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Beautiful is Gone By The Ruse

So Kyla, as I'm sure you all know already, is a complete drama queen. She had one hair out of place in the morning and in turn made me late to school. So I ended up skipping homeroom altogether and taking my sweet time in the hallway until it was time for first period. By the time second period began I was in the mindset to be calm. I wasn't going to get angry at Glen today, I promised Spencer…Miss. Carlin I mean.

"For the first half of class I'm going to put in a movie, I want you to notice how the director used music to show the feeling throughout the film. Also, note that you may have to do the same for your next project." Miss. C said with a smile before putting in the tape, I relaxed and tried to pay attention to the film, but the blonde goddess sitting so close to the screen kept stealing my focus.

"So I saw you had lunch with the Dennison's yesterday." Sean said, his eyes lay on the television but his words pointed to me.

"I did." I responded.

"You know, Carmen is bad news, girl gets hooked up and shook up." I looked at him now.

"Meaning what?"

"She gets ya in bed, and then freaks out later, like she did something wrong, sometimes gets violent. Her last girlfriend had to leave the school." He said with a soft shrug. "Juss warnin' ya Ashley, you seem like a cool girl don't wanna see a friend get hurt." He smiled at me and then moved back to the TV screen, drowning himself in the movie.

"Thanks." I replied.

"Hey dyke! I'm trying to watch the movie, why don't she shut your nasty mouth." I threw my head towards the ass that said it and only got a smug smile from my least favorite Carlin. I went to answer with something just as rude but bit my lip, knowing what I'd said to Miss. C. Instead I turned and tried to watch the movie, a thank you look given to me from the teacher. From that moment Glen must have known I wouldn't do anything to stop him and his words only came more often, every move I made or thing I said for the rest of the class gave him the incentive to shout some hurtful song my direction. Every time I just stayed as calm as possible, Sean whispering to me to stand up for myself, but I ignored him and did my best to ignore everything else. By the time the bell rang I was ready to hit him. I took my time picking up my things and allowed the rest of the class to leave.

"Ashley, I'm so sorry." Miss. C said once the room was empty of all others.

"No problem." I breathed, grabbing my things and with a wave I left the room, heading to my locker. I grabbed my back pack and cell phone before walking out of the school. I needed to relax, away from guys who are complete jerks.

Ten minutes of walking and I ended up in a park, a bunch of little kids playing on the playground and parents yelling at them to stop hitting their siblings. I push my hands into the pockets of my leather jacket, the cool breeze of an approaching winter chill me for a moment as I take a spot on an empty wooden bench. My mind begins to wander as I sunbathe beneath the trees, not a very smart way to attract sun but it felt nice none the less. Soon the words Glen had left in my head melted away and I began to picture the face of my newest obsession, an off limits teacher that seemed, to me, to be the most gorgeous woman alive. Just as my thoughts began to wander I felt a small object crush into my leg and wrap itself around it.

"Ashwey!" I heard, opening my eyes, a smile growing on my lips as I realized who it was currently attached to me.

"Hey Hayden." He giggled as I pried him from my limb and placed him on my lap, an out of breath Aubrey running up to me.

"Hayden you just can't go off running like that." She said scolding him, his sweet eyes looking at her sadly.

"But...but Ashwey." he protested softly, pointing his tiny fingers at me. The older woman, finally getting a look at who was holding her girlfriend's son, smiled at me with a laugh.

"Looks like Ashley is skipping school today too." She said, taking a seat next to me.

"Yes she is." I replied chuckling.

"Do you always run up and attack your babysitter's Hayden?" I asked him, tickling his side lightly and he just laughed.

"No actually he doesn't take to anyone very well, he's just now started to warm up more to me."

"Well then I guess I'm one of the lucky ones." He smiled and began to play with the strap on my jacket.

"So what are you doing out of school?" Aubrey asked.

"Just needed to relax." Was my only answer.

"I know the feeling, this is the only day of the week I don't have classes."

"What are you majoring in?" I asked her, trying to overwhelm myself with conversation.

"Law, it's hard but worth it later. But today since I was free, I stole Hayden form preschool so we could have a fun day together, maybe go visit Spencer at school."

"Mommy?!" Hayden asked, his face lighting up.

"Yeah, you wanna go see mommy?" He smiled and nodded vigorously.

"Well, lunch is in twenty minutes, so you've got time to kill."

"Ashwey, come pway with me." Hayden said, tugging on my hand as he slid from my lap.

"And I guess we have a way to do it." I stood and smiled to Aburey as I stole Hayden form her.