~Farkle~
I didn't see Riley at the party on Saturday night but I decided not to mention it or text her about it. She probably just didn't want to go with me, which is fair enough. I mean, who'd want to go to a party with a nerd?
It's lunchtime already, the day seems to have gone by so quickly.
I go to the cafeteria to eat my lunch. I see Riley in the distance talking to...Missy? I didn't know they were friends. A crowd starts forming around them so I walk closer to them until I'm close enough to see what's happening but too far away to hear.
~Riley~
"Hey girls, look who I found, it's super klutz" I hear the all-to-familiar voice say in front of me. I continue walking with my head down and I quickly look up to see her menacing grimace before she trips me up and I fall to the ground. "Hey do you wanna get off those stilts so you can walk like a normal person?" I get up and dust myself off, facing Missy as she steps closer to me.
"Oh wait, I forgot, you're not a person. You're a nothing. You have no friends, no money and definitely no taste in fashion." She looks me up and down with disgust. "No one loves you, no one cares about you. No one would miss you if you were gone because they wouldn't notice that you were gone. You don't mean anything to anyone. Hell, you don't even have a name."
"Yeah, I do." I manage to choke out, holding back my tears as my eyes are glued to my feet.
"Did you say something rainbow?" She raises her eyebrows questioning me.
"I do." I repeat, louder this time so she can hear me.
"You do what?"
"I do have a name." I say finally looking up.
"Oh yeah?" She laughs. "Listen to this girls, the weak little weasel claims to have a name." Her stupid pesky entourage laugh along with her.
"My name is Riley Matthews." I whisper.
"I can't hear you, freak," she shoves me so I stumble backwards. "And frankly, I don't care what you're name-"
"What're you deaf?" she's interrupted by someone stepping in between us. "She said her name is Riley Matthews. And you better care what her name is because she is my best friend. You mess with her," she shoves Missy twice as hard as Missy shoved me, "you mess with me."
I just stood there watching the events in front of me, amazed by the fact that someone is standing up for me. By now, it felt like the whole school was in the cafeteria watching this scene. Including Farkle.
"So go ahead. Take a swing at her", Maya shoves her again, "slap her," and again until Missy's against a wall. She grabs Missy by her collar and pulls her close to her face. "Because I guarantee, whatever you do to her, I'll do ten times worse to you."
~Maya~
I wasn't going to let Missy get away with it, not this time. I made a promise to myself to protect Riley and I'm not planning to break that promise anytime soon.
"What, so the yearbook said you were the most popular girl in school and now you think you can take me? You'd really stoop so low to fight for that talentless freak."
"I don't know, she had to deal with you pestering her for the past few months yet she never raised a finger, I think that's pretty talented." She shoves me, causing me to release her from my grasp.
"You know what, screw you! I don't need this." She starts walking away.
"Yeah that's right, be a coward. Just walk away when you know you won't win." I provoke her. I'm so not done with her yet.
"I will not walking away!" She turns around sharply. "I don't give up easily Hart and I am certainly not a coward. Which is more than I can say for your father." My eyes grow wide in disbelief. How dare she? I furrowed my brow, unable to believe the nerve on this girl.
"What did you just say?"
"Who's the deaf one now, huh?" She says with the smuggest look on her face.
That's it. This girl is dead. She had no right to say that to me. "You little bi-" I was about to pounce on her when I feel strong arms restraining me. "GET OFF ME!" I scream, struggling to escape their hold.
"No way I'm doing that ma'am," I recognize his Texan accent immediately. "You'll tear her apart and I don't think it'll reflect well on the school if a murder is committed here." My eyes never leave Missy's as I glower at her.
"Oh, gimme a break Lucas. She could never kill me. She doesn't have the guts to do it, she's not as cold-hearted as her pathetic excuse for a mother. Or half of a mother, shall I say?" This bitch just doesn't know when to stop, does she?
"Hey! That's enough Missy, back off." Why the hell is cowboy defending me? I could fight her on my own if he wasn't there holding me back. Stopping me from ripping her to shreds.
"Awww, is little lukie pookie getting protective over his crush?" Why does everyone keep saying that?! We're not even friends, we're barely acquaintances.
I continue struggling to escape his arms, waiting for Lucas to respond but he just looks Missy dead in the eye.
"Yeah, right! As if anyone could like this whore?" Billy steps in from the thick sea of students that have formed around us. "She was coming on to me at Lucas' party you know? I tried to stop her, but she just wouldn't. She thought she had a chance with me." He announced to everybody as he stood smirking at me.
"That's not tr-" before I could deny it Lucas dropped me and tackled Billy to the ground and started beating him.
"LUCAS!" I screamed for him to stop but he didn't.
~Lucas~
How dare he? How d- "HOW DARE YOU?" I let go of Maya and tackle Billy onto the ground, he still has that stupid smirk on his face so I punch it off him. "You had the nerve," I punch him again, "to bring alcohol to MY party!" and again. "Then accuse Maya of something ridiculous like that?!" I grab him by his collar and lift him up, only to punch him again.
To my surprise, he punched me back and winded me. "It's not an accusation!" He spat. Ohhh this jerk is making me furious. "It's the truth." The fight escalated very quickly after that and we both ended up with cuts and bruises all over our bodies.
"You came on to her you bastard! I was there!" At this point, I was screaming at him. I put him in a headlock and kneed him a bunch of times.
He managed to escape and lock my arm against my back, pushing my face against the wall, forcing me to look at Maya. "Why do you care? You don't even date her!" He started screaming as well, but I didn't care. Everything Billy said after that was muffled because my full attention was on Maya.
All I saw was Missy striding away, leaving a broken-hearted Maya behind. She looks at me and mouths 'I'm sorry', the sorrow in her eyes was enough to break my heart. Whatever Missy said to Maya broke her and I hate Missy for that.
~Maya~
Whilst Lucas was attacking Billy, Missy walked up to me disgusted. "How can he fall for a girl who's never been loved?" I look at her perplexed. "You're not even capable of love are you? You just hurt the people who do love you." She scoffs. Ohhh if only I could wrap my hands around her stupid little neck-. "And you wonder why people leave you." Before I could say or do anything she walks off.
I look back at Lucas and see that he's forced against a wall and he seems badly injured. I guess Missy was right. I'm doing this to him. He's hurt because of me. He's fighting his friend because of me. 'I'm sorry' I mouth to him under the loud, chaotic crowd.
"QUIET!" The principal's voice bellows through the cafeteria. "What's going on here? Friar, Ross, my office now."
