She Will Be Loved

Chapter 32: Bad Blood

I was sitting by the bleachers with my headphones on. I still have no idea what to perform. I remember what Lucas suggested about looking for a song with an upbeat music, but I haven't had good luck about it.

I started listing song titles, I also ask Hanna to criticize my top picks before I decided. The football team were practicing, I even saw Lucas and Dean they waved towards me before working on their pair pass.

"Hi!" I saw Astrid sitting next to me. I immediately pulled my earphone to my neck.

"Hi!" I greeted her as well.

"Is that for the half-time performance?" She points at the notes I had been writing. I nodded. After the fact that I've learned about her, I just couldn't admire her the way I did before. "May I see?" She ask.

I hesitantly gave him my notes. She scans the songs that I written. She hand sit back to me. "Have you even consider Hands to Myself by Selena Gomez?"

"Not rea-"

She didn't let me finish and said. "You surely can't keep your hands to yourself."

"Excuse me?" I furrowed my brows in confusion on what she said.

"I'm just saying." She smiles. The kind of smile that villains make when they finally thought of a great plot to ruin someone. "It was nice talking to you." She then made her way to the field.

I was left stun from what happened. What was she trying to say about not keeping my hands to myself? Though I know she was clearly mocking me.

***

Hanna and Dean promised that we'll go karaoke after class just to help me with picking some song.

"Are we on later?" Hanna asks as she slip into his chair.

"Yeah! I know my vocal cords need practicing." Dean said trying to harmonize with some Doremi.

"Stop!" I held my hand up to his face. "It's ruining my eardrums."

"You're just jealous." He was about to do it again bug Hanna shove some sandwich into his mouth to stop him.

"Just eat it, babe." She said. "You can have this drink too." She puts an orange juice pack in his hands. Dean just pout and continue eating his sandwich.

My eyes caught Astrid and Damon sitting on their table hand in hand talking to each other. "What are you looking at?" Hanna ask peeling her banana.

"Have you somehow notice something odd with Astrid?" I ask her.

"I don't know." She shrugs her shoulder. "Not really much of an Astrid fan girl. That girls just too good to be true and I know behind that facade is a bitch more hideous than Maxine."

"How'd you know that?" I interestedly place my elbow onto the table and lean in to her.

"Just a gut feeling." She takes a bite of her fruit. "You know what they say... Good girls are bad girls that havem't been caught." She winks at me.

It got me thinking about the time I saw her with Maxine and the way she talked to me earlier this morning, could Hanna be right?

***

I saw Liam sitting by the bench that seemed to be our rendezvous place. I slowly creep behind him with a scheme in plan, I want to scare him from behind.

I was about to ponce towards him when he snap his head at me with a loud growl. I got startled instead of him. His voice caught me off guard that I slip on a rock and fell straight to my butt.