Discovering Spencer

5. One on One

The nightmare was over…..for now at least.

After nearly getting jumped by the evil group of bitches, I locked myself in the bathroom stall for the entire lunch period. I felt bad for standing Claire up because she text me several times but I was still too weak to face anyone so instead of lying I chose not to text back. I couldn’t let them win so I washed my face, reapply some mascara, sprits some perfume on and headed to Pre Calc.

I still couldn’t believe Chloe had done that to me. The person I thought I knew the most in the world. She humiliated me and downright disrespected me. She stood there and watched Lulu put her hands on me and did nothing. The more I thought about it the angrier I got. I knew my day was going to be bad but I didn’t think it was gonna be that bad.

Things took a turn for the worst when I got to Health and Logan was there. I couldn’t function for the rest of the class period. He was kind of flirting with some girl which pissed me off. I had accepted the fact that he was a ladies man, but did he have to flirt with every girl__ well every girl but me that is. At some point I gave up mentally and physically. I didn’t care anymore. Today would go down as the worst day of my life. I couldn’t focus on anything. I slogged the rest of the day going from European History to Arts and Crafts.

I had completely forgotten that Chloe had signed up for the Arts and Crafts. When I walked into class our eyes locked simultaneously and my stomach churned. Everything that had happened in the bathroom earlier came back to me. The humiliation that I had suffered from her and her friends and not to mention some mild back pains. I wanted to march up to her and pound on that little pretty face of hers with my fists. But I couldn’t do that because:

                      A-   I care about her too much to do that

                      B-   I didn’t want to stoop down to her level

                      C-   I would probably get detention or even worst, get expelled

So instead I turned around and walked away with not the slightest idea as to where I was going. My heart was pounding in my chest. I’ve never cut class before_ well there was that one time in freshman year when Chloe and I went to the smokers lounge after lunch time to get cigarettes from some upperclassman she knew and we got caught before I could take my first drag and after that I had promised never to skip class again.

 Well today the situation was different. I had a valid reason and I was gonna go through with it no matter what. I made it outside the double doors as the final bell rings. I inhaled a lung full of air and exhaled it right out. I rest my back against the brick wall contemplating my next move. I definitely had nowhere to go and how the hell was I going to get off the school campus without getting caught. I should have thought more about this.

It’s not too late to go back to class. I tell myself. It’s only been a few minutes; if I walked back to class and said I was late Ms. Christie would understand. Chloe would know that I’m lying and she would take great satisfaction in knowing that she scared me off. Her inner self is probably doing a pirouette right now. Ugh, I can’t face her, not like this and not today. Before I could take my first step away from the building the doors swung open. My heart sunk, I’ve been caught. I turned around swiftly only to find a breathless Quinn standing inches away from me.

“What the_” I began saying but Quinn grabbed my arm taking me with her as she ran down the steep hill heading to God knows where. We turned right by the four hundred building then head south on the staircase leading us to the vast sea of cars in the student parking lot.

“Get down!” Quinn instructed. I did as she said and I followed behind her walking slowly in between the parked cars keeping our bodies low on the ground. I didn’t know who we were hiding from. I had a feeling Coach Smith was lurking around somewhere since he’s always patrolling around the school looking for students skipping class. I mean for God sakes doesn’t he have anything better to do with his time?