Chapter 2
I ran out of English. It was lunch time, and for lunch was pork chop. I did get to talk to Kelsi too. I went through the lunch line with everyone trying to talk to me. All I did was smile, they didn't know my secret. I glanced around the cafeteria looking for everyone, and I found them. I walked up to my table. Ryan was with Martha, Gabi was with Jason, and Chad was lonely.
'I wonder where Kelsi is. This is making me worry.." I saw her out of the corner of my eye. I let out a sigh of relieve. I waved for her. I yelled for her.
"Kesli!" She looked over and with her head down Kesli head to our table.
"Hi, you guys." Kelsi said with a weak voice. I could tell she was crying during her other two classes with morning. I looked up at her and smiled. She sat down to my left. Everyone was making small talk, so I decided to talk to Kelsi about what was wrong.
"You ok? We can talk after school or something." I said trying to make her a bit happier. All of a sudden I saw this smile creep across her face. Right then I knew this was gonna be a good day.
"I guess. I could be better." Kelsi said still looking down at her tray of food. She started to play with the potatoes with her spoon. "I'm still crushed inside." She said it with such a hushed voice I just about didn't hear her. I placed my hand on her back, but Kelsi pulled forward. "I'm sorry, Troy."
"It's ok. I can understand" I told her, trying to place my hand back on her back. I rubbed her back in circles. I flashed Kelsi a smile. She looked down again.
"I can't believe how bad she was hurt. That dude was a prick to treat Kelsi like that." That occurred to me while I was eating. I looked at her, she was crying again. But it was barely audible
"Come on, Kels." Gabriella said, helping Kelsi out of her seat at the round table. Kelsi nodded and got up with Gabi to lord knows where.
"You guys I'm going go shoot some free-throws, ok?" I told the table as I got up. I of course wasn't heading to the gym, but to bathroom. I grabbed my bag and threw it on. "Later." I said heading to the gym bathrooms. Walking to the bathrooms, I dig my razor out of my pocket; I caressed it in my palm. I casually walked into the bathroom I checked if anyone was in here: Nope not a soul.
'I'm getting so bad, I to do it at school.' I cut through my vein for the second time today. But everything, all my worries and fears left. That's what made me, Troy the basketball boy. No worries or fears. I rinsed my wrist under the sink quickly so no one saw anything.
'God I feel so better. Now I can actually deal with all this random shit.' I left the bathroom and started to head to 3rd block: Pre-Calculus. Yet I ran into Chad in the hallway, he seemed to be in a better mood.
"Captain!" Chad gave me a mini-salute. I laughed at him.
"You seem in a better mood." I told him.
"I am, you see Tay is getting back tonight." Chad just about busted with joy. He did a strange little dance thing. I don't think I ever seen him that happy.
"Awesome dude!" I pat him on his back. "Remember practice during free period!" I jogged off Pre-Calculus. This was one of the last classes before free period, which is just practice anyway. In Pre-Calc. I was bored; it was the teacher ranting on how we should have done better on our finals and all that happy stuff.
'You could have taught us better, or something, jezz.' I sat and thought. Various things and thoughts clouded my mind. My mood went happy to extremely depressed, in about an hour. No I'm not bipolar, its just stress anything. The bell rang for the 5th time today. So I headed out for my last class of the day, American History.
'I get to see Kelsi this class don't I?' I thought to myself before I headed four classrooms down for history. As I entered the room people were sitting on desks and talking. I sat down in my regular seat, next to Chad and Jason.
"What's up, playmaker?" Jason asked me, while I was getting out my homework for class.
"Just worrying about someone..." I said. I didn't really want my team to know I was worrying about a girl or something. Jason gave me a weird look, but just let me be. After that little event, we had a good 5 minutes or some more the teacher showed up. I leaned forward to talk to Kelsi.
"Girl, you feel any better?" I asked her. She nodded no. "Are you going to even talk? It doesn't hurt to, you know." I got the feeling that she either wanted to slap me or talk.
"Troy, can I come over?" Kelsi asked in a soft voice. I smiled and nodded, I think all she need was someone to talk to. The class went on, nothing else eventful happened in class. The bell rang for the 6th and final time for the day. I headed off to the gym so I could get to practice. I entered the gym, and then as soon as I entered the gym, I was passed a ball.
"Playmaker, suit up!" My dad shouted, so I hustled to the locker rooms. I slipped on my white and red wristbands. Then I started to suit up into my black mesh Nike shorts, Nike Shox's, with a white wifebeater. I ran into the gym with everyone else.
"Let's start with passing drills!" My dad shouted out, "Start with chest then go to bounce pass." I paired with Chad like I always do. We started with our drills.
"Chad, are you excited to see Tay?" I asked him sending off a bounce pass to him. All he did was gave me a big grin.
"You seem to like Kelsi, huh?" Chad asked bluntly. He sent the chest pass back to me. I didn't know what to say to that.
"Dude, she just got out of a bad relationship. I'm just trying to be her friend." I said, sending another bounce pass to him.
"Right..." He said, we continued passes until we started to drill plays. Practice went on with shooting drills, lay-ups, and running. Until my dad blew the whistle.
"Great practice everyone; I'll see you guys later! What team?" My dad said to us.
"Wildcats!" The team said
"What team?"
"Wildcats get cha' head in the game!" Then we headed to the locker room I changed out of the practice clothes into my bag, and then I changed and made sure that no one saw my wrist. Then after I got back into my clothes and headed outside to find Kelsi, so she could just come home with me and my dad after school. I went to theater and she was there playing a tango song for Ryan and Sharpay.
'I'm so mad Feel like going insane? Honey, I know this act
That I don't know what to do
Fighting with microphones
Freezing down to my bones
And to top it all off
I'm with you
Got a fire in your brain?
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
It's called the 'Tango Maureen'
The Tango Maureen
It's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round
As she keeps you dangling...'
I walked into the theater; I heard Ryan and Sharpay singing that tango song. They sounded good. I waited until the song was over, before I yelled for Kelsi. Walking into the isle, I yelled for her.
"Kesli!" I yelled for her, it wasn't my regular yell. It was more pleasant then my regular yell. She looked up, and fell. I made her fall during mid-step. I ran up to the stage so I could help her up. "God, I'm so sorry, Kelsi." I ran up the stair in front of the stage. I offered her my hand. "Like help?" Kelsi took my hand. And a slight red entered her cheeks.
"Thanks." She mumbled as she got up. Kelsi seemed so embarrassed to fall. For a moment I forgot why I even came down here.
"Oh yeah, do you just want to come home with after school? It'll be easier instead of your parents driving to your house then to mine. My dad can take us home." Wow I was ranting. Kelsi gave me a smile that I haven't seen in a while.
"Sure," She giggled, "Let me call my parents to make sure its ok."
Author's Note: The Italic Bold is Sharpay singing, and the italic is Ryan singing. This song is 'Tango Maureen' from Rent. Thanks for reading!