Chapter 10 – Skyler
After hearing the details of Lya's date…coughboringcough, I was extremely happy with how mine went. A couple of days passed which were spent with me talking on the phone for hours with Roy, and Cody and Lya talking all night long, which was really quite annoying.
I don't get why he still comes, I mean we aren't grounded or anything. Apparently he had a limited amount of limits on his phone. My God that's a stupid excuse! I bet he just wants to get into Lya's mouth, but she's too shy so he's getting all fidgety and needy.
"Bye Roy." I said as I gave him a kiss good-bye. He walked away and Garret and I were left standing in front of the bus.
"Oh, you and Roy are a big happy family!" He almost sang the last words to me.
"OMG ROY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL YOU I WAS PREGNANT!" I screamed in a dramatic voice.
"WHAT!?!?!?!!?!?!" Garret was on the verge of fainting and I burst into laughter at his freaked out expression.
"That was too funny!"
"No it wasn't! He's 16 now, he has needs you know!"
"Ok, I have to go, I'll call you later." I said and Garret embraced me into a hug. I let go and ran onto my bus.
As soon as I got home I went online and expected Roy to go on or at least call me but nothing happened. I thought maybe he would come tonight, surprise me for not calling or anything.
'Clink!'I jumped out of my bed and raced to the window. I opened it and expected to see Roy but it was just Cody.
"Oh, hey MC, what's up?" I asked with the most 'tiered but really happy to see you' tone. I didn't want anyone to know how I felt inside. I had bad experiences to telling anyone how I felt so I always kept everything bottled up and wrote it in my diary. I know, I know, weird huh? But at least I felt a little more relieved to put it down on paper than letting the feelings build up on each other until I exploded. Oh, and I usually told my mom everything, but she was gone.
"Nothing, where's Lya?"
"I'll call here as long as you promise not to talk so friggen--"
"Hey MC!" Lya said as jumped to the window.
"—long." I finished. "Hey, that's my nickname for him!"
"Fine, fine, Cody."
I smiled approvingly and walked over to my bed again. I've never felt so alone before. I had no diary since I had to buy a new one, Lya was no help since she was busy, Garret was a guy, he couldn't possibly help, and my mom was in Canada, and Roy was mad at me, who knows why.
I had never felt like that before…EVER! Well maybe that was because I had never fallen for anyone as hard as I did for Roy. He was so different from all the other guys; I had actually changed myself just so we could last! Well ok I changed myself for the reputation, but also that he would fall for me. And also, for some strange reason I had stopped checking guys out…ALMOST stopped…but I was really close to achieving that goal!
I quietly walked out of the room and into the bathroom. I grabbed my phone and placed it down beside me as I let some tears fall own my cheek. I know how dramatic and stupid I sound, but I've always had people follow me around and always be there for me and now I had no one.
I picked up the phone and dialed my mom's cell number. I didn't care how much I had to pay I just needed to talk to her.
"Hello??" I heard her groan from the other line. "Sweetie, what's wrong?" She suddenly sounded more than awake as soon as she heard me sob. I explained the whole situation to her, after I told her everything that happened before it, so she could understand why I was so broken.
"He's really the right guy, isn't he?"
"I guess." I said after I had calmed down.
"You should probably try and find out why he's mad. From what I hear about him, he doesn't get mad easily so he must have a really good reason." She explained. I tried really hard but I had absolutely no idea what the problem could have been.
"So…do you have a reason?" She asked me.
"No…"
"Then pretend like you don't think anything is wrong and try to talk to him." That was a great idea!
"Ok, I'll call you and tell you how things go tomorrow!" I snapped the phone shut, waited a minute and then opened it again.
//hey, u asleep// At first I didn't think I was going to get an answer, but 10 minutes later I did. I was still on the bathroom floor when I heard the cell phone vibrating on the tiled floor.
//not anymore// Ouch…can I say bitchy?
//sry//
//w.e.//
//can u talk 2 me?//
//i wanna sleep//
//plz!//
//wat?//
//y didnt u call me?//
//i didnt feel like it//
//w.e. bye//
I just sat there holding my cell phone still opened to his last message. I could feel tears stinging the back of my eyes and I just let them flow. What did I do to him? Why was he acting like that? What the hell happened between 2 and now? Did Beatrice say something to him? That must be it, Beatrice told him stuff to get him mad at me! I was going to beyond kill her!
I walked to the bedroom, anger taking over the sadness, and I threw myself, extra hard, on the bed. Lya turned around immediately and she could tell I was extremely pissed.
"Sky…" She said slowly trying to approach me, and making sure I wasn't about to snap. Too little too late.
"What?" I nearly yelled out.
"Hi…" She said slowly. I could tell she was going to say something else, but with my reaction she just shut up! She turned back to the window and told MC something. She closed the window and went to her bed.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Is it going to piss me off?" I asked with the most annoyed tone in my voice. This time I wasn't faking, it was for real.
"If it does, don't say anything. What happened?" I didn't answer. Not because it the question pissed me off, the answer did. I couldn't say 'nothing', because everything happened. I couldn't say 'stuff', because it was more than stuff, so I just stayed quiet.
