Love at first slap?

Chapter 23

I lay in this huge bed and Hayes asks to lay beside me and I say yes because why not. If everybody thinks we are dating then why not make them think they are right. So I start to drift asleep for the second time tonight and this time I actually sleep. I wake up to Hayes poking my face and smiling at me. The night stand has 2 plates with pancakes and 2 cups of orange juice. We both sit on the floor using pillows to hold the hot plates on our laps. I pick a few bites of a pancake and then I can't eat no more. My stomach is just in hundreds of little knots. He calmly says, "Emily at least try to finish one." But I know I can't. I sip on some orange juice but that's all I can handle at this point. Hayes has eaten all of his pancakes and drank all of the juice and I just refuse anymore. I'm so depressed at this point that I don't even want to go to school. I also only slept like 3 hours. But that doesn't even matter to me anymore. His mom comes in and offers to drive us to school because the drama on the bus. I say she doesn't have to but she insist on it. I get changed into clothes that she kindly gave to me. They aren't bad. She gave me a white tank top, leggings, and a tan knit cardigan. I throw on my dark grey vans and I head towards the door with Hayes and Nash comes over and tries hard not to laugh at the presence of me. I don't even care at this point though. So I sit in the back with Hayes and we go to the miserable brick building that I call school.