Her Knight In Rusty Armor

Chapter XXII

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We Were Okay
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Impatiently drumming my fingers against the table's cold surface, I sighed.

Everyone in the cafeteria was quieter than usual. I was unsure whether it was because of my presence, or perhaps due to the dread the cold weather had swept along with itself; whatsoever the reason was, it didn't feel right at all.

I let out a vexed breath upon checking the time on my phone. They were exactly thirteen minutes late.

Opening the last text I had sent in our group chat, I shook my head curtly.

Your Local Heartbreakers

don't be late, y'all
this is really important
8:47 pm

I really was the CEO of getting left on read; they hadn't even replied to the text with a tiny OK, let alone responding to it with a whole sentence.

Abruptly, a group of people walked into the cafeteria, causing me to involuntarily suck in a breath. It was them; I surely hadn't expected them to come in a pack.

Perhaps they were bitten by werewolves.

They trudged over to my table, Drake and Nora waving at me, but Dawn and Kate eyeing me unsurely. Of course Drake knew I was innocent; he was my best bud here, after all.

Pulling the seats out from under the table, Kate and Dawn sat on the seats across me, while Nora and Drake made themselves comfortable on the spots beside me. I caught Nora glare at one of the tables in the cafeteria, causing the students previously ogling at me to look away in fear.

"Thanks, Birdie." I winked at Nora; she passed me a grin and a thumbs-up in return.

"Why'd you call us here?" Dawn inquired, fumbling with her fingers.

I couldn't get why she was so mad at me for what had happened earlier today. Even if that sloppy idiot had kissed me, why were Kate and Dawn so upset?

"To talk about what happened today," I replied, catching Nora and Drake nodding from my peripherals.

"What's there to talk about, except that you kissed the very slut who's dated almost every boy in our university?" she spat, much to my surprise.

I didn't realise that my mouth had fallen open into a gape.

"Excluding Booger Billy," Nora mumbled from beside me.

"Dawnie..." Drake sucked in a breath. "You're off your trolley, aren't you?"

"What?" she asked with an eyebrow raised.

"Always remember that enemies try to break friends apart! Never shun the other side of the story, all right? Never, ever."

Dawn pulled her lips to one side, casting her gaze to the surface of the table. I couldn't help but notice how Kate was quieter than usual, too.

"I'll start now," I mumbled.

I related everything to them once again, not wanting to lose the already very few friends I had made here. With a few gasps from Dawn, and Kate's eyes bulging more and more after every sentence that left my lips, the whole narration of the ordeal eventually came to an end.