The One That Got Away

by Mackenzie Rose123

This is my first story, so no flames, but this story is about two lover's that don't confess their love fast enough, so when a friend come's and changes thing's around... what will happen? I will be adding the Percy Jackson characters later too! just wait, Hope you like it XD -Mackenzie Valdez Rated T for some kissing, and mild sex later on (though I'll have different ratings/chap)

2. Difficulties

Hola! so yup! I'm back with another chapter, I know I haven't wrote in a while, but my lil sister told me just to say; I'm on a writer's block, but yea, I hope you like this! #excited

Rated T

Chapter 2; Difficulties

It was the night of the formal, the night were I thought I would have the time of my life with the one man I love the most; Raiden

But instead It was the worst night of my life, with the one man I absolutely hate, and the one I love... well he's with my so called 'Best friend', the news already started to spread around the school that they were dating while I was dating the school jock

I walked down the school yard, towards the school doors

I was wearing a black dress, the top half was a heart shaped cut, and the bottom half had layers of ruffles, with a black lace ribbon in the middle,

I had my hair up in a a cute messy bun, with a black feather bow, and of course black converse high tops, I would have worn a pretty red dress, but I didn't feel like it, since I wasn't with the one I love most

On my right, walking with me, was Michah Sheldon, the school Jock, all he wore was some black slacks, a aback west blue tie, and his football jacket, along with blue sneakers

You could hear music inside the school, and cheering, but Alexis and Raiden were probably already making out bye now,

I opened the doors to the gym, and Inside was a group of people dancing, with neon lights, and disco ball, and loud music,

There was tables around the dance floor, and walls of curtains, making it so there was only two doors; exit and enter

I was expecting to see Alexis and Raiden kissing in a corner or something, but what I saw surprised me; Alexis was dancing, but Raiden was sitting at a pink table looking bored out of his mind,

Michah immediately went to his buddy's, so I might as well go to Raiden, so I did, I started walking towards him, until Alexis quickly came in and sat down next to Raiden, I quickly sat down at the nearest table, making it look like I was just going to that table,

I caught a a glance at Alexis and Raiden,

Raiden looked at me kinda sadly, then quickly changed his expression, Alexis was glaring daggers at me, but then also quickly changed her face when Raiden looked at her to an innocent smile,

I opened my ears to listen to what they were saying,

"Why do you keep looking at her?" Alexis asked

"Who? Ruby? Why? she's my best friend, whats the problem?"

"Well, she's a horrible girl, and a distraction"

I felt my anger bundle up in my stomach

"I thought she was Your best friend too"

Alexis sighed "She was, But I never liked her in the first place, she was dead weight to me, so I let her go... You should too"

Raiden paused

Michah came over to me "Come dance with me" he said

"Ok, just a sec" I answered, I turned making it look like I was re-tying my shoelaces, but I was really opening my ears more so I could hear Raiden's answer

I glanced again at Raiden, I saw him look at me, then Michah, then back at me

I smiled at Michah just to free myself from him nagging me to finish, but Raiden apparently took it as a loving smile

"Yea, ok, I will" Raiden finally answered

"Good, now come with me" Alexis grabbed his arm and they went passed the dance floor

My anger turned to sadness, I felt a tear rush down my face, but I quickly wiped it away

"You know what Michah? Im just gonna stay here, why don't you go back to you're friends?" I said, sitting up

"Whatever" Michah answered then went back to his friends

I sighed, looking at Raiden and Alexis having fun, as well as michah, the one I even asked was dancing with someone else

thats when I saw Cadence, my best friend since baby's.. she looked gorgeous!

