The Silent One ✔

Chapter Thirty-Six

I walk down the hallway slowly. Everybody is whispering about Jenny. Some say she tried to kill herself, others say that it was an attempted rape.

Few people know the truth.
- Jenny
- Sam
- Me

"Hey, stranger" I greet as I turn my head to kiss his lips.

"God I miss you" Chris smiles.

"I spoke to you this morning" I remind him.

"Please stop with the lovey-dovey crap" Ned snaps as standing beside Chris.

Ha, I didn't see him. I guess that I was caught up in the moment.

"I didn't see you there," I admit.

"Where's Sam?" A new voice questions as approaching us "he owes five bucks"

I glare at him in confusion. "For?" I cock a brow.

"Whether Ned could bang Jazmin Phillips" Blake smiles.

"You bet on me?" Ned cries in anger.

"You've been losing me a shit ton of money," Sam says as approaching us "I had more faith in you"

"Fuck off" Ned rolls his eyes.

Ned's in a bad mood today. I wonder why? Perhaps because he didn't bang - whoever it is that they're talking about.

"Where's my five bucks?" Blake cries.

"Here," Sam rolls his eyes as handing him cash.

"Have you checked your phone lately?" Blake says to Chris.

"Yeah, I checked it" Chris nods slowly with pain in his eyes.

I furrow my brows in concern. What's going on?

"Did you get any calls?" Blake questions.

"Yeah, I did" Chris admits, "he said the same thing that he always does"

The way they looked at each other was different. They had both gotten calls from somebody.

I'm assuming it was their dad, Doctor Rafferty Marcus. They spoke almost in code and obviously didn't care about his call.

Suddenly my stomach makes a dying whale noise.

"I'm gonna get my apple from my locker" I inform "I'll meet you guys in the cafeteria" with that I walk down the hallway.

After a minute or so I arrive at my locker, where it only takes a second to open. I find my apple sitting on my books.

"I hope that you and Chris are really happy" a sobbing voice cries from behind me as I shut my locker door.

"What?" I raise both brows as facing the cheerleader.

"You two deserve each other" Kelsey sobs before leaving my sight.

Okay...

She's an odd one.

I take a bite from my apple before slowly approaching the Cafeteria doors. I hear screams.

What the hell?

I quickly walk through the doors to find Chris pressed against the wall with Sam's hands around his neck. Everyone's eyes were on them.

My eyes widen in horror.

Sam's eyes meet mine, causing him to immediately release Chris. Ned now stood between them as Blake was on the floor, struggling to stand on his own two feet.

Sam follows me outside the cafeteria, with a murderous gaze.

"What happened?" I cry.

Sam clenches his jaw in anger. "Blake attacked Chris and I had to break it up"

I blink. "What the fuck-"

"What game are you playing?" Sam snaps at me. "You need to tell them that you're not who they think you are!"

What the fuck has he been smoking? Is he serious right now?

"What-" I widen my eyes.

"This is getting dangerous Angel!" Sam screams.

Dangerous? What is he talking about?

"What are you talking about? Dangerous how?" I ask as grabbing one of his arms.

"Maybe you should have a conversation with your aunt," he says simply. "And until than...cut Chris loose...its bound to happen sooner or later"

"Don't do that" I shake my head "don't all of a sudden pretend to care about someone besides yourself!"

"You're calling me selfish? After everything you've done," he yells as getting all up in my grill, "you're lying to them-"

Yes, I'm lying about the fact that I'm a criminal, but so what? That shouldn't matter.

"What's wrong with wanting to start over?" I question "what they don't know won't hurt them"

"They have no idea who you really are," Sam says as taking a step back "cut him loose"

With that, he storms off. I sigh as I see Blake and Ned exit the cafeteria.

"Hey what..." I start but Blake ignores me and continues walking "happened" I finish.

"Don't worry about it" Ned sighs.

"Ned-" I beg.

"They had a little disagreement," Ned says simply "that's it" with that he follows Blake down the hallway.

What the fuck is going on? I was gone for literally two minutes. Suddenly Chris exits the cafeteria.

"Are you okay?" I immediately confront him.

"I've had worse" he struggles to smile.

His lip is bleeding. Why would Blake do this to him?

"What happened? Why did he attack you?" I question.

"....He's still in love with you" he sighs.

Ugh. Is he serious? I thought that we had settled this. Blake and I will never happen. I'm literally dating his twin brother, what more does he need in order to get the message? Was my rejection speech weeks ago not enough for him?

"Still?" I raise both brows "you and I are together now! He can't do this anymore... How many times do I have to tell Blake that I'm not interested?"

Chris looks stunned for a moment.

"Blake?" Chris narrows his brows before shaking his head slowly "No Sam's the one who attacked me"