I didn't say anything!" I yell.

"Then how did Amanda find out?" he spits angrily.

I rest my head on my hand which was propped up on the side of the door. "I don't know! She has been making jokes about us dating since she met you, somebody probably heard her talking about it and started spreading it around,"

He looks at me angrily. I can't believe he actually thinks I did this. Why would I ruin the best thing that's happened to me? I felt a tear fall down my face. "You can be pissed at me all you want but I swear I didn't say anything," with that I got out of his car and started walking home. He called after me but I just kept walking. I tried to avoid crying until I got home but I couldn't.

I was completely heartbroken.