The Wonderer

Chapter 6

I wake up and start grabbing random clothes. A t-shirt and a pair of black ripped jeans. I grab an apple and walk to the front door to wait outside for Brendon, but when I walk outside the front of my house said Whore in big red letters. I go back into my house and grab a wash rag and some cleaner. I scrub some of it off, the rest is a big red smeared blotch on the side of my house.

"What happened?"

I jump and turn around to see Brendon.

"Jesus Christ, you scared me."

"Sorry," Brendon says smiling at me."

I put the cleaner and stuff back in the house and walk outside. 

Me and Brendon walk to school, but every house we pass I feel more and more scared. All of the confidence that I had when I was at Toms house has vanished and I felt like a mouse in a field that's being surrounded by hawks.

"Sophie, are you ok?"

I snap back to reality and Brendon has a worried look on his face.

"What?"

"You look like you've seen a ghost."

I tell him everything, and I start from the beginning. I finish and Brendon looks like he's about to start World War lll. 

"Are you ok?" I say to Brendon.

Brendon balls up his fists "If fine. Let's just go."

We walk the rest of the way to school in complete silence. I start to feel uncomfortable. We get to the front of the school and everyone either glares at me or starts to whisper to there friends when they see me.

I get to my locker and see more of the red paint and papers taped to my locker. I ignore everything and open my locker and grab what I need and leave. Brenon slams his locker shut and walks up to me and sees my locker and glares at it like all of the mess will incinerate.

"Let's just go," I say walking towards Molly and Grayson.

We get to the group and Molly turns around and starts to smile. "There's my little nutcracker."

"Nutcracker?"

"Well, you seem to kick Tom in the nuts every time you see him."

Grayson laugh's and a small smile comes across Brendon's face.

"What's, wrong with you man," Grayson nudges Brendon with his elbow.

"Nothing," Brendon mumbles.

"Well, you look like your going to kill someone.

"Maybe I will."

"Is this about the whole Tom thing?"

Brendon doesn't answer.

"Oh, I see. You're sticking up for Sophie. You got a little crush on her don't you?"

"Man I didn't think you would ever get a crush on anyone. I thought you were probably going to live alone forever," Molly says.

"I don't have a crush on Sophie," he mumbles.

I start to blush and Grayson notices.

"Oh, Sophie. Do you like Brendon?"

"No," I say and Molly starts to laugh.

"You look like a tomato," Molly says between laughs.

I look over at myself in one of my reflections in a locker and my face was really red.

"Shut up. I don't like Brendon," I say hiding my face."

"Brendon and Sophie sitting in a tree-" Grayson and Molly sing together.

I look over at Brendon and he's smiling down at the ground.

I never realized that I started to get feeling for him. AT ALL, but after a while, Brendon became my new best friend. It just can out of know where and BAM. I started to get a small, SMALL crush on him.

Molly and Grayson are finished and they both stare at us and sigh.

"I think that I'm starting to ship you two," I say. Only to get on their nerves.

They both scream EW and go on and on about reasons why they hate each other. I start to laugh and look over at Brendon and he is chuckling.

"Ok fine we'll stop," Molly says. "It was fun until you had to ruin it. 

The bell rings and Molly and Grayson leave and I head off to class but Brendon grabs my wrist and pulls me back. 

"Be careful."

I start to smile. "So you do like me."

"No. I just don't want any of my FRIENDS getting hurt."

OUCH. FRIEND ZONED.

I walk off and so does Brendon.