I rolled over in my bed and I could feel tears stinging the back of my eyes again. I but my lip form the inside to make myself stop. I wasn't going to keep crying, it never solved anything! Ok, well it did, just not this. I heard Lya sigh and then I felt her sitting down on my bed.
"You can tell me." She said trying to comfort me. Um…bad move! Frick, I started crying again. I pointed to the phone and she picked it up. I saw her jaw drop as soon as she finished reading all of the messages.
"I have an awesome plan!" She said after a while of thinking.
"Ok, tell…" I ordered as I whipped a tear from my face.
"You'll have to wait. Don't worry it's a guarantee you'll know what happened, and you two can get back together.
"It better work!"
"So what's the plan?" Garret asked after I finished explaining the situation to him. Maybe he could help after all…maybe!
"I'm not sure, apparently Lya has some plan that will 100 work for sure." I sat down at the lunch table and stuffed a carrot in my mouth.
"Well you're not the only one that needs help with him." He looked over his shoulder at the table that Roy, Lya, and Beatrice were sitting at. They looked like they were in some intense conversation, but as soon as Beatrice and I made eye contact she burst into hysteric laughter.
"Are they laughing at me? Do I look stupid? Did I do something embarrassing?" Garret asked frantically.
"No, you retard! Beatrice knows Roy is mad at us so she wants us to be jealous, and think that they're talking about us. Now Beatrice is going to tell Roy to start laughing." And just like I predicted she leaned over to him and he started laughing too.
"How do you know this stuff?"
"Oh, it's basic 'make-them-feel-horrible' actions. I did them with my clique all the time!" I rolled my eyes as if it was no big deal. Of course I had way better moves than Beatrice. I mean, hello, this is me we're talking about.
"Ok here's what we're going to do. Well there's no need in telling you what I'm going to do, you'll just see. After school you're going to ask to come over, oh, make sure Roy hears, and then I'll pretend to be thinking a little and then I'll agree, and then I'll do the whole flirty laugh, and walk off. Got it?"
"Yeah…but won't that make things worse?"
"For me…no. For you…yes. But don't worry! As soon as Roy and I start talking again, I'll fix everything between you and him. I'll be right back." I got up and took my tray with me which still had all the food on it. I walked over to Beatrice's table and just then Mary bumped into me.
Mary was the girl no one paid any attention to. She was the nerdy geeky girl in the school. She had red hair that was always in braided pony tails and those huge circular and thick glasses. Sure she was nice, but no one really talked to her, so one knew what she was all about.
My drink and all of my food was now no longer in my tray, but all over Beatrice's white shirt. This was better than I had planned, I was going to say that I tripped and it spilled, but no, this actually looked like an accident.
"Beatrice!" Lya gasped. I could tell she was trying hard not to laugh.
"My shirt!" She almost screamed. She turned to me with narrowed eyes. "You did this on purpose!" She screamed.
"Prove it." I challenged. Thank goodness Mary was still there; maybe she would stick up for me.
"You guys, stop! I crashed into Sky and--" She started. Yay, my luck.
"—ler. Sky-ler." I corrected. I didn't want people who weren't my friends to address me like that. I know bitchy, but hey, I have status and in order to keep that I have to act like a total bitch.
"She didn't mean to do this! I'm so sorry!" She looked like she was almost in tears. Then again she just messed with the girl with status and the girl that everyone knew as the girl who could beat up anyone.
"What's going on?" I heard Miley's voice behind me. She was miss popularity in the school and my other best friend. She was the one that took me into her clique, the clique that no one dared to mess around with…not even Beatrice.
Miley had long brown curly hair and lake blue eyes. She was really sweet to everyone in school except with the people who messed with her or with her closest friends. The clique consisted for 4 girls: Janelle, Emily, Miley, and me.
I didn't really hang around with them much during school; we were just always together after school. I looked over at Roy whose jaw completely dropped when he noticed Miley sticking up for me.
"I just bumped into Skyler." Mary stuttered. I could she wanted to be noticed, just not in this way.
"So you should just say sorry and leave." Beatrice ordered.
"If she wants to stay, let her stay." I said as I grabbed Mary's hand before she could walk away.
"Skyler, we can do this without her." Miley whispered to me.
"Do you want to stay or go?" Lya budded in, trying to sound all sweet. I rolled my eyes at her attempt. This would just get Miley more pissed since she hated people that just budded in.
"Go!" Beatrice, Miley, and I all ordered in unison. Mary ran as fast as she could out of our way and across the school yard, as far away from us as possible.
"So, Beatrice, I don't see the big problem. It's just food and it's also called a washing machine." She said slowly as if Beatrice was too stupid to understand. Beatrice seemed to get really angry. I could tell she was so fed up with the whole popular girl attitude.
"You know what? You're all big in talk and what ever, but after school we'll really see who's better." Beatrice challenged. She grabbed Lya's hand, as if she was some little shadow of hers, and they left for the bathroom. I didn't even bother looking at Roy I just linked arms with Miley and walked away as if no one was even at the table.
