Together forever, my love ~ Bryce Hall

The secret truth

     My eyes flutter open as my alarm goes off. It's so fving annoying. I reach over and turn it off. I grab my phone. Six A.M. Time to get ready for school. I take a quick shower washing the chlorine about of my hair from yesterday. Once I get out and dry off I go for a comfortable outfit. Black sweats and a cropped tee shirt. I brush my hair into a braid and put on mascara. I walk down stairs to see that my mom isn't home. She must be at work. I grab a banana from the fruit basket for breakfast. I check my phone again, it's 6:42. I have to leave at seven. I call Bryce filling him in on last night.

      "So you can't leave to house at all?" He asks.  "Yup, for the next three days." I can tell he's not happy. "Are you okay, do you need me to sneak out and see you" I say in a voice that makes him chuckle. "Do you need a ride" he asks. "Nope don't need mom getting more mad" I say. I say goodbye and pack my stuff. I turn of the alarm on the camera and drive to school. Mom said that she will have me do half days. I walk to the office and tell them that I will be doing half days, they send me to a lady in a room and help me make a new schedule for the time being. "We've already told your teachers about this new set up for you so don't worry about that" the lady says. I thank her and walk to first period. Ceramics, so far it's not that bad. Until I see whose in my class. The same Taylor from the party. Kill me. Mrs. Thomas greets me as I walk in and find my sweet. Thank god she doesn't make this awkward. But crap. I'm two seats away from stupid Taylor. Why does this always happen. "Okay class, today we will be making a vase but you will have a partner." She says. There seven other people in this room. There's a 1 out of 4 chance that I'm with Taylor.

     Mrs. Thomas grabs out her planner chart thing and start putting together partners. My leg is shaking in hopes I don't have Taylor. I hear his name but not partnered with me, thank God. I'm partnered with a boy named Lucas, he sits right next to me. "Hey Lucas" I say making it not as awkward. "Sup Chloe" I pop a smile at his response. "I'll go get our stuff off the cart" I say getting up. He nods his head in agreement. I walk by over hearing Taylor and Mrs. Thomas. "But I can't work with Brendan, he's to annoying for me. Put me with Chloe or sum thing" he says whining. He so pathetic. "Now Taylor, that's not how it works. You are sounding like a child. Now go sit back down with Brendan" Mrs. Thomas snaps back. I see Taylor roll his eyes and stomp back to his seat. I grab the block of clay and put it on the tray with our other materials. I walk back and set it on the table by the wheel. "So do you want to start it off?" I Ask. Lucas agrees. The wheel starts spinning and Lucas starts to form the clay. I look over at Taylor and he's looking back. He gives me a mean mug, I roll my eyes and flip him off in a spot that Mrs. Thomas can't see. I look back and Lucas has the base almost done. "Looks good" I say complimenting his work. I see the edges of his mouth curl into a smile. "Thanks" he says.

      The wheel starts to slow as he finishes the base. Now it's up to me. I start the wheel again and wet my hands. My hands stretch the clay up as it spins. I make sure it's a good thickness and height before I check the time. It's already been 25 minutes since I started my turn! We only have 10 minutes left. I raise my hand and the teacher walks over. "We've finished" we told her. She smiles. I hope she likes it. "It looks great. Leave it here I'll get it when you leave. You can put our utensils away tho" she says. I nod and get up grabbing my stuff and putting it back on the cart. I start to pack my stuff cause the bell is about to ring. Once the bell rings I grab my stuff and leave. I only have two more classes after this before I can leave to go home. As I walk out the door I feel a hand grab my arm. I had to turn back to see it's Taylor, "What are you doing to me, your such a   creep." I pull my arm out of his grasp and start walking away until i stop at Taylor's words. "I guess you don't want to hear why you and Bryce are actually dating" his words ring in my ear. But I walk anyways. What does he mean. The real reason?

Second period
I walk into Mrs. Edward's room and sit down with Angela. I see Bryce a table or two away. He waves but I just look down. What has he been hiding? "Okay class, get out your assignment from last week." Mrs. Edward announced. "Oh sh*t" I mumbled. I didn't finish cause of my injury. I looked over at Angela, she finished for me with two paper s for each of us. "I got you covered" I took the paper and thanked her. Class finally begins and we're talking about the bacterias in mold and stuff like that. I fidget with my fingers most of the time. But I try to focus. I get out my notebook and start writing note because I know for a fact I won't remember this. I'm surprised I remember to write this down. Mrs. Edward notices me writing and says, "Chloe" I look up at here, "what a great example. That's very smart of you to take notes" she says. I smile bit don't say anything. "Because you are being a role model and doing what I expect, you get no homework tonight" she says with a bright face. Now I thank her but the rest of the class shoots down my happiness real fast. They're moans and groans fill the room. Complaining how this is unfair and stupid. Like it sucks to suck. I slouch back down in my chair. Angela congrating me. And for her kindness Mrs. Edward let her have no homework too. If it wasn't for being grounded I would have had her over tonight. Only two mare days.
I take notes the rest of the class and even remembered most of it. I even completely forgot about Bryce. I pack up my stuff and lift my backpack over my shoulder. I turn in my paper and I start to walk out, then again, somebody grabs me again, but this time it's Bryce. "What's wrong" he said. "Do you actually love me" I said with a serious tone. He stops immediately. "Of course I love you why-" I cut him off. "That's not how Taylor made it seem" I say walking away now. Bryce tries catching up to me but gets caught in the crowd.

Third period
     For me, third period is lunch now for me. Nobody I know is at that lunch with me. I grab my lunch and go find a empty table. I pull out my phone. I see text from Bryce but ignore them. I go onto TikTok, Instagram, or anything to see if there was any dirt on Bryce. It said he has had a lot of girlfriends which was weird-ish, but I couldn't find anything else. Idk why tho. I get another text.

Bryce
Don't listen to Taylor he's stupid.

Me
What aren't you telling me?!?!?

Bryce
I'll explain everything

Me
You better

      I put my phone away. My food untouched. I eat the apple I got and throw away the rest. That's basically my day and go to the office telling them I'm leaving now. I check myself out and walk to my car. I put my stuff on the passenger side. I see a note tucked in the windshield wipers and grab it out. It's from Bryce. Of course it is. I roll my eyes. I read it. 'Call me at 3:25-b.' I crumble it up and put it in my bag. I start the car and leave to parking lot. Bryce has some explaining to do. Just have to wait.

Sorry I haven't updated in forever lol, hope you like this 😁