Shiksa Goddess 2
By seven-fifteen Bebe has the coffee cleaned up off of the floor and leaves. She gets into her mom's car (she had to wait until graduation for her own) and takes a moment to recap while the white mom van warmed up. She runs her glove-fitted hands down the steering wheel, sighing to herself. Plugging in her iPod, she dug through her music before falling onto a song and letting it blast through the speakers. She was allowing herself two minutes to get her composure back together.
Those two minutes weren't enough, but she forced any bad thoughts down and drove off towards Wendy's house. It doesn't take long to get there, so by seven-twenty-five she is parked outside of her best friend's house. She hops out of the car and rushes to the door and, knowing that it is unlocked just for her, she lets herself in. She greets Wendy's mom who is standing in front of the mirror putting on her earrings. In return she gets a cheery greeting back, but even that seems like too much now.
Wendy walks downstairs and smiles at her friend. But she quickly sees the off expression on Bebe's face and asks, "Are you okay?"
Bebe mindlessly plays with one of her curls, "Yeah," she mentally curses herself for sounding so weak, "rough morning."
Wendy rolls her eyes, "Tell me about it. Are you ready?"
Before Wendy runs out the door her mom stops her, "Did you eat breakfast?"
"Yes, Mother."
They say their byes to each other and leave the house before Bebe speaks up, "You really shouldn't lie to her like that."
Wendy tosses her bag onto the car floor, "We have nothing but junk at the house."
Bebe reaches over to her bag and pulled out a thermos and an apple, "You just know I'll take care of you."
"And you make the best coffee."
The interaction lifts Bebe's spirits a bit. When the girls get to school the parking lot is already full of students hanging around. Bebe parks next to a beaten old green jeep. She does so on a daily basis because it makes the fact that she drives her mother's van not such a terrible thing. Wendy takes no time to jump out excitedly, giving a small wave, and rushing over to where Token just pulled up. Bebe laughs to herself watching her petite friend wrap her arms around him. But something about the intimate action breaks her heart, and brings back those ugly feelings she had thought she forced down.
A car horn jumps her out of her thoughts. It's Red, of course, stepping out of Stan's car. And Bebe decides it's best to not think too much about relationships today. It only makes everything that happened not too long ago hurt much worse. So she steps out of the car and starts her day.
All of her morning classes seem to drag along. She has a test first thing in the morning in English, which she aces, and the rest of the classes consist of discussion. She has all of her core classes first thing in the morning, all advanced classes. She impatiently waits for the bell to ring for lunch so she can get away from the annoying amounts of work she seems to be getting. At lunch she sits with the cheerleading squad, not out of stereotypical clique ideas, but due to the fact that most of her friends tried out and got onto the squad once they entered high school. The friends she has been with since elementary school. Sure, a few have drifted, but some stayed around long enough to make it to their senior year still friends. So many years have gone by. And how long until no one is talking again? How long until somebody leaves?
She stops herself from thinking.
Her lunch time is her time to let herself go. She lets herself be brought into the lighthearted feel of friendship. All the laughter and gossip is enough to make her feel okay.
After lunch is gym class. And despite the cold the class is expected to run a mile on the track. With everyone stretching, Bebe takes notice of Kyle Broflovski. She always takes notice of the red headed boy. It's just because she always sees him at the start of class, but he is nowhere to be found once class is over. She watches him do the familiar stretches he has learned from years on the track team before catching herself with her mouth open.
The coach blows his whistle and everyone begins running. Bebe stays only a few feet behind Kyle, at first unknowingly but soon finds herself keeping up with him. He is much faster than she is, his long legs taking him much further along. After their first lap she notices Kyle glance around a bit, which makes her slow down. Bebe watches him run straight off of the track and behind the bleachers.
The bastard is ditching class.
Bebe checks for any signs of the coach before following behind Kyle. He keeps on jogging, slowing down as he enters the small wooded trail by the school. She walks quietly behind him, keeping her distance to not be found out. It's only a short walk before Kyle drops down to the ground. Bebe rushes up, thinking that he tripped, only to find him sitting on the cold ground in front of a dog. The dog takes notice and begins to bark at her. Kyle turns around and Bebe knows she is caught, and doesn't try to hide it.
They have a short lived staring contest before Kyle turns back to the dog, rubbing the back of its ears. "I guess we've been found out." The dog whined in response, licking the palm of his hand.
The dog itself is medium sized. Brown, with a black spot around it's ear. It looks domesticated enough, so it's surprising that the poor thing would be out in the cold as it is now. Everyone seems to be getting thrown away lately.
Bebe inches up to the two, bending down to pet the dog, "I won't tell." She feels Kyle's eyes on her and takes a quick glance only to have him turn his head away, "You really shouldn't skip class. Someone will notice."
"If the teacher isn't there then I don't have to be either," He doesn't hide the annoyance in his voice.
Bebe takes the conscious decision to sit down, "So, what do you do here?"
Kyle reaches into his sweater's pocket, pulling out a small bag of assorted meats. She watches him open it and piece by piece feed it to the dog. "Good girl," Kyle coos.
Bebe smiles, leaning towards Kyle for warmth, but pulls away once she feels him stiffen next to her. "Sorry," She says.
"Don't be. You just surprised me," Bebe looked up at Kyle to find him smiling down at her. "It's not like we talk or anything."
"Yeah, what happened to that?" Bebe found herself thinking back to the morning's events.
"I wonder," Kyle almost whispered. "Hey," He excitedly turned to her, "you want to ditch with me tomorrow too?"
"Why?"
"Think of it as paying you back for not being a douche and telling on me."
Bebe couldn't resist the cheeky grin Kyle had on his face. It gave her a nice bubbly feeling inside of her stomach.
"Plus," Kyle continued, "Ingrid and I get lonely sometimes."
At first Bebe was confused, but then she saw Kyle place a hand on the dog's head. The kind gesture made her feel like crying. She felt like she was intruding on his sacred place, and he was allowing her to. Fighting away tears, she nodded.
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