The Wish

Chapter Fourteen: Rumour Says

So sorry that this chapter is kinda sucky, but had an idea at like 6 o'clock this morning and decided to run with it. Hope you like it. This cahpter is dedicated to @animeartist55 for being my newest follower.

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Camille

I sat at my desk with a pen poised in my hand, but resting still on the paper. "Ugh how hard is it to write an essay about a book?" I mumbled as I continued to stare at the wall in front of me. I had been sitting like this since I got home an hour ago.

We had to write an essay on The Hunger Games, but I had no idea as to what my thesis was going to be and it was due in only 3 days!

My phone dinged. I ruffled through my things in attempt to find it, but when I came out empty-handed I called out for Lucy, "Lucy? Lucy where are you?"

"Looking for this?" She said leaning on the doorframe and waving my phone around in her hand. I glared at her as she bounded down the hall with me on her heels.

I didn't bother to run after her because Sasha was underfoot and barking just as loud as we were bickering.

"Just give it to me!" I shrieked as I pinned her on the couch.

She shook her head. I gripped her wrist and attempted to pull her hands from behind her back. "You are such a pain." I groaned.

She giggled, "I'll give it back in due time."

"And when's that?" I asked placing my hands on my hips.

She shrugged, "I don't know yet."

I just looked at her confused. 'What does she think is on there?' I thought, 'What is she planning?'

"Please?" I said giving my best pleading look. She just laughed. "Just give it." I whined.

There was silence and the occasional whimper from Sasha for a while before she spoke, "I want to know if what the girls at school are saying is true. They keep saying that you got into a fight with Layton."

I nodded, "That's true."

"But they say it's all over the fact you were cheating on him with Quentin."

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Quentin

It had only been 2 days since Camille's fight with Layton and subsequently her fight with me. To say I felt awful was an understatement, but I hid it well.

I had heard several rumours about what the fight was over. Most of them were just small suspicions, but it didn't take long for one rumour to rule out the rest. I had heard whispering about me everywhere I went since.

"Oh my God! That's him." The girls of Shonin Town High would whisper, "I can't believe that at one time I thought he was both an attractive football player and a sweet guy."

At first I didn't know that what they were saying was about me, but it was evident when the entirety of the football team started believing the rumours.

The first to confront me about it was Ricki, "So what was it like?" He said leaning against my locker door. I shoved him out of the way and reached into my locker to grab my books for my next class. "I hear she's quite frisky." He said winking at me.

"What the hell? I have no idea what you are talking about." I said turning to face him.

"Oh, but you do. The whole school knows about it." That's when I knew those comments were in fact about me. "Maybe you should watch who you tell about your little love life-"

I shook my head in disbelief. "What on earth are you talking about!" I bellowed frustrated, "Are you drunk?"

"I'm talking about out debate team captain's girlfriend.What's her name...Tammy?" I opened my mouth to speak, but he ignored me and carried on. "I hear that you and her-"

I cut him off with a slap across the face. I returned my hands to my sides, clenching and unclenching my fists, "How dare you talk about her like that!"

"Touchy subject, eh?" He said rubbing his red cheek and laughing. "I'd be ashamed too. I mean, come on! she is not a very nice catch." He said with a sideways glance and smirk.

I punched him right in the nose, drawing blood. My fist hurt, but that didn't stop me from hitting him again.

"You are a jerk, just shut your big mouth and leave her alone."

"Oh, but I can keep bugging you though?" He said sarcastically.

"Pick on someone your own size." I said with all the confidence I had left.

That's when I felt a searing pain in my gut. I regretted hitting him right away, not because I hated violence, which I did, but because I knew this would only make things worse for both me and her. I just hoped that they gave me and only me the blunt end of this and not her.

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Camille

"You wanted to know if that was true? Do you have no faith in me? No trust?" I was rambling, I couldn't believe my own sister believed these things.

"Calm down! I didn't want to tell you because I knew you'd freak out." She said handing me back my phone.

I sat down beside her. "You believed them?"

She shook her head, "Of course not."

I looked at her as she bit her lip, thinking. "Who told you?"

I wasn't sure I wanted to hear the response.

"Leslie from cheer, but everyone knows at the school. Don't worry about her though I set her straight."

A grin spread across her face.

"What did you do?" I asked knowing that she meant well.

"Nothing, but a bit of friendly blackmail." She said her grin getting wider before disappearing entirely as she continued, "Kiri told me it's spreading among the grade 7's and 8's at the grade school too."

I sighed and put my head in my hands as I finally took a look at my screen, which held the message:

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT I NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

A message from Kiri, which I hated all at once for proving what Lucy said to be true.

COME OVER? :(

Was the only reply I could manage.

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