My Perfect Reject

Chapter Three

I leaned against my locker waiting for Kassie. I avoided eye contact with everyone and prayed that Wilder never appeared. I bolted as soon as the bell rang for the end of first period. Unfortunately, it appeared that he was going to be in every class that I had. Thankfully though he didn't bother to talk to me again. As well as Jax and Mandie. Go fucking figure. 

"There you are."  I cried when she finally showed up. I grabbed her arm. Silently begging her to not leave me alone. 

"That bad huh?" She said shoving her bag into my locker. She would be by my side for the rest of the day. 

"Oh, you have no idea." I huffed tucking my arm into hers. "Let's go get some lunch and I'll tell you all about it." 

As we made our way into the center of hell, I told her how I had been trapped in every class with Wilder, Jax, and Mandie. I told her how Jax and Mandie were constantly telling everyone about how pathetic and needy I was. How I would never leave Jax alone. How foolish I was for not figuring it out sooner. Every word tore at me. None of those things were true, and even if I was. Jax had never said those things to me. I didn't know and I currently didn't think I was. 

I tried to think of anything I could have done to be considered needy. I never asked him for things. In fact, it was always the other way around. Jax has a hard time balancing school and football. I can not count the times he's asked me to help him with a paper or flat out ask me to do them for him. I had to be at every football game in his jersey. Make sure I was front in center. It was bad luck for the quarterback's girlfriend not to be there.  

I was quickly becoming more angry than sad. I had done nothing wrong. At least as far as I knew. 

Kassie was quicker to anger then I was though. "That no-good rotten son of an ass fuck." She yelled when I finished. Causing many eyes to turn in our direction. I wanted to bend under their gaze. 

"I'm going to kick his teeth down his throat." She roared. I locked my grip on her arm. 

"Noooo. We aren't going to do anything. He's not worth it." 

"But he's lying. Please let me hit him. Just once." 

"As much as I'd love to see you knock him on his ass. I can't handle you getting expelled. I really won't survive that. It'll die down eventually. He's just being a dick." Not that I understood why he was being a dick. As far as I was aware I was the perfect girlfriend. 

"Eh, I could use a couple of free days out of school." She smiled at me. "But I won't leave you alone... Yet" 

I scanned the room as we took our place in line. Mandie and Jax were sitting at the usual table. She was in the spot I normally occupied. While one of the groupies was sitting in Kassie spot. 

"Guess we will be finding somewhere new to sit." She looked in their direction and snorted. 

"Good their company has always been boring. Football, sex, and some more football. So complex and intelligent." 

I giggled. "Good point." 

Wilder was surrounded by a group of girls, one of the basically sitting in his lap. It was not the one I scared off earlier. A couple of other boys sat with them. In every story that features a high school. They talk about cliques. I had never noticed before, but we did have them. Jax and his group were at the center and everyone else scattered around them. The goths, the nerds, the baseball players, the drama group, the artists. Everyone had their place. Where was mine now? 

"There's an empty table in the back. That's where we are going. Alllll by ourrrrselllvesss." Kassie sang. I loaded my plate with cheese sticks and three packages of ranch. I didn't care to pay the extra today. This day has sucked. The only good thing being these cheese sticks right here.