“So he’s not gay?” Rashad exclaimed that day at lunch
“No, I’m not” Tom sighed for the hundredth time. He tugged at the collar of his sweater in frustration. Rashad was having some trouble understanding this, “I like girls. I always have”
“Wow, bro” Rashad laughed, “Mind blown”
“And get this; He’s been with half the entire senior class on the lows” Derek said with wonder
“You’re kidding” Rashad breathed
“Even got a lip chart to prove it” Tom laughed showing off his white teeth
“Great, so the closeted straight guy has more conquests than I do” I mumbled quietly
“Don’t worry, Brad’s totally into you” Tom patted my arm. Little did he know but Brad was the last thing on my mind. My mind was all Lucas all the time.
At that precise moment Lucas bustled into the cafeteria and my heart literally seized to beat. On his back, squealing and giggling, was Celeste in all her man snatching glory. Behind them was Cynthia and Alexis, grinning along with them
“Looks like Lucas’ got a girl” Rashad nodded in approval
“She looks like a blank sheet. Where is her melanin?” I spat watching Lucas bounce into the lunch line with a big smile on his face.
“Are you okay?” Rashad placed a hand on my shoulder and looked at me
“I’m perfect. She’s just not all that” I placed a fist under my chin
“Hey, Babe” I felt strong arms wrap around my waist and instantly clinched up. I looked up at Brad and did my best to smile
“Ready for practice tonight?” Brad said deeply. How quick had we gotten to the lovey dovey stage?
“Hey, Rashad” Alexis smiled flirtatiously walking to our table
“Alexis” Rashad muttered not looking up from his sandwich
“You look really nice today” She smiled
“What are you doing here?” Rashad finally asked looking up. The entire cafeteria seemed to descend into quietness and people turned to stare.
“What do you mean?” She asked in a baby voice
“Its exactly as it sounds. What are you doing here?”
“Uhm” She twirled her hair uncomfortable
“Listen, you’ve ruined my sister’s life since the third grade and you single handedly started the rumor about her secretly being a transvestite. What makes you think that I want to talk to you? You’re a horrible human being” Rashad glared at her
“Ashley knows I’m only kidding. We have a love hate relationship; I mean at Keenan’s party she called me out on my extensions. As much as it hurt, I let it go because I knew she didn’t mean it” Alexis plastered on a fake smile.
“After you called her a man” Rashad remarked
“C’mon, that was all in the past!” Alexis was…groveling. And that’s when I realized why she was doing all of this. She was crushing on rashad. Hard
“You sent a group message out this morning saying that Amanda Rushford’s forehead looked like the battle scene after the decepticons fought the autobots”
I heard gasps radiate through the cafeteria and found myself asking two questions. Why was Alexis so horrid? And how did she know what autobots were?
“That was just a little early morning humor! Amanda is gorgeous” Alexis laughed
“Early morning humor that you just had to send to the entire student population?” Rashad shook his head, “You’re not a nice person. At all”
“Last Christmas I volunteered at the local soup kitchen”
“After tweeting about how many poor people germs you were contracting” Rashad sighed
“That got, like, fifty retweets! It was funny” Alexis chortled
“No, it was rude” Rashad rolled his eyes, “You should just go, Alexis”
Alexis honestly looked like she was going to cry
“See you in English?”
“Yeah” Rashad muttered
He turned to me and smiled, “Continue your conversation”
And there you have it, ladies and gents! Alexis had just been dismissed. Her jaw trembled as she slowly backed away from our table. Everyone went back to their business, including Lucas and stupid Celeste. Cynthia gave Alexis and hug and said something to her, in the cafeteria line
“What were you saying?” I turned to Brad
“I just wanted to tell you how excited I was to get some alone time with you” Brad nuzzled my cheek and I blushed. See? Here I had an awesome guy who actually wanted to spend time with me. Lucas had obviously moved on which meant I probably should too.
“I am too” I whispered earning a disgusted look from Derek
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“You know he doesn’t really like you, right?”
I was walking to my third period class when a hand grabbed me
“What do you want?” I said staring my enemy in the eye
“Brad, he’s not into you” Alexis sighed
“Excuse me?”
“He’s still hung over Cynthia. He’s using you to make her jealous” Alexis said quickly
“And why are you telling me this?” I asked dodging a tall girl with a huge saxophone case
“Call it my good deed of the day”
“Well, im not a charity” I said turning on my heel and going to my next class
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“Bro, you killed it” Brad said high fiving me that day after practice.
“You put up a decent fight” I laughed collapsing on the floor
“I’ll be right back, I think my bladders going to explode” He murmured getting up and running into the school. I stared at his duffel bag and itched. I knew snooping was wrong but what if Alexis was right? As much as I hated her, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling
I crawled over to Brad’s bag and yanked out his iphone
Enter Pass code
His phone blinked to life as I swiped it. Crap. What was his pass code?
I entered Trifecta’s and the phone blinked red. I mulled through all the possibilities and went to work
Fields
Soccer
January
Even his birthday didn’t work. I stared at the phone and realized I had only one more try until the phone disabled. I closed my eyes and then stared at the phone
Cynthia
The phone blinked to life. I clicked the green messages icon and stopped when I saw my name
Does Ashley suspect anything?
Obviously not. She thinks I’m madly in love with her. LOL
Dude, Cynthia’s probably so pissed that you went from her to Ashley. Can’t lie, she got hot though
I don’t care. Once Cynthia realizes how stupid she was, she’ll come crawling back
I stared at the phone trying to blink back tears. So Alexis was right. I quickly clicked the home button and threw the phone back into the bag. I gathered up my stuff and began walking off the field
“HEY ASHLEY, WAIT UP!” Brad yelled from behind me
“I’ll see you tomorrow, I’ve got a headache. Walking will help” I said once he caught up to me
“You sure you don’t want me to drive you?” He asked searching my eyes
“Yeah” I turned around and continued walking.