Protect Me

Middle school Enemy

I sit in my bed and cry.

Why do boys do these things?! They're so ugh! ANNOYING!

I feel like I'm not good enough for him. He has to go out an have sex with other girls because my sex isn't enough. What is it with him?! He's such a dick!

I hear the doorknob click and I wipe my eyes. Its just Alice. She holds up a bag of sour patch kids and throws them to me giving me a pity smile.

"Thanks, but you didn't have to." I say

"I wanted to." she smiles sitting next to me. "What did this dud do?" she asks and I chuckle.

"He had sex with sa other girl back home at a party and called me full-of-myself brat, and overly attached." I say tears in my eyes. I sigh.

"He'll come around, what's this fella's name?" she asks

"Harry"

"I think Harry will come around, he was probably drinking right?"

"Yeah... I think."

"He didn't mean any of those things then. He was drunk. He probably didn't mean to have sex with that gal anyway, that's all the alcohol. Have you ever been drunk?"

"Yeah" I laugh, "But I get really bad hangovers."

"Me too, hence these." She holds up a bottle of Tylenol.

We both laugh.

"I'm going to go to the green for a while." I finally state.

"Ok, be back at 6 for dinner with me?" She asks.

"Sure"

When I get to the green, no one is there but me. It's a large 'park' basically. You walk in through a sidewalk next to the college and there's benches and picnic tables everywhere. There's a flowers garden and lots of trees. It's very peaceful.

I sit down on a bench in the shade. I take out my phone and click Harry's contact. I take a deep breath and hold the phone to my ear. After two rings he picks up.

"Parker?" he says into the phone.

"I need to you tell me exactly what happened, Harry." I state.

"When?"

"At your party, truth or dare, you in peoples' pants?"

"Oh." he lets out a breath. "Well, we were playing truth or dare and I picked truth and Carly asked me if I loved Kate. I said No. She said I think you're lying and then she pushed me upstairs into a room where Kate was. Kate tried to play moves on me but they didn't work do I left."

"They didn't work so you left?"

"....When she let go of me, I left."

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding, "I'm sorry I assumed that Carly was right." I say.

"It's okay. You had the right to, I've had sex behind your back before." My heart thrusts at him mentioning it again. He seems so casual about it all.

"Okay." I say not knowing what to say next.

"Hey, it's Tuesday, so in three days I'll be on my way there!"

"I know, I'm excited." My mood changes going from sad/mad to excited.

"Good, I gotta go clean the rest of the house, my mum will be home soon. Love you."

"Love you"

I hang up and breathe.

Everything's ok now.

I go back up to the dorm and check the time, it's 5:30.

I go in and see Alice on her laptop.

"Wanna go now?" I ask.

"Sure, lemme grab my food card."

"Is it ok if I invite a friend?" I ask her while she digs through her bag.

"Yeah sure, who?"

"Her name's Jean. She lives next door."

"Oh, yah, as long as she doesn't have long blonde wavy hair and a rich dad, we're good." Wait, what?

"What?"

"My middle school enemy. But it's probably not her."

"But.... I think it is." I say and Alice's eyes bug out.

"What?"

"You just described her..." I say point towards the door. "Long blonde wavy hair, and she said her dad is a rich snob." I say.

"Greeat."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"No no it's fine. Maybe she won't remember me."