Invisible No More
Chapter 2
The whole first week passed by so quickly, it's almost like it didn't happen. Grace and Iz ate lunch with Warren, Will, Layla, and the others every day. The friendship that was once lost, was slowly being rebuilt. The Homecoming Dance was coming up, and the entire school was bustling with notes to girls, and notes to boys asking them if they wanted to go to the dance with them. It made Iz feel a little uneasy.
"Hey Iz, has anyone asked you to the dance yet?" asked Grace, hoping her sister would say Warren did.
"I've had a few offers, but they were all from freshmen, hoping they would be cool or something that they went to the dance with a junior. You know, the usual crap" said Iz who opened her locker and all of a sudden about 30 notes poured out of it. Most of them were from freshmen, with a few from the sophomores, two from a junior and one from a senior.
"Wow, we're popular this morning aren't we?" said Warren coming by to say hi. "How many of them are from freshmen?"
"I'd say about 25," said Iz who was actually kind of disturbed by the fact that she was a magnet to perverted freshmen. "And I have a feeling it's gonna be like this all week. I can't wait 'till this day is over!" groaned Iz. "How many notes have you gotten?"
"Around 10, this is really annoying" complained Warren.
"Why the hell are you complaining? You saw how many notes poured out of my locker, it's sad. I'm a freaking magnet for little perverts straight out of middle school."
"Don't forget about the little perverts that have been here for at least a year" added Grace.
"You are really not helping, sis. I'm just glad that this won't last all year. If it did, I'd probably shoot myself now" complained Iz who looked fairly irritated.
"Who'd you go with last year?" questioned Warren who remembered seeing Iz at the dance last year but didn't see her with a date.
Iz hesitated. She didn't really want to tell him, but knew that he would ask her again later if she didn't tell him now. Then everyone else might get curious and ask her too.
"Might as well tell him, Iz. He'll find out eventually from me" added Grace.
"I had a feeling you were gonna say that, Grace." She looked at Warren, knowing that he would be in shock once she told him. "MydatewasLash" she mumbled.
"What? I didn't understand what you said."
"I said that my date was, (gulp), Lash" said Iz. "And damn, was that a huge mistake" thought Iz.
"Are you serious? You went out with that ass!" exclaimed Warren who was in total shock.
"I know, I know it was stupid, but I was desperate for a date, and it wasn't the first time I went out with him."
"You went out with him more then once! Where the hell was I when this happened? You must have been desperate to have gone out with him."
"I'd like to know where the hell you were, too. You probably would've been able to knock some sense into me" thought Iz. "Ok, I get it. It's not something I'm proud of, but when we were together, he wasn't evil and he was actually nice, until..." hesitated Iz.
"Until, what?" asked Warren who was starting to get concerned.
"Until he dumped me for that slut Gwen." It pissed Iz off just thinking about Gwen. She had lost a few boyfriends and potential boyfriends to Gwen. She thought of Gwen as a slut, and was glad that she was incarcerated, along with Lash.
"Wow, I knew that you hated her but I never knew why." Warren wasn't that surprised. He had a feeling that Gwen was one of those kinds of girls, but was actually really disgusted considering that Gwen was old enough to be a mother.
"Well, now you know, and please don't tell anyone. I won't be able to stand the shame of that mistake" begged Iz.
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with me" said Warren who didn't even want to accept the fact that a girl like Iz, went out with an ass like Lash. It didn't make any sense to him. Iz could do so much better than Lash.
"Hey Grace, who are you going with?" asked Iz, in hopes that she wasn't going with that prick of a boyfriend.
"Like you have to ask, I'm going with Jake" Grace answered.
"It's time you dump that loser, Grace. He's no good for you. He's rude, perverted, disgusting, and the list could go on forever."
"Who is this guy?" asked Warren who had no clue what the twins were talking about.
"It's the guy she sits with in science. He's a disgusting prick" stated Iz. She was really getting annoyed with her sisters' boyfriend. He's a total loser. He never focuses on anything but trying to get in her sister's pants, which still never worked. If it were up to her, Jake Sanders would've been out the door months ago.
"You don't even know Jake. I'm sure if you just get to know him you'll like him" stated Grace in defense of her boyfriend. She thought that Jake was a great guy. Sure he was a little perverted, but it was nothing too extreme. Grace always thought that Iz was being a drama queen or something.
"He's a loser. Dump him. Now" Iz was totally fed up with her sister and her precious Jake. "I've talked to him before. Believe me, one conversation was enough to make up my mind. I don't need to hear him babble anymore then I already did."
"C'mon Iz, that's not fair" said Grace. "Yeah it is. How many times has he gotten the two of us confused?" "A few times." "No, it's been more than a few times. Sometimes he comes up to me and tries to make-out with me thinking that I'm you." "That only happened once, Is." "No it hasn't. It's happened like five times."
Will, Layla, Ethan, Maj and Zack came up to say hi, but stopped when they saw the twins arguing. "What's up with them?" asked Will. "It looks like they're ready to kill each other any moment."
