ONE TIME THING ✸ Scott Reed

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We arrive at school, i have to wear what i wore yesterday since i slept at Jessica's house and shes a size small and im a medium, we walk inside and in the hall theres a big crowd of people, i stand on my tippy-toes to try to see whats happening, clay comes rushing over to me, "Zach's beating up Scott,"

"its too early for this," i mumble, I push through the crowd of people and I see Zach on top of Scott, I look down at Scott and his nose is bleeding, as well as his lip and above his eyebrow, I quickly move my eyes from Scott back up to Zach, "Zach! Zach get off of him!" I shout, he doesnt budge, I go to try and pull him off of him and he pushes my arm away, cause of how strong he is it results in me getting pushes on the floor, Clay comes rushing up to me, trying to help me up, i yank my arm away from him. "Get off." I growl, getting up myself, before I can go back up to him Mr Porter comes and gets Zach off of him, everyone watches, I run up to Scott, I kneel down and I try to help him up, "Dont just stand there help me," I demand to the 2 baseball players standing above us, they go and pull Scott up and wrap his arms around their shoulders, they walk him to the nurse's office, I run my hands through my hair and rest them on the back of my head, "fuck," I mumble, Jessica, Sheri and Clay come behind me, "Im going with Scott, update me on Zach," i order once again, before exiting the now close to empty hallway into the nurses office, I sit down in the waiting area, Bryce and Monty sitting down in 2 of the chairs, I sit in the seat across from them, we sit there silently. "you couldve helped," i mutter, they both look up at me, "we literally brought him here," Montgomery claims, Bryce hits his shoulder, "shut up, Scotty's girlfriend is just angry," Bryce teases, I roll my eyes, "im not his girlfriend."

"oh yeah? then why are you wearing his jacket again?"

"i dont think thats any of your business."

before any of us can talk again, Scott comes out, I immediately stand up, "a-are you okay?" I ask him, "yeah.." he says, looking down at me, he looks me up and down and inhales, "what?" I smirk, "You're wearing my jacket again,"

"yeah, sorry i-i was at jess's place last night and she wears a different size a-and-" I rant, "Its all good, it looks nice on you anyways," he cuts me off, smirking, "well i gotta go see whats going on with Zach.."

 i walk out, not making eye contact with anyone as I go to the front office to meet up with everyone else, i walk in and my parents are there, what the fuck. I look over at Clay, Sheri, Jessica and Alex, they shrug. i roll my eyes and I fix my eyes on my mom, she sighs and turn around, looking at me, "Rachel! Oh my goodness, you had me worried sick last night when you didnt come home and now i get a call that my son has been in trouble for beating up his friend? And oh my, what are you wearing?" My mom asks as she approaches me, god i hate when she calls me by my full name. "I spent the night at Jess's and yesterday i ripped my shirt at cheer practice so my...friend gave me his jacket," I mumble, staring at the ground, my mother sighs again as my brother comes out, "Ill see you at home," My mom says before she walks out, Zach vanishes somewhere.

Jessica, Alex and I all sit at the lunch table, Alex showed us this poster he got, "holy shit, alex." "Yeah,"

"whos doing this?" Jessica asks, I Look up and see Scott walking by, making direct eye contact with Alex, he does a finger gun pointed right at alex, you've got to be fucking kidding me, "be right back," I tell them standing up, "Hey Clay" I say as I walk by, Scott sits down at the table with Montgomery, Zach and Bryce, I place a hand right infront of his tray, all their eyes go up to me, "what are you doing?" Zach asks me, i ignore him, "oh look its your bitch," Montgomery laughs, hitting Scott's arm, Scott shoots him a glare. "Hi." Scott mumbles softly, looking up at me, I  shoot him a death glare, "Really? You already forgot that you did a finger gun straight to Alex?!"

"wait, what?" Zach questions, Scott's eyes move away from mine to the ground, "youre fucking insane," I scoff, Bryce and Montgomery chuckle, Zach scolds Scott, "the supply closet was a mistake,"

"ooh what happened in the supply closet?" Bryce asks and i ignore him, "Rae-"

"No. Fuck you." I cut him off, but a little too loud, again. causing everyone to look at us, apparently, i have a thing for saying things too loud. "here, take this." I take the jacket off, leaving me in only my bra. "jesus!" Zach facepalms, Bryce and Montgomery chuckle and go "damn" and "ooh" along with the rest of the baseball team, "Rae youre not fucking going off like...that." Scott demands, "oh yeah?" I turn around, facing the rest of the school, scanning the whole cafeteria as Alex, Jessica and Clay sit completely starstruck, "enjoy the view while you can bitches," I shout, walking down the aisle in between the cafeteria tables, my middle fingers up, facing each side of the cafeteria, a hand grabs my wrist, pulling me towards them, shoving me into their chest, i look up and see Scott, he wraps his arms around me tightly, making sure i cant escape, "let me go." i demand, "Nope not until you put on my jacket,"

"fucking hell, Scott everyone is staring at us right now,"

"wasnt that your plan? anyway, I dont care, there is no way you're going on in only your bra," he scolds, i roll my eyes, "fine," He wraps it around me, i adjust it, pulling my arms through the holes, "happy?"

"nope, give me a kiss,"

"what the fuck, no, we arent a couple, we hooked up once, it was a one time thing,"

"it doesnt have to be," he smirks, i roll my eyes, "seriously everyones looking at us, let me g-" "Can Miss Rachel Dempsey please come to the front office?" the intercom announces, saved. "tootles, Reed." I finally escape his arms as he lets me go, i walk to the office. Mr Porter is there, as he was most likely waiting for me. I roll my eyes, "whats up, Porter?" we walk back into his office, "So, Rachel,"

"Rae." I correct him, "Right, sorry, Rae, I brought you in here for a couple reasons.. one, being that this year you are getting in all sorts of trouble, detention atleast once a week, ive seen you smoke, you gave up cheer captain, youve drank on school property, you get F's and D's if your lucky, when last year you were a very good student, you got straight A's, you were captain of the cheer squad, you never got in any sort of trouble.. you had a dad..you were best friends with Hannah, and you were.. dating.. Jeff Atkins, "

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