Chapter 7: Pt. 1 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Emily P.O.V
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Gahhh...I hate monday mornings! I smack the alarm clock next to me and I hear sweet, peaceful, silence. Hey, maybe mondays aren't bad at all? I sat there with a smile plastered on my face and it remained there until I slowly realized something that made it fade away...Monday meant the start of the week, the start of the week meant going back to school, going back to school meant I was going to see people from my school, seeing people from my school meant that I would be seeing Ben, seeing Ben meant seeing Audrina...screw my previous statements, I re-hate mondays! Maybe a little worse now seeing that I'm starting to loathe school thanks to the likes of one Audrina Leigh Duncan who's nickname is ironically Ali. I am soo screwed. *sigh*
I get out of bed, jump in the shower, do my hair and put on my clothes. A white tank top, black skinny jeans, black knee high boots topped off with a simple brown scarf. It was simple but I liked it. I grabbed a quick breakfast and I was out of the door, stepping into my silver Toyota.
"Today's gonna be a long day..." I said to no one in general while sitting in my car which was currently in the parking lot of Rosewood High. I get out if my car and start making my way to the entrance.
"Hey, Em..." I step into school to just get bumped into by Rosewood's Queen bitch, Mona Van Der Waal.
"What you want Mona?" I ask her irritated.
"Put those claws back, kitty cat!" She made this "meow" sound, empathising her point. "I just wanted to ask you if you knew where Hanna is?'
"No, I don't. can I go?" I said quickly
"Okay! Geez someone didn't get any this weekend..." Mona mumbled as she walked away.
I start making my way to my locker and once I put in my combination I hear a raw echoing down the hallway. The rawing were followed by about 20 jocks coming through the hallway. They were pushing and shoving each other around, acting like imbeciles. 'Fucking immature...no wonder I date girls' I smile at the thought
"Hey guys! Look who it is..." One of the jocks raged.
"What's up, bitches!"
Oh my god...Ben? Seriously! I look over to him as he was giving high 5's to the jocks.
"I saw you kicking with Audrina saturday night. That chick's hot..." Damian slapped him on his back and all the jocks seemed to agree with Damian's statement.
"You tapped that yet?" A random guy shouted and they all burst in to laughter.
"Come guys..." Ben said trying to change the subject.
"Come on, Ben! All we want to know is did you get up in there!" Chaz said and high 5's went around. At this point I was literally fuming! All I wanted to do is kick Chaz where it hurt most. I looked to Ben and he seemed to be in thought. He looked around and grinned widely.
"Why do you think Audrina was gone for most of the night?" He grinned cheekily.
"How good was it?"
"Let's just say I was making her scream all night long..." He drawled out the last part and did this little weird jump and slapping something invisible like he was riding a horse.
I couldn't stand it anymore. I slammed my locker so hard, getting the attention of a few people. I made my way past the jocks and went straight for the food court behind the school where I found Spencer who was busy on her laptop. I slid into the seat opposite her and groaned in frustration which was when spencer looked up and closed her laptop.
"What's wrong, Em"
"Ugh nothing...just wish today would go extremely fast so that I wouldn't suffer constantly thinking about bumping into Audrina or Ben for that fact!" I palmed my face in my hands.
"Come on, Em" she peeled my hands away from my face. "It can't be that bad..."
"Oh really?" I challenged her. "I just over heard why Audrina was missing that night and why she an Ben were so cozy after she decided to make an appearance!"
"What did you hear?"
"Ben and Audrina were having sex..." Spencer's eyes seemed to bulge out a little.
"Are you sure, Em? Cuz-" I cut her off mid-sentence
"I heard it from the horses mouth. Ben practically publicized it to the whole fuckin' school" I hissed.
"What? Does Audrina know about this?"
"Maybe...I don't know..." I trailed off.
"Well the ASK HER! Maybe its not true..." Said Spencer as Mona walked by probably looking for Hanna
"I'm NOT looking forward to speaking to her! And it IS true!" I hissed at her.
"What's true?" Mona chimed in
"Mona mind your own business. Don't you have something to do like go play house with Noel?" Spencer said scarcastically
"God! What's up with you and little miss Rainbow Jumper? You both need to fucking get laid or someth-"
"Is everything about sex when it comes to you?" I stood up and looked at her while crossing my arms. "I think you and Hugh Hefner would make a nice couple."
"Me and Hugh Hefner" She ask confused.
"Who and Hugh Hefner?" I heard familiar light voice say. "Oh hey, Em! Spencer" She smiled at me and I couldn't help but smile back.
"Hey, Audrina..."I said softly. And spencer mumbled something along the same lines while re-opening her laptop busying herself.
"Oh Mona?" Audrina said while reaching in her bag. "You forgot this by my house yesterday." She handed Mona keys. What?
