The dice always rolled to my favour
Then you decided to play
"Nicole! Nicole!". Jace called out after me as he continued to chase me. I stopped when I realized I was only calling more attention to myself this way.
My head began to spin, it took only a day to turn my overly normal life upside down. People were now looking at me, talking about me and some idiots were even taking a video of me and it was all because of the fuck face beside me who for some reason, wouldn't stop laughing. I kicked his left knee hard enough for the desired response - he stopped laughing -. "I'm sorry about that, it's just.. why are you running?" He asked, amusement lacing his voice.
" My goldfish.. he's sick, and if I don't give him his evening dose by exactly six thirty, he.. he'll die" I said, extra loud and extra dramatic. I knew people were still focused on the both of us, so I had to cover up for the weird scene I'd created.
"Well, let me drive you home, that'd be faster" he said, his voice filled with concern this time. "No really, besides you have all those girls to drop off, there wouldn't be enough time" I continued half screaming.
The thing with Princeton high is, once there's a little drama, everyone's sure to stick around to the end, the schools just filled with a bunch of nosy assholes.
"Why is your voice so high?" He asked.
Does this guy never take a hint?
At this point, it wasn't even a hidden fact that we were the center of attention, so how could he ask me that!? I was simply putting on a show so I can walk away with a bit of my dignity still intact. "Well, I'm scared that my fish is going to fucking die" I said through gritted teeth, continuing my lie.
"Well, I've already told those girls that I'm not taking them home anymore and they completely understood" He said.
I looked at him for a while before looking behind him at the ever waiting girls chatting around his car, then I looked back at him. " Jace, I'm better off on my own, and my dad will kill you if he sees you, he's a bit overprotective of me" I said calmly, giving him yet another lie. I really just wanted to disappear.
He scoffed. "Please, your dad will love me. Every dad does, I'm a dad person" he said with so much confidence that I almost believed him. "Well, not my dad" I said quickly and started sprinting again." Send my love to your goldfish" I heard him say, I simply nodded.
Thank you my inexistent goldfish
I closed the door as soon as I had passed through it, then I ran upstairs into my room and threw myself and my bag on the bed.
A few minutes later I heard my phone ring beside me, I jumped on my bed and poured out the contents of my bag in search if my phone then I picked the call without looking at the I.D "Yes dad" I said, he was the only person that ever called me, other people on my contacts included my aunts and uncles who were probably all dead by now.
"How's your goldfish" I heard a now too familiar voice say, I hated the chill it sent to my spine Everytime I heard it.
"Dead"
That was the only word I could make out, and with a very emotionless tone to it.
"Jeez, sorry" he said. "Hmm, don't be. Um, I'm actually very busy right now so I'll call you later" I said.
"what are you busy with?" He asked before I could hang up.
What the fuck?
I didn't even know what to tell him I was doing. " Burying the cat..fish" I said, hitting my forehead with my palm.
" Oh, so you also have a dead catfish now" he said, and as ridiculous as it sounds I knew I could hear him grin, was he playing with me?
"You don't have a goldfish do you?" He asked.
" Duh!, It just died so technically I don't" I said, not willing to give up my lie " okay then, send me it's pictures" he said, still not convinced. "I will" I barked before hanging up quickly. "...never talk to you again" I said, completing my initial statement as I laid back and closed my eyes.
... The phone rang again. Picking it up, I looked at the l.D this time, it was him again. "What!" I spat, after deliberating whether or not I should answer. "When are you going to come over?" He asked. "What" I asked, confused. "For the project" he answered. " Oh, well tommorow's Saturday, so pick me up at school by twelve" I said, then I ended the call.
Two weeks and it'll all be ov..
...the phone rang, AGAIN!!!
I picked it up "WHAAAT NOW!!" I screamed.
"The fuck!!, Oh you'll know when I get home" I heard my dad's angry voice say before the line went dead.
Fuck, I'm fucked!!...