I need more drama. Let's do this.
"I heard some girls talking when I was fixing my hair in the bathroom today," Wy began. She was whispering over Natalia to Seychelles, who was listening intently while trying to feign paying attention to the history lesson.
"One girl said that she was pregnant," Wy whispered, giving Seychelles a side glance.
"And what's so new about that?" Seychelles rolled her eyes towards the board and immediately became disinterested.
"That's the thing—was pregnant," Wy emphasized. "When her friends asked, she said that she slept with Lukas,"
"Oh my God she didn't! Who was she?" Seychelles asked in a hushed tone, her interested peaked again. Consequently, Natalia's interested was peaked as well, she wanted to know what they meant by "was pregnant".
"I don't know, some freshmen I'm sure, you know how the those four like them young," Wy replied. Those four? It had to have been Matthias, Berwald, Tino and Lukas.
"Did she like get an abortion or something? Because those guys always have ways of convincing girls," Seychelles inquired, begging for more information.
"You know none of them are really big on using birth control," Wy shook her head in a "what can you do?" manor.
"Well I knew that much, but how can they convince all the girls not to keep their babies? That's what always gets me," Seychelles wasn't even trying to hide her lack of paying attention anymore, this rumor seemed too pressing.
"I'm sure it's because they're all scary and come from really powerful families," Wy deduced.
"Well, at least another girl won't drop out of high school," Seychelles replied, as if the rumored loss of a baby were nothing.
Natalia looked at her notes, but was not studying them. Instead her mind was on Lukas, how could he dictated which girls kept their babies and which didn't? How could he have that kind of power? Was there another side to him that she didn't know? The bell rung and she rushed out of class.
Natalia shoved through the hoard of people to her locker, she wanted Lukas to show up so that she could confront him, but she didn't know how she could confront him. She didn't want to cause a scene after the events of last year. After she had retrieved all of her books, she closed her locker and leaned up against it, her eyes were scanning the crowd for Lukas.
Once she had found a group of blonde haired boys, she knew that one of them had to be Lukas. But what she saw almost shocked her, a young girl, probably only a freshmen or sophomore was holding his hand, and clearly hanging on every word she said. Natalia, shocked, decided to abandon going to class and instead go to the library. Although her next class was math, and she knew that she would for sure get caught skipping, it was well worth it. She had to think. Just when she thought that Lukas was going back to his old self, he completely turns into his old self.
Natalia wandered the rows of books and eventually decided to sit down at a table in the back, which was mostly hidden by books anyway. She sat down at the wooden table and opened up her AP Statistics book and decided to read up on the next lesson. If push came to shove she could get help after school and claim sickness for her absence. She could explain that she vomited in the bathroom, that was always a for sure ticket home and an excellent excuse.
She tried to read the lesson, but her mind kept going back to what Seychelles and Wy said. She knew that she shouldn't start believing rumors of all things, but she still wanted to know what amount of truth was in that rumor, if any. She was so lost in her thoughts that she almost didn't hear someone pull out the chair across from her and sit in it.
"Natalia?" a voice asked. She whipped her head up to meet the familiar blue eyes of Alfred.
"A-Alfred?" Natalia asked, shocked that she was even talking to her. She pushed up her glasses.
Alfred smiled, "How have you been? So much as happened to me since the last time that we talked! Like me and my girlfriend broke up, and then I got a job—well kind of and then—" Natalia held up her hand.
"Alfred I seriously don't want to hear it," she returned to her book. She was still hurt over Alfred having a girlfriend when she was pretending to be his, but she wasn't sure why she was hurt anymore. It wasn't like she liked him… right?
Alfred cocked his head to the side, "What's wrong? You're still not mad about what happened? You have Lukas,"
The blood rushed to Natalia's head when Alfred said Lukas's name. "I don't have Lukas, we were never a thing," she mumbled.
Alfred laughed heartily, and much too loud for the library; Natalia nearly jumped out of her chair at his unexpected loud laugh.
"Shut up!" she chastised him, looking around for spiteful librarians mad that they couldn't become real teachers and instead had to work in the library. After all, no one ever aspires to be a librarian.
Alfred looked at her confused, "What? The librarians are so old that they can barely hear… Anyway! I thought you and Lukas were a thing, you guys spend so much time together that it sure looked like it,"
"No, haven't you seen his new girlfriend?" Natalia swallowed hard when she admitted aloud that Lukas had a new girlfriend.
"No I haven't! Is she cute?" Alfred asked, completely ignoring—or not noticing—her obvious emotional state.
Natalia thought back to the young girl that was holding an uninterested Lukas's hand. She tried to picture her face, with her perky brown curls and dark brown eyes shining and excited to have an upperclassmen paying attention to her. She supposed that the girl was cute, and it wouldn't make sense for Natalia to state otherwise. She could admit defeat in the beauty department, even from an underclassmen.
"Yes, I think so," Natalia honestly said.
"We'll have to go look for her! Matthias never told me that Lukas had a girlfriend, must be a new thing," Alfred happily chatted. Or an unexpected thing, Natalia mentally added, thinking back to the rumors about Lukas. She didn't know what hurt worse, knowing that Lukas was screwing around with underclassmen or the fact that she thought he had changed.
"Yeah, looks like that," Natalia quietly added, realizing that if she stopped talking to Alfred he would leave and she'd be alone. It was hard to admit, even to herself in secret, but she missed Alfred's constant attention on her.
"Wow, it's really good to finally talk to you again," Alfred beamed, shooting her one of his sincere smiles.
"Y-Yeah, you too," Natalia staggered out a reply.
"So are you here ditching class too?" Alfred asked, leaned back in his chair and looking around.
"Yup, didn't feel like going to AP Stats I guess," she lied. But really, she wanted to come here and think, but Alfred was a pleasant distraction from her thinking.
Alfred laughed loudly again, "Yeah I wouldn't either!" his face suddenly went serious. "So does that mean you can go back to being my girlfriend now?"
Natalia blinked her eyes at his ridiculous request. Should she say yes? Should she say no? Instead, she said the first thing that popped into her head.
"Yes," she blurted out. She put a hand over her mouth after the words had come out and hit the air.
Alfred smiled, "Great! So now these girls can get off my back again!" he stood up and put a hand on her shoulder. "You're a great friend Natalia," he then walked off. She wasn't sure where he was going, because it was the middle of the class period, but she decided not to follow.
After school she once again returned to her locker. She found it difficult to focus on AP Stats in a time like this, so she returned her book to her locker and searched around for Alfred. With Lukas obviously busy with his new girlfriend and Alfred busy being his usual happy self somewhere without her, she felt lonely. But of course, lonely is what she wanted in the first place, she just didn't know that it'd hurt so badly.
She waited for about ten minutes, and the hallway had long since cleared by then. She realized that Alfred wasn't coming for her, and that things weren't the same anymore. Natalia also realized that Lukas wasn't coming for her either, and that she may never know the extent of the rumors that were circulating about him.
Natalia walked to her car alone.
Not my best chapter… And yes I know, people feel differently on abortion. Don't comment about it because I don't care what you have to say, I tried to write it as unbiased as possible while getting my point across for the sake of the story itself. I seriously. Don't. Care. About. Your. Opinion. On. Abortion. Okay?
