It Started With You + Me

Chapter 16: A glimpse into the past

"Get out of my way," Maddy drawled, dragging on the vowels as she spoke, she completed her picturesque 'I'm bored don't talk to me' look with a large dramatic eye-roll. Her eyes were practically popping out of her head and her face was as ugly as dog shit up close. She had definitely only won the queen bee title because of her attitude and fake persona, rather than looks which were peppered with makeup. The fact that her father was the president's right-hand man, also was a hefty influential reason. 

Sensing trouble Nika looked at me, then the mean girls, then me again. The air was silent, virtually, the only sound that could be heard was the swaying of the grass near the football pitch. It was full of cackling energy, a ballon that was about to pop. That moment. Barely a millisecond before all hell would break loose. The next scene went into slow motion.

Nika's jaw, that had kept all anger into check until now tightened up so much and a torrent of words came out. The instant sucking in of breath could be heard going around the large crowd that had gathered a safe distance away. Even some prefects had dropped their duties to watch the scene take place.

Horrified that someone actually dared to speak up for themselves, Maddy took a step back, her expression was extremely taken aback. Nika saw that her words, no matter how powerful or forceful, had no effect whatsoever. I shook my head rapidly from side to side warning her telepathically. But it was too late. I saw a fist coming into my line of vision, the a wrist attached and then a full arm, swinging straight for Maddy's awaiting jaw. Smack. The sound rang through the crowd, shocked hushed voices filled the amazed silence. Nika had a death glare on and she skimmed through the crowd dispersing it quickly. An arm came from behind us, and attached to that arm was a very pissed off Mr Lawrence. The punch honestly didnt matter to the ICT teacher, rather it was the slew of swear words that had been mentioned briefly that had really ticked him off.

'Detention!" He grunted in his fake accent as he lead Nika and Maddy away. Knowing that my friend would manage to wriggle her way around it, I walked sullenly to my next class. I put my hand into my pocket to fish out my phone when I felt something brush against it. Trapping it in 2 of my fingers I lifted the paper out. Unfolding the yellow note I had found, I read it out to myself. 

We need to talk, behind the French rooms after your extra classes. -Chris

Was scribbled in a messy handwriting. Sighing to myself I put it back into my pocket and was about to leave when I heard.

"Ha that bitch had what was comming for her, I hope she gets suspended! And to think. She thinks that she is dating Lewis! Ha ha. Funny joke." Was all I could hear from Maddy's snickering minions before my boiling blood overflowed. First me and Cory, now Nika and Lewis. She didn't know when to stop, it was like she couldn't stand that others were getting attention for once, someone other than her was climbing the popularity ranks. 

I boldly walked up to the group and yelled, "she deserved that, and anything else karma's gonna throw at her. Look at you all, such pathetic pieces of shit." I turned so quickly I didnt pay attention to the fact that my long hair that was swept into a ponytail had also spun around and thwacked one of the girls right between the eyes. Now with a little bounce in my step I went over to the front of the school to where Nika was now being held hostage.

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Tine had passed so quickly, my after school Bio lesson was over and it was nearing 3:30. I casually walked over to where the French rooms were and slipped into the small gap between the buildings into the secluded courtyard behind.

Chris was already waiting and was pacing up and down on the grassy lawn that was yet to see a rake. Once he spotted me under the shadow of the roof he called me over, dragging two chairs into the center.

"Look, I'm not sure how to tell you. But with you being Nika's best pal, I think you should know." He paused longer than necessary. "So Lewis is four-timing a bunch of girls. Nika isn't the only one." He stopped and stared at my panic stricken face, like he was only just realizing the huge mistake he made, of blurting out this now, not-so-secret, secret. "I shouldn't have told you. But Nika's my friend as well. And I can't wanna watch her get hurt and stuff."

Slowly I thought for a moment. "So who are these other girls, and do they know?" I asked, the suspicions running wild within my brain.

"Um,"Chris began fidgeting wildly with his pen. "Well, there's 2 from different schools, outside the country. And um..." he looked clearly uncomfortable now.

"The last one?" I almost ordered.

He smiled weakly, if it were possible, his fidgeting went up a level, now his eyes were darting around wildly. If my career in animal care wouldn't work out, I could always try and become a detective.

"It's Maddy," he whispered, it was barely audible, but it was there. His eyes were now downcast to the floor and he was biting his lip. Obviously expecting a volcano to go off. Strangely, I didn't feel an overwhelming sence of burning anger. It was slow, and the ore I thought about it, the more I could feel my jaw clench.

"Thank you Chris, you have proved yourself quite useful." I said grandly whilst looking down at him.

"So... we're cool?"

"Yes. We are cool." I smiled giving him a brief hug, before storming home.

*end of flashback*

"Hello?" Nika's ramblings came to an abrupt halt as soon as she had realized I had slipped off into the world of memories.

"Hm?" I grunted a short stocky reply.

"Okay. So you are back!" She announced.

"Before you dozed off I was just telling you something ..." she started boldly "I-I-think Cory," she shivered visibly, goose bumps taking free reign of her arms. "Likes me," she fake puked. I chucked at her melodramatic display. 

"Was that all you wanted to tell me? Cause I kinda figured by the way he looked at you." I laughed. 

"Oh I remember! I was going to tell you that Tom is comming over to stay for a few days." She admitted sheepishly. "I just can't wait for you to meet him!" I lifted an eyebrow at the mention of her boyfriend, whilst she wasn't looking. His character was still to be determined by me to see if he was right for my friend.

"C'mon, enough serious talk for today. Let's watch something." I looked at my random collection of DVDS and picked out my old Shrek I disk. Holding it up I asked "For old times sake?" The happy ending, with no cheating boyfriends, just a plain old bad guy and unlikely love story put a smile to my face. This felt so simple, just like when we were younger...

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Well thanks for reading. :-)

LG