Something Between Us ✔

7| Texts Between Us

"Uh, yeah. That's me."

"I'm Gemma," She said, extending her right hand for me to shake. I shook her hand. I already knew who she was.

"I'm Brooke," I said, knowing she already knew it but I didn't know what else to say to her.

"I am in your English class. So I thought why not walk to class together," She said, looking past me and focusing her brown eyes on something behind me. I followed her eyes and soon enough my eyes landed on Brian who was walking toward his class with Sam.

As soon as she saw me looking at him, she quickly spoke up. "Um, let's go to class?"

"Uh, yeah. Sure."

I walked towards my English class with Gemma and she chattered about classes and homework. I had a feeling that she wanted to talk about something else unrelated to school stuff.

I went and sat at my table, fourth last in the second row. Surprisingly, Gemma decided to sit with me. It was odd. She had never talked to me at all before. It was as if she was oblivious to my existence. But I didn't know why she had suddenly changed. She was all friendly to me today. Nonetheless, I decided to ignore the real motive of her demeanour.

The rest of the day went by quickly and soon enough I was in my car, driving to Claire's house.

"Do you know Gemma?" I asked Claire. She nodded, her head still bent over her phone so I decided to continue.

"She's in my English class. She never talked to me before but I don't know what came upon her and today she was so friendly to me," I told Claire.

Claire looked up from her phone. "She was talking to you? I didn't know that you knew her."

"No. I don't know her that well."

"So why did she talk to you?"

"I have no idea."

Claire shrugged, "Maybe she wanted to be friends with you."

"But she has so many friends. And she is so popular in our school! Why would she want to talk to me?"

"I don't know. What did you two talk about."

"Nothing. It was actually just about academics and school."

"Oh," Claire said nothing after that.

I shook my head and decided to drop the topic. The rest of the ride was silent and once I pulled into the driveway in front of Claire's house, I said a quick goodbye to her before driving away.

I pulled into the driveway of my own house and took out the house keys, quickly unlocking and shutting the door behind me. Mom was obviously at her office and Ryan was probably practising for a school football match.

I went into my bedroom and sprawled on the bed. I was so tired, I didn't want to get up at all the second my head hit the soft pillow.

After about an hour my phone buzzed. I was half awake. I tapped the table a few times till I got a hold on my phone.

There was a message. I opened it. Somebody had texted me.

I hid the body...Now what?!

I stared at the screen in horror. What the hell! What body?! What is happening?! Murder?! Of who?! Holy crap! I should call the cops.

My phone beeped. It was still in my hand. The vibrations startled me and the phone slipped from my hand. Luckily it landed on the bed.

I picked it up and the same person had now sent me laughing emoticon.

Maybe this was a prank.

So I texted the person back.