Do It If No One's Watching

Chapter 24.

The next few days were pretty good. I was still insanely depressed, but things were great with Wyatt, Evelin had been being a lot nicer to everyone, and most importantly, I hung out with Lauren. Ever since the start of her high school career, she's had the reputation for being a whore (which she is, as I've said before), so there were some rumors regarding what she does behind closed doors (if you know what I mean) going around about her. When we were hanging out, we were laughing over them. The rumors that were made up about her weren't bothering her at all, and I wish I could say the same about myself. The rumors about Tommy and I were still going around, and I was trying my best to be like Lauren and look past them, but it wasn't working very well. Everyone was being harder on me because I wasn't an Elm, which I would expect, but that didn't make it hurt any less.

But yeah! Everything other than that seemed to be clearing up. I was at least a little bit happier, and I was planning on working on getting even happier! I planned on hanging out with Lauren more, working on communication with Wyatt, and possibly even talking to Evelin again. Yup, everything seemed to be looking up. 

...Oh, wait. Hold on. How could I be so forgetful? That's not all that was happening. Oh, no! I left out the fact that just when everything started looking up, it all crashed right back down. Are you surprised? Because I sure am not! Of course, that wouldn't work for me! That never works for me. I actually had hope for a few days that things were going to get better, and in a single day, every single last piece of that hope was taken away. And I don't know what I did to deserve it.

It was a random Thursday afternoon. I had just gotten home from school, and I was watching TV in my living room. Then, all of a sudden, there was a loud knocking at my front door. I jumped at first since the noise was so loud, but then when I realized that someone wanted to talk to me, I groaned. I was so comfortable and I did not want to get up.

I laid there for a minute or so, hoping that whoever was knocking would give up and go away. But it seemed like they knew that someone was home, even though the car wasn't there. So, I just got up and opened it. To my surprise, it was Wyatt. He hadn't called to tell me that he was going to come over or anything.

"Oh, hi..." I began, but he walked right past me and stormed into my house. I furrowed my eyebrows as I said, "What's wrong?"

He looked up at me. When he did, I could tell face was red, as were his eyes. The face that he was making was reminiscent of the one that he was making when he was fighting with David, but instead of radiating anger, he now radiated sadness. "Tommy Meyers?!" he cried through gritted teeth. "Why him?"

I furrowed my eyebrows, trying my best to keep calm. "What are you talking about?" I asked him.

"Someone just told me that you fucked Tommy Meyers!" he announced. He sniffled as a tear slipped from his eye. "Why?"

"Babe, that's just a rumor," I assured him. "It's not true." And it wasn't. Not only was I relationship, but Evelin was actually trying to be a decent person recently. I wasn't planning on ruining that. The rumor was going too far at this point, and I was honestly getting really tired of it. I was trying my best to get over it like Lauren was, but it just kept on snowballing into bigger things. It started out with the phone sex thing, then people were saying that I sucked his dick, and now they were saying that I fucked him, too? It was getting to be too much.

"The person that told me said that everyone knows," he said as he sniffled again and wiped away his tears with his hand. "How come I didn't?"

"Who told you that?" I asked him.

"I don't fucking know, it was some kid in our English class!" he exclaimed. "Answer my question!"

"I don't know how you didn't know!" I told him. "The whole school has been making up rumors and talking about me and Tommy Meyers for like two weeks now."