I'm yours

Part 6

Since she waited for so fucking long for at least one of the girls to show up, Beth lost her lens and there was no way she was going to look for it. She could only pray for another one not to fall off. And as the time passed, she was still the only one the waitress had to bring drinks to. Her spine couldn’t be in the straight position anymore, so she had to lean on the table. Giving dirty looks to others somehow helped because no one dared to approach to her, except that one guy. Of course, why wouldn’t there be any exceptions? “You up for a dance?” The guy asked as he got way to close to Beth. “Obviously not. Have you heard of personal space?” Beth said and gave him an uninterested look. “Aw, c’mon, it’ll be fun.” He was persistent and grabbed her hand. ‘Okay, that’s enough.’ Beth thought and just as she was about to become violent, girls showed up. ‘Thank God.’ “Is there a problem?” Emily asked with a guy standing behind her. It was probably the one she was dancing with. “Yes, there is.” Beth angrily said and looked at the guy that was holding her hand. “O-oh, no, not at all.” The guy muttered and disappeared in a second. “Thank you.” Beth said with a relief and let out a sigh when the girls sat down. She didn’t even realized she was holding her breath. “Anyway, I think I’ll just go home.”, “What? Why? It’s still early.” Amy got upset when Beth stood up. “I’m sorry, but I can’t stand being here anymore. I’m not a girl for places like this. I had fun with you guys and all, but I have to go. Thank you for everything.” After she said everything she had in mind, she noticed that Deb wasn’t there. “Do you want us to escort you home?” One of them asked and Beth started laughing. “Please, don’t be ridiculous. I think I’ll find my way home. See you at school.”, “Be careful.”

When Beth got downstairs, she had to look for an exit first, which was very hard when there are bunch of people in front of you. Then she had to made her way through that bunch. While she was going through that sweaty pile of bodies, she was sure someone was touching her ass, purposely, but she decided to ignore it. It was dark and someone maybe thought it was somebody’s else. Beth soon abandoned that theory of hers when she felt two palms on her ass, just before she managed to open the door. Her tolerance broke there and she quickly turned around and looked at the boy who was laughing at her. Maybe it was the alcohol or the surge of anger, but that boy got a fist into his jaw. From Beth. It sure got them a lot of attention, but Beth quickly went out and rushed to her home. The wind that blew outside gave her chills and sort of woke her up a little.
On halfway home, she realized that her feet hurt, from the high heels because she was always wearing her one and only Converse shoes. Those heels won’t meet her feet for an eternity. Every step she made was followed by ‘ow’ in her head. If she doesn’t take them off soon, her foot will start to bleed. So, to prevent that, Beth started walking faster with a longer step. Yes, she probably looked like an idiot, but there’s no one familiar to see her like that. She hoped.

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When Sebastian finally got rid of the drunk girl by sticking her to another guy, he noticed that his tonight’s target with black hair disappeared. Totally not his day. Since there was no girl that intrigued him as much as that one, he decided to go home. And again, he had to go through hell just to get out.
To shorten his way home, he took a shortcut to his building. He used it almost every day when coming back from school. It was a simple, one-way street with now bare naked trees on each side of the road. Every other lamp was working, but there was this one that worked for a minute, then it’d turn off for two and then it’d work again. The strong wind that suddenly blew pierced through his jacket and shirt and spread chills all over his body. He should have gone with his car. After he finally got to an end of the street and turned left, he saw his building and rushed inside.

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Beth was quite surprised to find out that the elevator in their building was finally fixed. The first thing when she got in was that she took off her shoes and happily sighed. Then she pressed the button for the sixth floor and leaned on the wall. Right before the door closed, someone rapidly burst in and collided with her, pressing then both against the wall. Beth screamed and shut her eyes as she hit the wall with her back. “Oh, shit I’m so sorry, are you okay? I didn’t know someone was in here.” The person said after moving from her. Beth opened her eyes and breathed out slowly. “The fuck is wrong with you?” she asked and looked the person in the face. “Oh…” Beth was speechless after she saw her neighbor, professor, Sebastian standing in front of her. Then she twitched an eyebrow, repeating her question. “No, really, what the hell?”, “I’m really, really, really, really, really sorry. Are you feeling well?”, “Say really one more time, come on, please, say it.”, “…Really.” He sarcastically said and smiled. Beth clenched her fist and released a sigh. “And I see you’re perfectly fine.” Then he looked at her shoes, her feet and finally at her. “What’s with the…”, “Don’t ask. Just don’t.” Beth calmly said and picked them up. The elevator stopped and the door opened. Sebastian got out first and quickly got to his door, while Beth slowly tapped to her doorstep and even slower unlocked her door. “It really was an accident. I’m really sorry and I really hope that you’ll forgive me. Really.” Sebastian said before he got in. Beth started to laugh and shook her head. ‘Idiot.’

