Flora King
I don't think I could actually fully describe how much I hated Monday's. Having chemistry was just an added part to make my day even worse than it already was. "Hey Flora," Caleb walked up to me as I made my way to class. He seemed rather happy, seeing as he was always usually in some kind of bad mood over something.
"Hey," I replied, smiling lightly back at him. He opened the door for me and waved me in. "How did you enjoy the party on Friday?" Caleb asked inquisitively whilst smirking, knowing something that I definitely didn't. I gulped back slightly at the remembrance of the night.
He was giving me funny looks as he waited for my answer. "It was fine," I swallowed back the guilt from sleeping with James and pushed it to the back of my mind. I couldn't think about that right now, it was something that I don't think I ever wanted to think about again.
As long as Gabby didn't find out, James and I could just forget about it and the guilt would soon disappear, hopefully.
When we finally sat down in our seats, I thought about the person that had been worse off in this whole situation. James' smiled crept into my mind as I thought about him. I felt incredibly bad for him. He didn't deserve to be the punching bag for something that I had done. I was the one that slept with him, yet he still ended up worse because of it.
Before, when we were walking to our seats, we had noticed something rather unusual with the seating arrangement in the class. Gabby wasn't sitting in her usual place. She was now sitting right at the front and Mr Davies had allowed her to. Of course, being the teachers pet to him, she had the ability to get around that kind of thing.
Then I thought about it in my mind. I couldn't get angry or mock Gabby. What I've done to her will probably haunt me for the rest of my life and I will have to make it up to her without her actually ever finding out. It was eating me alive by the second.
"What's her problem?" I asked Caleb as we began pulling out various books and notes for the class beginning in a few minutes. "Not sure," Caleb said quickly, keeping his head down. He definitely knew something I didn't.
Nobody at the moment seemed to be on good terms with each other. In the space of a few days, everything had turned completely upside down. And I think its mainly due to a certain boy turning up at the start of the year.
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After a lesson of pure torture, having to listen to different chemistry related things and staring at the back of Gabby's head, I was finally too frustrated and wanted to ask her why she was being so distant and stubborn today. I guessed she was still upset about her small disagreement with James, but I couldn't tell.
As soon as the bell rang, she almost sprinted out of the room, attempting to get away from everyone. Luckily, my seat could see the doors to the girls bathroom on the other side of the hall to the classroom and I watched as she stormed inside, looking angrier than I had ever seen her before.
I ran in shortly after. The both of us had a free period now so whatever was on her mind, she could tell me all about it without us having to miss any classes.
As I walked in, she was patting her cheeks in the mirror, ignoring the strange looks she was getting from the odd few girls walking out of the bathroom. I gave her a questioning look as I walked up to her.
"Hey Gabby, what's up with you today? You're being weird," I asked softly, maybe if I asked this, she would actually tell me what's wrong and stop closing herself off and not letting people in, and she's been doing that quite often lately.
"Are you really that stupid?" I was taken aback by what she said and how she was shouting at me. I was so confused and I didn't know what she was talking about. Then again, a small thought crossed my mind about James, but I knew that he would never tell her about what had happened, so it couldn't possibly be that.
She had her arms crossed in a manner that made a lump form in my throat. Anger seemed to be prominent in her eyes as she stared back at me. "You cheating, lying whore," immediately, the words catapulted into my brain and I realised what she was taking about.
It suddenly made me think about Caleb's smirk in chemistry and how Gabby had been so angry with me today without even saying a word to me. Gabby had found out that I slept with James. I didn't know what to say, I couldn't get any words out and I was too shaken to even look her in the eyes.
I swallowed back the lump in my throat that was clogging my words together. "I am truly sorry Gab-" I tried to say but a hand came in a quick motion towards my face.
As soon as I felt the sharp pain of her hand colliding with my face, my eyes went black for a few seconds until red crossed my eyes and blood was pouring from my nose. When I looked up, the door slamming clouded my hearing and vision.
She was already gone.
My stomach twisted, not only from seeing blood but from seeing my best friend walk out on me and find out that I had slept with her boyfriend. I knew it was wrong but when I was in the position, I was addicted to him. I wanted nothing more to be with him.
But I had never realised that I would be sacrificing a girl that had meant so much to me as a best friend and almost a sister.
I stormed out myself, not realising that blood was still dripping from my nose onto the floor of the corridor. Sighing, I stumbled to the nurses office, passing various strange stares as I looked like a drunk person that didn't realised they had been punched. My hand was currently covered in the red liquid and it was taking everything inside me not to faint at this very moment.
"Oh my goodness, sweetie!" the nurse shouted as I pushed myself through the doors and into another room. "What happened?" She asked as she held my nose so that no more blood would hopefully fall from it.
"I tripped in the girls bathroom," I replied quickly, trying to mask my anger and guilt as I didn't want to say anything to get Gabby in trouble. I had already ruined her life in so many ways that this would just be the cherry on the top.
The nurse smiled lightly at me as she gave me a knowing look, as if to know that I was straight up lying to her, but I didn't care. I just wanted to go home and get away from anyone named Gabriella, Caleb or James today.
The bell had rung twice whilst I was still in the nurses office, until I was finally allowed out of the doors to see a worried James waiting outside. For some reason, I thought he was thinking that Gabby was in there but he was genuinely waiting and worrying about me. "Are you ok?" He held onto me and inspected the nose that was currently red with a bruise forming around it.
"Why do you care?" I replied hastily as I walked off into the cafeteria to grab some food. I felt so hungry but I didn't want to eat. I didn't have to stomach after knowing that Gabby knew and knowing that I had ruined her relationship with James.
"I do care because I like you, you're my friend," the words hurt me whilst I waited in the line with James whispering behind me. He only saw me as a friend and it slowly made my heart break. Nodding quickly, I walked along with the crowd to the food section and collected some lunch then sat at a nearby table on my own.
"Where's Gabby?" James asked as he sat down opposite me with a muffin whilst I picked at some fries on my plate. I'm not sure why he was asking for her. It's not exactly like she'd be wanting to speak to him anyway. "She left." At least I thought she did. James would've seen her if she was still here.
"She left because we got into a fight about something," I'm pretty sure he knew what it was about. He stared at me intently, waiting for a reason for the fight before I glared at him and he realised what the fight was about.
"How did she find out?" I asked hesitantly as he stared down at his untouched muffin. He gulped loudly before looking back up at me.
"She found your bra," I immediately regretted not staying and looking for it, but on the other hand, it was James' fault for saying that it was a mistake and leaving me to leave as quickly as I could.
Finishing off my fries, I walked out, and luckily, James didn't follow. I approached my locker as my nose still ached from the punch. A few people had stared at me strangely, wondering how I now had a large bruise appearing in the centre of my face. To be quite honest, I really deserved it.
Despite everything that had happened between us, I was still worried and wondering where Gabby was. She wasn't the type of person to skip school and miss out on so many classes.
The football game outside was beginning to start as the hallways were emptying with crowds of fan girls with numbers painted onto their faces were running out. I didn't feel like going so I skipped and climbed into my car.
Before I could put the key into the ignition, my eyes became clouded with tears and soon enough, they were streaming down my cheeks and into my hands, soaking myself and my t-shirt.
What the hell have I done?