Against The Tide

4:Floor

I walked into school through gate no 4 with a focused mind and a plan for day which was something like

•Avoid popular jocks at all cost

• Complete the student council work allotted to me

•Get a new book from the library

• Avoid Dustin McAvoy and eye contact with him at all cost.

Why you may ask?

I spent half the night learning about the famous Dustin McAvoy who apparently I had 5.7% knowledge about and remotely thought he had a twin named Al.

I don't even know why his friends called him Al in the first place.

He never participated in the school play, hardly attended English and History class, didn't sign up for any of the social welfare drives.

I didn't go gossiping with the queens in our class and didn't really pay attention to guys.

How was I supposed to know he's the school's ultimate bad boy who has wrecks havoc?

Last night, As soon as I began telling Chrissy, Talia and Anisha about the sports day, they immediately launched into conversation about 'Dustin the Great' without me even mentioning it.

The stories about the school's ultimate bad boy just got weirder and darker by the minute.

And they just wouldn't shut up about his dangerous bad boy persona.

Finally, An hour later I switched off my phone after changing the group chat name to 'I don't know Dustin.' And went off to sleep.

Those girls were terribly annoying.

Dustin and his dudes screamed trouble to me and it was the last thing I needed.
Not that he would come and talk to me again.
The popular people interacted only with their own.

Last year I worked hard to maintain a good reputation and A grades and the amount of effort I put into it, drove me nuts!

Anyway I seem pretty good at convincing myself that studies are the more important than team sports and hanging out with friends I hardly knew.

But like always, trouble chased me like a hound dog. This morning was nothing different and it started with spiders.

Yes! Spiders!! The creepy, crawling six legged creatures which cause girls to scream in soprano voices.

Thankfully I wasn't one to start screaming but when I saw my locker door covered in black, yucky spiders I muttered profanities something along the lines of 'what the hell' and others that I shouldn't be saying.

I stood outside, examining the mess for a good fives minutes wondering how to open my locker. It looked like some sticky, yellow substance was smeared all over my locker and the spiders were stuck to it.

What if there were some inside as well?

Ugh I mentally groaned at the thought.

All the people in the hallway had their eyes trained on me making me feel a thousand times worse than I already felt.

Just as I took out an old pen to flick out the spiders from the handle Trouble No 2 and friends came along and stood next to me with victorious faces.

Brendan with Caitlyn clinging to his arm, a couple of dudes with letterman jackets round their waists and Jackie Tanner-the prettiest and cleverest brunette in the school with ugly attitude problems.

Just when I had enough spawn of satan to deal with Dustin Mcavoy walks in from the opposite direction his eyes lighting up when they land on me.

Nope. Correction. Me and the spiders .

Can a freaking Demogorgon pop out from somewhere and eat me whole?

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Gosh! This is turning out to be some cliché high school movie scene I thought to myself as Caitlyn narrowed her eyes and slow walked towards me, hands on her high-waisted Guess shorts, her squeaky clean, sparkly Nike wedges tapping on the floor

So much hate for winning a race?

"Are you going to call your mommy and go to the principal cause you afriad of these grass spiders?"

I mentally flinched at the word mommy.

Thank god she didn't say grandparents or that would only mean she knows stuff.

I managed to keep a straight face all this while but when she crossed her arms on her chest, I did the same while raising my brow.

"Look Kiara. The whole school may be scared and intimidated by you but trust me I'm not awed by your perfect grades and rep like these others", she said motioning to all the silent spectators round us

Wow. This was news to me. Were people really scared of me? All this while I thought they hated me.

"Would you like to call your student council subordinates to help get the cobwebs out of your precious books?"

That's it. That ignited the fuse to my anger. Who in Avernus does this pesky bug think she is? I've never made anyone do my work for me.

Wait a second, how did she know they are grass spiders and not poisonous ones?
Unless,
no1: she's behind this or
no2: she was really smart in identifying spiders.

I doubted the latter as a wild idea came to my not-so-wicked mind.

I squinted trying to measure the distance between us and with a beautiful flick of my wrist, a one which Serena Williams would be proud of I aimed a spider on her bare neck with the tip of my pen.

The rest was Legen - wait for it - Dary.

I let out a loud snort, she let out a high pitched scream and the rest of the folks burst of laughing.

Spidergirl - 2

Female Dog - 0

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Soon after she screamed and started to mouth something which sounded like 'Bitch I'm going to fu. . . ' when Brendan clamped her mouth and dragged her off with Jakie frantically trying to get the spider off her.

Just as they scurried away, Mrs. Yves walked in glaring at everyone making them run to their class.

Ha! no wonder Brendan ran away but surprisingly Dustin stayed rooted to his spot, his backpack on one shoulder.

'Shit!' I muttered to myself opening the door of the locker so Miss. Yves wouldn't see the spiders because explaining anything to her is like explaining archeology to a pilot.

Seconds before she walked by, Dustin stood blocking the view of my locker after grabbing a pile of books from my locker.

He pretended to search through the books.

Dayum. What has possessed this guy?

"Mcavoy! Good to see you in school for once", the teacher said as Dustin answered with an unenthusiastic 'yup'.

I let out the breath I was holding and turned towards him as he placed the books back in my locker.

"Umm Thanks", I said

"Hmm! You snort like Wilbur the pig" he said while turning on the heels of his white Adidas Originals High-tops and waking away his classic raised brow.

My eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

'Was that Charlotte's Web reference? Did he just compare me to a pig? Doesn't he talk? I should've put a couple of spiders in his shirt!
Idiotic, stupid arrr.. Arse'
I thought to myself as I slammed my locker shut making a couple spiders fall to the floor.

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