nurse; mgc

forty

will we actually hit 10k before this shit ends????
i don't think we will but like

Michael's POV

The next day at school was a particularly anxious experience for me. Luckily, I had no classes with Xavier that day, I had skipped the last 3 BLM meetings and it was time I tell them the truth. If I quit that club-- nice and easy, keep all my friends everything goes great.

"You okay?" Calum jolted me out of my thoughts, making jump a little. I looked around and found myself in the cafeteria? At a lunch table with Calum, Ashton, and two other girls I had never seen before. This was a surprise to me since the cafeteria is the one place in this school I will never be. How the fuck did I even end up here?

"Hello.. Jasmine?" Ashton waved his gigantic fingers in front of me, one of the girls giggled. "Hm? Yeah, I'm fine." I nodded, swiping a sweet finger over my laid edges.

"You sure? Cause You've been gnawing down on that straw for the past 10 minutes." He observed, I looked down and there was a blue slurpie in my hands, with a bright red chewed up straw sticking up out of it. I'm just full of surprises today, aren't I?

"Come with me." I said standing up from the table. Calum hesitated, but then followed me out of the cafeteria. "What? What?"

"Listen," I warned, yanking Calum's arm so he was facing me. He looked at me impatiently.

"Those are not uniform shoes, Ms. Reed." Mrs. Greenwood sung walking past me in the halls. I looked down at my dirty off-white high converses. I mumbled some type of apology and looked back up at Calum.

"When me and Michael broke up- I had a little crush on this guy, Xavier. I was kinda really completely drunk one night and we hooked up. And then we hooked up again.. and again, and ag-"

"Alright.. I get your point."

I sighed, "anyways. We sort of had a thing and then we stopped talking, I started avoiding him- because me and Michael got back together, and I'm a decent human being, ya know?" I shrugged, taking a long sip from my icey blue raspberry slurpie. "Mm.." Calum said, nodding. "And now, you don't know how to get out of the relationship?" He observed, I clapped, making my gold chunky-not-uniform- hoops clang. "Exactly."

"Okay," He wipes his palms on his knees. "Then just give it to him quick. Leave out all major details and basically lie." He advised.

"Yeah I tried that but he got.. really.."

"Emotional?"

"Angry. Violent, almost. He put his fist up like he was about to punch me. He yells. Over text, over call-- I don't even know why I answered the damn phone."

Calum just nodded, looking down as if he was trying to find the right advice to give. "I tried to tell him last night but ugh, I hung up so. Maybe I should just sit him down, and tell him the truth." I ramble and Calum nods. "Can you.. um.. come with me?"

"Okay."

••

We both walk into the usual meeting room, and Xavier and some white girl are back to back, packing their back packs.

His head shot to the door, and glared at Calum immediately. "Thanks, Emily." He whispered to her, passing her a clump of paper bills.

She hurried out of the room.

"Tutor." was all he said, pacing towards us. "Is this the boyfriend?" He grinned.

"Xavier," I breathed, reaching out to touch his shoulder, he grabbed my wrist. "What the hell is wrong with you?" He growled, pulling me closer. "We fuck for months, i open up to you, I tell you everything. You told me you loved me and you dump me for some white boy?" His jaw set, a few stray tears welling in his eyes.

"You don't know the full story, just let me explain."

"I was the side bitch."

"You ain't no side bitch, Xavier!" I snapped. "I cheated. I cheated, and we broke up. I still loved him. I was hella drunk when it happened and it was a huge, huge mistake." In the corner of my eye I saw Calum shudder at the sound of my words, "he started seeing somebody else and I j-"

He chuckled, shaking his head back and forth, his curls bouncing. "You're telling me I wasn't just another night! You can't be mad at me for doing what you've probably done to hundreds of other girls!" I snapped; separating from Calum and shoving my finger in his face, my words cutting his brown skin.

All of a sudden his hand shot around my neck, pushing my against the wall. He was choking me.

My hands immediately went to his wrist, I yanked it, but it just got tighter. "All you are is a whore, Jasmine! All you are is a giant horny ass slut! And that's all you'll ever be!" He screamed at me, my legs were starting to float off the ground. "I'm gonna make you regret this," he growled in a whisper swiping a curl behind my ear. "And I'm not gonna stop until your swimming," he swiped another one moving his face to the side of mine- taking my ear lobe in between his white teeth, "in your own blood." He grinned releasing me. I immediately fell to my hands and knees, gasping for my first breath. Calum fell by my side, holding me, but Xavier just grabbed his bag and left- walking free.