"Oh THANK GOD! I thought I lost these!" She hugged Audrina and I glared at Mona's head.
"Yeah, they were under the bed." She laughed.
"Oh my god how did they-"
*cough cough*
"Helllooo..." I waved in front of them. "still here."
"Oh yeahhh..." Mona dragged out.
"Don't' be rude!" Audrina mumbled under her breath while giving Mona a light nudge. "Hey, Emily?"
"Yeah?" I looked up in her chocolate brown eyes and I found myself getting lost in them a bit.
"Do you think we could talk?" She looked at Mona."Alone?"
"Okay, okay you wanna be alone. I get it." Mona huffed while she walked away but she quickly turned around and pointed a finger at Audrina. "YOU better tell me later!"
"You know it!" She smiled at Mona. Oh My God...she has Mona wrapped around her finger! But then again its not JUST Mona its the whole friggin' Rosewood! Its not fair that she's so-
"Emily..." She said slowly while looking at me.
"Hmmm?" I cocked my head to the side not figuring out what she was saying.
"Your zoning out on me." She chuckled abit and I shook my head.
"Sorry.." I blushed a bit.
"Do you think we could take a seat over there?" She pointed in the end of the quad where it was a little secluded.
"Sure." I quickly agreed. "I'll be right back." I told spencer and she nodded in response.
We walked over to the secluded table and we sat down and I quickly checked her out. 'Aww she's cute...' I thought to myself.
"You seem to be zoning out a lot on me today, Em. Penny for your thoughts?"
"Nothing...I just thought you looked nice today." I blurted out. I can't believe I just said that! Ergh...atleast I didn't say she looked cute...
"This old thing?" She gesutered to her leather jacket. "Its a piece of shit but I love it."
"So anyway...why did you need to talk to me?" I played with the rim of my coffee cup.
"Have you been avoiding me?" She blured out which I thought was adorable and I involentaryily smiled.
"No, why would you think that?"
"You haven't been answering my calls so ofcourse I would think that!" She huffed a little. "You haven't spoken to me since that thing with Samara and you didn't even say goodbye." I said abit sadly.
"You were busy with Ben, I didn't want to spoil your...erhm...fun." I said bitterly.
"I'm sorry if I made you uncomfatable, I know ben's your ex but his my ex too and we have a history. He was my first and I was his. We'll always have that bond." I scoffed a little. What! I'm jealous!
"Are you sure his still your ex? because what I heard and saw on saturday told me something different." I crossed my arms
"I'm sure...wait! Heard?" She looked at me confused. "What have you heard? Nothing happened."
"Nothing happened? Oh because while I was looking for you after that whole Samara thing, YOU were...doing it with...ugh Ben." I said the last part considerably soft.
"I did what!" She got up and looked around the quad super cross. God, she looks sexy...wait wait! I can think about this now "god! Where's that idiot!"
"Audrina!" I yanked her down by her sleeve. "You can tear him apart later..." She looked at me and just sighed in defeat
"Yeah..." She fiddled with her thumbs
"Soooo..." I trailed off. "Nothing happened?"
"Nothing." She stated firmly
"Where were you then after the whole Samara thing?" I looked at her
"Outside...with Mona." Huh? Mona?
"Mona? Why were you with her?" I questioned
"I needed someone to talk to and she kinda forced me to open up." She shrugged
"You could've spoken to me. I thought we were friends, almost close friends..."
"We are...but I needed somone who wasn't invloved, I needed a different perspective." She looked down at her feet.
"Okay...I undersatnd but when does Ben make an entrance in this story because he wasn't at the party, he showed up with you." I pointed to her for effect
"Ben showed up after me and Mona had our talk and when she left we talked about why he was avoiding me at school and the reason we broke up." She put her elbow on the table and leaned on it
"Why did you guys break up, may I ask?" I asked curiously.
"Uhmmm."
"You don't have to te-"
"Its fine, you gonna find out sooner or later but you don't mind if I don't go into detail?" She looked at me for confirmation and all I could do was nod in agreement. "Okay...let's just say I had a best friend for 3years and we were as close and best friends could be..." She breathed. "It was during summer break last year, we were just talking about all the awesome parties we were going to and how we were gonna spend it together. One day we were chilling in my room talking to each other and brought up the subject of 'kissing girls' and up until then I never had devluged into that part of my sexuality. I never saw anything wrong with it but I just never had the urge to find out more because I was happy, I was with Ben..." She trailed off and looked to me.
"Are you still following?" She asked me
"Go on!" I slapped her shoulder playfully as she smiled and continued.
