Alone

Chapter 6

Riley P.O.V

"That will be $12.50 please" the lady smiled before handing me the money. It was really early in the morning. I hand her change and she thanked me before leaving. I'm waiting for Josh to get here so I can leave for school.

On Thursdays we open at 7 am for some odd reason. I put on my jacket and bag as Josh yells from outside. I open the door to him running towards me from the other side.

"Holy shit...... It's official I need to go work out more" he says breathing hard.

"Thanks Riley" he hugs me before pushing me a little. I wave at him before turning to the park. I hope Blake and Jeremy are not waiting for me at the field. Yesterday they found me and kept calling me names and telling me I was nothing and nobody will love me. I know they are telling the truth but it still hurts.

Before entering the field I hide behind some bushes to see if they were there. I waited a few minutes until they showed up.

"Where is she? She's usually here at this time" Blake turns around almost seeing my head. I bend down praying they would give up and leave.

"Come on lets go..... We'll bug her at lunchtime" Jeremy says angrily. This dude must wake up mad every morning. I look up carefully and see they were almost out the field. I cheer to myself and walk across the field.

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"Riley! Wait up" I turn around to see Harry running down the hall trying to go through the group of people in the middle.

He had an annoyed look when Abby grabs his arm to stop him. She was playing with her hair flirting with him. I felt a little bit of anger boiling up. No Riley you can't feel like that. Abby has a chance with him not you! You're just a lonely freak.

"She talks too much" Harry makes me jump at how close he was to me. He laughs loud making a few students look at us.

"Tell me about it" I say with a sarcastic voice. I keep walking to my locker to see 'freak','whore',and 'loser' all over the front written with permanent markers. Oh shit Harry's gonna know somethings up.

"What the hell? Who did this?" He says calmly but his knuckles turn white from squeezing it.

"Oh nothing this was always here" I say like it wasn't new.

"It wasn't here yesterday" Riley just play it cool, he can't find out the truth about Jeremy and Blake bulling you all the time.

"Really? It was always there.... Maybe you need glasses" I open my locker and take out my jacket and books. He didn't look convinced and started to walk away. Great the only person that actually is nice to me is leaving.

"You coming?" he stops at the doors and turns around looking at me. I smile closing my locker and quickly follow him to the cafeteria.

I usually eat at the library but I didn't pack a lunch so its 'hell cafeteria' for today. I follow harry to the line and see Jeremy looking at us with the dirtiest look ever.

"Can I have 2 slices of pizza and 2 cans of coke" The lunch lady nods getting his order ready.

"That's a big lunch for one guy" I whisper getting a little closer to him when I see Blake walk to us.

"It's for you too" He pays the lady and thanks her waiting for me to walk ahead of him.

"You didn't have to buy me lunch" I sat down at the back table close to the exit. He sits down raising an eyebrow handing me the pizza and drink.

"I owed you from the first time you gave me your lunch" I nodded smiling at how sweet he is.

"Do you want to come to my house to work on the project?" he caught me by surprise making me choke on my drink. I forgot about the project but never thought he would invite me to his house. Nobody has done that from the 4 years I've been in this school.