Backstabbed (H.S)

Chapter 17

I look down, blushing furiously.

Harry starts to laugh at something his mom said and turns back to me.

"Are you okay?" he asks, putting his finger under my chin and lifting my head so his eyes could meet mine.

I turn my head away from under his finger and look down at my food, "I'm not all that interesting like all the other girls at school." I shake my head, "Mia is beautiful, she's a gymnist, she gets the guys, and its amazing how she's never had one bad hair day." I gush.

"Don't talk about how amazing Mia is, I want to know about you. You're telling me everything I already know about my girlfriend, that is kind of depressing." He laughs.

"Sorry," I laugh along.

Harry and I keep eating our dinner while our parents talk about what parents talk about.

"I think it's getting late," Anne says, smiling, standing from the table and whiping her face with a napkin one last time.

I furrow my eyebrows and look at my phone. It's 9:30, they've been here since 5:30!

"Wow, time went by really fast," I say to myself.

Harry and Rob follow Anne and my parents to the front door and say their goodbyes. When it's Harry turn to say his goodnights to me, I expect him to give me a small smile and a hanshake, but he pulls me in for a bear hug.

"Goodnight, love." Harry whispers in my ear, sending shivers down my spine. His raspy voice is engraved into my memory while my mother and I clean the kitchen.

"That Harry boy seems nice." she says.

"Yeah, he is." I smile, rubbing a sponge against a dirty pan.

"I saw that, don't try to hide it from your mom." my mother laughs, and my cheeks heat up at the thought of Harry and I actually dating. "Mom!" I yell.

I finish the dishes and scream my goodnights to my parents from the top of the stairs. I instantly remeber that we didn't have our family meeting about the divorce.

We will have it soon, dont worry Mack.

As I enter my room, Harry's caller ID shows up on the screen of my phone, and I answer the phone quickly.

"Hello?"

"Don't think I still don't want to get to know you."

"Harry, couldn't you have just texted me that?" I groan. I'm really tired and would prefer to take a warm shower and go to sleep than to start a conversation that will sooner or later be awkward.

"Uhhhh."

"Goodnight."

-Monday, 1st period-

I walk in quietly, trying not to bring attention to myself, knowing Harry would be in here with Mia until the bell rings.

I take my seat in the back of the classroom and pull out my phone from my back pocket. I look through twitter and instagram. Nothing new.

I sigh and put my phone back in its place, looking around the classroom in the process.

Miny, one of my friends is sitting alone in the corner with tear stains on her cheeks and I jolt out of my seat like when a dog hears a squeaky toy in the distance and just HAS to go find it.

"Miny, whats wrong?" I whisper in her ear and I give her a strong hug.

"Mia, she told Ron that I cheated on him with some guys from the football team and he beleived her." She cries onto my shoulder.

Ron is Miny's, I mean, was Miny's boyfriend. The've liked each other since 8th grade and he finally grew the balls to ask her out to homecoming during freshman year.

"But yall have been dating for almost 4 years now, he has to know you would never do that to him." I say, pushing her shoulders back so I could see her red stained face.

"I tried, so hard. So hard, Mack. He will just not beleive me." she wipes under her eyes with the palm of her hand.

"Why would Mia tell him that lie, though?" I ask, a frown growing on my face, "what do you have against her?"

"I was talking to Isa about how she was so rude and how her butt was probably fake like her personalitly and boobs smaller than her ego..." she says and I burst out laughing in the small art room.

An achiving smile covers Miny's face and she lightly laughs along with me.

My hand quickly covers my mouth and I look around the room behind me.

Mia and some of her friends are giving me a glare, but Harry is smiling at me.

'I love her laugh." comes into my mind and I cant help but smile onto my hand, but then I turn back to Miny, "What else?"

"And so Glen heard me, told Mia, and now this." Miny's shoulders drop and her smile has been taken over by a frown.

"Miny, I'm so sorry. But for the record, that was a really nice comment," I say, smirking, fist bumping my friend.

"We'll work something out, okay?"

"Okay."

I smile at Miny and walk back over to my seat. Harry decides to pay me a visit once I sit down.

"The bell is about to ring." I say, taking out my art portfolio,"and Mia is right over there."

"Enough time to start learning about you." Harry takes a seat in front of my table, ignoring my Mia comment.

"One question and you go."

'Fine." he rolls his eyes.

"Have you ever had a boyfriend?"

When I hear the word boyfriend I instantly think of Rick. The guy who had scarred me for 2 years, and I finally got the chance to move on and forget the torture.

I swallow a big gulp, look him in the eyes and sternly say,

"No."

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