I Fake That Smile

Chapter Two

Chapter 2

The next morning I was late for school, Melissa was supposed to wake me up before she left for work but I guess she had forgotten because first period was half over and I was just rolling out of bed. I hurried to my closet pulling on a pair of high waisted shorts and a t-shirt which I had gotten three years ago when my parents took my brother and me to the aquarium; the shirt was a greyish blue and had a shark on it.

I headed out the door grabbing a piece of bread to eat on the way out, I knew this wouldn’t hold me over until lunch but it was better than skipping breakfast altogether. I arrived just as second period was starting, English.

I sat down next to Joey and glanced around at my fellow classmates, that’s when I noticed Miss. Barbie in the back row with her two airheaded friends. “Were they here yesterday?” I asked Joey who was drawing a picture on the desk.

“Hm?” he mumbled.

I sighed. “Those bitches over there?” I asked him.

He looked up and turned around before going back to his drawing. “They always skip class,” he muttered.

“What losers,” I said.

“Arianna’s dad has a shit ton of money so I’m pretty sure he just pays the school to not expel her,” Joey explained. I figured out what he was drawing now, a cartoon guy with a giant nose, lopsided eyes, and an odd shaped head.

“How much is a shit ton?” I asked.

“Her dad owns an insurance business, I’m surprised you didn’t know that,” he looked up at me giving me a questionable look.

“How would I know that?” I asked him. He was about to open his mouth when the teacher walked in and told us to get our books out because we were going to read for the first fifteen minutes. I didn’t have a book so she made me pick one off what she called her lost but not found book shelf which had a lot of crappy books I didn’t want to read on it so I grabbed a magazine and read that.

When class was over Joey disappeared so I never got the answer to my question, at lunch time I still hadn’t seen him and was beginning to get a little annoyed. Where the fuck had he disappeared too? I searched the halls for Joey but I still couldn’t find him anywhere, so I sat down on the bench and angrily texted him:

Where the fuck did you go???

No reply.

“Is something wrong?” someone was standing in front of me and I looked up to meet a pair of green eyes. I recognized her from yesterday, Joey had told me he was waiting for the right girl and then he had looked at her. Obviously, these two had a thing for one another, but why were they not going through with it?

“Just looking for someone,” I told her. Her eyes flicked to the seat beside me as if to silently ask permission to sit down. I scooted over and she took a seat next to me.