Three hours later and I'm in another store but this one happens to be in the city. I had to drive all the way to the city just to look for a simple white t-shirt. I have been insulted, kicked out and one store even threatened to call the person because supposedly the shirt was extinct and they thought I came to shop lift. I was so tired and was currently in my car driving back home when I decided to call that son of a bastard. He finally picked up after three rings
"What the fuck do you want?"
"You're shirt is nonexistent. It has gone off the face of the earth, vamoosed, gone, diminished"
"So in other words, you can't find it" he asked with a hint of amusement
"it's not funny" I yelled through the phone
"I wasn't laughing. It's my shirt"
"Well can I compensate you in another way. I don't know another shirt or any other thing"
"So you finally found something your money can't buy. What a bummer"
This guy was a complete and utter jerk
"You know what forget it. I'll find it eventually" I hung up immediately before he could say anything else and proceeded to try out stores I had maybe accidentally missed. I wasn't one that gave up easily.
I was ready to accept defeat at this point. Gabe had called multiple times and I didn't want to deal with him right now. I was ready to accept defeat when I saw a rickety old store come up. I quickly pulled up and decided to check out the store.
"I mean one more wouldn't hurt right?"
The neon sign was creaking and literally hanging at one angle which made me a little bit scared and it was literally my pride that kept me from running away.
I opened the rickety old door and saw a woman standing behind the cash register and looked liked she was about close
"Oh, excuse ma'm"
"Y'ello. What can I do you for?" she answered with a thick southern accent before her eyes went wide in both astonishment and recognition. But it was literally gone as soon as it came.
"I have literally been to every single store in this town and you are my last hope. I'm looking for a plain white T-shirt with a beetles logo at the back. Please tell me you have it" I literally begged.
"Um, I don' have a brand new one but my husban' owned one before he died. It's clean, new and smells nice"
"Oh, no I couldn't do that to you. It's one of the only things you have of him" I told her as I was about to finally give up
"Oh no. I don' mind." She said waving it off "Lemme just go get it"
"But....." and she's gone.
Five minutes later, she came back from the door which I think leads to her house.
"Here you go"
"Are you sure Mrs....."
"Monroe. Kaithlyn Monroe. Just call me Kate aight sugar"
"OK. Kate, are you sure about this? I really didn't want to impose"
"It's fine sugar. Now run along. It's getting pretty late"
" But money?"
"Oh don' worry abou' it. Now you run along" she said as she pushed me out of her store. As soon as I got out she flipped the close sign and locked the door not before waving a goodbye to me.
"Thanks again".
I got into my car and then proceeded to call the asshole
"Geez woman. You call like a freak. What is it now?"
"Your shirt. You know the one you forced me to replace, spend my whole day looking for, missed my sleep, forget my homework and you know the rest"
"You've found it" he asked in disbelief
"Why does it sound like you never wanted me to"
"I wanted you too but never expected you too"
"Well I did. Where do you want to pick it up?"
"Well, it's too late to leave my house so I'll see you tomorrow"
And with that ladies and gentlemen my car screeched to a halt like even my car was annoyed
"What the fuck was that?. I asked for my shirt not for you to die" he yelled on the other line
"Well you might as well have killed me with that statement. You mean to tell me that I did all that for nothing. Like absolutely nothing. I could have done this on Saturday or any other weekend"
"Well, I gotta go. See you tomorrow"
"Jack, don't you dare han...."
That idiot hung up on me. I started my car and drove home while muttering curses to that abominable creature that cursed the earth with his presence.
"Oh, Kalia. Where on earth have you been? I tried calling you a couple times but it went straight to voicemail. What happened?"
"Honestly, Gabe. I'm really not in the mood to talk right now. After I kill a certain someone then I'll be willing to talk" I said as I climbed the stairs ready to go to my room
"Please calm down Kayla. I don't want to bail you out of jail please"
I knew it was rude of me to talk to him like that but right now I was fucking pissed off. I could murder anybody right now. I quickly took a shower ignoring the growling of my stomach. I was too angry to eat. Then I went to bed with just one thing on my mind
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
"What crawled up your butt? On your second day of school for that matter" Tico asked as I approached them with a sour look on my face from yesterday.
