I'm stepping out of my Mercedes, which is probably one of the reasons for my nickname (Miss Perfect) and I see Josh walking into the school building.
"Josh!" I call on him to stop. He turns to look at me, smirks and pretends like he didn't hear me. I later catch up with him, and I pinch him real hard.
"Ouch! What the heck!" He yells in pain causing a few stares. I keep on walking paying him no attention. When I'm a few feet ahead of him, I pause to look back at him.
"That's it, no apologies?" He laughed, knowing he deserved it.
"I would have apologized, but I needed to give you your attention moment." I say, in a very sarcastic tone.
"Attention moment?" He said, looking quite confused.
"Yeah." I said, trying to explain myself, "You know, that moment where you have all eyes on you."
"Oh! I guess I didn't handle that moment as well as 'Miss Perfect' would." He said, teasingly as he made quotation marks in the air with his fingers.
"Oh my gosh!" I groaned, with my head up. "Not this again."
"What? It's the truth." He retorted.
"No it's not!" I snapped back as I opened my locker, "What even makes people think that?"
"Okay, let's see," he said with his fingers out to count, "You have a car of your own, perfect grades in ALL classes, a very influential father..."
"Aaand that's where you're wrong," I said, banging my locker door shut. "My father may be the world's richest for all I care, but that has zero input in my life."
I was starting to get pissed. The topic of my dad was enough to keep me frustrated for a whole day.
"Really?" Josh was staring at me with one brow up, which usually indicated that he was doubtful.
"Yeah, why?" I was getting confused.
"How do you fend for yourself then?" He added.
"Um...Lilly's?"
That's the name of my restaurant. It was my mom's but she decided to hand it over to me when she saw her days were shortened.
"Oh, how could I forget?" He answers, like he had just remembered something super important. "Miss Perfect even has her own restaurant and is now independent enough to not need her dad."
"I never said that."
Josh can be so annoying sometimes. He knows how much i hate to discuss that 'Father' topic, but he keeps bringing it up.
"Lilly, you can't pretend that you don't need your dad. I understand he has a few flaws, but he's still your dad and everyone needs a parental figure in their life." Josh was now using his fatherly tone. Oh, how that pissed me off.
"Do you seriously want to discuss this now, in the hallway?" By my look alone, he could tell how angry I was.
"Hey, I was just saying." He was obviously trying to avoid trouble.
"Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get to class so bye." I was like two steps away when he called out.
"Lilly, you do know we have classes together, right?"
"Great!" I exclaimed, in a lifeless tone.
"I know right, can't possibly avoid the chicks, man."
"Oh, please you can only deceive yourself for a period of time." I said to him.
How I miss Ally. We usually walk together since we have all classes together and she was always there to defend me when Josh began to act up.
