TIWIS

BETA: A Million Dollar Deal... 1.2

"You don't know people Wailey, people know you. There's a difference. It'd be really nice if you'd learn it from time to time," I said getting annoyed as to how naively gullible she sounded.
She merely smiled and said, "That's not true, I do know people"
I sighed frustrated at myself for even bringing it up. I decided to be the one to finally tell her the truth, "alright Miss 'I know so many people', tell me any five names of the people who ate lunch with you", she looked at me sort of shocked which was strange because she was always good at hiding this shock, "Wait, they were that many?" I looked at her totally speechless then she asked: "how can I possibly tell you that when I didn't even eat with up to five people?" I almost screamed. As calm as I could manage I said, "WaiLey you ate with more than TEN people" she looked at me with that same shocked look, "well that's not possible, this table can only contain eight people".
She was right but the truth was that some of them just want to be seen around her, so they drag chairs up to the table. My exact definition of absurdity. "- But if you want five names here they are - err - oh yes! There's Braden, Christopher, err..., Dax, Melanie, err..., oh! Oh, and Ambe-" "you can't add my name" I interrupted, she frowned before finally saying "okay then - and Axel".
Alright stop. Let me explain the situation here. You see Wailey had people knowing her, but she really didn't know anyone of them but in my case, I knew people but people did not know me... or they just pretended not to but either way, I can pin every name to a particular person. Everyone but Axel... I've heard the name so many times but I've never actually seen him. Every time I had the chance something always came up, either one of the teachers calls me or I get my 'fits'. The fact now was that I know everyone who sat at the table and Axel was definitely not one of them.
I looked at Wailey sadly before finally replying, "first of all, Christopher didn't sit here and -", I started
"No, no he sat here", Wailey interrupted
"- No, he sat with Trisha, his girlfriend? -", I said trying not to get annoyed
"Wait, when did they start dating, I thought he was dating Diane", she asked actually looking confused
"- well no, he's dating Trisha, and he sat with her. Dax and Melanie didn't come for lunch because they had practice -", I started again
"Hold up, I thought Melanie was removed off the team", Wailey said again, interrupting me.
"- For fuck's sake Wailey will you please stop interrupting me -?" I said annoying
"Well sorry, I -", she started trying to apologize
"WAILey - Interrupting..." she raises her hand slowly and dramatically to her mouth and used her fingers to pin it shut.
I sighed before continuing, "She was, but now she's back on the team". Wailey looked as though she was about to ask another question, so I quickly added, "I don't know how or when so don't even ask" she looked at me as if she was asking if I was done and since I didn't say anything else she just said "well at least there's still Braden, Stacy and Axel"
"Uhh, Wailey you didn't say Stacy before", I stated in a matter-of-fact manner
"Yes, I did. I said Braden, Christopher, Stacy, Dax, Melanie, and Ax - wait - why d'you let me call six names?" she was actually looking at me pouting angrily.
I decided to ignore this as Stacy had actually eaten on the table, she was the one that made that comment about my shirt and Wailey's food, I calmed every nerve in my body finally replying, "No, you only said five and - you know what forget it - Axel didn't sit here"
"If not then where did he sit?" she asked smugly
"I - I don't know, but he didn't sit here"
"Well you know where everyone else was, so how come you don't know where he was", she asked smugly
"Well - I - don't - know
"Then I stand my ground; he sat here", she said.
"Oh, and so did Barbie," I said sarcastically. She sighed and then finally said after a minute or two
"Well, then Braden and Stacy. Two persons so that still count as people. So, I do know 'people'" she made the air-quote sign, as she was saying, people. I gave up. Literally! It was no use trying to explain to her, I'll just have to let experience do the job instead.
I just said, “Err… whatever, if you say so. I have to do my assignments anyway, so I’ll be going now. Bye!” I was about to stand up when Wailey started laughing. Then it dawned on me… Wailey’s in school.
“Wailey…?” I asked sitting back down
“Hmm…” she replied prissily
“What are you doing in school?”
She simply just said “Math” and then she started getting up noticing I was still sitting looking lost she added “and we’ll soon be getting late” I looked at her for a few seconds before my mind finally understood what she was talking about.
“Wait — Math?!” I asked probably with my most awkward face. Wailey smiling as if she had no worries in the world just smiled and said, “Yah”, she stood up beckoning for me to do the same, I did, and we both headed to class when I suddenly blurted out.
“You know that doesn’t explain why you’re in school, right?” she gave that smile again and I could swear she had said something like “I paid for it now, didn’t I?”