M U T E

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Midterms. They are just a few weeks away now. Bryce wants to get together to study with me. Myra wants to go Christmas shopping. Jocelyn wants to do that too. I've managed to avoid her question the past few days.

It's Friday now, and I'm in Chemistry. I have this whole weekend with her, and I just need to keep avoiding the question. I've done pretty well at packing up my schedule. I decided to go job searching today, Christmas shopping tomorrow with Myra, and Sunday studying with Bryce. That covers the weekend. 

"Saturday then?" Myra asks as class ends.

I nod.

"Great!"

She walks away as Bryce appears. 

"Hey Reyna," he says, smiling.

I give him a small wave. We talk about getting together Sunday to study, then I go off to gym class. It kind of sucks that I have Vienna in my class. Every day she likes to talk loudly to her friends about her "amazing something" with Bryce. It's ridiculous the stories she comes up with. 

"Oh my gosh, on Saturday, he took me up to the beach. We made out at sunset. It was the perfect moment."

Funny that at sunset on Saturday he was at my house playing 'Go Fish' and 'Tic Tac Toe' with my brothers. 

"He keeps dropping off chocolates in my mailbox."

Sure.

"He and I went to the aquarium." 

Cool? 

"He told me that he loves me. We were sitting at the same restaurant of our first date. He took my hands and said I was his only." 

That is today's. I can't help, but let a small laugh out. I quickly hold back. What am I doing? 

"I'm sorry, did you say something? I thought I heard something over here," Vienna's voice was suddenly right behind me. 

"Nope, I'm just curious if anyone believes all those lies coming from you. I'm worrying that you may be a psycho that needs to be checked. And I'm concerned that people who do believe you might need to be checked as well," I say, kind of proud that I got that out, but kind of knowing that I had once again said something stupid. 

I thought that sounded good? Did I just make a complete idiot of myself? Yes.

"I cannot believe you just said that. Actually, I can't believe you said anything, Mute. Who are you to say those things about me? I think you're just jealous," she smirks at me, putting a hand on her hip. 

"Far from it. I don't have to lie about Bryce being with me on Saturday because he was with me Saturday. We were at my house playing with my brothers. I didn't see a beach or a sunset," I say. 

What is with me today?! I need to shut up! She huffed, and then her hand went up. Before I knew it, I felt something harsh on my cheek as she smacked me hard. 

"You little bitch!" She shrieks. 

Okay, cool. I just got smacked. That kind of hurt. Well, not as much as the three more I got from her friends. Now my cheek burns. That's probably going to leave a mark. My thought process stops when she kicks me hard in the knee. 

"Why don't you just shut up, Mute. Everyone liked it better when you didn't speak," with that she was off with her friends following.

Oh. I guess she's right. I just was never meant to be a talker. That's what life has been telling me this whole time.. Why do I keep not listening? Because Bryce. Well, sorry then. I just hate my stupid mouth, and I hate the results of it opening. I walk into the gym without changing. I couldn't walk right because she hit a bad spot in my knee. There is no way I could do volleyball with them anyways. I take my book out and read for the rest of class.