Bad Boy

Chapter 15: Whats Wrong With "Rox"?

Chapter 15- Whats Wrong With "Rox"?
In second period, we partnered up for science projects in Mrs. Carlet's class.
Of course I teamed up with Danielle. Thank god Gigi wasn't there.
"The new girl seems really nice. Really perky, but really nice." She looks at me. "Why don't you like her?"
"God she is extremely annoying! I hate her guts! I hated her since pre-school!" I rant.
"Wait, you've known her since pre-school?"
"Yep. One time, she stole my favorite toy. Hated her ever since. She stole the love of my life in kindergarten, she kissed him, and dated him until she moved to New York in seventh grade. In fifth grade, I told the boy she dated, his name was Dawson, that I liked him. He told all his friends, and news travels fast through that school." I sit back and cross my arms.
"Yikes."
"That's not it though, once she found out, she was determined to make my life a living hell. She tripped me in the hallways, spread rumors about me."
"Wow, you two hated each other." She leans in closer to me and whispers, "Do you think she remembers you?"
"I honestly don't know. I hope she doesn't and never will, but I hate this side of her too."
"Wow. Now you're stuck sharing a locker with her."
"Yup, she has access to my phone when I have P.E. That I am not looking forward too. I hope she doesn't go through it."
"Put a pass-code on it."
"I have one, but this is Gigi Hams we're talking about. She can find out anything about anybody. She is a she-devil I tell you, a SHE-DEVIL!"
"Ssshh!" Danielle whispers with her index finger practically glued to her lips.
***
The door bell rings and I hope off the couch to get it. "I got it dad!"
When I open the door I see Danielle in front of me. "Heyya!"
"Hi." I close the door behind me when she walks inside. "You know what I realized?"
"What?"
"You never told me about your 'hot, steamy date' with Blaze!" She has her 'I-am-in-love-with-you-chase' face on.
"Hot and steamy? The only thing hot and steamy was the burgers that they had at Burger King."
"Burger King?" She asks, puzzled.
"Yup, 'Blaze' took me to Burger King. Pathetic, am I right?"
"That's all? He took you to Burger King?" She scrunches up her nose.
"Yes. Then after, he took me to a party, got me drunk, and-" I stopped myself before I said too much. I wasn't planning on telling anybody. Not even Danielle.
"And then..." She waved her hands around. She waited and then gasped, holding her hands to her mouth. "Oh my god Roxy!" She put her hand on my arm and lowered her voice. "You had sex with him?" Her face screamed 'sympathy' but her voice screamed 'you lucky son of a bitch.'
I stood up and started biting my thumb. "You cannot tell anybody. Not my dad, not your friends, not a single soul, you understand me?"
She stood up with me. "I promise Roxy, but, were'nt you a virgin?"
I nod. She hugs me and her phone buzzes.
"Shit!" She yelps.
"Whats wrong?"
"I was supposed to meet Brad at the mall!"
"Brad?" I lift my eyebrows and wiggle them.
"No, not like that, Brad is gay, but he's my shopping buddy."
I cross my arms. "Hey!"
"I mean, I'm his shopping buddy. When he needs to rant, I listen while he shops. Gotta run, love ya, bye!" With that she leaves.
***
Later that evening I was on my couch, thinking about that day, there was something missing. It was Chase. He didn't bother me, he didn't ask to make his girlfriend jealous. In fact, I don't think he was even at school. I mean, he could still be wasted? Maybe even embarrassed?
I couldn't wrap my head around it. Part of me wanted to pick up the phone and call him, and ask him if he was okay, and try to comfort him, and another part of me wanted to call him a coward for not coming to school, for technically raping me.
I guess it's not rape if the drunk version of me was okay with it.
But still.
I shake my head to get the subject out of my mind. I didn't want to think about it. I just am going to ignore Chase if he comes to school tomorrow, ignore Gigi, and ignore life, because everything is easier that way.
A knock interrupted my thoughts.
"Come in." I say groggily.
Danielle opened the door with tons of shopping bags. "Hey Rox!"
I cringe. "Please don't call me that."
She looks at me, baffled. "What is it with you and that nickname?" She sets her bags down onto the reading chair in the corner, and sits next to me on the couch. "Tell me, Roxy."
I stifle a sob and look her in the eye. I have to tell her. I can't make her go on and not know what happened to me as a child.
"My mom, she used to call me Rox. It was our thing. Nobody else called me that. Not my dad, not my friends. It was just our thing. When I turned six, my mom died in a car crash. The worst part, is I was in the car crash. In the back seat, in my car seat. I screamed as the glass shattered. It cut my mom all over the face. I couldn't stop screaming. My dad wasn't there, he couldn't call the cops. I didn't know how. The man who hit us, managed to get out of his truck, it took him awhile, but he managed, he came over to the car, and asked us if we were okay, and he kept saying sorry. My mom couldn't get to her phone, and the man didn't have one with him, so he searched her bag in the backseat for the phone, and he was able to call 911. But by the time they got to the scene, it was too late. My mom was gone. I cried for days, shut myself in my room, refused to go to school. I didn't even eat. I couldn't. I tried, but I couldn't. I lost a lot of weight, I didn't drink water, and I got extremely sick. My dad rushed me to the hospital, and I had surgery, my heart was failing, and I had to get a heart transplant. Once the surgery was finished, I felt so weak. So weak. I ate so much, probably seven meals a day. I mean I was so thin and starving and...its hard for a six year old to lose someone so close to them." I gulped and blinked away the tears.
Danielle looked at me with much sympathy. "Oh my god Roxy. I am so so so sorry." She wrapped me in a hug and I cried into her shoulder.
I had never told anybody that. Only Fiona, Kyla, and Trinity knew. Now, so does Danielle.
"Dani, please don't tell anybody, I don't need any rumors going around school about me being anorexic or anything like that."
She grins. "I won't I promise, and that wasn't Anorexia, that was sadness taking over. I am so sorry."
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(I think I'm going to go by Elle now idk)