The New Girl

Chapter 11: Exposed

Hey! Everyone said longer chapters were better! They won't be as consistent but will be longer when they are out! I work better when I'm not on a schedule because I am not stressed out then! Each chapter will be at least 1000 words.

I decided not to add the last chapter onto this one. It is still longer than 1000 words though.

Ricky's POV

"No no no no no no no" I muttered to myself as I walked into school the next day with Nini by my side. I apologized to her yesterday for shouting at her and we became fast friends again.

"What are those?" She asked, pointing to the pictures up all around the school. She looked at one of them. I tried to stop her but I was too late.

"Nini... Please don't think of me any differently. I was young, I'm not like that anymore" I told her.

"Like what?" She asked.

I just realized that she had only seen one photo.

"Nothing" I laughed nervously and tried to take down as many photos as I could.

"Ricky. Stop. Explain" she stopped me.

"I don't really want to" I looked at her.

She gave me serious eyes.

"Fineeee" I gave her the pictures and walked away, embarrassed.

She looked at the pictures and read the dates and names off of the back of them "January 17th Emma. January 18th Anna. January 19th Sally" she muttered all the names I made out with each day.

"Ricky... Were you... A player?" Nini asked me.

"Main word in that is were and yes I was but not anymore" I confessed.

"Ricky..." She looked at me with her brown eyes.

"Nini, please don't think of me any differently" I asked.

"Look at me Ricky, right at me" she told me, hiding onto my arms.

I looked around the room until my eyes locked with her's. I tried to break eye contact but I couldn't. She was too pretty.

"Ricky, it's ok. We all have things we regret doing" she gave me a sweet smile.

"Even you?" I asked her, shocked.

"Believe it or not, yes. I regret ever dating Jack and I regret being friends with Frankie but I also used to do something really stupid" she confessed.

"Like what?" I was curious.

"I may or may not have used to talk to random people in the stalls beside me in public bathrooms and try to start a conversation" she laughed.

"You did that?" I laughed.

"I also kissed a kid that I had a crush on in kindergarten and no one that I knew would let me forget it" she smiled "It was only on the cheek but he didn't have a crush on me so that was a bit awkward"

"Ooo. Awkward" I cringed.

"Do you wanna talk about this?" She pointed to the pictures "At least explain"

"I'm not too sure how someone got the photos but when I was a... You know... I made friends with someone, like proper friends, but they didn't like that I was what I was so started to call me a player in ways that I never thought of before and I decided that I didn't want to live that life anymore" I told her.

"Ricky, at least you found yourself at the end" she comforted me.

"See what display we put up last night to show your little girlfriend what kind of guy you really are" the boys from yesterday came to me.