Strolling through the darkness I realised what I meant to him... 17 missed calls and I'd only been gone an hour or 2... A few angry texts telling me to come home, that he's worried about me and that my mum won't stop crying. I ignored them all; I just needed space to think and needed to get away from the hate and madness.
The woods were eerie even though it was only 7 at night. Leaves crackled as I walked over them, branches snapping, not necessarily in half but snapping all the same. The wind whistling through the trees caught me off guard every so often, thinking someone was behind me. I'd never really thought about my reactions before, they seemed to be better in the woods at 7pm than in school when unknown objects were being hurled at me.
I didn't care anymore, however I didn't mean to hurt her badly... Only injure her slightly. I'm not normally the one who lashes out at the first sign of confrontation, but I had kept it to myself for far too long. That Keeley... What a bitch. Starting rumours about me and Kellin, and then saying I'd cheated on him with her boyfriend. Keeley and Rhyan were the schools favourite couple, they were popular and knew it, the boys were jealous of Rhyan because he had Keeley and the girls were jealous of Keeley because she had Rhyan. But then Kellin asked me to be his girlfriend and we took over. People all around school, telling me how cute mine and Kellin's relationship is, Keeley couldn't handle the fact no one was talking about her and Rhyan anymore so she started the rumours about us. No one believed her at first because she's known for spreading shit, but then Rhyan said I came onto him at a party. Apparently I was off my head and wouldn't take no for an answer, considering I wasn't even at that party - I was at home cuddled up to Kellin watching Supernatural - it couldn't be true. However no one believed me or Kellin and I got dirty looks wherever I went, shouts of "Slag" and "Slut" could be heard down the corridors when I'd turned a corner. Unknown numbers calling me day and night just to shout "Whore" down the phone then hang up.
There were only so many nights I could cry myself to sleep and even when I had company I couldn't stop the tears. My mum noticed I wasn't myself but she dismissed it as mood swings. I'd finally had enough. I walked into school, screaming her name, screaming at anyone who walked past, asking them if they knew where she was.
"KEELEY YOU LITTLE BITCH, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"I'm over here, whore" I heard her say from the corner of the lunch room.
"I'm sick to death of people giving me crap over the bull that you've made up about me. Tell them it isn't true." I got right up in her face "Tell them you and your player of a boyfriend are lying and I've never cheated on Kellin."
"But then I would be lying by telling them that." She said with a smirk.
"Clearly not, as the night I supposedly cheated on Kellin I was with him... IN MY OWN HOUSE."
"That's not what Rhyan says, he said you were allllll over him, couldn't keep your hands to yourself, I'm just glad people are finally seeing you for who you really are. Quiet little Alex, the secret slut." The sly little smile on her face was to be no more.
I flew at her. I gripped her hair tightly in my palm and pulled as hard as I could. Her screams echoed through the school corridors, everyone turned to look what was happening.
"TELL EVERYONE IT'S NOT TRUE KEELEY." I screamed once I had everyone's attention.
"No just OWWWW let go of me OWW YOU COW" She tried to say in between being in pain and keeling over.
"Not until you tell the truth."
She kept quiet until I pulled on her hair even harder, unsurprisingly it came away from her head revealing extensions. She screamed even more suggesting they were glued in. I didn't care, she deserved it.
