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「 nine 」

CHAPTER NINE

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Unlike science, English is a subject I'm good at and enjoy which is why I'm excited for it, but only a small amount. I still dislike school, but there are a few teachers and subjects that make it enjoyable. My body moves through the sea of bodies that are walking in the opposite direction of me while I blend in with those who are walking in the same direction.

Suddenly, something grips my arm and pulls me into a small room which causes a noise of surprise to escape my lips. My eyes divert to the shadow in front of me and immediately, I start to scream until the shadow covers my mouth with it's hand.

"It's me you idiot." A familiar voice tells me and I mentally groan; why universe, why? When he realises I'm not going to scream anymore, he uncovers my mouth and immediately wipes his hand on his black jeans "ew that was disgusting, I'm never doing that again." He mumbles with disgust on his face as I roll my eyes.

"Stop being dramatic." I say "why am I in the janitor's closet?." I ask him as I look around the room. There's cleaning supplies and shelves of toilet paper and other things that are in a janitor's closest, I'm in a janitor's closest "why did you drag me in here? I'm going to be late for class." I tell him, hoping he'll get to the point of why he dragged me in here, so I can leave.

"Who have you told?." He asks and my eyebrows raise in question "who have you told about our 'relationship'?." He asks again using his fingers as quotation marks as disgust appears on my feature.

"Trust me, our 'relationship' isn't something that I would brag about." I tell him, repeating his actions in a mocking way. Where is he going with this? Unlike him, I actually want to get good grades and join everyone else at graduation, but he just wants to drag me down; see? This is how much we hate each other.

"Well then how did people find out?." He asks, panic seeping into his voice.

"People found out?." I ask in shock "how did people find out?."

"That's what Im trying to find out." He retorts "that's why I asked you." He tells me.

I go to say that it wasn't my fault and he probably had been an idiot and gotten drunk which caused him to spill the beans about out deal, but than I realise something. Yesterday when Luke and I had gone on our walk, we walked pass many people and a bus stop, so one of those people could have probably been someone who goes to our school and therefore, telling everyone and now, everyone is going to find out.

"I may or may not have talked to Luke about this while out in public." I say grimacing at how stupid I had been. I'm not telling him that though, his head is already too big, it's bigger than the earth and the planets in space.

He presses his fingers to his temple "how could you have been so stupid?." He rhetorically asks with his eyes shut close.

I roll my eyes "calm down drama queen, it's not like the entire female population is dying." I say, knowing that without girls he wouldn't be able to live. As mentioned before, Mitchell's a player and every week or so he always has a new girl or toy as that's how he treats them, plays with them and than gets bored, so he throws away.

"Yea well they might as well now since it's out that we're dating, so no girl will sleep with me." He groans "I'm a man with needs, I need-." He's interrupted by me covering my ears with my hands and singing a random song that was on the top of my head. I don't need to know about his sex life or anything about his life, I wouldn't be apart of it if it wasn't for my secret he knows.

He stands there, looking at me with amusement and annoyance "I've stop!." He exclaims and through my singing, I'm able to hear him, so I undercover my ears "goodness, your singing was horrible and off-key." He says and my mouth opens, offended by his words, but not shocked by him saying them.

"I bet I'm a better singer than you." I retort, that being my only comeback.

He rolls his eyes "Yea, if people wanted their ears to bleed."

I hit him, hard "this is why I hate you." I remind him "one of the many reasons."

"Oh, we both know that you're in love with me princess." He says, giving me a wink. Throughout this entire week, all I've wanted do to is punch him, slap him or kill him, but now I want to do all of the above. I so badly want this month to end, I want to go back to ignoring him and never speaking to him, just hating him from a distance. I want to go back to before dad told me the news, but I can't. I don't have a time machine, I wish I did through.

"And how do I know that you aren't in love with me? You know people say that boys who pick on girls are actually in love with them." I inform him with my hands on my hips. A smile is on my face, knowing I got him by the disgusting look on his features "well, if that's all you dragged me in here for, I'm leaving before I'm late to class more than I already am." I tell him after a moment of silence. He doesn't say anything as I open the door and walk down the hall, leaving him behind.

However, as I walk away the news of the whole school knowing settles in. This just went from bad to worst in a matter of only a week, luckily there's only three more weeks to go until this whole thing ends. That's what keeping me going, that and keeping my secret to myself and anyone I tell.

And Mitchell, of course because he just sticks his nose in everyone's business.