Lost In A Memory

Chapter 5

Walking through the doors of the school I immediately become less confident in my choice of wardrobe as I notice all eyes on me, watching my every movement. Trying to keep a brave face I hold my head up and walk down the hallway to my locker, keeping my eyes peeled for Alec. With no sight of him I sigh, half from relief and half out of disappointment. I quickly twist in my combo and figure the easiest thing right now is to just grab my stuff then get to my class, and away from these watchful eyes all around me. 

Just as I'm about to leave I feel an even more intense gaze, burning holes into the back of my head . Slowly, I turn around and met with the glaring eyes of Jules. The queen bee, the top bitch, if the school had a food chain Jules would be the lioness at the top, and I would be a little rat no one cares about.

"Why look at what we have here girls," she says to her posse of mindless bimbos who follow her around everywhere, "the little worm is trying to look nice. How much do you want to bet it's for Alec?" she smirks at me, an evil glimmer in her eye. I put my head down and try to walk away, knowing the terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach wasn't from indigestion.

"Oh not so fast, Worm." One of her minions steps forward blocking my path. The other girl steps to close off the other side, leaving me with no way out. Jules takes an intimidating step forward causing me to take an immediate step back, pressing myself against the lockers in an attempt to create as much space as I can. She comes even closer pushing me aggressively into the locker and getting uncomfortably close to my face.

"There isn't enough makeup in the world to make you pretty enough for Alec." she sneers, inspecting my very minimal makeup. " You'll never be good enough for him and we all know it. You're giving us quite the show with your hopeless and desperate attempts to go after him. We all know he'd rather go out with someone like me." she states proudly, flipping a section of hair over her shoulder.

 Her brief smile is quickly replaced with her nasty smirk as she holds out her hand, and as if it was rehearsed, the girl to her right placed a cup in her hand. Before I knew what was happening I felt a thick, ice cold liquid on top of my head, and slowly drip down my face and neck. My lips part and I can taste the smoothie that's now become a part of my outfit, and I let out a loud gasp, which unfortunately grabs the attention of everyone in the hallway around us. Quiet gasps and snickers fill my ears as I make eye contact with Jules, and then the last voice I wanted to hear meets my ears.

"Allison..? Jules..? What happened?" Alec questions. Fighting away the hot tears that burn my eyes I look towards the ground. He can't be seeing me like this.

"Oh Alec! Looks like Alley here is having a bit of a, uh rough morning." Jules says before letting out a wicked laugh. I push past Jules and her minions who have stepped out of the way, deciding they've put me through enough for now, and break into a full on sprint down the hallway, ignoring Alec as he calls out my name.

Reaching the bathroom I run in and practically throw my books onto the counter, leaning against the wall. The tears that threatened to fall not two minutes ago now fell freely as I tried to stifle my sobs.Giving into them I let myself slide down the wall and sit on the floor. I can't believe they did that, and even worse, Alec saw me with a smoothie dumped all over me. I can't help but wonder how much he saw, what if he knew? What if he was one of the people laughing? These thoughts only make my crying worse and before long I'm a complete mess.

After what felt like hours I pull myself up off the floor and go to the sink. Looking at my reflection in the mirror I'm met by the red, puffy eyes of the most pathetic girl I've ever seen. Bright pink smoothie has soaked into my hair, stained my shirt with a few drops on my pants. Defeated I turn on the tap and try to wash out what I can. I splash hot water on my face and as I stand up to dry off my face I see someone standing behind me. Startled I jump around to face the person and see Alec looking down at me.