"Uhmmm where was I?" She scratched her head before her face hit realisation. "Oh yeah...kissing. she told me that she never and I was like me too and she was all 'let's do it sometime!' And I just agreed because I didn't think she was serious. Let's just say things got a little touchy feely between us and one night she slept over...sparks flew." Audrina smiled a bit. "Anyway...it wasn't a big deal at the time, I felt nothing, I thought it was a bit of fun and I even told Ben the next day and he was just angry that he couldn't watch." She chuckled a little. "Things were good for the first couple of months. Me and ben were still dating and he didn't seem have a problem with me and Staci so we kept doing it but little did anyone know was that all the inimate touches that people just scoff off as 'they're best friends, its okay!' Got to me and I started to devlop feelings..." She fiddled with her jackets zipper. "Long story short I fell inlove with her, she broke my heart and I lost her...and Ben."
Whoa...I kinda went through that too. Falling inlove with your best friend is hard and for some lucky people it pays off but for people like us, are not so luck and get heartbroken instead. Loves fun...right?
"Oh my god...Audrina" I put my hand on top of hers. "Are you okay? Cuz that really sucks..." And I heard Audrina giggle a little.
"No shit sherlock...but I'm kinda over it. Staci lives back in LA and its true. Out of sight out of mind." She smiled a little bit and patted the back of mine hand which was ontop of her other. "Come on! Enough of this depressing shit...staci's not here and I have you which makes everything good." I couldn't help but find a double meaning in that...
Chapter 7: Pt.2 - Audrina's Revenge
Audrina's P.O.V
After my little talk with Emily, I decided to sniff out Ben. He's in so much shit...if this is his way of appologising to me then his got a fucked up way of showing it which is gonna land him striaght in my bad books. Somewhere no one should be UNLESS they get on my bad side and trust me there will be concequences to pay! I made my way to my to Business studies class and bumped into Ben...oh this is gonna be sweet!
"Hey, 'drina" he tried to give Me a hug and put my hand on his chest and rejected him. "What's wrong?" He gave me quizical look.
"Seriously?" I gave him this 'you gotta be shitting me?' Look.
"Yeah...I'm not Edward Cullen, I'm not a fuckin' mind reader Audrina!" He shoved his hands in his back pockets something which he only does when his confused about a situation.
"No, you're not a mind reader you're just stupid as fuck. Even someone who was blind, deaf and retared would know!" I inched closer to him. "How could you go tell the whole school we had sex...fuckin' sex, Ben!"
"Uhgmm.." I looked down gulitly "how did you find out?" He mumled.
"Well Chaz has a friend, who has a friend, who has..." I pushed a hand through my hair. "Why am I explaining myself to you? Long story short, Emily just confirmed what I've been hearing all period."
"What did Emily tell you?"
"She told me that you were bragging with the idiot jocks while slapping each others ass about how you 'tapped that' Saturday night." I crossed my arms.
"Why?..." Was all I said.
"They kept on bugging me when it came to you. They kept on calling you 'the one that got away' even though I broke up with you..."
"But they don't know that, do they?" I finished
"No, they don't. Do you know how embrassing it is? Knowing that your girlfriend didn't want you cause she was in love with her best friend who happens to be a girl? Its hot, don't get me wrong but my ego took a HUGE knock and didn't want everyone to know that!"
"I'm sorry..." I mumbled, feeling slightly gulity now.
"Its fine, Audrina..." He pulled me into a hug as i started sniffing a little. This subject was still an open wound to me, touch it and it hurts, throw salt on it and I go crazy!
"I didn't mean to-"
"I know, I know. We've been over this." He stated while rubbing small circles in my back.
"You know how to get me to relax again." I sniffed
"Audrina we were together for a long time ofcourse I know..." He sighed.
"C'mon." He let me go and kissed my forehead. "Let me walk you to class." He said putting a hand around my waist and began to walk me to class. This feeling felt so familiar, so safe, so unconfusing...
Third Person P.O.V
Emily turned around the corner and came to a halt when she heard.
"I'm sorry.."
She turned around to look who it was and she was smacked with the sight of Ben holding audrina as she was crying.
"Its fine, Audrina..."
"I didn't mean to-"
"I know, I know. We've been over this." He began to run circles on Audrina's back and she started instantly relaxing under his touch. Emily cringed at this sight but she couldn't look away.
"You know how to get me to relax again." She stated.
"Audrina we've were together for a long time ofcourse I know..." He sighed and emilys blood began to boil as her green monster sprawled out.
"C'mon. Let's take you to class." and with that he put his arm around her waist and they began walking down the halls leaving a jealous Emily to emerge from behind the lockers and stare at them in disbelief.
"And all this time I thought we were getting somewhere..." She muttered to an almost empty hallway. As she said that she looked to the 'unlucky pair', sighed and walked the opposite direction going back to the quad.
