What If? {a fremmer story}

twelve

One Month Later...

Summer

Today's the first day of school. None of us have spoken since the end of the tour. We don't know what happened to Mr. Finn, or if he'll be our teacher again this year. I haven't even texted, much less spoken to, Freddy or even Tomika since that night. I blocked all their numbers, and I'm pretty sure they all blocked mine too. I don't want to go to school today. I tried convincing my mom that I was sick, but she didn't believe me. I'm not sure I would've either.

Walking through the doors to William Travis feels like literal torture. Walking into my classroom feels even worse. No one is there yet, no surprise, I always use to be the first one in the class, before me and Freddy started seeing each other in the morning. But I can't think about that now, I don't want to. Mr. Finn is next to walk in. His hair is cut, and he's actually wearing a really nice suit. 

"Ms. Hathaway, welcome back." He says formally.

"Mr. Finn." I can't look him in the eyes. My head stays down towards my desk as everyone takes their seat. Tomika is the last person to walk in the door. I can't bear to look at her. When I finally do lift my eyes, I see that not much has changed. We all still look the same, no one has turned into a goth, or a punk, or even a prep. We all still sit in the same places, but all of our expressions are dimmed, as if we're in an endless funk that we can't get out of. I guess we kind of are. 

I am not looking forward to this year.

Freddy

When I walk into the classroom, I see everyone's faces for the first time in a month. The longest month of my life. I miss everyone. I miss hanging out with Zack and Lawrence. I miss doing skateboard tricks with Tomika. But most of all, I miss being with Summer. I miss everything about her. Her smile, her laugh, her kindness, her hair. I just want things to go back to the way they were. When the bell rings, no one seems to notice. Except for Mr. Finn.

"Alright class," He says, "today we will be learning about the big bang theory." He starts going off on this rant about the beginning of the universe and it's like he's an actual teacher for a second. Heck, I might have even learned something during that class period. When the bell finally rings for lunch, everyone files into the courtyard, but no one knows where to sit. Tomika eventually finds herself at our old table, with Zack and Lawrence, each of them keeping a nice, awkward distance away from one another. Summer is sitting underneath the tree, and just as I am working up enough courage to go by her, the devil incarnate marches toward her and plops down.

Trevor. (lol you thought he was dead, but bitch is like elektra coming back to life)

Summer

I am sitting peacefully, eating my turkey sandwich, hoping Freddy will work up enough guts to sit next to me, when Trevor decides to sit by me instead. Ugh. 

"Well hey there, sweetheart."

"Hey there, Satan." I retort.

"Yeah that's fair." Why won't he just shut up? "So I was thinking, since you and Freddy broke up-"

"We did not break up."

"Oh right, you just haven't had any sort of communication in the last month or so."

"How'd you know that?"

"Please with the amount of awkward tension in that classroom today a koala bear could've figured it out." 

I stay silent.

"Anywho, I was thinking that since that one's out of the picture, maybe you'd consider me a worthy suitor."

"First of all, I don't need a 'suitor' and second of all, even if this was the 1500s, I'd still say no you in a heartbeat."

"When will you get it through that pretty little head of yours, Hathaway. I am not giving up."

"Right, I almost forgot. You love a challenge." I'm pretty sure that if I looked at him right now I would kill him with my glare.

"You got that right. And I'm not a quitter." He makes sure to give me a click of the tongue and a wink before he struts off to next period.

A shiver runs down my spine.

A/N:

HEYYYYYYYY wassup i ain't dead yet honeyyyyyyy

anyways hope ya liked the chapter and i shall see you beauties soon. :)