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16. Challenge

Spotlight - Selena Gomez

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-Abby's POV

"No Jenny!" I slammed my locker and turned to face my bestfriend. "I'm not going to say sorry or thank you to anyone."

"But Nate saved me.. he's quite nice and if it wouldn't have for him, I would've probably woken up in a stranger's bed!" she insisted with her puppy eyes. Since I related the whole incident to her, she's got a weird idea of thanking Joey and Nate and is hell-bent on making me apologise for the slap. Even though I didn't tell her why I did that, she's been insisting and insisting and insisting since this monday morning.

"No! End of discu-" As I was refusing her, we spotted Nate, Britney and Lucy walking towards us down the corridor. Jenny rushed-rather too quickly for my liking-towards Nate and flashed her sweetest smile.

"Hey.. I just wanted to apologise and say thanks for saturday night. I caused you guys a lot of trouble.."

"You're forgiven as long as you don't ever steal my drink again!" he smirked.

"Rest assured.. I'm not touching a single drop of that bitter and tasteless drink again," Jenny said while crunching her nose in disgust. They both laughed and were joined by Lucy's fake and forced laugh.

"Hahaha.. we should head to our History class now," she said to Nate, trying to grab his attention.

"Oh.. I've History too. I guess we are in the same class," Jenny said kindly.

"That's great! Let's go then," Nate said before he walked off with Jenny and a grumpy Lucy, leaving me and Britney alone. I had the firm idea of ignoring her when she moved closer to me.

"So little nerd, I heard you got pretty aggressive huh?"

"What do you mean?" I raised an eyebrow.

"I mean that you slapped my boyfriend you slut!" she hissed through her teeth.

"What? How.. That's not your problem if I slapped him or not! As far as I know you're definitely not his bodyguard." I was probably overeacting but she searched for war by calling me a slut.

"You can't fool me. I know your opinions," she scoffed.

"And they are?"

"You want to make Joey dance to your tunes, right? You're taking advantage of his memory loss to entice him! You're just playing hard to get and acting so bitchy to grab his attention," she said accusingly.

"And why would I do that?"

"To take my place obviously. You know perfectly that rejecting Joey like this will intrigue him and thus he'll be more tempted to run after you. You want him to be attracted to you like a bee and have him court you and think that you are the only girl not falling for him. Afterall it's considered as a great thing to have Joey Mcwell at her feet. Personally, I just think you read too many crappy romantic comedies in which the boy falls for the only girl who doesn't pay him any attention. "

"Just listen to yourself psycho.. you are feeling insecure that a nerd would steal your boyfriend by slapping him?" She may be a dumbass but I must say that her jokes are humorous.

"Why in the world would I see you as a threat? I mean just look at you.. Let alone my rival, you don't even deserve to be my shoe lace," she snaps. Either I'm deaf or she just compared me to her hideous pink coloured shoe lace.

"Oh.. so you think I can't have Joey fall for me if I try to seduce him?" I smirked. Oh no.. that's it, she succeeded to provoke me and now I'm done for.

"I could bet my whole summer wardrobe on that!" she said with her head held high.

NOOOO! Don't do this! You'll regret it.. just walk away and ignore her! Run off you crazy arse! Don't accept it please!

"We'll see that! Challenge accepted." I said, pissing off my subconscious royally. Sorry inner mind but you know my temper. Britney went over this again in her mind and then spoke up.

"You have until New Year, unless you need more time?" she said smugly. Until New Year.. that leaves me about two months.

"Deal!" I state confidently.

"What if you lose?" she asked with a devilish glint in her eyes.

"The punishment of your choice," I said bravely. "And if Joey cares more about me than you at the end of the year, then you'll do as I say."

"You really think it'll happen?" she scoffed.

"Yes." I state matter of factly and after sending her a last hateful glance, I walk away with the firm intention of proving her wrong. But was she really wrong? Could I, Abigail Wood make the It Boy of school fall for me? Any other boy would have been a bit easier but Joey.. my sister fucking died because of him and here I am trying to date him because of a provoking bitch! What was wrong with me? This is all new to me and I don't even know where to start or what to do or how to do it.. I'm already regretting my hasty decision but I know that there is no backing down now. I've got my self-respect afterall.

As I walk towards my litterature class, I try to build up my confidence to do this thing. I convince myself by thinking that Joey deserves to be toyed with after all he has done to numerous girls. He deserves a taste of his own game.. I think that argument was quite valid but this naïve subconscious of mine is stubborn as hell and keeps bringing that scared feeling to the surface.

As this inner battle goes on, I reached the class and my feet automatically synchronised to move towards Joey's table and sit beside him. His eyes widened at my gesture and his mouth was almost touching the floor. I guess he must think I'm pathetic to sit next to him after slapping him.

"Hey.." I say with my best fake smile. "I just wanted to say sorry for whatever happened." God.. I can't believe I just said that. Instead of answering, he kept gaping at me as if I had grown a second head. This is going to be tough.. really tough!

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Not too boring I hope?

If you are wondering how Abby can be so bold although she's a nerd.. A nerd doesn't mean to be a coward which Abby is definitely not! She likes to speak up for herself but she's easily influenced by people and has got a very bad temper.

Got it? :D