Joaquin

Chapter 16

When my alarm clock woke me up I did my regular routine only much slower. So slow that I was almost late to my first hour.  But I walked into class right as the bell rang. I sat down at my usual spot and Archie was sitting beside me. "Ava, I mean this in the nicest way. But you look like shit." he whispers to me. This made me laugh but I quickly regretted because my side started hurting again. Archie noticed my pained face "You ok?" I nodded my head yes "Yeah I'm fine I wasn't paying attention on where I was going and hit my side on the corner of a cabinet."  I say smoothy "Ouch. If you need anything just ask." I nodded my head and told him thanks as class started. 

  It was lunch time and my friends decided to have lunch literally at the farthest away table they could have possibly chosen.  But I had to give off the impression that everything was alright so I got on my phone to make it look less weird on why I was walking so slow but once I got near to the table a sat down next to Jughead exhausted but I had to take small breathes because if they were too big it would start to hurt. "You ok?" he asked "Yeah i'm fine I jus-" but before I could finish Archie already finished my sentence. "She hit her side on a cabinet corner." he says as he started playing some strings on his guitar and then writing them down. Before I got here I heard them talking to Archie about how he is going to have a talk with some producer or something about his music.  "Are you badly hurt?" He asked but I quickly shook my head no " it was just me being my clumsy self." I say with a smile but I don't think Jughead completely bought it.  Which is weird considering that I have never had a problem with him not believing any off my made up stories about how I got hurt.  but I decided to let it go for now and started listening to Kevin talk about how Betty is going on a date with Trevor.  "You're what?" I asked shocked with my eyes wide open looking at her. "It's not really a date its more of me trying to get intel on Jasons murder. Trevor was a football guy so maybe he saw something that he didn't think was that important to the cops."  I nodded my head in agreement. "I can see that."

 Having to sit in one position for every hour was killing me especially in the later hours. So every hour I said that I needed to go to the bathroom. And sure I know I looked like a total weirdo to the people who have me in more than one hour but I honestly couldn't care a less. I did my best to walk straight in the classroom but once I was out of peoples sight I leaned on the lockers to hold me up as I went to the bathroom.  When I finally got there and Cheryl was in there replying lipstick.  I rolled my eyes and decided I didn't need to deal with her right now and I was about walk bak out but she stopped me "What the hell is wrong with you?"she asks really not so much about the caring more about the curiosity. " Hit my side on a corner of a cabinet" I say "Well you look like shit." she says as she puts her lipstick back in her bag. "Yeah so I have been told." I say as I move out of her way as she leaves the bathroom.  Once the door closes I decided that I needed to see how bad it actually was so I went to the mirror and slowly lifted up my shirt and my whole side was a purple\ black color and it went all the way to my waist band to my bra strap which got me thinking if it was more than one rib that was broken.  Yup I definitely should not have looked at it.  I sighed and slowly lifted my shirt back down and headed back to class.  

It sighed in relief when that last bell rang.  I decided to let the big crowed go ahead and go so it would be less likely for somebody to bump into me so I just took a really long time to get all the stuff in my bag.  My teacher was getting really pissed at me as he was waiting by the door with all of his stuff ready to leave.  I apologized to him on the way out and slowly made my way to my car.  Once I got out there I saw Joaquin waiting for me on top of my old beat up car. shit.  I really have no idea how I am going to make it out of this one.  I already know he's not going to buy the whole cabinet thing so I am just going to act like nothings wrong. There is no way this is going to work.  But I smiled at him and walk down the steps as normal as possible but he could still tell somethings wrong. "You alright?" he asks getting off my hood "yeah it's just this bags a little heavy." I say with a smile. "Well here let me help you." he says as he goes behind me and starts taking by bag off which caused me to twist my body and that was by far the worse pain I have felt today but I kept it in and bite my lip to make sure I didn't groan in pain.  Once he got it off he put it in the back and I thanked him. "I texted you wanting to see if you wanted to watch a couple of movies at my place but you never texted back." he says to me. " Oh shoot i'm so sorry I have been so busy I haven't even checked my phone at all.  I wish I could but I have tons of homework I need to do." I say trying to sound convincing. I know it is more than likely that he is doing this to try to get my mind off of the fact that this is my first time coming back to school since the night with Abel. " yeah I totally get it.  I would say call if you need any help but I didn't even make it passed algebra 2." he said with a smile and I almost started laughing but it hurt too bad so instead I just smiled.  " Ok, I will see you later then." he said while walking towards his motorcycle.   I waved him bye and got into my car.  "That was a close one"