Hey everyone! This is my first Recess fanfic so please read! This chapter is all in Spinelli's pov! Please review at the end!
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The wind blew across the trees as I got up out of bed and slowly made my way to my window. The sky was grey and black as rain poured down pounding the ground below. 'Really? First day of Jr. High and it's raining cats and dogs?' I already figured that this meant bad luck for me today, like an omen. I walked over to my closet and grabbed a pair of faded, baggy jeans a black, Korn tee and black sneakers. I quickly got dressed and walked to my bathroom. It was a small bathroom, but it was all mine and for some odd reason it was my sanctuary. I read and write in there all the time on the cold, tiled floor. I think it's because when my older sister was here, we shared a room and hence the bathroom was my only privacy. I looked in the mirror and brushed out my medium- length black hair and threw it up in a pony and washed my face mentally cursing to myself as I noticed my acne hadn't cleared up yet. I wasn't that pretty, but I knew I had potential to be beautiful in the future. Honestly, I couldn't wait for that day to come.
"Ashley! Hurry up; you're going to be late on your first day." My mother yelled from downstairs.
It was only us right now. I had no idea where or even who my father was. My mom said that they got divorced and she never heard from him again. She didn't speak much of him and whenever I asked she would get really irritated with me, so I just don't bother anymore.
"Coming Mom." I yell back as I run down the stairs.
She's standing in the living room impatiently tapping her foot with her arms crossed.
"Ashley, you have got to get up earlier if you're going to be late like this all the time." She said smoothly.
"Sorry Mom, I'll do a better job of being on time." I say quietly hoping she'll buy it enough to just drop the subject and leave.
She looks at narrowing her eye but then rolls them saying:
"Fine, that'll do okay right now but I'm holding you to that. Let's get going." She finishes and opens the door.
The ride to school is pretty quiet and I stick my iPod in and listen to Linkin Park on the way. I stare out the window watching the rain slide down the window and slowly bring my hand up to it. She drives up to the front and parks the car and turns to me.
"Go on sweetie. Do you think you'll be able to find a ride with one of your friends after school?" She asks.
"Yeah, TJ always gives me rides when I need 'em." I say casually. TJ was my best friend and secretly my crush. I'd been in love with him since like the 3rd grade. Since 7th grade was starting, I finally got the chance to do something about all these feelings I had kept stored up for so long.
I hoped out of mom's car with my hood up and ran for the building. As soon as I opened the doors, I realized just how crowded this place was. I had never really thought about it and suddenly I could feel the vomit creep up my throat. 'NO! I am not gonna puke the first day of school! What kind of loser would you be if you did?' I could hear the kids start chanting 'Puke face, Puke face!' over and over again as I walked down the hall and that was not going to happen to me. I calmed down and made my way to homeroom. As soon as I reached the door, I took a deep breath. 'Alright Spinelli, let's do this.' I reached out my hand and touched the knob and slowly turned it and opened the door. I see TJ sitting on his desk throwing a football to some other jock I don't know. What I did know was that clearly whoever he was hanging with was the popular crowd. I make my way over to him pushing myself through people down the aisle.
"Hey TJ." I say optimistically standing by his desk. He turns slightly and is about to respond but the guy he was throwing the football to beat him to it.
"Yo TJ, what's the deal with goth girl havin the nerve to talk to ya?" He says cruelly and the guy sitting by him pipes up too.
"Yeah, seriously dude! What's up with pimple face over here?" He chokes out and by now everyone in the room is cracking up.
I just keep staring at TJ to tell those guys to shut the hell up or to jerk off, but nothing comes from his mouth except:
"Dude, I don't know why this freak is talking to me either. I don't even know who she is. Look uh… whoever you are, first of all you need to go to Wal-Mart and buy some proactive and then maybe come back when you have your self- worth up enough to even bother waving at me. Comprende freak?" He finishes while doubling over in laughter.
I just stand there in total and complete shock. My best friend, my secret crush just totally humiliated me in front of everyone.
"Uh, you need to move before you infect him. We can't risk our star quarterback being infecting by your freakiness." The other says.
I slowly walk to the back of the room and take my seat and slump all the way down and put up my hood again.
"Told ya dude! So emo!" A guy says under his breath.
I can feel the tears already start to roll down my cheeks and I try to hide them before anyone sees them.
"Ah, the poor emo girl crying." The girl besides me says who just happens to be Ashley A. She starts to laugh really loud but quickly stops when the teacher walks in.
The teacher walks up to the front of the class and coldly introduces himself but I can't even remember his name. All I can process at the moment is what came out of TJ's mouth. The teacher drones on and on about the rules and regulations and every so often I see TJ casually look over to me with a sad expression on his face. All I wanted was this day to be over so I could crawl under a rock and die. When the bell rang, I immediately jump out of my seat I run for the door and ignore the mean comments I hear.
I run in the hallway pushing through the crowd to get to someplace alone, to get away from this nightmare. As I run, I feel a hand grab my arm and yank me to a side room. I pull around come face to face with none other than TJ Deitwheler.
"What do you want TJ? Why are you even here?" I yell at him trying to sound all strong but can't help the sob escape from my lips.
His face turns into a pained expression and I know he's truly sorry for either one what he did, or what he's going to say and I am begging silently for it to be the former.
"Look Spinelly, I can't….. I just can't…. look we can't be friends." He says bluntly while standing up straighter.
"Whhaa.. what! What the hell is that suppose to mean TJ?" I barely get out.
"Look, I just got popular made the football team on the A string. I just can't afford to lose that image by… by-
"By what?" I say a little bit louder. He remains silent. "I asked you by what! Answer me! By what? By me?" I am now yelling as I shove him backwards.
"Yes." Is all he says. The one little word hits me like a ton of bricks and suddenly I feel like I can't breathe anymore.
"Yes?" I breathe out. We just stand there staring at each other and he turns slightly looking back at me.
"I'm sorry." He says quietly and walks out the door. I run and place my hands on either sides of the door frame and lean my head out of the door.
"Why! Why are you doing this to me!" I scream out. "Detweiler! I swear to god! You will pay for what you've done to me! I swear it!" I scream out after him. The only voices I hear in response are the laughter of the students who have now all heard of this morning's incident.
5 years later
I walked slowly up to my sister's room who was all screwed up from all the ecstasy she'd been using tonight. It had been five years since my 'incident' with TJ. After my seventh grade year my mom died of an unsolved homicide, but I knew who killed her. My father had disappeared on me my whole life and suddenly came back when my mom came across some information she was never supposed to know and it cost her her own life. My father is the biggest drug dealer in the States and often commutes all around the world with his 'business.' At first it was awful, all the sex, alcohol, drugs, killings really sent me into a psychological breakdown. Now though, it's all normal. I get whatever I want even if it means using unethical means to do so. That day I had been looking for about my appearance arrived a few years back. My sisters and I were the most beautiful women around and frequently used it to get what we or our father needed. My hair had now reached to my waist and was black as night. I never forgot what TJ did to me. Normally I would have forgotten about something a long time ago, but you see everything changed when SHE showed up on my front door. Ashley A. showed up and claimed that TJ had been cheating on her for five years with some girl from their rival school. He had publically humiliated her and she went seeking revenge. Before, I couldn't have done anything to get my revenge but thank god my mother died because now I could do something.
I could ruin him, literally.
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