Organic Compositions (Disscontnued)

Phase 3

The next few days came by and I decided to make myself invisible to everyone I could. The teachers must have understood because they never called on me. I really appreciated it, but I still wish I could not be there and it was only the first week.

I saw Waverly in fourth hour every day. I wanted to talk with her but at the same time I felt ashamed and that over weighed my desire to sit by her. I found the farthest set from her and spent the days cursing myself. During the lunches, I didn't even bother to go to the lunch room. I decided to bring my own lunch from my house. I ate up by my next class where no one would be.

I was mid way into my lunch one day when I heard someone coming and tensed up. Who was it? Where they coming to mock me again? As the figure emerged it was in fact another stupid guy and when he saw me he began to do the "Quinten dance", as it had been called, but I had had enough. "It" was getting mad. I got up so fast the guy was startled and I took advantage and punched him right in the gut. He staggered back then chuckled.

"You punch worse than you dance," then came up and slugged me right in my eye then my stomach. I was knocked on the ground, groaning, and almost passing out "Stay down for your own sake," I didn't want to listen to him, but I couldn't get back up. "It" Calmed down, like I should had always been.

Lucky for me the punch got me some time to skip that class so I didn't have to see Flynn. I didn't want him to see me like this with a bag of ice on my face. It did not, however, keep me from Lindesy who was in the next hour. I got there earlier than her that day and attempted to find a set were she wouldn't see me. She of course spotted me right away.

"Quinten, what happened? Your eye, are you okay?" I didn't answer her. I just really wanted to stop making people worry about me. So I sat there and let her ask me over and over 'are you okay' and stuff like that. "You know I worry about you even more when you don't talk to me," she said as she left me. I looked down at my feet. 'Way to go genius,' I said to myself. I walked out of that class even more upset than I was before. I went through the rest of the school as I had before. Luckily for me the teacher pretty much ignored me again. When classes were over I headed over to Flynn's after that day so my father wouldn't look at my shiner and so I could have some support.

"What happened to you man?" Flynn asked when I walked into the living room.

"A guy started doing the...the 'you know what' and I tried to punch him," My eye has swollen to the point where I couldn't see, but that didn't mean I couldn't cry.

"Quinten are you alright?" He asked.

"Yea, yea, I'm fine just need some time to think, alone." I finished my sentence a little harsher than I intended, but he if he was hurt he didn't show it. He started to leave.

"If you need to talk, or some more ice, I'll be in my room," he offered as he left. I tried to hold back my tears so that he could leave before he saw me burst into tears, but the tears came in a river coming from my eyes. If he saw me start crying, he kept on going.

The after that day I was absolutely determined to go throughout the day without talking to anyone. I almost succeeded. During lunch, when I was walking over to the corner I had been hiding in to avoid other people during lunch, someone called out my name.

"Q-Quinten? Are you there?" It was Waverly. I stopped. She sounded afraid. I wondered what she was afraid of, me? Why would she be afraid of me?

I turned around and said, "Yeah, you alright?" She immediately stopped but hesitated to talk she looked towards my eye. I tried to turn back around but she had already saw it.

"Quinten what happened to you? Are you hurt," she was worried about me, but I could sense something else was wrong.

"No, no, I'm fine, but are you alright Waverly?" I asked. "Did something happen to you?" She gave me a confused look.

"What do you mean 'did something happen to me?' " she asked sadly and a little angry. "I have made you the joke of the school, and now you're hurt, I'm...I'm sorry," She turned and ran away with her eyes tearing up. I was in shock. I had been so focused on people mocking me that I never thought about her, and how it might be affecting her. At that moment I no longer cared if I was the laughing stock of the school, or if "It" got mad, as long as she was happy and smiling like she used to be. So I set out to make her feel good again.

My mind could not focus on anything for the rest of that day. I was just transfixed on how to do it, how to make her happy. I came up with all sorts of screams, gifts, surprises, and a whole lot of ideas. All of my ideas ended up being busts though. So I went on throughout the day with an ever increasing headache. I met up with Lindesy and threw some ideas around but she didn't have a clue what to do. When school ended, I was still a flurry of thoughts. A flurry that I could no longer understand. I walked over to my jeep with Flynn.

Flynn and I have a kinda sixth sense when it comes to each other. His though, seemed to be on a whole other level. It wasn't five seconds after we got in the jeep and started the engine when he asked,

"Ok man, what is it? What is bugging you?"

"Nothing," I said a little too fast.

"Hey, I was just asking. If you need some time then just take your time,"

"Thanks Flynn. Yea something is wrong,"I said graciously "Sorry about snapping, But I just need some time to think,"

"You know I understand. Just if you need some help let me know,"

"Thanks," I said before drifting back into my mind.

We got back to the house and I went to my "room" at his house. Flynn's parents knew about my father problems so they had pretty much made their guest's room into my room. I put my bag on the desk and sat in a chair. I lazily opened my laptop and looked at my emails, as I always do. A weird one came up that talked about some sort of augmentation and it was free nonetheless. It talked about enhanced strength, speed, endurance, the normal things when you talk about augmentation. I had always had interest in it but because it was such a futuristic thing I ended up dropping my interest. So I thought to myself, we are ages away from that kind of tec. Probably a fake advertisement. So I didn't even read it and deleted it. There was nothing else to note. I just closed my laptop and reclined back In my chair. What to do with Waverly? That was the only thing on my mind. The day seemed to take forever as I sat.

I wished time would freeze at that moment, so that I could just sit there forever, so I didn't have to deal with tomorrow, so I didn't have to do anything. If time would had just froze right then, I would had been just happy.

But time goes on for better or worse.