WHITE LIAR

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

 

“What?” Cathy sneered when Justin spun her around in the hall to face him.  He released her arm and pushed her up against the wall.  He was so angry right now that he was having a hard time coming up with words for her.  All he could do was glare and glare he did, right at her overdone, made up face.

She rolled her eyes at him.  “Don’t tell me that you’re going to feel sorry for the little twit too.”  When he didn’t immediately answer her, she hesitated and then went on to press her point.  “You don’t even know her Justin.  You don’t know about her past like I do.”

“I don’t need to know about her past,” he finally spoke through tightly clenched teeth.  “What you girls did out there was inexcusable Cathy.  No one,” he stepped up closer and bent down so that they were eye to eye. “And I mean no one deserves that kind of treatment."  Cathy opened her mouth to talk but Justin raised his hand and cut her off.  “I don’t give a damn who that person may be Cathy, no one deserves the type of treatment that I just witnessed out there.”

She lifted her chin in the air, ignoring every word that he just said.  “You want to know what they called her back at her old school?”

“It doesn’t matter,” Justin retorted, still just as pissed off as he was when he first walked out of the cafeteria with Cathy instead of Chloe in tow.  He saw the pain all too well in her eyes.  It was the same pain that he saw the night before and he wanted to be with her now, instead of Troy comforting her, giving her his shoulder to lean on.  Instead, he's out here in the hall, confronting the girl who caused that heart breaking pain.

“Senorita Sex-a-lot." Cathy spat.  "They said that she slept with four guys all in one night and still couldn’t get enough.  The next day her boyfriend dumped her because she couldn’t keep her pants on and she begged him for days to take her back.  She’s nothing but a common whore Justin and she should be treated as such.  She doesn’t belong here with any of us.”

Justin closed his eyes.  He couldn‘t believe a word that Cathy was saying.  Yeah, she may have had a bad rep at her old school but he couldn‘t see Chloe sleeping around like that.  Wasn’t it just last night that he decided he was going to figure out what made Chloe act the way that she did?  Just by the way that she reacted to him, pulling away so suddenly, he could tell that she had been screwed over one too many times.  Could whatever happened to her at her old school be the key?

Cathy smacked his arm.  “Are you even listening to me Justin?” she bristled.

Justin shook his head to clear his thoughts and focused back on Cathy.  He grabbed her by the chin and forced her to look up at him.  “No Cathy, it’s time that you listened to me.  I want you and all of your little girlfriends to stay away from Chloe.  She’s going through enough right now on her own and she doesn’t need your shit to add to it.  Do you understand what I’m telling you?”

Cathy’s temper began to go into overload.  She wanted to smack the arrogance right off his face.  Why was he acting like this?   Justin was the high school quarterback and she was the head cheerleader.  Wasn’t he supposed to be backing her up?  “What has gotten into you Justin?  This isn‘t like you.  Not like you at all.  Don’t you love me anymore?”

He barked out a humorless laugh and released her chin.  “Love you Cathy?  What in the hell would make you think that I loved you?”  He took a step back and held up his hands.  “You’re pathetic Cathy.  It’s time that you took a good look around you and grew the hell up.  We aren’t little kids anymore writing notes back and forth, sneaking kisses behind the bleachers.  We graduate in less than a month.  Do yourself a favor, concentrate a little more on getting out of here and a little less on how miserable you can make someone else’s life.  It isn’t worth it.”