Chapter 38

I walked, well I more like ran to the first period of the day, racing to beat the final bell.

I'm late! I'm never late... well that was one time I swear and yeah I admit it was my own fault, but this time it was for sure Chris' fault.

After last night's dinner he decided to stay awhile longer... as in the whole night, actually but besides that, he thought it was a great idea to stay up watching Disney movies so I didn't hear my alarm go off, thankfully my body is used to waking up early so when I did eventually wake up it was already seven-fifty and school starts at eight so I just put on whatever I found (which was Chris' t- shirt and some jeans), grabbed my bag and hauled ass to my car.

It also didn't help that Chris wouldn't want to let go at first so I had to pry my self out of his hold and let me tell you, that man has one hell of a grip. I felt bad for just leaving so I texted him when I got to the school, letting him know where I was which I'm sure he would understand since it was Wednesday after all.

Dinggg...

I let out a sigh of relief as I let my bag plop on the ground by my seat, I placed my head against the nice cool desk trying to cool off from the running I just did from the parking lot to my class, which by the way was upstairs. If you had to run upstairs with only being 5'2, meaning you had short legs, then you can imagine how I feel right now.

I raise my head up, resting it on my arms as I hear my teacher start to greet the class, I look over to see Hannah staring at me with a 'you alright look' expression in return I just raise my hand in a short wave to let her know I was good.

Well as good as I can be after running two flights of stairs... ok now I'm just sounding lazy and out of shape.

I just start scribbling down the notes Mrs. Rush set up, keeping up with the rest of the class as if I didn't just run inside like a maniac trying to beat the late bell. I can tell Hannah was still curious as to why I was late and didn't meet up with her like I usually do, but I can just tell explain everything later.

Well, not everything.

I'm not sure if it considers me a bad friend if I haven't told her about Chris but I just didn't want to take a chance in case someone found out and I'm not saying she's a bad friend and can't keep a secret, it's just that you can never be too sure.

"So what was all that about?" She questions, an eyebrow lifted, as we walk down the stairs together.

"I may or may not have woke up really late from watching Disney movies last night..." I confessed, shrugging my shoulders in hopes of her believing my partial truth.

She just shakes her head as she snorts at my response, which causes us both to start cracking up. We ended up parting ways halfway through the quad as she heads back to her AP Economics and I head to Ceramics.

Which by the way is actually pretty fun.

I quickly walked out of class after raising my hand to ask the teacher if I could use the restroom, gosh this feels like a prison, ridiculous how he wouldn't even let me go until I asked him the third time.

I'm pretty sure he's sexist as he just let a guy who sits like a row away from me go after I asked.

Anyways now that I'm finally out of that boring class, I skip over to the closest bathroom and do my business. As I'm washing my hands I hear a group of girls walk in, not thinking much of it I continue minding my own business till I turn to leave and realize who it was... Megan.

"Well look who we have here, little miss badass." Her fake cheerful voice causes me to roll my eyes mentally at how cliche she sounded.

"Wow look who we have here, little miss fake-ass," I retort back with a fake smile.

"You better watch that mouth of yours Delgado-"

"or what Kelly, what are you going to do huh? We all know you won't fight your own battles so you shouldn't be talking. " I cut her off knowing damn well I'm right and man did I wish I wasn't at the moment as she snapped her fingers, causing two of her little clones to step forward and let me just say, I went down kicking and swinging, and man do I hate cliches.

******

I'm getting out of here, which is what I've been doing ever since the incident at lunch last week, I have been going out of the school not feeling comfortable being confided in here or anywhere near there the bathroom for that matter now.

I don't mind it, the days when I do go out by myself it's pretty relaxing and quiet plus I can play my music as loud as I please which is nice too. I just wish it made me feel like I was a coward. I was almost out of the gate until I heard Karelyn calling my name.

"Hey, girl." she smiles at me.

"Hey Kare."

"Need some company?"

"Um... sure why not?"

"So, how's it going?" Karelyn shifting in her seat to face me, she probably suspected something was wrong.

"It's going good." I hum, munching on my fries, distracted looking out the windshield watching the rest of the students either walking back in the gate or linger at their cars with their friends before the bell rings signaling the end of lunch.

Plus, I knew that if I looked at her she would be able to tell something is off and I didn't feel like talking about it right now. I was more distracted than I thought, well actually not at all surprised as I couldn't get over what happened during 4th period in the bathroom, as I didn't notice Karelyn stepping out the car till the passenger door slammed shut. 

I jumped at the sudden noise then started gathering around the trash and my bag, stumbling out the car as I follow after Karelyn -making sure to lock my car first- to get to our well my, last class of the day so I can get home and just relax.

I'm becoming more nervous and anxious as the months are coming to an end which means our graduation is coming closer and just thinking of going up on that stage in front of hundreds of people, knowing my luck I would probably trip over my own feet and make a complete fool of myself or worse... no one will be there, well more like Chris won't be there. I have yet to ask him if he would be able to make it and I feel pretty nervous too if I'm being honest. I'm not sure if he would even want to come or if he will be able to and I just don't want to get my hopes up. 

What makes today a bit better is that I'm finally out and I have no homework as well, but I do have to work today which isn't bad really... I just don't think I can bend down as much from how sore my body is from earlier.

"Hi, guys!" I greet the regular group of grown men who are playing cards in the back as I make my way towards the locker room or break room, whichever you want to call it.

I realized I got a message when I went to put my phone away in my bag, it was from Chris responding to my previous message and asking if I was planning on doing something after which I quickly replied with work and that I will see him later then ran out of the locker room when I heard the door open indicating we have a customer and thus starts the rest of my day.

Man how I wish I can take a freaking nap right now...

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