Innocent Trouble

Chapter One

"The one thing I hate about you is that you always steal my food," I growled at my best friend which is Myra. She smiled at me and I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, you steal my food too!" Alec chimes in. Alec is my other best friend.

We all met in kindergarten and were stuck with each other ever since. My friends know everything about me. They know when I'm outside of school I'm like a totally different person. Sure, I break the rules outside the school but I will never break the school's rules. 

Currently, we're at school. Sitting...and eating lunch. I dig into my sandwich until Alec nudges my shoulder. I stopped eating and looked at Alec who smirks at me. 

"I think-"

"Guys!" Myra whispered yelled at us. Alec and I snapped our heads to her. I raised an eyebrow at her as she smiles at me.

"I think Xavier noticed me!" She squeals. I rolled my eyes and had a playful smile tugging on my lips.

Myra fell for Xavier the third popular guy in school. Xavier is friends with Ace...not only Ace but also Archer. Archer Gray the school's bad boy and the most popular person in school. He is the first Ace is the second and Xavier is the third. Every girl wants to be with them and every guy wants to be them. Archer only dates girls to have sex with them. Then he throws them out like garbage. Basically, every boy in this school but Archer is worse. He's a play but anyways no one knows what he does outside of school and no one wants to know. Lot's of people are scared of him. Never get on his bad side.

"Look!" She pointed at him and my eyes traveled to their table. Surprisingly, he was staring at Myra. I stared at Xavier but he didn't notice me staring at him. I looked at the people sitting at their table. My eyes travel to a girl to another one to another and then Ace. He was kissing them and it made me sick to my stomach. Then my eyes moved to a girl sitting on someone's lap. 

The girl was the most popular girl in school. Heather. She was sitting on Archer's lap and kissing him passionately. His hands moved down her back and to her bum. It disgusted me! It made me sick and I felt like throwing up. 

I made a gagging sound and my eyes travel back to Myra who raised an eyebrow at me. "What?" 

"Why did you make that gagging sound?" She asked me and I let out a nervous chuckle.

"I was just thinking of something," I said as I thought of what to say. "Anyways I think it's time for me to use the bathroom."

"Why? You haven't even drunk-"

"Because!" I yelled louder than I expected. Her eyes widen and I gave her a small smile. "Excuse me." I got out of my seat and looked at Alec who simply smiled at me. I smiled softly at him. Really, I only wanted to leave the lunchroom but I don't want to get in trouble so I just decided to actually go to to the bathroom. 

Listen, I can't get a detention or I can't get any bad grades. I need a good GPA to get into Yale or Harvard. It's been my dream and my mom's dream. I can't back down now! I need this and I want my other mom to be proud of me. I want to show her what I'm really capable of and not just only my bad side but for me! I want her to be proud so she can talk about how successful I'll be. If only she'll listen.

Sorry...my real mom died and she would always tell me that she would have dreams of me getting into Yale or Harvard. I want her to be proud of me. Now, my stepmom... like I said I want her to be proud of me and all that. She knows who I really am outside of school and that's why I said I want to show her what I'm really capable of. I want her to know that I'm a smart student and I want to prove her wrong. I wanna show her that I'll be successful but she thinks I'm a failure. One day... one day I'll show her and I'll prove her wrong. She will be so guilty and I will laugh at her for her thinking that I'm a failure. 

I'll show her. I swear I will and I won't regret anything for what I will do. 

As I was walking down the hallway I heard some footsteps. I looked down at my shoes to make sure that they were my footsteps. I heard them again but they weren't mine. I stopped dead in my tracks and tried to listen closely. The footsteps echoed and it sounded a lot closer. I knew they weren't mine!

It sounded like it was behind me. I inhaled and exhaled. As I turned around there was no one there. 

"What the fu-"

"What are you doing here all by yourself?" a voice husky voice said. Now, it was behind me so I turned back around. There he was. The person I least suspected to be here with me alone in this hallway.

Archer.

I didn't know what to say. The only thing that popped into my head was...

"What are you doing here?!" I asked him. He crossed his arms over his chest.

"I was going to the bathroom." He smirked, "Would you like to come with me?"

My eyes widen and I took a step back. "No, Leave me alone please." I politely say and backed away from him again. "Go back to um...what's her name...Heather! Yeah!" I pointed at him. He chuckles lowly.

"Seems like you enjoyed the show." He winked at me, "How about I show you another show on the bed-"

"Listen, you don't want to get on my bad side. And I highly doubt that you needed to use the bathroom. You better not be following me!" I cut him off and clenched my hands into fists.

 "Me? Follow you?" He laughed. My anger turned into annoyed. 

"I'd never follow a freak like you." He laughed some more. "You're not my type." 

I rolled my eyes. "Fuc- I mean good now move out the way," I said and walked past him bumping his shoulder. I couldn't say the fucking word because there is probably camera everywhere. 

I walked back to the lunchroom and walked to my table. I sat down and took my phone out. I looked at the time. I will leave this school in a bit I just need to hang in there a bit more.

I turned my phone off and tucked it back into my pocket. I looked up and looked at Archer's table. Archer was back at his table too and he was staring at me. My eyes widen and I quickly looked away.

"So how was your bathroom break?" Myra asked smiling softly at me.

I looked at her and smiled at her. "It...It was fine." I replied and took a sneaky glance back at Archer who was still looking at me. I looked away and back at Myra.

"I just want to leave out of this school." I sighed and watched as Alec nods.

"Same, I mean we can skip right now." He winked at me and I thought of it.

"I can't. Even though I really want to I still can't. I already told you guys that I want to make my mom proud of me by going into Yale or Harvard."

"But she already is proud of you. up there somewhere she's looking down at you and smiling that you're getting good grades," Myra says and holds my hand.

"She wouldn't be happy if she saw me outside of school," I said sadly and looked down. 

Everything was quiet and I knew my mom was probably looking at me right now and thinking why the hell am I doing the things I do outside of school. 

Well, I can tell you one thing about me. I never fell guilty at all and I never regret the things I do.