Starcrossed

13. Captain Obvious

Lola

I fucking hate Memo.

It's that simple, really, I hate the guy with a passion. The way he walks around school like the cat that got the cream; a cocky smile on his face. He walks around as if he knows something no one else does and it gives him fucking power. It went from smiling like a mischievous cat onto practically bragging about things that half the school was sure wasn't true. I guess what pissed me off more wasn't that he was cocky and bragging about things no one knew for sure; he was always like that. What pissed me off more was that Bee was with him the entire time.

"I hope he gets eaten by zombies," I mumbled as I chewed on gummy worms while watching The Walking Dead.

After the breakdown she had a day before, I thought that our friendship had gotten stronger and that we were closer to each other, but it wasn't like that. The next day, Bee arrived at school with Memo and didn't leave his side the whole morning before class started. When it was time for class, she sat across the room from her usual seat and even ignored my texts during class. After class I tried to catch up with her to ask her if something was the matter, but Memo had beat me to it and was escorting her to her next class.

By lunch time I was done with the silent treatment. I walked up to his group of friends and asked Bee if we could talk. She looked at me like she wanted to talk but then shook her head and went back to talking to Tammy.

"Fine," I said loud enough for her to hear me and walked away.

It's going to be two weeks since then and every time I see those two I just want to scratch Memo's eyes out. Why does it feel like every time something happens in Bee's life she seems to shut me out? She pushes me aside and things just go from bad to worse. I swear to god something has to change or else the next time I see that guy I will bash his head in. I tried to talk to her again after that day but again she just ignored me and I gave up. There was a time I would have begged, but I had gone through this once and I wasn't going through it again.

No fucking way.

"You need to calm down," Chrissie said to me as she popped a Hershey's kisses into her mouth and lay back on my bed. After the whole deal with Bee, Chrissie and I hanged out more often. She listened to me rant and I listened to her love related issues.

It was so easy to talk to her and it was calming to be around her. When you are like me who has an active mind that goes a thousand miles a minute before thinking clearly, people like Chrissie are a gift in your life. She listened to my rants and gave me her honest opinion and then we would watch scary movies or play video games until one of was had a headache. It was just so easy! Sometimes it amazed me how you seem to click with someone right off the bat and they become your anchor when shit goes south.

"How can I calm down?" I glared at her and bit off the head of a gummy bear. If only I could do this to a certain someone...

"Dude, you getting upset about all this isn't going to help. You need to talk to her and fix things, although I have a feeling it won't work." I looked at her like 'duh' and rolled my eyes.

I had tried to put my pride aside a few days later and try and fix things with her so I went to her house and asked her mom if I could talk to Bee just to find out that she wasn't living there anymore. Time stopped the moment her mom uttered those words I just stared at her like 'what the hell'. I asked her when she had moved out and she said a week ago she had gotten in an argument with the step-dad and just walked out on them. Bee's mom looked pissed off but at the same time she looked concerned.

The walk home was a blur to me as I tried to think of where Bee could be. I was worried and had a sick feeling in my stomach just thinking what she had been going through. Was she in a shelter? She didn't have family aside from her mother and sister, so where could she be? Maybe she was at Tammy's house, but that couldn't be. Tammy's mom was the religious mother who truly believes we must live by the Ten Commandments so she wouldn't let Bee crash there. Where could she be...?