To The Stars//Jeff Atkins ↠ 13 REASONS WHY

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Jeff's little scene at the table just made top news in Gossip Daily. Everyone spreading rumors about how Jeff is fighting Clay for me, how there is a love triangle between Clay, Jeff and I. And here I am, alone, sitting down at the table eating my lunch while studying for the upcoming history test that was coming up.

"Mind if I sit here?"

I looked up and remember this prick from Bryce's Party, Montgomery.

"I do mind, but given the fact that you just placed yourself here, I guess you are free to do what you want."

"Good," he replied, "No wasn't really the answer."

"Hm..." you replied placing your eyes back on your notes.

"Say," he started, "There has been some rumors about you and Jeff being together?"

"Aren't you his bro?" You asked looking up at him with your ice blue eyes, "Shouldn't you be asking him?"

"Well I'm asking you," he asked.

"Well I'm not," you replied, "He simply gave me a ticket to the school dance and I am planning on giving it back to him...in fact, you think you can give it back?"

"Only if you come with me to the dance?"

"Ouch!" I replied, "You play your bro like that. What happened to bro code?"

"I guess it doesn't apply especially when a golden goddess comes into play."

Men.

"I guess I'll ask my friend, Tony." You replied as you rose from the table with your lunch tray and notes underneath, "Thanks though, but I do not plan on attending homecoming."

I walked out of the lunch room to go to find Tony in the library.

There was the man of the hour, a table away from the man I was trying my best to avoid like the plague. But like the plague, you can't avoid it.

"Tony," you whispered to which he rose and hugged you tightly and took a seat beside him, with your face in Jeff's peripheral.

"What's up Roscoe?" Tony asked, seriously the only one who ever gets away with giving me a somewhat male version of my name.

"I need you to give this ticket back to Jeff Atkins," you wrote down on a white slip of paper.

"Why can't you do it?" Tony whispered getting the hint that it was about the guy a table away from us.

"Because he won't accept it back," I replied, "I even wrote a dear John letter to go with it."

"Sheesh, you are really serious?" Tony questioned, "I'll do it but not with the letter."

"Thanks!" I replied as I slid the ticket to Tony and rose from my chair while messing with his hair and quickly getting out before he gives me a dose of payback.

In the short time, we both were kind of like big brother and little sister and acted like it publicly in school.

I walked downstairs to get the books I needed before I headed out to go to Monet. The history test was tomorrow and I wanted to run through my notes one more time. As I reached my locker and pulled It open after punching in the code for my lock getting everything and closed the locker, I jumped to see Jeff leaning against the lockers beside mine.

"I take it from the expression of your face, you got my message through Tony?" I replied while placing the books in my bag.

"Why are you acting so petty?!" Jeff yelled in the empty hall ways while I rose up and zipped up my bag.

"Why am I acting so petty?" I repeated back towards him, "I guess I realize that my persona of you in my mind didn't match to what I thought you would be like...but since we are asking questions let me ask you one, why can't you just give the ticket to some other girl? There are other girls who would die to go with you to homecoming."

In that moment, he looked utterly defeated. I just wanted to retract the words but it was too late. It felt wrong to act this way towards him, but it was best to push him away. He parted his lips to speak, yet still no words came out. He knew I was right, many girls wanted to go with him and some were brave to ask.

I walked away not wanting to speak to him anymore until I stopped to hear:

"Because those girls aren't you,"