Omegle

Chapter Twenty One

"joseph, we really need to talk." I texted him. I couldn't let Alejandro walk all over him just because Joseph was sad about me not being interested in him.

"There's nothing to talk about." He responded a few minutes later.

"you know there is, just grow up and talk to me." I texted back instantly.

"Fine."

"meet at my locker after class. it's really important." The day was almost over and my neck was still hurting from lunch. Thankfully, none of my teachers yelled at me for having my hood on, or so I thought.

"Tara." My teacher called on me in front of the entire class. My heart dropped immediately.

"Yes?" I asked. I knew exactly what the teacher was gonna say.

"Why do you have your hood on in my class?" He said with a stern voice.

"I'm sorry, I'll take it off." I slowly took the hood off my head, hoping that the bruises on my neck would still be covered by the hoodie. I could feel everyone's eyes on me.

"Thank you." He said, continuing the lesson. Fuck, that was close. Then Ava turned to me.

"Why did you have that hood on?" She asked. I rolled my eyes. I didn't know why she was talking to me. She wasn't my friend.

"It's cold in here," I said, turning in the opposite direction. 

After the bell rang, I started to walk to my locker. When I got to my locker, Joseph wasn't there.

"where are you?" I texted him. After I sent the text, Mattia and Kairi walked up to Kairi's locker.

"Hey," Mattia said then started to hug me.

"Hey, have you seen Alejandro?" I asked. 

"Nah, he wasn't in either of my classes. I'm probably gonna chill with him after school or something." He explained.

"Great." I said sarcastically, turning to open my locker.

"I thought you wanted Alejandro and I to be friends again?" He asked, confused.

"No, yeah, I do," I responded.

"Okay.." He said. "Well, I gotta go, text me." He said before kissing my lips.

"Bye Tara," Kairi said before they both walked away. I checked my phone and I still didn't get a text back from Joseph. Great.

"Yo." I heard a monotone voice from behind me. I turned around to see Joseph.

"Hey, let me grab my stuff and then we can go, okay?" I said.

"Sure." He responded.

"Are you okay?" I asked, turning to him.

"I'm fine, just hurry up." I knew he didn't wanna talk to me, but it was important.

"Okay, come on." I said after grabbing my things.

"So what's up?" He asked after we got into his car.

"Let me show you," I said before taking off my hoodie. His eyes widened in shock.

"What the fuck happened?" He said angrily.

"Alejandro happened." I said, starting to cry.

"Oh my God.. Tara I'm so sorry." He said before leaning in for a hug. I pushed him away.

"Why the fuck would you let him blackmail me?" I yelled.

"What are you talking about?" He asked.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." I responded, looking him in his eyes.

"Okay, fine. But I was mad and sad. I didn't know he'd do this." He said.

"Are you kidding me?" I started to cry even more. "You were my best fucking friend. My only friend, and you just wanted to ruin my relationship.

"I'm sorry, I really don't know what else you want me to say." In that moment, I realized that he didn't want to help me. He just wanted to ruin my relationship. He wasn't gonna help me if I tried, because he'd do anything to be with me. Even if that meant ruining my relationship.

"Nothing. Just say nothing. I'm done." I got out of the car without thinking. When I was walking back into the school, I bumped into Mattia talking to Alejandro.

"What the fuck happened to your neck?" Mattia turned to me. Fuck. I didn't put the hoodie back on.

"Nothing." I started to walk away as fast as I could. 

"Don't ignore me. Who the fuck did this?" He yelled angrily.

"No one," I responded before Alejandro tapped on Mattia's shoulder.

"I think I just saw her get out of Joseph's car," Alejandro said to him. Fuck. I couldn't say anything, I was too scared of Alejandro to say anything.

"I'm gonna fucking kill him," Mattia said.

"He didn't-" I said before he cut me off.

"Then who did?" He asked me. I didn't say anything, I just walked away. It was like when I was around Alejandro, I couldn't stick up for myself. I couldn't just tell Mattia the truth, but I couldn't just make up a lie about who did it.

"That guy is fucking dead," Mattia said turning to Alejandro.