She had on an off-white dress, falling just above her knees, the top half had a white lace see-through yoke bodice, and the bottom half was a layered tulle skirt, with a ribbon and bow in the middle, the dress had red roses and white skull print's on it, it looked sooo cute, especially on her

her short hair was wavy curly down, with a red bow clipping her bangs back, also wearing black sneakers

and beside her in black sacks, gray vest, and red tie, with matching black sneakers, was the one and only Noah Sanders, mine and Cadence's best friend since grade school,

and Cadence has had a crush on him since then, and she finally went to the formal with him

she saw me and smiled, then Noah and her came towards me, as soon as she came to me, she sat down next to me, and Noah stayed standing

"Hey Ruby!" Cadence said once she sat down

"Sup Ruby" Noah also said

Cadence grabbed Noah and whispered something in his ear, he nodded then left, then she turned back at me

"So... who did you come with? please tell me you came with Raiden!" Cadence asked

"Negative" I answered

"WHAT?!" But you're head over heels! and I bet you he's the same for you!"

"Well apparently not, cause he went with Alexis, and he told her he would 'let me go' like he was firing me or something!"

"Alexis Gomez? Ugh! I wanna beat the-"

"Language"

"-Fudge out of her!"

"Thanks Cady, but I can handle my own problems"

"Who said this was you're problem? I wanna hurt her cause she's a b-jerk!"

I raised my eyebrow

"What? I caught myself"

"No, not that, when did you know she was mean?"

"Ruby, she was mean even when you first met her, she never liked me just cause she thought you only needed one friend and that was her, so she dissed me, that's why I never hung out with you that much, but when she moved, I got you back"

I hesitated

"Cadence, I-I'm so sorry, I didn't know, I should have known better"

"No Ruby, you were fine, you were just doing what normal friends would do anyways, you just needed some time that she wasn't that friend"

"well I'm glad you came back, even after all the stuff I did to you"

"You kidding? of course I would, your my special weirdo friend!"

"Hey!"

"Yea, I knew you would like that nickname"

"You dork! Oh well your my dorkie pig friend!"

"Ok now that's hurtfull! Just cause I like food, does not make me a pig"

"Yes it does"

"No it doesn't!"

"Yup"

"No!"

"Yup!"

"No-!"

"Hey, hey, hey! What's going on?" I turned my head around to see the principal, who also happens to be my Aunt,

she's not any normal principal, or Aunt for that matter,

she has long wavy blonde dyed hair(It was ovbiously originally black), with a pink bow pinning part of her hair back,

she wore a pink floral print sleeveless dress, falling mid-thigh length, with four inch pink wedges,

"Hi Aunt Rosy" I said Half-heartedly, she wasn't the most responsible person in the world,

she once went to school, but dropped Out, she managed somehow to get into principal college, but also dropped out, thinking it was boring, and also somehow managed to be the principal in MY school, without a degree, and nothing just an RV and family,

"Heeeeeyy Ruuby!" Aunt Rosy said, then giggled, "You too Ca...Ca... Ca.. What was I saying again? Oh right you too Ca-Caitlin"

"It's Cadence"

"Soooooooooo, whaaat are y'all dooooing, hmmm?" Aunt Rosy said, then stumbled to sit down on one of the chairs next to me, she looked at me, using her palm to support her chin,

"Hhhhiiiiii!" She said,

I coughed, her breath smelled like a mix between whiskey, vodka, and wine all together, "Oh Aunt Rosey... You need to stop drinking" I said swatting my hand in front of my nose to keep the smell away,

"Theres drinks here? Ooooohhhh Imma get me some drinks!" Aunt Rosy giggled again

"No Aunt Rosey, no drinks"

Aunt Rosy pouted

"I know, but you're drunk already, you can't drink anymore"

Aunt Rosy patted my head "Silly neice! I'm not Dwuuuuuunk, or whatEVER you kids might cawl it dees daaa..." Aunt Rosy slumped forward, her eyes rolled back, and she fell on top of me,

"Oh no! Aunt Rosey! Wake up!" I patted my Aunts cheek, Cady came over and helped me, but nothing happened

"Great, now my Aunt is drunk and is gonna embarrass me"

"I think she's fun" Cadence said

"She got you're name wrong!"

