I'm a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Chapter 6: Cat Fight

Chapter 6

I arrive at the abandoned school twenty minutes early with good reasoning and an empty smile. I avoid any contact I can control with Derek all morning because one look at his beautiful smile and I'll back out of ruining his life. Lucy convinced me to get payback and make him regret ever ending what we worked so hard for, but I'm still not completely for the idea.

I pop open my ridiculously rusted locker that is without a doubt on the verge of falling off the broken hinges due to the age of our school. The small space it provides barely holds half of the books I'm forced to carry around to satisfy my teachers. I shove the white see-through, plastic bag behind some heavy duty textbooks that could surely knock Zoey out if I ever reach my boiling point.

Slamming my locker almost shut, I come to a sudden halt when I notice a picture taped sloppily to the inside of the red locker door. I swing the door back open, peering down sadly at the sudden memory the beautiful picture generates. Derek and I were holding hands, walking to his cousin's party out in the woods since his cousin had their family cabin to himself. Lucy took the photo -in which after I tried to persuade her to take up photography- when me and Derek decided to sneak out by the lake before the party started for some romantic alone time.

Sighing in loneliness, I turn away and forcibly close my locker to detach my view from the picture. I head directly to my homeroom to avoid any more memories that can risk opening up the floodgates.

As if it's instinct, I involuntarily sit beside Lucy in the back, who occupies her time by drawing flowers on her binder. Flowers are the only object that she can draw and it's always a rose in its simplest form. "Luce," I greet robotically, wiping the hair out of my face and slamming my head down on my folded arms across the ink covered desk.

"Hey, did you get it?"

I roll my eyes as a boy in front of us turns his head slightly to listen in on our conversation. The topic is far from what he thinks it is and if Lucy thought before opening her mouth like she normally forgets to do, we would never have intruders on our conversations.

"Don't make me sound like a drug dealer," I order as she glares amusingly at the back of the druggie-wannabe's head. "But yes, I got it."

She smiles widely in a way that can only be described as a girl ready to seek revenge. "Sweet. This is like April Fools, but belated."

I nod my head and finish up some useless English homework I forgot to do the night before. I was too busy talking myself in and out of hurting Derek because no matter how much it hurts that he broke my heart, it still doesn't feel right to get back at him. I'll always love him, no matter what happened between these last couple of months and I don't want to ruin any chance of us getting back together again just for a few moments of relief.

After finishing the purposeless worksheet that has no connection to what we are doing in class, I copy the calculus homework from Lucy and reply to the teacher as she calls off my name. We talk for the remaining time in homeroom and head to physics when the bell dismisses us.

"And you're sure it's after school today?" I press, needing confirmation that our plan isn't going to fall apart at the seams. Lucy is right; no matter how much I love Derek it'll make me feel less bitter to see him suffer just a little. And there's no chance he'll know it's me and Lucy behind the curtains.

She rolls her eyes in annoyance and checks her hair in the dirty screen of her dinosaur phone. "I'm seriously about to slap you."

I roll my shoulders and shudder as I get the mysterious shivers again. "I'm nervous."