Beauty Within

Play Pretend

"Damn man did you see that!"

"He got em right in the eye!"

As I walked down the hall all I could hear was the conversation about the video that was now circulating around the school. Hayes' and Jaxon's fight....

Eyes were still on me because I was the cause of it and I couldn't help but to feel uncomfortable as I passed every hawk eye.

"Kalila." Milo spoke as he came up beside me.

"Hm?"

"Girl why are you the main topic of the school and why does everyone keep air dropping these videos of Jaxon and Hayes." Milo showed me the constant notifications, "But the constant dinging on my phone kind of makes me feel important."

"Oh my gosh." I laughed, "but Milo what do I do, everyone keeps saying that I cheated in Jax and that's not the case." I sighed.

"Girl fuck everyone else they don't even know half of what their talking about." Milo declared as we began to cut around the corner to the library, "Let's just focus on the fact that we need a new flyer before the big games time is ticking!"

We barged through the library doors and finally took a seat at the table with Bianca, Ariana, and Shelby.

"Hey guys glad you could make it." Shelby sharply replied.

"We got held up by Kalila's thoughts getting the best of her." Milo sighed as we took a seat.

"But we're here now and that's all that matters." I glared at him. "So guys what's the important news that you had to share?"

"Um well you see, seven of the girls quit and now only five will continue to come to tryouts." Bianca nervously replied.

"What the actual fuck!" Milo shouted causing the librarian to eye him.

"Sorry." He mouthed to her.

"Who even are the remaining five?" I questioned.

"Adrianna, Haley, Sara, Wendy, and." She paused, "Hazel."

"In sorry but girls we're gonna have to choose Hazel she may be our last resort because the other girls are either too tall or very uncoordinated." Milo said.

"I agree with Milo." Arianna chimed in, "I don't think we have someone other than me and Rebecca on the team that is the perfect height to be a flyer."

I gave a huge sigh and looked around the table as I saw a domino effect of everyone agreeing with Milo.

"You know what fine we are on a time frame and we have to start practicing, so we will announce that Hazel will be apart of the team." I gave a sigh in defeat.

"Well guys we have to suck it up and deal with her bitchy attitude." Shelby said.

"Well let's get it." I finally said as we all began to arise from the table to leave the library.

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As the day continued I still felt a bit self conscious because everyone was so caught up on the situation with Jax and I. I was hoping that I could see him today in 8th period since I hadn't seen him all day. As Milo and I made our way to our 5th period class I stopped by the restroom to freshen myself up.

I threw my backpack on the floor and shook my hands off as I paced back and forth.

"Kal what are you doing, get it together." I mumbled to myself.

As I slowed down my constant stomping I began to hear sniffles in the big stall on the far end. I began to slowly step towrds the stall, "Hey is someone in there? Are you okay?" I questioned.

"No." They spoke through their sobs.

Sadly I knew this voice very well.

"Adrianna are you upset about not being picked in the team?"

Just as I spoke the door to the stall slowly opened and Adrianna's face was revealed. All reddened and swelled from crying.

"Actually I'm not upset about that. I'm  upset that I got threatened and told to quit the team if I got selected." She explained through her croaky voice.

"Wait threatened?" I began to get intrigued.

"Yeah, Hazel somehow had dirt on all 11 of us and tried to use it against us to her advantage." She replied.

"And what did she have on you?" I began to question more intensely.

Adrianna began to play with her finger shyly, "Well Hayes and I had a thing and she threatened to tell everyone and used some really detailed words."

"What th-"

*RING! RING! RING!*

I got startled as I suddenly realized that I was late for class.

"Shoot! Adrianna I'll have to catch up with you later." I raced over to grab my backpack and began to fly out the restroom.

"Bye!" She called out.

I flew into the empty hallway and began to bolt to Chemistry which was luckily only around the corner.

I slowly opened the door cutting off Mrs.Baghdad from giving instructions .

"Miss.Presley, glad you could join us. You will be excused this one time." She declared, "Now take your seat."

I slowly made my way over to the chair that was directly next to Milo.

"What made you so late, you told me you'd be right back." Milo whispered to me as soon as Mrs.Baghdad turned her back.

"I know, but I ran into Adrianna and I got some really important information ab-"

"Miss.Presley! Late and talking? You better be glad I'm in a good mood now be quiet." She snapped.

"Sorry." I apologized, "It won't happen again.

I slowly pulled out a piece of paper and wrote the words "TALK LATER" on it and passed it to Milo. He gave a nod and balled the paper up.

"And now for your partners for this assignment."

I began to get nervous as I realized that I hadn't been listening.

She named a list of people until there was only Milo, Hayes, Hazel and me left.

"And last but not least, Kalila and Benjamin and Milo and Hazel."

My jaw slapped the ground as I realized the sudden mess that had just been started.

"She better pray she lives through this thing." Milo whispered to me.

"I better pray that I live through this thing." I recalled back.

I looked over at Hayes who gave me a smirk and a light wave. I gave a huge sigh and facepalmed. This should be great......