"They're arguing about Grace's boyfriend. Iz thinks he's a loser, and Grace is defending him" said Warren who was surprised that he was able to keep up with the argument. It had been going on for a while now, but found it kind of interesting.
"That's it! I'm not going to argue with anymore, Grace. I'm sure I've made my opinion very clear, and I think that you should drop it."
"You started it." "Grace, don't be such a baby." "I am not being a baby!" "If you weren't being a baby then why don't you drop it?" "Fine, I will. "Good" finished Iz.
"Oh. Hi guys, I didn't even know you were here" said Iz, slightly embarrassed that she didn't even notice her friends were watching her and Grace arguing. "Sorry about that. We argue like that. We'll start going at it and we won't even notice our surroundings" apologized Iz.
"Oh it's ok," said Layla, "you guys are sisters. All sisters argue, right?" "Yeah, right."
"Now, if you don't mind I'd like to head home. It's been a really long day" said Magenta.
"I agree. I wanna get out of here before any boys get the chance to give me their letter, asking me to with them to Homecoming" said Iz.
"You've gotten a bunch of letters, haven't you?" asked Layla
"Sadly, yes. I don't think I can take it anymore. I hate Homecoming. Nothing but crap happens" complained Iz, who was getting really annoyed with this whole dance thing.
"Who are you going with?" asked Ethan, in hopes of maybe getting a date.
"No one, I don't even think I want to go. The whole concept of Homecoming is dumb. Why can't it just be Valentine's and Prom? No other dances than that?" complained Iz.
"Wouldn't that be kinda boring?" questioned Ethan. "I'll even go with you."
"No thanks, Ethan. I'm still getting over the whole fiasco that happened last year. I got turned into a baby, and stood up, I'm not really looking forward to any dances" lied Iz.
"You got stood up? Why would someone do that?" asked Layla.
"I don't know and I don't really care. I just don't wanna go to the stupid dance" said Iz, hoping that they would drop the subject.
"What about you Grace? Are you going with your boyfriend?" asked Will, even though he knew the answer. He always knew that Grace had been the type of girl who liked dances and always had a date for them.
"Yep, I'm going with Jake. It's gonna be so great!" said Grace who was so excited to go to events like this. Iz just rolled her eyes. She really couldn't stand Jake. Nor, could she stand Homecoming. She hoped that this had been a dream that she would wake up from any moment. It's not like anyone that she wanted was going to ask her. She didn't even know any of the guys that sent her those letters, and she didn't plan on responding to any of them, either. She just wanted all of this to be over.
"So Maj, Zack, are you two going together?" asked Iz. Zack and Maj blushed. Iz thought that it was cute. The idea of Magenta and Zack together seemed right. "Yeah, we're going together" said Maj, finally. They were probably still getting used to the idea themselves. Iz just smiled. She was happy that her friends had someone to love. She was even happy that her sister had someone too, she just wished it was someone other than Jake Sanders. The guy was an idiot. Someone had to get that through Grace's head, right? But why couldn't anyone love her? Iz wondered that often. Every time she comes close, it slips away, right through her very fingers. It was getting tiring. Iz deserved someone too, didn't she? Or was she undeserving of the emotion of love? Was she destined to be alone forever? If she was, then she would take her own life right now.
"Hey Iz, are you ok?" asked Warren. He was concerned about her. Iz had been looking sad, depressed, you could say. She was contemplating all of this in her head. Of course Iz looked depressed. She had been hurt so many times, she was sick of it. She used to hurt herself, because it took her mind off of the emotional pain that she had been feeling. Seeing the blood running down her arm made her feel somewhat relieved; relieved, that she could feel other types of pain besides emotional pain.
"Hey Iz, did you hear me? Are you ok?" repeated Warren. He was really concerned about her. He didn't like the look on her face. It worried him, a lot.
"Uh? Oh, sorry. Yeah I'm ok. I was just thinking" said Iz, who was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't even notice that Warren was talking to her.
"You don't look ok. Do you need to see the nurse or something?" asked Warren, with a look of concern on his face.
"No. No. I'm fine. I was just thinking that's all. Don't worry about me so much" said Iz. She was touched that he cared so much. But if he cared so much about her, then why did her ignore for so long?
"What were you thinking about? You looked depressed. You worried me for a while there."
"I was thinking about stuff, that's all. And I'm sorry if I worried you. I tend to do that to my friends. Make them worry, you know?" said Iz. She would never be able to tell Warren what she thinking. He would just worry even more. And Iz would never forgive her self for that.
"Ok. If you say so" said Warren, unable to decide if he should worry or not. "I need to do something, wait right here." He went to the nearest trash can and threw away a folded up piece of paper that said "Is, will you go to Homecoming with me?"
"What was that?" asked Iz.
"Nothing, just a note from one of those girls" lied Warren.
"Oh, ok" said Iz, not knowing what it really was.
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