"So, I think I might change it, it's cool, plus she'll remeber it"

I sighed "Ok, whatever floats you're goat"

"Floats you're boat?" Cady muttered to herself "Ruby its Floats you're boat"

"I know, I just think I should change it, besides you're changing you're name anyways"

Cadence rolled her eyes then we went back to my Aunt Rosy, (A/N: My friend did actually make the comment 'Whatever Floats you're goat' on accident, and now we say it all the time)

I looked at my watch

"Oh, Cadence I told my mom I would be back before midnight..-"

"Let me take care of her, you go leave"

"Are you sure-"

"Ruby, I know how strict you're mom is, go"

"Thanks Cady, I owe you one" I helped Cadence lay my Aunt on a couple of the chairs, said my goodbyes and then left,

I went into the hallway, but what I saw was not pleasant, I saw Alexis and Raiden kissing, but not any kissing, like vigorous kissing

all the sadness and anger bundled up inside of me, I started sobbing, then ran for the school doors,

I walked home, which was only a block away,

I opened my front door, passing the kitchen, where my mom was cooking one of her 'experiments', which turn out horrible and we end up ordering Pizza or hamburgers,

"Hey Hun, back so soon?" my mom asked

"Y-Yea.. I was.. Bored" I answered

my mom turned around and saw my puffy eyes

"Oh, baby!" My mom blew away her blonde princess curls from her face, and came walking to me

"Mom, I-I'm not a baby"

"No, but you're my baby, now who did it" my mom said wiping her hands in her apron, then cupping her hands in my face

"Mom... N-No one... Did it... I-I... Just..." Next thing I knew I was spilling everything, inbetween sobbs,

"Ruby, you know what this means?"

"Hmm"

"Choclate and Ice cream is all yours"

I chuckled "I love you mom"

my mom wiped away the tears from my eyes, "I love you too, but you know sweetie, God does this so that there's room for other people to come into you're life, and who knows, one may be you're furture husband"

"Ya, ok man, Im gonna go in my room now, thanks though" I went to the freezer, and stashed up chocolates, ice cream, whipped cream, anything sweet I could find,

"I wish Spencer was here... Stupid boarding school!"

"You know it's not a boarding school, and you'll see him soon"

"Ya, if by soon you mean a million years"

"Ruby, Five years is not a million years"

"It is to me! Did you really have to send off my favorite- and only, little brother in the world, to... A not-so-called-boarding-school?"

"I didn't 'send him off' he wanted to go, now end of discussion"

I sighed "Kay, hey with what's happend, does this mean I can use the X-Box?"

"If you lay a finger on that X-Box, you're getting tazed then sent to jail for life!"

"Aww!"After wards, I went up stairs and into my room, I dropped all the stuff on my bed, then turned on the news,

while I was watching I started changing into a slight low cut dark red long sleeve, and red and black plaid fuzzy bottoms, along with my slippers,

right when I was pulling my shirt down, something caught my eye on the news, I stopped and watched carefully,

"Police are still investigating on what happened at the Killeen Ellison High School, with the crazy incident, but for right now there are many teenagers injured by the attack, by the names of; Jerry Williams, Chelsy Raina, Cheryl Miller, Raiden Parkhurst, Cadence Venard, Lily Mark, Rosemary Gilvin, and Cecilia Kepner, all with the total of 8, and two dead, both Adults, with the names of; Mr. Robert Thomas, and Rosemary Smith-"

"Aunt Rosey!" I screamed

"They are all attending at the Killeen Scott & White Hospital-"

"Mom!" I screamed, "We're going to the Scott & White hospital, now!" I yelled while replacing my slippers for my sneakers, and putting on my black leather jacket,

I ran downstairs and grabbed my moms arm

"Woah! What's up!?" My mom asked, but then she saw my red and puffy eyes "Ruby what happened?!"

"Mom... We're going to the Scott & White hospital!" I choked

"What? Why?!"

"Because... I-I think Aunt Rosey is dead..."

Oookkaay! Sorry cliff hanger! Not really But I hope you liked it! And this chapter may be small, I don't really know, from the story's that I've read, this is small, so yea sorry bout that, but I hope you liked it! And wait for the next chapter! XD -Mackenzie Valdez