But, You're my Best friend

Chapter 2

                             I fucking hate school. The only reason I still get up in the morning is that I know I’m close to getting out and actually making a difference in this world rather than just sitting in a stuffy crowded place with people I hate, learning shit I probably won’t ever use again. I had some pretty good classes this half of the year though. I had honors art and Marine Life studies which was the last class I had in the day and was a great way to end my everyday here in this jail. We got to the locker Liam and I share when our other good friends Travis and Maxx came by.

“Hello my favorite earthlings!” Maxx rang as she bounced towards us in her brightly colored hipster outfit with her favorite Doc Martin’s.

“What about me?” Travis faked whimpered, Maxx slapped him in the stomach.

“You’re my twin brother obviously you are one of my favs!” I slung my arm over her laughing, man she was too much. “Aria! This is my new vintage Mumford and Sons t-shirt! Don’t wrinkle it!” Maxx yelled over dramatically, we rolled our eyes. Could she get anymore hipster?

“Speaking of t-shirts, Ari is that my Led Zeppelin tank you’re wearing?” Liam directed towards me play kidding. I snickered.

“Of course not Li.” I stuck my tongue out and he did the same. Just as I thought this was going to be a good day, fucking Satan’s spawn came crashing in.

“Li-Li! Baby!” Lindsay Martin’s piercing voice filled all our ears as she attacked Liam. Yeah you guessed it; she’s Liam’s bimbo. Maxx and I exchanged eye rolls as Liam put on a big goofy smile.

“Hey.” He reached down and planted a wet one on her glossy plastic lips. When they were done playing frigging tonsil hockey Lindsay fixed her pin straight blonde hair and grabbed Liam’s hand. I love Liam honestly more than anyone else, he’s my best friend. What I absolutely hate about him is his choice in girlfriends. Yeah Liam is like a total god in this school, all because of his natural ability to be awesome in soccer, so he can basically get any girl he wanted. And he sure picks keepers.

“Baby did you get those tickets to the One Direction concert for us to go for our anniversary?” Satan whined, pulling on Liam’s arm. Travis slapped his forehead and tried to pay attention to something else. That stupid boy band was Lindsay’s favorite and she never shut up about it. I swear the only reason she was dating Liam, besides his looks, was the fact there was a guy named Liam in that band too.

“I can get two tickets for you Lins, but I can’t go because I’m taking Ari to see Tom Petty that day.” He smiled at me and my heart stopped. He was able to get tickets to see Tom Petty’s sold out tour?

“You got tickets?!” I yelled not able to hold in my excitement.

“Yeah I knew a guy” Liam winked. I went up to him and hugged him the biggest I think I ever did. Tom Petty was literally my idol and for years Liam has been trying to catch him on tour for us to go see him.

“Liam you’re the best! You know that?”

“I do.” While Liam and I were smiling like crazy, miss little pouty was putting on her just pissed off face.

“Li seriously? It’s our damn anniversary! And you’re choosing her over me to go see some old guy?” I gave her a dirty look.

“Oh shut up. Just because Miss ‘Privilege’ isn’t getting her way doesn’t mean you have to have a hissy fit.” I spit at her. I really couldn’t stand this chick, and the fact she was dissing Tom Petty was even worse. She just huffed and rolled her eyes at me.

“Liam I like seriously think you need to look at what’s more important here. Because if you keep on making choices like this you’re are going to be flying S-O-L-O.”

“Good job! You know how to spell!” I said sarcastically as said grumbled, flipped her hair and walked away ‘angrily’.  Travis slung his arm over Liam sighing.

“Girls are tough man. You can’t live with them…and, well now you can live without them because of porn now a days. Dude since your having trouble with Lindsay, if you need my password for my pornhub acc-“

“Travis! Stop being such an asshole!” Maxx smack his arm while him and Liam were cracking up. I smiled and rolled my eyes. Travis could be such the joker sometimes.

“C’mon Maxx we need to get to English, and Liam you need to go to gym.” I sighed pulling Maxx’s arm toward the direction of my most hated class.

                       The rest of the day was pretty much uneventful like usual since it was nearing the end of the year, well sort of. It was the beginning of May and everybody was already getting antsy. I was just glad that today was Tuesday and that meant the week was halfway over.

“Did you pay attention to anything Mr. Saals was talking about in Literature?” Maxx groaned trying to get her car door opened. She had enough money to buy at least a new car, but Maxx being Maxx she got an old beat up Volkswagen bug.

“Nah, it’s the same shit as last year.” I said walking over pulling her door open for her. She smiled and turned to face me with her big rimmed hipster glasses.

“You know who else couldn’t pay attention?” She wiggled her eyebrows and sighed when I ddin’t answer. I knew who she was talking about but I really didn’t want to bring him up. “Ril-“

“Maxx!” I whispered yelled at her when the guy she was talking about was ‘causally’ walking by us smirking, like he knew we were talking about him. Yeah that’s Riley Leon for you. He was the guy girls like Lindsay hated but secretly admired because of his short sweepy jet black hair and his captivating blue eyes that just lured you in. And may I add he’s just got that perfect touch of bad boy with the perfect music taste. And I guess I should also add that he’s my ex-boyfriend…as in I shouldn’t be describing him like this, I should be hating his guts. I do I swear, it’s just hard when he looks at me like that. We broke up last year because he cheated on me and I felt a whole new level of pain. But now when ever I see him in the hallway or wherever all he does is give me that look that makes me want to punch him in the face and give him a huge kiss at the same time. I just rolled my eyes and looked away to see the biggest smile on Maxx’s face. She thought he was the hottest person a live. 

“Wipe that grin off your face. I have to get to work I’ll text you later.” I waved walking away before she could start bugging me.