ROSES & THORNES

Told off

It took me more then half the day to get over this hangover. My mom came in and checked on me, thankfully, I'm a girl, so I blamed it on "that time of the month". She left me alone to wallow in my own misery.

For the life of me I couldn't even began to think about what happened. All I remembered was a party that Trevor and I went to. Every time I tried to conjure up that part of my brain, it was completely blank.

On top of everything, Trevor didn't even think to call or text me. I was stuck pondering over what had possibly went wrong last night, from what I remembered, things started off pretty much okay. I rememberer laughing and dancing.

That sound pretty innocent to me. So why wasn't he calling? And when did I start caring if he called back or not?

I was expecting to see him at school today. He would have to talk to me there. He could ignore my calls, but he couldn't ignore my face.

I was pretty much preoccupied throughout the day. Kim wasn't even here today. So I was forced to endure Euro History by myself.

Serena was relentless. She made bash after bash at me. And she made sure I over heard every one of her conversations.

"We are so going to homecoming together. It's pretty clear that we are back together."

"Awww. When did you guys make it official?" Her friends cooed.

"Last night." She beamed. "Let's just say that we made up for lost time." She flung her long red locks as she went on and on about kissing his abs.

"That's adorable!"

"I know right! Like, not even a few desperate sluts can come between us. We're like, inseparable." Another flick of her hair. "It's pathetic, these girls are unbelievable."

"Serena, you are like, so lucky. I would kill to have him on my arm."

They all looked at me. "Yeah." Serena started. "They will kill to have him on their arms. They should know that I will to." She smiled wickedly.

I slowly stood up. She was pushing her limit, and today, Kim wasn't here to stop me. I could hear the teacher asking me to sit down. It went in one ear, and out the other. I was sick and tired of putting up with her constant bitching. She was done walking over me, and I was done putting up with it.

I stopped right in front of her desk. The class went silent. Even Mr. Pennington didn't say anything. Clearly, everyone was just as fed up with her bitching as I was. She looked on at me with hate mustered in her eyes.

"What the hell do you want?" She spat.

I rested my hand on her desk and got right in her face. "Please, could you keep your voice down? I can hear you on the other side of the room. I'm sure Mr. Pennington's class would love to finish their work without your annoying ass voice distracting us." My voice was sweet and innocent, but my eyes were hard.

"And who the hell do you think you are?" She sat back and crossed her arms.

"Girls, Serena, please."

"No Mr. Pennington, she's fine." I addressed him, but kept my eyes on her. "Clearly she thinks she can speak to people any old way. And clearly she doesn't know me. I'm going to give you one last chance. When I go to sit back down, I better not hear your damn mouth, or so help me god Serena, I will break your pretty little nose. Got it?" I ruffled her hair and went back to my seat.

The entire class sat in stunned silence. I smiled and looked directly at Mr. Pennington. "Continue Mr. Pennington. I'm sure there won't be any more interruptions."

Although I would have taken great joy in breaking her nose at that moment, now wasn't the time. I was sure she was only silenced for right now. My time would come soon.

Mr. P held us after class. He let us both off with a warning. After Serena left, he had held me. I couldn't believe my ears when he thanked me. He told me that no one had ever dared step up to her. What I'd done was noble, he just asked me to leave out the swears and keep it out of his classroom next time.

As upset as I was with her, I was with Jeb and Trevor. With Jeb, he gave me all that bull shit about how I was the one he wanted to be with, and how they were done for good, yet last night they screwed each other and were finally "back together" according to Abercrombie and Bitch.

I knew it was a bunch of bull the moment it came out of his mouth. The least he could have been was honest. It bugged the hell out of me. I let my walls down for him, I let him see who I actually was, and that was how the ass repaid me.

And Trevor, the night after we hung out, he didn't even have the decency to get back to me! I mean what was with that? And for him to avoid me at school was just down right irritating. I was going to confront him. Either way, he had to talk to me sooner or later.

Lunch was what I had been waiting for. I was going to find him and let him know exactly how I felt. No one was going to ignore Abby Marx.

I walked with a purpose. Finding him shouldn't be too hard. I knew he was here today because I had seen him. I spotted him sooner or later. He was sitting in the cafeteria in the far back with pink hair girl. Oh hell no. He was not blowing me off for some gothic pixie looking chic.

"So, Trevor. How was your night last night? Call anyone back yet?" I crossed my arms and glared. Pixie chick looked up with a questioning look on her face.

He turned and said something to her quietly before she got up and walked away, glaring on her way passed me. Trevor sighed and looked up at me. "Uh, yeah. Sorry I didn't call you back yesterday. I was um, busy."

I sighed. "Pathetic, just pathetic." I turned to walk away, but he'd stopped me.

"Wait. You're...you're not mad at me? I thought that after what-"

I laughed incredulously. "Why would I be mad?! Hell, I thought we had fun. At least I did." I crossed my arms and looked everywhere but at him. I really did have fun, for once I hadn't been thinking about some stupid jock.

He seemed to be lost for a moment, a brow furrowing. I found it incredibly hot. "Uh, well...I did to?"

"Really, because it doesn't seem like it." I could feel my bottom lip jutting out. He sighed and opened his arms. I gladly sat in his embrace. I didn't know when I realized that I liked Trevor as more then a friend, just that I did. "Now, can you please tell me who that pixie chick is and why you completely ignored me?"

He laughed. "That 'pixie chick' is no one." He kissed me on the cheek. "And don't worry, I will never ignore you again."