Chapter 5

  The noise in the hallways evaporated into the atmosphere as my feet creaked closer to my locker.

  Now that I had my face back, it only meant that I didn't need to kill myself. It was good news but it also made me see how empty my life really was.

  I sighed, as I stuck my books into my locker, just in between the procedure a person tapped me on my shoulders from behind and I turned to see cade standing in front of me.

  I grinned while his deep black eyes widened in disbelief. I was very confused and thought that I've got something on my head.

  "What?"

  I muttered, but he only moved further and my feet drew backward looking at him in utter confusion. In no time, he was resting his hands on the lockers trapping me against it and everything felt so deja vu.

  He was getting used to doing this

  I noticed as I stared at him in a black-i-don't-appreciate-this face. He smirked, using his left hand to trap my falling hair behind my ear and his smirk widened.

  "You got rid of the scar"

  He stated and I resisted a tired groan, more than a million people have told me that today.

  "Doesn't make any difference", I replied, keeping it cool. Of cause it did, but I didn't want to act like I was desperate for a change.

  He was just about to say something, when a person walked up to us, from cade swift change in demeanor I could already guess who it was. Though, I couldn't see the person as cade's tall body was blocking me from the person.

  "Is this now a regular thing?"

  Aiden uttered in a scuff and cade stared at him in somewhat annoyance but he still didn't change his current position.

  "And if it is?"

  He returned and Aiden chuckled. "Then I might actually try to believe that you would fall for someone like her"

  Ouch. I knew that he was a stupid jerk.

  Cade rolled his eyes, finally letting go of me. "What do you want?"

  He asked but immediately Aiden's eyes fell on me, it widened and I could see a flash of regret in them.

  Cade looked even more pissed to see that Aiden was now staring at me. He gritted. "What the furck do you want?"

  Aiden met his eye line, a glint of annoyance in them. "Mr. Clark said you demanded my science partner. I came to tell you that you can't have it"

  Why did I feel like he came to tell the opposite? Also, it? Pretty much like him.

  Cade and Aiden were now staring at each other like hungry lions and I was just left hanging in between them.

  "Says who?"

  Cade challenged and Aiden frowned, burning in anger. "Me, dick"

  He muttered, throwing a punch cade's way but thankfully cade dodged it. Cade returned with equal vigor and before I knew it, they were both caught up in a deeply unreasonable fight.

  I pleaded for them to stop, but my voice was just like a whisper and they wouldn't listen. When everything was getting too much and I was out of ideas, I jumped in their middle.

  "Stop!!"

  I yelled and to my surprise, they both actually stopped punching themselves. My eyes looked at both of them, Aiden seemed to have suffered more loss and I sighed, turning to cade.

  "It's okay if you can't be my science partner"

  I uttered and when his angry eyes landed on me, it was replaced by a glint of softness and then I turned to Aiden, and my eyes fell to the blood draining from his face and arms.

  "Let's go to the school nurse", I uttered, instead.

  ***

  After I walked Aiden to the school nurse, I left almost immediately as I was having class.

  When I jerked the door open, soft mutters and gossip began to evaporate the class and half the guys were staring at me like I was a piece of meat.

  I greeted the teacher in front and he nodded looking at me a bit angrily as I was three minutes late but he didn't punish me.

  I instantly took a seat on the first empty chair I spotted and it was beside a popular red hair, Charlotte.

  The class went on for a while, with both of us in silence and then all of a sudden, she threw a scribbled paper at me.

  I glanced at her in confusion as I rolled it open. My eyes widened when it came in contact with the message.

  want to hang out?

  I blinked, thinking about what to say through. Charlotte was one of the popular girls in school but not a bitch as she has never been among the people who bullied me in the past.

  I smiled writing yes and then passing it back to her. we remained in silence for the rest of the class.

  ***

  I was beside my locker when Charlotte came swinging her red ponytail toward me. She passed me a friendly smile when I turned my attention to her, I smiled back.

  " ready to go?"

  She muttered and I nodded, closing my locker shut. We walked right next to each other and from the corner of my eyes, I could see Betty looking at me in anger.

  Right, she never liked Charlotte.

  "You know me. I like making friends", she uttered and I chuckled remembering that she was friends with almost everyone.

  "of cause", I muttered, recalling that we have been lab partners in the past and that she had tried everything possible to get me to talk to her but I refused her.

  She pouted, a glint of laughter flashing in her eyes, probably at the irony of things. "So you're the new rush girl"

  She said all of a sudden and I frowned, looking at her in confusion. "Rush girl?"

  Charlotte chuckled, a grin spreading on her lips as she locked her hands with me. "And the first not to know that she was chosen"

  Okay, now. I was lost so I just stared at her in silence and she laughed seeing my confused face. "The school hasn't had a rush girl since like forever so it's okay not to know"

  She commented as we walked through the doors of the school. "For someone to be a rush girl, she must be a virgin and most of us lost that since I could remember"

  "Right, not just virgin. She must obviously be beautiful", she added and I frowned wondering where this was going.

  "Apparently, we have three sides. Aiden's group, Cade's group, and Luke's group and I'm supposing that the three of them are probably in this game"

  "They have been having a stupid fight on who will rule the school and if my guess is right. This time, the game of the rush girl is to solve that problem"

  My lips pursed seeing how ridiculous everything was getting. I scuffed, putting two and two together. "I'm the bet, right? The first person to sleep with me rules the school"

  Charlotte's lip cracked into a smile, a chuckle evaporating from it. "Bingo"