sHE'S brOKen

Cylyss Kong

It was the day of the dance and my father dropped me off at school. Ace and I haven't talked since he left me standing in the hall. I never showed up to his practice because I didn't want to make excuses as to why I didn't tell him about the phone. I know I should have went, stop yelling at me. I will have a talk with him today. I don't want to breakup over anything stupid. He's my rock and I care about him too much to let him go.

As I was at my locker grabbing my books. I see the principal with two new students. A boy and a girl. "Ah, there she is. Cylyss, these two are Caleb and Maya Davenport. I would like you to show Maya around considering she's joining your 10th grade class." I smile at her and shake her hand. She wore a cute jean skirt with a striped shirt. Her brother kind of just stared at me and I started to feel nervous as heat rose to my cheeks. "Hello gorgeous," He said with a smirk as he grabbed my hand and lifted it to his lips. "Alright creep, don't scare her," Maya rolled her eyes at his actions. "Sorry about him, he's normally not this weird." I laugh awkwardly, whatever he's doing to me is making me feel like I have butterflies in my stomach. Wait a second. I am with Ace. Nobody is changing that.

I started showing Maya around, I noticed many similarities between us. She was reserved and claimed that she didn't have many friends back in Calabasas. I asked about her family and she told me it was just her brother and father. She seemed sweet so we decided to exchange numbers. When we turned the corner, I saw Ace's sister Ava and decided to introduce the two. "Hey Ava this our new student, Maya, she just moved here from California." Maya gave her a shy smile. "Hello, if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask." She had a reassuring smile and continued to walk to her class. As we compared schedules, I saw that we had our AP classes together. She's a smart girl. As I walked her to her class, I told her I had to get going and to text me if she needed help getting around still.

I was running late to gym class and literally running to gym class. Fun fact, I hate going to gym. I finally got changed in the girls locker room and out to the basketball court. My eyes soon land on Satan herself. I walk up to Mr. Roque and tell him about why I was late. "Why is Angelina in our class today?" He looks at his clipboard and responds, "She transferred into this class this morning." Angelina doesn't do things without seeing the benefits of them. She's smart and manipulative like that.

"Alright, I want everyone in two teams. Angelina and Caleb will be team captains. Take your pick." Coach's voice booms through the gym. I'm always the last to get picked but to my surprise Caleb made me his fourth pick. We were playing dodgeball today. Caleb pulled the whole team aside and gave us the most disappointing pep talk ever. "Alright, so basically my advice is don't lose. Also aim for the weak players. These are your classmates, y'all know which ones suck." I scoff, "What are you going to do if we lose?" He stepped up to me getting really close, "Babygirl," He gives me a quick scan from head to toe, "If you want to find out, keep testing me." I felt the heat return to my cheeks again. This flirting has to stop.

As the game started, I sort of stayed in the back. I dodged the red balls coming my way and caught a few. I decided to throw a few and got some people out. Maybe this is my type of sport. I couldn't stop thinking about Ace. How much I needed to tell him about everything. I never meant to lie. Then I started thinking about the dance. He wasn't even going. Am I the only one who thinks of scenarios and then gets mad? I thought back to what Angelina said. A stupid nickname doesn't mean anything. She could've just made it bigger than it was to make me jealous. Well I guess it worked. I shouldn't even be mad, Ace and I just need to communicate better.

Eventually, it was Caleb, a few others, and I left. Angelina and a few boys left on the opposite side. I threw a ball without looking and a few seconds later heard a thud. I guess my throw had a lot of strength behind it. A body hit the ground, Angelina's body to be exact. Her teammates rush over to her and so does her squad. Erica yells, "We need a medic! STAT!"

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