All About Him

Chapter 9: Spiders C and... D?

Monday came fast. Therefore, I was delighted. Parts A and B went by so smoothly. I bet he wasn't able to get dressed for a while! I snickered as the images went through my head. Stupid boy. He deserved all the bad luck that was going to come to him. I carefully put Revenge in my old lunch box, making sure to poke holes in it so he would be able to breathe. 

When I got to school, Adri, Maya, and Emily were crowded around my locker. Each of them wore an uneasy look on their faces like scary, identical masks. They watched me approach in silence. How come I was always the one out of place? 

"We don't think we should go on with this," Maya said slowly. 

"Yeah, I mean, you were the one that kissed him," Emily said very quietly as if not to hurt my feelings. She flinched like I was going to hit her. 

"Don't you think two times is enough?" Adri asked in a squeak. "We really got him good." 

I looked from Maya to Emily, Emily to Adri, and back again. Again, all of them wore the same mask. Was I really that bad of a friend? Was I that controlling and mean? All of this was making me mad. I had organize this whole thing and they went along with it. Half way through, they wanted to back out? 

"I'll do it without you," I said in a low tone. I walked away from them without going to my locker. I had all my homework in my backpack. I didn't need that smelly thing anyway. I stopped once I turned down the English hall. I realized that I didn't know where the next destination was located. I groaned and looked around. It would be where ever the girls were loitering... ah ha! I found it: Eli's locker. 

Eli opened his locker and took out a few books. He looked so innocent... so normal... if it weren't for all those girls hanging around. They should know how he was stupid enough not to tell me about his girlfriend. If he had a girlfriend, he should have been more peppy. That way, he wouldn't have made me feel so bad and made me appologize. Stupid boy. That should be his real name. Stupid-Boy. I know I was playing the blame game, but it was the easiest way to treat a broken heart. 

Crap. Eli saw me. He started walking towards me and I looked around. I saw one of the girls' bathrooms and ran into it before he could get to me. I sat against the back of the door and breathed through my nose. I felt vibrations on it as I rested against it. Stupid-Boy was pounding like he needed to tell me something. I didn't want to hear it. Probably an apology. Stupid-Boy. 

"Libi! I need to talk to you!" Eli's voice sounded desperate. I mocked him with my hand. "I know you don't want to listen, but I need to tell you that..." 

The bell rang. 

"My class is on the other side of school. Promise me you'll talk to me later, okay?" Eli asked. I was silent. No way I was responding to that thing. "Okay... See you around..." 

I imagined him walking away slowly with his feet dragging. I didn't care. He hurt me. He deserved to be ignored. 

I only had a few moments to get ready for class, but I didn't want to do it without getting part C done... I knew I could do it. I ran out of the bathroom and to his locker. A red headed girl just opened it to put in a letter. 

"Hi!" I said with a voice that was too perky, too squeaky, too fake. 

She jumped and looked at me with wide eyes. "Don't tell him it was me!" she squeaked and shoved the letter in further. She took off running. 

I looked at the locker and smiled. Silly girl. She should have closed it if she wanted her little crush to be happy the rest of the day. I took my lunch box out of my backpack and opened it in his locker. Revenge's eight, hairy legs crawled out of the box and onto his papers. I smiled wickedly. 

"Goodbye, my pet. Please make me proud," I whispered and ran to class as the late bell rang. 

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I was edging towards the door on the very far end of my seat. There were only a few minutes left of class. I stared at the clock. That only made it taunt me more and slow down. I could hear every scratch, every movement, every breath in that classroom. I just needed to leave so I could beat Eli to his locker and spy on him to see if it had worked. If it did, I would be one happy girl. If it didn't... ha, who am I kidding? Of course it would work. This time, there would be others to witness his girlish scream. 

The bell rang and I was out the door in a flash. I didn't wait for anyone and barely even checked to make sure I'd gotten my backpack. I ran around the corner and down the hall and his locker was in view. I hid in one of the other halls and peeked around. I could feel my eyes smile as I saw him walk up to his locker and put in the combination. I held my breath and waited. Eli's name was called and he looked up at a fellow basketball player and told him news. I let out my breath angrily. Hurry up already! 

Finally, Eli turned around and shrieked just as I knew he would. He flung a book to the floor and took off down the hall. The girls that had been hovering saw the spider and screamed. They ran after him. I came out from around the corner and picked up Revenge very carefullly. I put him in my lunch box and I snickered to myself. Another plan that went quite well. I zipped up my backpack and turned around. Eli. 

"Were you the one who put the spider in my locker?" he asked. He didn't sound like he was accusing me, he didn't sound like he was mad, he just sounded... amused. 

"Yes," I said, my face darkening. 

"That spider looks familiar," Eli said and tapped his chin. Other girls were beginning to crowd around again. "It looks just like the one in my shower and in my clothes hamper." 

"It does...?" I said quietly. I hated getting caught. It was a terrible feeling. Defeat rushed over me with a wave and I groaned. 

"Libi, I've got to say..." Eli said and his voice rose a little, "I'm very impressed!" 

My jaw dropped. "After all the mean things I've done, you aren't mad?!" 

"Nope," he said and walked around me. Girls stared. 

"I'm trying to pay you back for the heartbreak you gave me! You're such a jerk! First you break my heart, then you just think it's amusing how I scared you?! You, stupid, stupid boy!" I growled and started to storm off. 

Eli followed me. 

"Wait!" he said. That word was beginning to get old. He caught up to me. "I still need to talk to you." 

"No, you don't," I grumbled. 

"How come whenever I want to talk to you, you won't listen?" he asked, frustration began to coat his words. 

"Because you hurt me! You didn't tell me you had a girlfriend!" I yelled at him and ran down the hall. Stupid boy was faster than me. He was in front of me before I could reach the door. 

"That's what I need to talk to you about!" he yelled and stopped in front of me, forcing me to ram into his chest. Ouch. "I don't have a girlfriend." 

"But... Valerie..." 

"I did have a girlfriend. That was because you rejected me and I felt hopeless. She asked me out and I was like, 'what the heck? I have nothing to go for now'. I just said a plain yeah. She's the only girl that had the courage to ask me out. As soon as you confessed to liking me, I was going to tell her it was over," Eli said and held out his hand. 

I stared at the offer. A million things were racing through my head but I didn't know what to do. My first instinct was to say yes and hug him with all my might. The second thing I could do was walk away. I narrowed my eyes. 

"I don't need you," I said angrily. I walked away. 

"I hope you know that this means war!" he laughed. 

"No! You didn't even let me get to part D!" I yelled angrily as I went across the quad. 

"And what was that?!" Eli shouted back loudly. 

"I'd put it in your bed," I muttered below my breath. Stupid-Boy.