Avery
I sat down beside Skylar in English. She was reapplying her burgundy lipstick, looking in her small makeup mirror. Taylor came into the room and sat beside me. I looked behind me at Jordon talking to Dominic. He looked at me and smiled. I looked away not wanting to bring attention to me from any of the girls who could notice Jordon smiling at me. The teacher walked in causing Skylar to put down her mirror and lipstick. As I stared at her I noticed the hickey on her neck. I felt my race get hot as my anger levels rose. Was this from Talia? And after talking so much trash about Talia could she really be sleeping with?
We had to begin research for an essay, so I decided to press Skylar on the issue.
"A hickey?" I asked, poking her neck. She jolted her head towards me. This grabbed Taylor's attention causing her to look over at us.
"Stop," Skylar said, not giving much detail. I know she wanted to tell us all about it, she just wanted us to beg.
"Skylar! Who is that from?" Taylor started to become more engaged. Taylor's feeding made me annoyed. Skylar did not deserve attention right now.
"Oh, he's older." She said vaguely, still reaching for more attention. I knew she was lying. That was obviously from Talia.
"You mean Talia?" I said and looked Skylar in the eyes. Her lie was revealed with her wide eyes that came with my question. She looked away saying nothing.
"Seriously, Skylar? Why are you sleeping with Talia? Or any girl for that matter, that's weird." Taylor said, looking down at her baby blue nails. I looked over at her with confusion. She thought it was weird? L
"I don't know. I just want attention. And I'm in an empty period of boys. Plus, this is helping me get Jordon's attention. He noticed me just on Friday. And it's not like I'm actually into girls. That's abnormal and strange. it's just a temporary phase, as it is for all girls." She huffed, looking back onto her laptop for research. I looked down at my notes, not knowing how to feel. She made me feel inferior, but she didn't even mean to. Was she right? No, she couldn't be.
Trevor was missing school again today. His bad moods and absences from school had been taking a toll on me. I missed talking to him, I also needed to get a lot off my chest right now. In art Isabel had sat at a different table with Brandon and Haiti which offended me. I didn't realize she was even friends with them. We no longer talked at practice the last two times which was different. I didn't understand why all my friends were turning on me recently, even if it wasn't intentional. Why did they all have to do it on the same week? I slumped onto the desk to lay my head. I just wanted to go home, but it was only second period and Monday. Lucas was coming home this weekend and I thought I was excited, but his absence had caused me to notice how down on me he could be. I felt like I had a dark cloud over me and there was nothing I could do about it.
During math Jordon and Trevor both were not here leaving me sitting alone. Halfway into the class Jordon walked in with a late slip and came and sat beside me.
"Hey, Avery," He chirped, he was in a very cheery mood which caused me to wonder why he had been late...
"Hey, Jordon, thank God you're here, I was dying on my own." I groaned. He smiled at me and pulled his notes out.
"Sorry, a lot has been going on in the Williams' house this weekend, so we had to do some stuff this morning." I began to wonder what could be going down in his house. His family seemed so stable. Except for the fact that his dad miraculously disappeared one day.
