Junior Year - Twists and Turns

Chapter 14: Back to School

"I don't care if you're failing all your classes, you're not aloud to stay after school. Straight to school and straight home," my mom yelled as I was walking out the door to the bus stop. She got her first day of school pictures of my siblings and I before we all had to go.

I was dreading going back to school, I hadn't seen Oscar since that day he followed me with Chiko. The minute I stepped foot off the bus and walked past the cheerleaders welcoming everyone back to school and walked into hell I was ready to go. Never did I think that I would be talked about, I always considered myself a nobody which was good for me because my name would stay out of peoples mouths. My go to person, at the time, was Hilda so we met up like usual before first period, talked about how I felt that this year was already going to be some shit and probably some other irrelevant stuff.

I walked into 1st period where I only knew about 3 people. I sat in the front row because I was determined to pass all my classes this year. Gustavo was the first person I recognized and he was Oscar's friend before me so immediately he hugged me and sat next to me and started rambling, "Andrea, I know you're probably tired of people asking you about you know who. If you wanna talk I'm all ears."

"It's the first day of school and I kinda expected for people to ask me, but I wasn't expecting the whole football team to be so concerned about shit whispering as I walk past them in the cafeteria. Like it's over and that's it," I was trying to be calm about everything even though I wanted to just leave and never show up again.

It seemed like he was thinking about how to say what he was about to say next, "You guys we're the cutest couple and it was like you guys were never going to break up."

"I know," I sighed, "the problem was that everything seemed to be about him and I don't know how to put this without making him seem bad but it was getting to the point where if I would get mad and try to walk away he'd grab my arm hard and pull me back and I wasn't fucking with that at all. He stalked me when I went out to CVS with my friend, let me repeat, MY FRIEND!"

Gustavo's funny he started rubbing his chin as if he was analyzing some results, "So basically he needs to grow up is what you're saying. Well besides that I bet everyone is asking him how he's doing but I wanna know how are you doing. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just over it at this point. I'm fine but I don't see any type of future with him anymore and he needs to know that because he thinks that this is just a temporary situation when it's not," thank god the teacher walked in so that was the end of that.

I can barely remember the rest of the day, shit I can barely remember the rest of the semester. The main thing I remember was that October was approaching and it was my birthday, I was turning 17. I was ready to get this punishment over with because all my friends were meeting up after school and hanging out and I was getting tired of having to go straight home after school.