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Chapter 3-
Fight Fire With Water
The next morning, we confronted Amber and Ashley. The two girls just ignored the five of us and left the boarding house and went off to school. Mikayla had also disappeared as did Sarah and Teegan.
"I think we should get revenge tonight." Lilly said as she put her bowl of cereal down next to mine. I looked up at her and frowned and looked at the other three who nodded in agreement.
"Whoa, back up." I said, looking at the other four girls. "We can't just do something to them now to get revenge, they'll do something equally worse and then we have an unending circle."
They just looked at me.
"Miley, I know you want to get them back for all the things they've done to you over the years, don't fight it!" Lilly said. I shook my head.
"Do whatever you like then, but count me out." I claimed, putting my bowl in the sink and picking up my bag. "See you in class."
And with that I left them.
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"Oliver!" I called out as I entered the school. I will admit I was surprised to see that he was at school early, even if we were living next door to the school. Jackson wasn't even here yet.
"See you survived the night." He joked as I reached him. I just shook my head.
"Barely. Seems like Amber and Ashley had something planned for us."
"But did you sleep?"
"A bit. Why?"
"Jake kept us up all night with stories about himself. Even Rico started to get annoyed, so he stuffed socks in Jake's mouth and gagged him. They were Jackson's."
I cringed. Being Jackson's socks, which should explained everything. I felt sorry for Jake, but I also felt sorry for Oliver who really did look tired and I knew Jake's tendency to talk about himself.
"Poor Oliver." I teased and patted his head. Oliver just gave me a look and I couldn't help but laugh. "Don't worry, I'm sure tonight will be better if Jake knows Rico's going to stuff socks in his mouth again."
"I hope so." Oliver muttered as we reached our lockers and opened them. Oliver's and mine were next door to each other, so it must look weird to others when we somehow managed to put in the combination at the same time, open the doors at the same time and then take out the same book.
This usually happens when we get to our lockers together. We do it to annoy Lilly as it seems like a thing only Oliver and I can do. Unfortunately he won't show me his tricks on opening the locker with the banging and snapping, but I'm still working on that.
"Wow, geekish much?" I turned to see Amber and Ashley standing at there, both with their arms crossed and glaring at us. I sighed and slammed my locker.
"What now?" I asked them, not in the mood for a fight.
"Enjoy you little midnight snack?" Amber asked.
"What, the pizza slices? Yeah, they were delicious and how considerate of you to share your pizza with us." I said, biting back a retort about the two being anorexic.
"Oh, didn't you use the slices to do facials?" Ashley asked. The three of us frowned at her, completely confused at her statement. Ashley slank back behind Amber.
"Just leave her alone." Oliver cut in, closing his locker and standing next to me. He then proceeded to put his arm around my shoulders which raised a few eyebrows. And made someone's cheeks go bright red.
"Whatever Miley. Bring in your boyfriend to defend you; always thought you two losers would end up together." Amber said and turned on her heels and walked off, Ashley trailing behind her. Then someone else's cheeks went bright red.
"Smooth move, now they think we're dating." I said to him, but didn't ask or shake his arm off of my shoulder. He didn't move it either.
"Yeah, well, their loss." He said and pushed me forwards as he started walking. I still didn't say anything about his arm around and I started to realise that I didn't want to, or else he'd take it off which I didn't want. But then we ran into Mikayla and my day went from bad to worse.
"Miley!" Mikayla managed to shriek and I brought my hands up to my ears, which managed to get Oliver to let go of me and cover his own ears. She came running up to me, but stopped and looked at Oliver. I should have known then that something bad was going to happen.
Oliver looked back at Mikayla, a bit confused as to why she was staring at him. I was too until she seemed to compose herself and gave him a huge smile. I got a terrible feeling in my stomach.
"Hi, I'm Mikayla." She said.
"I know." Oliver said dumbly and confused, but Mikayla didn't seem to take it that way.
"Really? Are you a fan or has Miley told you about me?" Mikayla's eyes had brightened up considerably.
"Uh… Miley's told me about you and I've heard some of your songs." Oliver admitted. Now my eyes went wide in shock and I was about to hit Oliver, but couldn't. He and Lilly had promised never to listen to her songs, ever. He was going to answer for this.
"Really!" Mikayla said again, walking towards him and taking his arm. "You didn't tell me your name."
"Oliver. Oliver Oken." He said and was led away from me by Mikayla. I watched them walk away and felt my heart beating faster. There was also a weird feeling in my stomach as I watched them and I clenched my fists. At the time I told myself I was just angry at my friend walking away with my enemy, but I knew there was more to that.
xXxXx
"Hey Miley!" Ella said and took the seat next to me. I looked up at her, frowning.
"Are you in my English class?" I asked, confused.
"I feel loved. Never noticed me before?" Ella asked.
"Uh, I guess I have, but I've never spoken to you." I admitted, a bit embarrassed by that.
"Don't worry about it, it's understandable. Never noticed you either to be honest." She said and sat back in her chair. I frowned, but then turned my attention back to the class, whose attention was on someone already. When I noticed who that someone was, I wanted to die.
Jake Ryan had walked in and taken the seat to my left. Purposefully I think, as he was looking at me, but then looked away when I looked at him. I rolled my eyes, knowing I could be somewhat safe. I had Ella who I could talk to instead of Jake.
