Popular ➳ Aaron Melloul

Chapter 14 (pt.2)

"Not so fast," another voice says, making me tilt my head in confusion.

I know that voice.

I turned my head slightly to the right where a slightly taller female figure was, they pushed their hood down, revealing their curled blonde and brown hair.

"Hailey?" I whispered, "you little fucking-"

Before I could finish, Jordyn grabbed my foot, making me fall back. I grunted as my back made contact with the hard floor.

"Stop trying to play hero all the time, Fallon. You're anything but a hero. You're a fucking coward and you know it," Jordyn whispered, smiling slightly. "God, you're such an idiot. Why did you come here? I knew you were an idiot . . . But I didn't think you were this stupid." She shook her head, faking a sad sigh.

"Jordyn, why are you doing this? It don't make sense. Why are you upset for something other people did to me? I didn't do anything to them- they hurt me. Not the other way around."

"Can you stop trying to play victim? I know what happened between y'all. But they were the reason we were something. I was something. We had a good friendship. They made me popular, made me a somebody. But you has to fuck that up because you were a drama queen. You always got what you want. And what did I get Fallon?! In the end you left me too. If you knew you were gonna hurt me, stab me in the back . . . Why the fuck did you keep me around all those years and make me lose countless friendships because they thought I was your fucking lapdog?" At this point she was crying, her tears fell as she stood over me, pulling, what seems to be a gun, out of her back pocket. "I'm tired of feeling like I'm nothing because you screwed me over. In the end, you're the nobody."

"Do you want me to take care of these ones?" Hailey hums, taking her gun out too, pointing at the boys that were still laying there.

"Yeah . . . But leave Aaron for me. I want Fallon to see what it's like to lose something important."

"You're a fucking nut job, you lost a few middle
School friends and act like your life is over. Do you know what hell I faced for the shit those friends put me through. I was forced to leave schools because I was the schools whore, I lead someone's dad on and got him locked up when he was about to give me what I wanted. I was such an attention whore I let a guy beat me up in front of a whole cafeteria full of students. I was a two faced liar, a god awful, disgusting, two faced whore because I was blackmailed and forced to date a friends ex or else the whole school would find out every single dirty secret I was hiding and you think you had it hard? You crazy fucking bitch . . . At the end of the day, you were still a selfish attention seeking whore who was miserable because everybody was focused on me for being a bad person. But you wanted that right? You wanted people to see how insane you are, how fucked up you could get if you weren't the center of attention for a second. Not today, Jordyn. It's all over, because I said it is." I said, kicked her in the leg, making her fall and drop her gun.

Hailey shoots at me, but I roll towards the gun, grabbing it, shooting at her hand. Hailey cries out in pain, dropping her gun and Jordyn crawls towards it.

"I say when it's over, Fallon. And it's not until I get what I want." She shouts, shooting at me, barely missing as it shot past my head and towards the wall behind me.

"Then I have to be the one who calls the shots because I already know that's not happening." I shout shooting at her, nearly hitting her arm. "Just give up, Jordyn. After this you're the one going to jail."

"Maybe . . . But you're gonna be the one to end up dead." She says, shooting at me, grazing my arm, making me hiss in pain. I hide behind a near by flipped over table. "You know, Fallon . . . I envied you, that's why I started this, but right now I see how pathetic you are, I'm so much better than you and when this is over . . . I'll finally realize how much I'm really worth."

"I can show you how much you're really worth right now." A males voice speaks, causing Jordyn to groan as she turned around, and there stood Aaron.

"Great, lover boys up," she grunted, pointed the gun at him. "Fallon, you might wanna see this." She tsks, laughing.

"Yeah . . ." Aaron trails off, smirking softly, "you might wanna see this." He says, looking behind her at mark and Joey who grabbed her arms, knocking the gun out of her hands. "Tie her up, we're leaving." Aaron says, rushing over to me.

I smile, even though I was just grazed by a bullet. "Are you okay?" I whisper, putting a hand up to his hair, running my fingers through it.

"Are you? You were shot," he says, sorry in his eyes.

"I'm fine, it didn't even go through my arm," I promise, smiling up at him. My eyes water as I hear sirens and the sound of Hailey and Jordyn arguing as they sit tied up side by side. "I love you." I gasp, covering my hand with my mouth. "I didn't even mean that- I mean, I did but I didn't wanna say it- I'm s-"

Aaron chuckles his shoulders shaking as he laughs, he leans down, pecking my lips as he wraps his arms around me softly, carful so he doesn't hit my arm. "I love you, too."

I smile, resting my head on his shoulder. "Let's get outta here," I say, grabbing his hand.

—

I sat on my bed, Aaron falling in tow as he wraps his arm around me, the boys sitting on the small couch I had near the bed.

"Are we not gonna talk about what happened?" Daniel asks, sitting back against the back of the couch.

I cross my legs, the oversized shirt I had on, falling from my shoulder a tiny bit. "What do you mean? You were there to witness it." I said, shrugging.

He points to my arm, pointing out my bandages. "The bullet grazed me, there's nothing else to say." I sigh, breathing in deeply. "I know y'all are gonna blame yourselves but it's really not, Jordyn is unstable and psychotic, that's a her problem." I say. "Now guys-" I was cut off by the front door, and the voice of my mother an father. Oh great.

"Sweetie?" My mom calls out, then there's foot steps up the stairs and she's suddenly standing there. She looks at me, then Aaron, then the boys. "Uh, I came as fast as I could- are you alright?" She mutters, while my father suddenly appears behind them.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, looking at the boys. "We're fine." I say, nodding at her assuringly. She smiles, looking at my dad.

"I know we haven't been around lately . . . But just know we're sorry," my dad says, I sigh, not wanting to up and forgive them. But nonetheless.

"It's okay, guys. I get it, you have work and I have school, it makes things hard."

They nod, smiling as the walked towards the door. "Just know we love you, and we're glad you're alright." They say, nodding towards the boy as if thanking them.

When they left all the boys and me sat there quietly.

"I'm hungry," Mark suddenly says, "anybody want pizza?" He questions.

We all nod our head at a fast pace.

"Well do y'all have money I kinda lost my wallet at the warehouse," he says, scratching the back of his neck.

I laugh, giving him some money to pay for it. "Get us pepperoni."

"Duh."

I smile as he walks out, leaning my head against Aaron's shoulder. "I really do love you, Mr. Popular."

Aaron rolls his eyes with a smile, "I love you, too."