Synthetic Love

Diner

Chapter Fifteen

Emily's Point Of View

She looked at me with utter shock and backed up a step.

"Wha.. What was that for?!" She yelled at me and tried to hit me again, but I moved out of the way.

"For believing your stupid boyfriend and all his bullshit" I said to her. Where was all this bravery coming from? I was never like this.

"So, you are calling Joe a lier?" She asked me with an amused but serious expression. Something about the expression made me feel like I was missing an inside joke.

"Er... Yes... Yes I am" I said not too bravely.

"Well let's see about that" she said and with a smirk walked out the bathroom door.

I slid onto the floor not quite sure what to make of the situation. I acted so brave, but now I felt as though it dug my hole deeper. After awhile I stood up and looked in the mirror to see a bruise on my cheek. I hope I left a bruise in her cheek like she left one on mine.

I stalked out of the bathroom and became a little proud when I saw her caking makeup on her face trying to hide the bruise I left. I smiled inwardly at myself and then walked to my table.

I sat down but then ended up on the floor. Puzzled, I looked up and saw a grinning Ryan staring at me.

"Hey you sir are in my seat" I said to him as he helped me up.

"Sorry" he shrugged, "I assumed you would sit with Ricky"

He was right, now that I knew Ricky was here I did want to sit with him. I sat down on his lap since there was no other seats and tried to hide my face in the crook of his neck but Chris noticed the bruise before I could.

"What the hell is that" Chris asked motioning towards the bruise on my face.

"It's uh nothing" I said.

"Sure it isn't," started Zach, "now want to explain why you have a bruise on your face? Or do you want to first explain why little princess over there is trying to cover up a a bruise on her face?"

With that I smiled, Zach was always so observant. Delana though seemed to be the only one who noticed my smile.

"So you finally gave that clitoris sucking frog breathed mother fucking cunt ass bitch who needs a whooping with a frypan what she had coming huh?" Delana asked playfully. I nodded my head and smiled.

"Which slap came first?" Ricky asked while stroking my cheek trying to hide a chuckle at Delana's words.

"Hers" I said looking at him thoughtfully, "and then she told me that Joe told her I tried to seduce him" I shuddered at the memory.

"What would make her believe that" Delana asked

"I don't know," I answered, "but then I slapped her and you should have seen the look on her face" I smirked.

Then I looked over at her and saw her own smirk and mine wiped off my face. I looked down and started playing with the food that was out in front of me at some point. Ricky noticed but he could tell I didn't want to talk about it, so he let it go.

After we ate a little, well everyone one else ate I just pushed the food around on the plate, we left the diner and headed back to the bus while Zach and Delana headed to their cars. Somepoint during the walk I leaned against Ricky who in turn picked me up bridal style and carried me the rest of the way with my head resting on his chest.