Georgia's POV:
The rest of the day was going good for me. Minus the exotic death stares I was receiving from Cathlynn and all her other friends. It sucks that I'm in no other classes with Cami. I'm her only real friend. She gets treated like a piece of crumpled up paper in the hallway. I go to her house after school every Monday, Thursday, and Friday. I worry on the days I don't. Only because I love her and care so much about her. I don't want to almost lose her again.
The last hour bell rings and were finally done with school. Cami and I load onto the bus along with many others and sit in the same seat we arrived in. We say nothing really as we wait for her stop to come up. Once we get off her driveway is right there. I enter the house to her 5 year old sister, Katie, jumping into her arms. As we both greet the family we go upstairs and lay ourselves onto her bed.
"I love your family." I say as we pull our phones out of our pockets. "I don't. Only my sister I guess." She says with no emotion. Cami's parents are alcoholics. She takes care of Katie more than both of her parents combined. "Poor Katie will look back on her childhood and mistake me for her own mother." She says again with a sarcastic eye roll. She doesn't bother taking care of Katie only because she hasn't gone to a party or a friends house besides mine in decades. Not that I have either. Our lives both just puzzle together perfectly. That's why we're so close.
Cami has been acting really depressed lately. People have been really mean to her. Bullying is a big problem in this world. I just wish it never existed.
The rest of the time I am at Cami's we do nothing but sit on our phones, eat popcorn, and watch American Horror Story. I got home at about 9 o'clock to Matt sleeping in his bed. I see my mom on the couch watching tv having a glass of wine. "Hey Georgia. How was your day?" She says as I come to sit next to her. She's watching Greys Anatomy, of coarse. "Pretty good actually, didn't get as much crap as I normally do." I say with a soft laugh as I lean my head in her shoulder. "Well I guess that's good!" She laughs and embarrasses my head. I tell her that I'm going to bed and walk upstairs. No sign of dad.
My room was a mess when I walked in. I'm too tired to even think about cleaning it. I change into my sweat pants and a hoodie and plop myself under my blankets and take a deep breath. Asking myself in my mind why I can't live a normal life. I want to be happy. But I just can't.
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I wake up to the buzzing of my alarm clock and the bright light of the sun shining in my face. I must have fallen asleep while wishing I was never born. I sit up and rub my eyes then walk to my closet. Same procedure as yesterday, but this time, I have no messages on my phone. For the first time since freshman year I haven't received a hate message. I feel like I should be happy about that, but something is suspicious about it. It doesn't make sense that Cathlynn didn't say anything to me for the rest of the day despite her boyfriend was flirting with me. Something bad is going to happen today. I can feel it.
I get to school and I feel an unwanted presence in the atmosphere. Man, something really is going to happen to me today, and it's not good. I enter the library where my study hall class is and sit at the same table I sat at yesterday. The football jocks are at two tables down from me and the popular girls are at the other end of the room. No sign of Cathlynn and Mason. I start to feel worried. But before I know it, I see Mason storm into the room. There was a party that all of the popular kids went to last night, maybe something happened.
Mason walks right past the table where Cathlynn would be sitting at and sits into the chair next to Ben. Mason starts to rant to all the guys. I try to hear what he's saying but he's too far away. The only thing I overheard from Ben was "why would she do that" or something like that.
I got really into trying to hear the conversation, but had no luck. I guess I thought that leaning a little forward and taking out my ear buss would help. But it just made it worse. Before I know it, Maosn looks right at me. I don't see a smile like I did yesterday. Something's up with him. Maybe something with Cathlynn. He looks away. Class ends in 5 minutes so I pack my books up and start to walk to the door. And of coarse, right in front of the girls I drop my books. Ugh. Perfect. The next thing I hear is laughing and bitchy insults. Mason comes up from behind me and picks up my books for me. I look at him with a smirk and he grins back. All the girls just stop and look at us with a silence. They all walk out. Mason and I both stand up. "You'll probably be hearing from Cathlynn. Sorry. It doesn't bother me anymore." He says while looking down. I laugh and say it's okay. The bell rings and we walk out.
Mason's POV:
It's the night of Ben's party and I pumped. I'm planning on asking Cathlynn to the prom with a bouquet of flowers and her car full of post it notes spelling out "PROM?". I know she'll love it. We got the place ready at around 8 and everyone is starting to come. There's a lot more people than I thought.
It's been like two hours of the party and I think I'm ready to ask Cathlynn to prom. Where is she? I look everywhere exept in the house. She must be in the bathroom with her friends. I walk in the house and go towards the bathroom. A knock on the door and her a girl say "one sec" and think that it's probably her. The door opens and it's not Cathlynn in there. I didn't tell her I was coming so maybe she didn't come. I go to ask her friend Emily. She looks extremely surprised and worried when she saw me. I asked her but she says that she hasn't seen her yet. I can tell she's lying.
I see Emily sprint to her friends and they all pull their phones out. No I really start to get pissed so I go back in the house and look some more. I walk up the stairs and see the bedroom doors. One is open and one is closed. Before I decide to go open the door to the one bedroom I get a text from Ben saying the post it notes and flowers are ready. I text back and say "one second."
I try to listen closely to the other side of the door. I can hear people in there but it's too thick of a door to hear through. My heart starts to drop lower and lower the closer I get to opening the door. I make it quick and rapidly slam open the door.
I'm speechless.
Cathlynn is in the bed with Ben's friend Mike.
"MASON. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" She says as she hops out of the bed with a blanket over her body.
I say nothing. I turn around and shut the door behind me. I storm down the stairs and through the clan of people taking shots. I go out by Cathlynns car and rip every post it note so that the wind blows them into the distance. I grab the flowers out of Ben's hands and chuck them on the ground. I stomp on them. I leave. I'm done.
I wake uo the next morning for school. I don't feel as bad anymore. Cathlynn was a bitch anyways. I don't really know Mike so that part doesn't bother me as much. He probably got lured into it anyway. Knowing her, she would talk him into it.
I get to school and don't say a word to her. Why would I? She cheated on me last night. I get to first hour which is study hall and go straight to the table where Ben is. I see Georgia sitting there looking down at her books. I find her so eye catching. She stands out.
We talk about what happened and ranted for a while. The whole time I wanted to look up at Georgia but I can't tell if she attracted to me or if she is just trying to be nice. I look between my two friends and there we are making that amazing eye contact again. She waves to me and I give her the cool wave that guys make as a flirt sign. She looks away, gathers her books and walk towards the door.
I see she dropped her stuff and the bitchy girls along with Emily start to laugh at her. I just realized that Cathlynn isn't here. I come up from behind her and pick her things up with her. That shut them all up. The bell rant and there we were, talking again.
God is she beautiful.
