Without You

Chapter 15

A few minutes later, the bell rang, signaling class was starting. Soon, the teacher walked in.

Once he saw the board, boy was he mad.

"Who did this?!" he yelled, frustrated.

No one said anything.

I just twisted my neck to my left to see Ashley smirking while twirling a piece of her hair. She sat in the very left corner of the back of the classroom while I sat in the middle of the room, a little to my right.

The teacher ran a hand through his hair. Then, there was a knock on the door before it opened, revealing the principle.

He scanned the room before his eyes fell upon Ashley.

"You." he said sternly to Ashley as his eyes never left hers.

"What did I do?" she asked innocently.

"You did this!"

"I haven't gotten into any trouble ever since I became friends with good o' Julie here," she replied calmly while standing up from her chair and going over to me.

"It's true. I've been keeping her out of trouble," I tell the principle.

"Are you sure about that?" he asked.

"Has she been to the office recently?"

"No."

"Then?" I asked. I guess he saw my point and then started speaking again.

"Okay then, I believe you. But as soon as I find out who did this, they are in big trouble." As soon as he said that, he left, shutting the door behind him.

Ha! He thinks he's gonna find out who did this. Well, he's not going to find out who did this.

No one ever will.

~

The rest of the day passed by as a blur. It being boring as usual. After school ended, Chandler texted me, asking if I could come over since it was his moms birthday.

I texted him back, telling him I would be there in about 17 minutes.

I went to this little shop that opened a few days ago and went to see what was inside.

I decided on getting this perfume that smelled like vanilla and some lotion. While there, I got this bag that said HAPPY FREAKING BIRTHDAY!! In bold letters. The word 'happy' was the color pink with glitter. The words 'freaking' and 'birthday' were also in glitter, but freaking was the color green and birthday was the color blue. The words had sequins outlining the letters while purple balloons surrounded them in the yellow background color of the bag. I also got some white tissue paper.

Once I payed and left, I stopped in my tracks, checking to see my outfit. Let's see... black hoodie, plain, blue shirt, grey jeans, and black and grey sneakers; eh.

I don't care! I love it!

I sat down on a bench right outside the store and got everything out of the plastic bag they gave me to put all my stuff in. I took off all the price tags that was on the items and put them inside the bag. Lastly, I opened up the bag of tissue paper and put two of the tissue inside the bag. I put the rest of the leftover paper inside my backpack.

I then started walking toward the Riggs' house that was not too far from the little shop.