Turns out (thankfully) he didn't want to talk to me so when class started he turned to the front of his desk and I sighed, happy I would be safe for a while. The teacher lectured us a bit about Shakespeare and I just rolled my eyes, I'd already had this lecture back in the 8th grade when we did Romeo and Juliet. I looked over at Jake and he also looked bored now, but that could only be because no one was paying attention to him. However when the teacher announced that we would be working in partners and acting out a scene from the play we were reading, A Midsummer Night's Dream, something very bad happened. All the girls (besides Ella and I) turned to Jake Ryan, who had turned to me. I looked at him in surprise.
"Miley, do you want to be my partner?" He asked. I opened my mouth to respond, but I'd seemed to have lost my voice. I was surprised that Jake would pick me to be his partner when our characters were in love, no matter which characters he picked (unless it was Puck, which I highly doubt he'd pick), so I didn't know what to do.
Thankfully, Ella bailed me out. "Sorry Jake, Miley's my partner." She said, grabbed my arm and pulled me away from Jake. He didn't seem too fazed by this; he just shrugged and picked some random girl.
"Miley, snap out of it." Ella said as she snapped her finger in front of my face. I turned to look at her, smiling sheepishly. "I heard you two had gone out, but that was long ago. You still not over him?"
"Yeah… I mean, yeah, I am over him. I was just surprised." I told Ella, who nodded. I then changed the topic. "So, let's do Hermia and Helena?"
We then acted out the scene with out two characters and did have to present it to the class. All I can say is Ella is way better than Oliver. In this case, I seemed to be the Oliver as I kept freezing up when I looked in Jake, but then started cursing him in my mind and I was fine. We finished up our scene and went back to our desks, me not looking at Jake, whose gaze seemed to stay trained on me.
When the bell rang, I was the first one out. I heard Jake call out for me, but I ducked behind some people and headed for my locker where I saw my safety net.
Oliver.
"Hey Miley, have you seen Lilly? I haven't seen her yet today." He told me as I walked towards him, but I shook my head.
"I need your help! Jake is coming after me." I told him and then noticed the two other guys standing with him. "Uh, hi."
Oliver looked at me, as if wondering who I said hi to, when he seemed to remember his two friends standing next to him. "Oh. Miley, this is Kyle and Josh; they're also at the boarding house. They're also Matt's friends." He informed me.
I looked at the 'new' boys. Kyle had bushy curly hair, brown eyes and wore skater clothes. I recognized him as a guy who hung out with Lilly and Matt. I then looked at Josh and had to stop myself from going all 'girly', as Oliver calls it, over him. Josh is the same height as Oliver with the same shaggy hairstyle, but his brown hair is lighter than Oliver's and he has piercing blue eyes.
'He's like a combination of Jake and Oliver.' I thought, but then my mind seemed to freeze. I was comparing a gorgeous guy to my friend Oliver? MY Oliver?
I mean, not my... never mind.
"Hi." I said again in a high-pitched voice, but then cleared my voice. "Hi, I'm Miley, Oliver's friend."
Kyle just nodded, while Josh smiled at me and I almost melted. "Hey Miley." Josh said and I giggled.
Then Oliver pushed me away. "Sorry, Miley said she needed my help." He said to the other two, who just nodded. I couldn't stop looking at Josh. "So what did you need help with?"
I snapped out of my daze as I realised Oliver had his arm around my shoulder now as we walked off. It was also stopping me from turning my head to look back at Josh. "Jake's after me."
"I thought so. Want me to tell him off?"
"Uh, no, I was just going to ask you to hide me. But seems like he's lost me, so I'll just go to class." I made to turn around, but Oliver stopped me and placed his hands on my shoulders and looked me straight in the eye.
"Miley, don't mess with Josh. And forget about Jake too, he's not worth it. And if he messes with you, don't worry, me and the guys have something planned." He told me. I looked into Oliver's chocolate brown eyes and knew he was worried about me and I felt my heart start beating faster again. Oliver really did care for me, though he'd do the same thing for Lilly. Because we are his best friends.
"Ok, thanks Ollie." I said and then gave him a hug. He seemed surprised, but hugged me back before pulling away.
"Better get to class. I'll find Lilly later." He told me. I nodded and walked off in the different direction to him. Of course what I found at the end of the hall was a sight to behold.
I'd entered the cafeteria area, where the stairs were to go upstairs. I happened to look up and there I spotted Lilly along with T.J, both of them grinning. Evilly, I may add, as they held a bucket in their hands. And not just any bucket, but a dustbin.
I then looked down, straight ahead of me, to see Amber and Ashley walking underneath the stairway. If they took one more step, they would be in range. Now it seemed everyone knew what was going on (besides the victims) and waited with baited breath as to what was going to happen.
Amber and Ashley took the one last step, Lilly and T.J saw this and tipped the bucket over. Water and garbage that was in the bucket landed on the unsuspecting victims. They stopped in their tracks when they got drenched as everyone else started laughing and I have to admit I did too. I looked up at Lilly and T.J who gave each other high fives. Amber saw me and then them too.
"This is not over!" She yelled, pointing at me and then at the other two above her. "You think this is a game? Well, I'll have you know you just started a war!"
"Ooh, so scared." T.J said and started laughing again.
"Yeah, give us your best, we're waiting." Lilly taunted. Amber just glared at her and then stormed off, Ashley following behind.
I'd stopped laughing, because suddenly it wasn't that funny anymore.
