𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐫 || a.i

Chapter 43

Rebbeca

I walked away from Melaine and headed over to my next class. The school seemed quiet, the hallways that were always loud weren't loud anymore. I looked around and saw people walking or putting stuff in their lockers but no one was talking. They all knew I assumed, about Austin's death. No one wanted to break the ice, so it was just quiet. I arrived at my bio med class in time, I walked over to my seat and sat down with my friends who were also my lab group.

Normani gently placed her hand over mine and squeezed it softly. "How are you doing?" She asked, I was still mad from my encounter with Camila and Melaine. "Horrible, I already feel like shit as it is and then Camila accuses me of sleeping with him and causing his murder" I said, they already knew that I was talking about Austin because basically the whole school did.

"Camila is all kinds of crazy don't let her get to your head" she assured me, Dinah nodded her head. "I've told you that I never liked her, I don't why you still associate yourself with her. She's toxic" I heard her say, she was right. I looked over at Lauren, she looked like she wanted to say something but wasn't saying it. She fixed her hair and then looked back at me.
"I was at the party, with Camila and Ally and I know that you didn't do it" she said, I smiled at her "thanks laur but Camila isn't going to stop" I said. "I know who Austin slept with, I saw her going into his room. Her name is Peyton." She added. I looked at her confused, so did Normani and Dinah.

"Last name?" I asked, "List, Peyton list" she said. I didn't know who she was. "How do you know this?" Normani asked, Lauren began playing with her pen. "I went upstairs with Justin and I saw them talking in Austin's room before Austin closed the door." She said shyly. Dinah nudged her shoulder playfully "you and Justin huh?" She teased making Lauren blush a little. "Bieber" Normani questioned and Lauren nodded. I smiled a little, at least someone is getting something positive out of this.

I just wanted to escape and go to the diner with Mikey. I needed someone to talk to.

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I walked out of the school doors and started walking towards my bus until Mikey pulled up with his truck. I smiled "you brought you car" I said, he nodded "yea, I think we should stop taking the bus too" he said, I chuckled "but you hate wasting gas" I added. "It's alright, I'm going to have to use this car sooner or later" he laughed a little. I got inside and he drove us away from the school.

"You wanna go to the diner?" He asked, I turned to look at him "you read my mind" I grinned. He grinned too "it's what I do" I playfully nudged his shoulder which made us slightly laugh. "Guess what happened to me in the girls bathroom today" I said exhausted. Mikey kept his eyes on the road but I knew he was still listening "what happened?" He asked as he started to switch lanes. "Camila thinks I slept with Austin" I said, he furrowed his eyebrows "why does she think that" he said.

"I don't know, she thinks I was at his party the night he died and that I was the last person he saw before. You know." I said, Mikey scoffed "she accused you of killing him?" He said. I nodded, he shook his head slowly. "And did you know that they were dating apparently? I never knew about that until today" I added. "They were probably just hooking up" Mikey said as he tried to find a parking spot to the diner lot. "Probably" I said not thinking much about it.

We both got out of the car and made our way to the diner, everyone in town came to this restaurant because it was located right in the center of everything. We entered the building and found a booth to sit in.

"So, how are you feeling?" Mikey asked, I smiled a little "I'm slowly starting to feel better" I said, that made Mikey smile. "That's good, I'm always here though" he assured, it made my heart warm. He placed his hand over mine and interlocked our hands together. I blushed, his fingers played with mine and Mikey was about to say something until a waitress came over.
"Are you guys ready to order" she said, I nodded "yea I'll have a strawberry milkshake and the burger with fries" I said, she nodded and wrote my order down on the notepad as she turned to Mikey. "I'll have the same except make the milkshake chocolate please" the waitress smiled at us and nodded.

"I'll bring that right out for you guys, is there anything else I can get you?" She asked, I shook my head and looked at her. She had a long curled blonde ponytail and had pretty blue eyes, I looked at her name tag. Peyton.
Why did that sound familiar, I thought for a minute then realized she was the girl from the party. Lauren told me about her earlier today.

She had left right as I was about to ask her something, I didn't have the energy in me to get up and find her so I let her leave.

Bro I need to be more active wtf I'm lowkey kinda disappearing on this app 😂😂