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twenty

my last class went by fairly quick, as all i did was listen to music and write down notes quietly.

the bell rang and i got up looking at the clock, then gathered all of my stuff together putting them into my bag. whilst walking out of the door, some guy placed his hand on my upper arm from behind, softly.

"hey, you're melody right?" he questioned as we moved out of the way to let people pass.

"yes?" i say while holding my notebook close to my chest looking him in the eyes.

"do you maybe wanna go out sometime, since you broke up with jackson?" he said bluntly giving me a wide smirk biting the inside of his cheeks. 

before i answer, i glance towards his friends staring at us obviously waiting for me to say something.

"no thank you. that information was meant to be kept private." i say respectfully, smiling softly, in a friendly manner.

"alright." he said defeatedly while turning around back to his friends while they all spoke to him.

i breathed in deeply while slowly walking down the hall. i heard echoes of the group of guys laughing until that same boy said something,loudly,enough for me to hear.

"it's such a shame because we could've had a really fun time. isn't that right, freaky girl?"

my breathing was hitched as i heard the last words come out of his mouth.
i continued walking as if i hadn't heard him but the sharp pain in my heart still stood.

i put my stuff in my locker, trying to think of good things, even though his statement still repeated in my head. but those thoughts then melted away when i saw that lil happy nugget walk over.

"heyyy!" keith said while throwing his books into his locker and grabbing some perfume spraying some around us.

"what's up, you trying to watch IT with me later?" i says while shutting my locker.

"ha ha, very funny. can we go already!i heard one of the football players is gay!!" he says while we link our arms together walking to the stadium.

the stadium was just like the one last year;

the coaches all talking to each other and running across the field trying to set everything up like the last game. i continued to glance at people finding a place to sit in every direction.

the countdown on the scoreboard showing the time on when the teams will come out.

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while walking on the side field, keith and i walk up the steps to where we always sit with the rest of the gang. from a ways away, i can see ethan waving his arms around along with aaron.

both keith and i share a giggle and walk towards them sitting down right in the middle of everything so we can see what's going on in the game close up.

"wait, how were you able to get up close seats?" i say surprised still holding on to keith's arm.

"did you forget one of the 2 best players happen to be our brothers?" ethan says in a 'duh' voice. i laughed at his comment as we all took our seats.

keith opened up his backpack and took out the warm hotdogs and popcorn,
passing them out to each of us.

as we all waited, keith pulled me to the side to talk, which i was fairly confused but also scared about.

"melll" he said while slightly looking down at me making eye contact leaning against the cement wall.

"keeeithhhh"

"is there something you might wanna tell me?" keith says looking me with a serious look in his eyes.

fuck. he found out, i'm screwed for life.

"uhh, what do you mean?" i say faking my confusion.

"you and jackson. i definitely know there's another reason you guys broke up, especially on the rumors that i've heard. so spill sis." he says crossing his arms.

i thank my dead goldfish for watching over me just now. miss you bertram.

i pretty much explained that he was the one who cheated and that i went over to his house to see him but all i found was another girl. so, i broke up him when he arrived to his house and that all of this happened before we all went to the beach that saturday.

i left out of course me going over to grayson's house, not only to save my ass but also his.

after we had a long discussion of keith apologizing for him inviting jackson that day and not being there for me, we eventually made our way back to our seats and watched as all of the football players and cheerleaders came out.

of course we all clapped for tori, mason, and grayson entering the field. then finally sat down and watched the game begin.