Unexpected

[14] - the necklace

"Hey Willow!"

Looking around from her locker to find out who called her, Willow saw Mason and Dylan from a distance walking towards her, waving their hands to say hi.

"Umm Hello..." The girl said confusedly, although, it did sound more like it was a question.

"How are you?" One of the boys asked. "I'm quite alright, I suppose." Willow replied.

"Well, you're probably wondering why we're talking to you." Dylan said while rubbing his neck, awkwardly.

"We saw saw an item at the mall that reminded us to you, so we got it for you!" Mason said, with a nervous laugh, and handed her the gift bag.

The brown eyed girl looked at the duo confused.

"Well, open it!" Mason exclaimed.

Hesitantly opening the gift, it was a small jewelry box with a necklace inside. It was a simple crescent moon, gold necklace. It was quite beautiful. "Why'd you get this for me?" Willow asked, puzzled.

"Uh, w-well you see..." Mason tried to explain, but was too nervous, so Dylan continued, "We wanted to apo-" Before he could finish his statement, the bell rang, signaling that it was time for class. "I'm sorry. Thank you for the gift, but I cannot take it." Willow said, quickly giving them the gift before scurrying to class.

The two boys groaned in irritation. It wasn't the fact that Willow didn't like the gift. She felt as if it were wrong. They haven't talked to her in a year, and now they're acting as if everything is okay, which didn't sit right with Willow.

Willow was slightly curious to what they wanted to say, but she didn't think about it too much.

The boys didn't know what to do with the gift. The receiver had declined it, and they didn't want to throw it away. They had an idea on who they could give the gift to, but they weren't very fond of the idea. The person was none other than Marissa. Obviously no sane person would gift her something as nice since she was rude and self-conceited, but Everett had been telling them to be nicer to her. Even though he missed Willow, he was still tried to be the best boyfriend he could to Marissa. Sure, she annoyed him a lot, but they were still in a relationship, so he shouldn't condone his best friends being mean to her.

Sighing, the boys finally agreed to give the gift to Marissa, as much as they hated it, they wanted to make it up to Everett.

School had barely even started, yet time was going by slow for Willow. It was currently first period which meant she was in Mathematics.

She wasn't necessarily bad at Math, it was just complicated to her. Sometimes she would wonder,"How could Math go from solving numbers to solving alphabets?" Math was quite exhausting and complicated.

Willow could barely pay attention to the teacher and the board because she kept overthinking. Lately she had been getting mysterious phone calls, and the feeling as if she was being watched. She couldn't help, but feel paranoid. Her mind was thinking so many things at once that she was starting to have a headache.

"Miss West," the Mathematics teacher yelled out, causing all eyes to be on Willow, "Are you paying attention, or am I boring you?"

"I was paying attention Miss." Willow replied, hating all the attention directed on her.

"Then tell me... what's the answer to problem five?" The teacher asked with her eyebrow raised.