The Pond

Chapter Two: Roy and Lucas

So here's a quick update. After everything that went down that Monday morning, you'd think that he'd keep bothering me right? No.

Everyday, I showed up at school after that. Wyatt acts like I'm just anyone else, and if anything, he treats me like Roy and Lucas do, but without words. He did exactly what everyone expected. He showed up in the mornings with Roy and his cousin Lucas. They'd all do the same things and they all had multiple girlfriends at once, which only everyone except for the sucker of a girl they were dating knew.

I tried waving at him, and he only looked at me, then looked away. He walks around behind Lucas and Roy. I'd like to pretend he's on a leash, but he looks more free now. Nobody else sees it though. It's weird. I talked to him in the hall that one day and he acted like Lucas was horrible. Then, Luke showed up and called me a nobody. He gave me a sorrowful look, you know the story. And that's the last I heard from him.

I walk up the stairs to the school. You'd think I'd go straight to the tree where Quinn sat that day, right? But no, she always moves.

As always, I look around for her but I don't see her. I look around for like ten minutes, and she is nowhere to be found. Looks like I'm flying solo today, great.

I walk over and sit by the tree alone today, throw my book bag down and just sit there. I didn't pull out my phone or even a book or anything. I just sat there.

I look up at the sky, look around in the grass, and look up at the kids all around me, especially at one in particular.

I wonder what it would've been like if I wouldn't have basically told him that I didn't want him hanging around me. I'd love to act like I don't know why he doesn't talk to me, but I can't, because I know for a fact that's why.

I can't pretend that the looks he gives me is nothing, because I know it's my fault he turned out like that. I realize now that Lucas didn't want him talking to me, but he risked it in the hallway and did it anyway, only to get drug into this mess he's in now. He could've been my friend, and I wouldn't be sitting here, all alone, now.

The bell finally rings and I get up. Today is going to be miserable. You'd think that it would be bad enough that he isn't talking to me, but that's not the worst part.

I'm walking up to the door, like I was with Quinn. Roy and Lucas still pick on us on the daily, but today it's just me because I don't have Quinn here for me. So like I said, I was walking up to the door, in front of Lucas and Roy unfortunately. It doesn't always happen, but luckily, life is there to throw a door in my face and make me get stuck around them in the crowd of people. Yeah, you've got to be kidding me!

An eye roll later and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I huff and turn around. Roy, is in my face.

"What is it, Pretty Girl? Your little friend not here today?" Roy mocks me and his group of friends starts laughing.

"Thanks for the compliment," I mock back, "but I'd rather you just leave me alone today." Everyone starts to get quiet and draw their attention to us.

Roy's face gets tense and he leans in closer to me. Before he says anything, I put my hand up in his face. "I don't need you to kiss me. Sorry, but you're not really my type." Everyone around us is watching and noting every move we make.

Roy narrows his eyes and Lucas jumps in. "The hell does that mean? You think we would waste our precious time in bed with someone like you? I mean, look at yourself." Ouch. His friends on the football team high-five him for that one.

"Okay, okay. So tell me Lucas, if I would be such a waste of your time, then what's the point in wasting it on me right now?" I take a smile at Lucas and wrinkle my nose, and his friends get quiet.