"What the hell is going on?"
Hearing her voice sent chills up her spine making her hair stand on its ends and forcing her heart beat to increase drastically. She didn't know how she was going to get out of this. Her mom had just walked in on Noah beating Liam up, the boy she had told her mom that she wouldn't never date and yet here he was in her living room when she was supposed to be sick in bed.
"Jessica Cecilia Kahn!" Alison yelled "What is going on?"
"I…" She stuttered "I'm dating Liam and Noah doesn't approve!" she lied not even realizing what she had said before it was too late
"That doesn't explain why Liam is here without parental supervision" Alison said pulling Noah off of the floor
"I'm sorry Mrs. Kahn really I am, I heard that Jessica wasn't feeling very well today so I wanted to make her some soup" Liam smiled hoping she would believe the lie
"Where is it?" Alison asked looking around the room "Where's the soup"
"Umm" Liam began
"He thought we had some, but we don't so he was going to head to the store and pick some up" Noah explained "But he never left because I started a fight with him, because I don't think he's good enough for my sister" Noah lied looking towards Jess
"I understand that you love your sister, but you can't chose who she dates. Now if you don't mind I think Jess needs to rest so Liam, Noah you should head back to school"
"Of course Mrs. Kahn. I'll call you later Jessica" Liam smiled walking quickly towards the door Noah close behind him "Thank you so much" he said quietly once they reached the car
"Don't thank me yet, this isn't over"
"What do you mean?" Liam asked nervously
"I mean I haven't decided what I'm going to do with this news yet" Noah gave a devilish smile as he buckled up
She splashed cold water across her face desperate to rid herself of the heavy marks underneath her eyes. Her eyes felt heavy and yet she couldn't sleep he body craved the feeling from the pills, she didn't just want them. She needed them.
"Ella?"
She turned unaware of the other girl in the bathroom "Yea"
"Are you okay?" Miranda asked looking deeply into her eyes
"Fine, why?" Ella asked feeling her hands begin to shake
"Son of a bitch, Connor gave you his pills!"
"What?" Ella lied trying to sound surprised by the accusation "No"
"Don't lie to me, I know what it looks like when your speeding" Miranda explained her head gripping Ella's chin as she examined her tired eyes "Trust me, I've done it"
"Please don't tell Emma" Ella begged "I've only taken like four pills, it's practically nothing"
"Ella, this is how it starts. You start out only taking one or two pills than you start to crave them you feel like you need them to go on this is how the addiction starts, promise me you're done"
"I'm done"
"If I suspect you doing it again, I'm gonna have to tell someone whether it be Emma or your parents I can't protect you from this" Miranda warned
"I promise I won't do it"
"Good" Miranda said leaving the confines of the bathroom
She took a deep breath reaching into her pocket pulling out a plastic bag filled with several pills shoving two into her mouth swallowing them quickly.
"Addiction" Ella laughed moving swiftly from the bathroom
The lunch room was quiet most students taking advantage of the warm weather and eating their lunch in the quad. Tori laid her head down on the table waiting for Miranda to arrive desperate for advice.
"Miranda, thank god" Tori said excitedly seeing Miranda approaching the table her lunch tray firmly in hand
"What's up with you?"
"I heard this rumor, and I don't know what to do about it" Tori admitted
"Well let me hear it, I love me so juicy secrets"
"You're not going to like it" Tori said cautiously "I heard from Isabelle, who heard from Ella who heard from Amy who heard from Connor that someone's pregnant"
"Someone as in?"
"Emma"
"No friggin way!" Miranda yelled loudly
"Shhh!" Tori said looking around the room making sure no one had heard them "It might not be her, but the rumor I heard said that Noah left school to visit some pregnant girl. If you hadn't noticed Emma isn't here today"
"There's no way she's pregnant" Miranda said in disbelief
"Like I said I don't know if it's her"
"I swear if she's pregnant, I'm going to beat the crap out of Noah"
"Can I help?" Tori suggested
"I've suddenly lost my appetite, the thought of Emma having a baby makes me want to barf" Miranda frowned getting to her feet pushing her tray away from her "Do you want to ditch? Maybe go to the mall or something?"
"Cool, I've got nothing better to do"
The pair left the lunch room quickly ready to get out of the school and away from all the rumors that had begun circulating.
"Kahn?" someone whispered
"Yea?" he answered craning his head around at the sound of his name
"Is it true that you got Emma Fitz pregnant?"
"What!" Noah said loudly "No, she's not"
"This is what they call denial, buddy" the student laughed as he turned to the kid next to him "It's true Kahn knocked somebody up!"