like a hostage - eilish

chapter 5

Billie gave them a resting bitch stare and rolled her eyes. "What do you want?" She asked Ariana. Ariana smirked and I saw the entire group begin to pull out the cups they were hiding.

"To do this." Ariana laughed pulling Billie into the cafeteria.

I didn't know what I was doing. It was as if my legs were moving on there own. I ran into the cafeteria just before the liquid hit Billie. Pushing her out of the way, I felt the cold smoothies ruin my make up, outfit, and hair.

The entire cafeteria laughed and Billie stood there wide eyed. All the girls in the group giggled. Well, all except for Ariana. "C'mon let's go." she snapped her fingers at the girls. I struggled to walk and slipped on some smoothie on my way out of the cafeteria.

I headed to the door to meet Juno and Billie trailed behind me silently. I opened the school doors and saw Juno pacing. She turned around with an angry expression but it was soon replaced with a soft one.

"Oh my god what happened!?! What'd they do to her!" Juno asked looking at me and Billie. "I didn't know what was happening and then she- and it was just-" Billie tried explaining but she just bit her lip not being able to get the words out.

"I have a change of clothes in my book bag, can we just go get shakes and fries?" I begged Juno. I was over this pity party. I'm fine, they're just smoothies.

Juno nodded and we all headed to her car. She sat a towel down in the passengers seat and i rolled my eyes before getting in. We drove for a bit until we reached our local shake shack.

I got out first, headed to the bathroom, and changed into my clothes while they got us a table. I changed into sweats, a hoodie, and put my hair in a bun. I still felt disgusting and sticky and was definitely going to shower when I got home but, i'm not gonna focus on that right now.

I walk out of the bathroom and join Juno and Billie in the booth, being as extra as i could so I could sit in between them. Juno stared at her menu confused. I let out a chuckle and flipped it over. "That sides in Spanish, Juno." I giggled.

She rolled her eyes smirking and reading the side in English. Billie giggled a little as well and we all sat looking at our menu's. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked over curiously at Billie. Our faces were extremely close.

"Thanks for what you did back there. Saved me alot of money cause this outfit cost hellas." she smiled. "No problem." I smiled back at her and looked up as a waitress approached our table.

She looked fairly young. Like, she should be at school right now young. I looked at her and studied her features. She was chewing a piece of gum and her hair was up in a pretty curly ponytail.

Her name tag read Jennie and she was absolutely gorgeous.

"What can i get you guys today?" She smiled widely. Her accent was heavy as she spoke. Juno began to speak but stopped and looked at her for a second. "Hey, don't you go to EWHS?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

Jennie nodded and giggled a little. "I was going to ask you guys the same thing. I had to take an extra shift today so i'm stuck...here." she sighed looking around.

"I got smoothied." I smiled at her. She giggled and looked at me noticing the smoothie chunks in my hair and the faint smell of artificial fruit. "So you're Billie?" She questioned. I shook my head and looked over at Billie who seemed to have an angry expression. It faded away as her eyes met mine.

"This is Billie." I smiled looking over at her. She nodded and then began focusing on her phone. Jennie and Juno talked a little more and then she took our orders telling us they'd be ready in 15 minutes.

I looked over to see Billie looking a little uneasy. "Is everything alright?" I ask her. She looks up at me for a second then nods. "Yeah, everything's cool. No worries." she smiles and looks back at her phone. I can hear her leg moving anxiously and I sigh looking at the time.