"Yea, you look like you want to murder someone" Tiana said also noticing my sour mood
"I actually do want to murder someone. Now this person is the biggest idiot I've ever seen. Believe me, he's better off six feet under" and then I proceeded to tell them what happened yesterday and by the end of my tale they were all laughing at me
"It really isn't funny"
"It actually is" I heard a voice from behind me say and I turned around to see no other the asshole himself
"Oh hey, How you doing? I didn't expect to see you in school today"
"Why?" he asked with a whole lot of amusement
" Oh you know. I thought that maybe God would have answered my prayers and maybe allowed you to be kidnapped or you know just swiftly die"
His group of friends started laughing while he looked at me with amusement in his eyes while my so called friends were also laughing
"But since he didn't do it I'm guessing he wants me to do the dirty work by myself. Thanks big guy. So Jack Dantes how would you like to die. Poison gas or my hands around your neck"
"Damn dude she's feisty. And I know you like em that way" one of his friend's pitched as the whole gang was busy laughing.
"Well sweet cakes, I have no intentions of dying now so lose that idea" he said with a smile on his face and then he whispered in my ears " and your hands around my neck don't sound so bad" and then he walked off with his group still laughing their asses off.
It took me a minute to understand what he meant and when I did I felt my cheeks heat up and then I turned around to face my friends
"What did he tell you to make you blush like that?" Tiana asked still laughing
"Oh, quiet down".
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It's been two weeks since I made contact with that he- devil and I was loving it. We were currently at the last period of the day and I was in a good mood. We were in the changing room getting ready for gym class and then we were free to go home. Finally
"You know jack's in this class right?" Tiana asked as she tied her hair in a ponytail
"Please don't remind me. I'm gonna try as much as I can to avoid him"
Well seems like the universe was hoping and begging me to literally explode. So it so happens to be that we were playing dodge ball today. What are we juniors.
I was happy that I wasn't on his team but I guess I spoke to soon because right now he was the only one on his team left and I was the one on mine. It turns out that people were actually afraid of him and my dream of being a famous dodgeballer went down the drain cause his team mates were not targeting me and neither were mine to him. So it was planned and I was going to die. The glint in his eyes said it all as he slowly bounced the ball and then everything happened in slow motion but the impact and the pain did not happen in slow motion. They hurt, they hurt as hell.
"Here the ice pack should help with the bruise" the nurse said to me as she handed me the ice pack. As you already guessed the ball did have an impact on my head more like my skull and I thought I was strong but again the universe proved me wrong and as I was escorted to the nurse's office I saw that devil of a human give a ghost smile. Crazy person that wanted to kill me.
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"How's your head?" Tiana asked as she dropped he tray on the table and inspected my forehead. I was allowed to go home immediately after I left the nurses office for the rest of the day. To be honest that was the only good thing this school had ever done for me.
"It's fine actually. It healed yesterday and I had to stop Gabe from throwing a fit and calling the ambulance" I said as I chewed on a grape. I was suddenly feeling rebellious and I knew it was wrong for me to cause trouble but honestly I felt angry and I couldn't give a damn at this time.
"I see the wheels on your head turning Kayla, what are you planning?" Talia asked
What can I say the girl knows her partners
"Well since you asked, I'm thinking of a way to get back at that egotistical fuck boy" I said as I picked up my phone
"UH no. Get that idea out of your head right now before you get yourself in trouble. You literally just got here. Don't go getting expelled" Tiana being the logical one said
"Well, I've already pitched the idea and Talia is already planning her next heist"
"How did you know?" Talia asked looking at me in awe
"I'm awesome like that" I said as I searched for places to buy permanent spray paint.
"See I said don't go getting all stupid" Tiana said
"Well I'm in, cause that guy is a complete jerk" Tico said as he plopped one of my grapes in his mouth with his sister giving him the death glare.
"So what's the plan?"