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“Well, thank you for staying ‘till the end. I had to go home alone.” Beth was listening to Deb’s lecture through the phone. “Hngh… so what? You had company.”, “Girls had their own…”, “I’m talking about that guy you made out with.”, “… W-well yeah, but he had to go so I was alone again.” Beth rubbed her eyes while yawning. “Are you listening to me?” Deb’s sudden voice made her twitched. “Yeah, yeah, I’m listening.”, “Are you still sleeping? It’s 1 o’clock.”, “Yeah, I am. So what?”, “Hah…”, “Anyway, did you give your number to that friend of yours?”, “Maybe. And how do you know about that? Wait. Emily told you.”, “Mhm.”, “I knew it.”, “What’s his name?”, “Claude.”, “Claude? How… sophisticated.” Beth said and snorted at her own statement. “Yeah… I’m gonna go now.”, “I hope Claude calls you.”, “Shut up.” Deb said and hung up. ‘What? I was serious.’ Beth thought and stretched in her bed, turned on her right side and fell asleep again.

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“Attention to the students and professors.” A female voice could be heard through the loudspeakers in the whole school. “Today, at the science laboratory, has been an accident and we are obliged to warn you that Bob, our test subject, had escaped his cage. Bob is a spider, tarantula to be specific. He’s now wandering inside the school. If you meet him, please call our janitor, Mr.Barnis, and he’ll catch it. Please don’t panic, it’s not poisonous.” After the last words were spoken, the whole cafeteria was silent, with everyone staring at some point on the table or the wall. “What do you mean, don’t panic? Of course I’ll panic.”, “I’m going home.” Students began their complaining and the cafeteria was as noisy as ever. “Ah, so did Claude call you?” Beth asked Deb ignoring the announcement from the speakers. “A-ah, yes, he did.”, “Aaaand?”, “We have a date this Saturday.” Usually, Deb would be hopping and singing and laughing at the news like that, but that wasn’t possible at the moment. She was slightly shocked from the news. “That’s great. It’s yours 3rd date since you’ve met.”, “It is. Yeah.”

Since it was the last week of school, it was boring at classes because they were doing nothing. Literally nothing. Teachers would tell them to talk with each others while they were doing something… related to school. But in math class, Sebastian gave them work sheets while he was writing something, it was probably also related to school. As usual, Beth finished first and put the paper in the corner of the table. She leaned her head on her hand and watched how it snowed. Very amusing. Suddenly, Brian started screaming in panic. As everyone, Beth also turned to him and saw as Brian was staring at his hand on which was a huge spider. It had to be that tarantula that escaped. While Brian was screaming, with his other free hand he kicked the spider and it flew right into Beth’s hoodie.  Beth widened her eyes as she felt the spider crawling on her back. Without thinking, she fell down and violently took the hoodie off. The spider fell to the floor and Beth madly squished it with her fist, with spider’s blood and insides leaking from her palm. “Oh my God…” someone said and Beth looked at the surprised and disgusted faces of her colleagues staring at her. She then realized that she was on the floor, in a bra, with a squished spider in her hand. After clearing her throat, she stood up and somehow cleaned her palm. “Uhm… may I go to-”, “Please.” Sebastian told her before she could finish her question. So she headed to the bathroom while holding hoodie on her chest. “Can someone please go get Mr. Barnis?” Sebastian asked the class, who stared at the dead spider.

“Oh my fucking God, that was horrible!” Beth yelled while rubbing her hand with soap. “I know, but you… How could you kill it? That thing is… was huge.” Deb started with questions after following Beth to the bathroom. “Don’t ask me, it was reflexive.”, “Come on, you already washed it.”, “I just can’t get rid of that disgusting feeling. I think it’ll will haunt me for ages.”