Blame Me

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Elise

Five minutes left. Six hundred seconds left until I was home free for winter break. Yet with the small amount of time left in the class, the teacher was still droning on about something or the other. I'm not actually all that sure, I had blanked out what he was saying ten minutes into the class.

To say I was excited for the break was an underestimation. I was in dire need of this break, with school, work, and my emotions taking a toll on me, it seemed like only half of myself was working.

"You have an essay due on the-" the teacher announced just as the bell drowned out his words.

As I practically bolted out of the classroom with the other thirty students in the class, I wondered if I would still need to write the essay.

Probably.

There were bundles of students clumped all throughout the hallways, each laughing and joking with each other, talking about their plans for the holidays. I had gotten accustomed to being on my own in the school after all the years of trying to make friends and not really being their cup of tea. But I still would have liked it if there was someone that would ask me those questions, someone aside from Dani.

"Elise!" I heard someone call out my name.

I moved to the side of the hallway and turned around to see Matt and Jace making their way down the hall. There were students that called them along the way, shouting reminders for parties, or complimenting them.

What I found a bit weird was that the two of them could talk to anyone in the school, hell the whole school would cut off a limb to talk to them. But yet they never really hung out with them, not once over the weeks that Jace, Matt, and I sat eating lunch did other students come to sit with us. Nor did Matt or Jace go to them.

"Hey," Jace greeted, smiling down at me as he came up beside me.

"Yo, El!" Matt shouted, slinging an arm over my shoulder, "How you doing?"

I smiled up at him, "I'm good, happy that the break is finally here. What about you?"

"Well, I couldn't be any happier," Matt answered, and began walking down the hall with Jace on my other side, "I get to do concerts now without worrying about waking up early,"

"For like a week," Jace pointed out, smirking at him.

"You know what, take your negativity and shove it up your butt, because I don't need to handle your shit," Matt glared at Jace before turning to me, "How the hell do you handle him?"

I laughed, "You lived with him for like four months, I should be asking you that question,"

"I blasted my music the whole time so I wouldn't have to handle his shit," Matt mumbled, "Between you and me, he's not all that special,"

"I heard that!" Jace pushed Matt from behind, making him let go of me.

I chuckled as they kept bickering the whole way out of the school. In a way, I had gotten the friends that I wanted in this school, I just didn't expect it to be with music heartthrobs.

"So, what are you doing now?" Jace asked, as Matt began to walk to his car.

I shrugged, "I have nothing to do until eight, I have a photo shoot,"

"What type of photo shoot?"

"It's supposed to be an outdoor shoot," I explained as I began to walk with him to his car, "I think we're supposed to represent ice queens, or something like that,"