"Nice!" She squealed as she held her hand up congratulating me.
"About what?" I asked as I led her over to my table with Garret.
"I know you did it on purpose! Hello, this is me here! The girl who does exactly what you do!! So why did you do it anyway?" She asked as she sat down across form me and Garret.
"Oh, she's flirting with my boyfriend and trying to make me jealous with the whole looking at me and then laughing thing."
"Oh that is so junior high!" Miley said with a wave of her hand. "Who still falls for that?" She rolled her eyes with a smile and then her eyes fell on Garret, who was blushing another shade of lipstick red.
"Oh that color would go so well with my outfit!" Emily said as she threw herself down beside Garret, who was blushing even harder now. "No, not that color, the one before!" We all burst out laughing.
"Where's Janie?" I asked as I looked over Emily's blonde head and didn't see anyone.
"With her stupid boyfriend." Emily rolled her green eyes.
"So…Gordon, you and Sky dating?" Miley asked.
"Garret…and no, why'd you think that?" He asked confused.
"Because you two are always around each other." Miley explained with the 'no-duh' look.
"Oh, no, we're best friends." I explained.
"Oh…it's Roy!" Emily nodded to herself.
"Yeah, and he's mad at me for some stupid reason. I think Beatrice told him stuff and he believes it." I said as I gave Beatrice a dirty glare as soon as she was outside again.
"Oh, so you're using Gordon here to get him jealous!" Emily stated with a smile on her face that said she understood everything.
"You are?" Garret asked, not even caring that Emily got his name wrong. She was one of the hottest girls in school and she was talking to him, so he didn't exactly care.
"I told you that already, but you've been my best friend for a long time, so no not really." I explained.
"Or…he's mad because Roy thinks you're cheating on him with Gordon." Miley explained after being quiet for a while. Garret rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"That can't be right, he knows we're close, and he even said it wasn't a problem."
"Did he really?" Emily asked.
"Well no…but…"
"So it's that or Beatrice. Go with the first one. Stop hanging out with Gordon and maybe he'll say sorry because he over reacted." Emily proposed.
"No offense Gordon, but it's only for today. Just hang with Roy or something." Miley suggested.
"He's mad at me too."
"Oh, you can hang out with Janie." Emily said. "Don't worry her boyfriend is way beyond stupid and he won't care as long as you don't touch her or anything, and Roy will be impressed that you're hanging out with her and us."
"JANIE!" Miley yelled at a brunette that looked exactly like Rhianna with short hair. She didn't seem to notice anyone was calling her name. "JANELLE!" Miley screamed louder. The brunette looked over to our table and started running our way.
"Hey guys!" She threw herself down beside me.
"Can you do us all a huge favour?" Miley pleaded.
"What?" Janelle asked with a bubbly tone.
"We need you and Gordon here to hang out the rest of today and not with us."
"Why not?" She asked confused.
I explained everything to her and she nodded slowly. I turned to Garret who was glaring at me because I kept calling him Gordon.
"Oh…ok sure, just pretend like you're not hanging around with me when my boyfriend's around." She explained.
"Who is your boyfriend?" Garret asked.
"Oh, the guy right there." Janelle pointed to three guys all standing watching a brunette guy running into trees. Then there was a loud "OOO" of pain and an "OOO" of wow that was totally awesome. His friends started laughing at the brunette who was on the grass rubbing his shoulder…the one he ran into the tree with.
"Aww, baby!" Janelle said to no one in particular.
"See? He's way beyond stupid!" Emily said as she shook her head. Janelle didn't seem to mind, probably because she knew Emily was right. The bell rang to signal the end of lunch. Miley grabbed my arm and we started walking to our lockers.
"So…I'm going to need your help." She said as she stopped at my locker along with Emily. Janelle kept on walking with Garret and talking…a lot…
"With…" Emily asked.
"Beating up Beatrice." I said as if it was no big deal.
"Oh yeah, sure…WHAT!?!?!" Emily almost screamed.
"Well she challenged us…so we can't bail out, we have to go. We'll own her, don't worry!" Miley said as she took out her book for her next class.
"You do realize she can kill you in two seconds?" Emily threw her math and science books into her pink backpack.
"Oh I have an idea! We can pull her hair!" Miley said excitedly.
"And she can punch us in the face! Yeah Milez, that will work PERFECTLY!" I said with a wide smile. Miley stuck her tongue out me.
"Shut up, it was just a suggestion."
"You guys I don't think you should do it, I say just leave it, there's no point in it. Here's what's going to happen if you show up. You guys will bring boys to help you and they will probably kill Beatrice, since Sky has mad persuasion skills, and then Beatrice will cry. She'll bring Roy to help her, which will lead into Roy getting more pissed at Sky, and then starting a huge fight, which will involve most of the school. We don't want that!" Emily predicted as we started walking to our next class.
I guess Emily was right, we should just drop it. I should just drop the whole plan with me and Garret too. Now the only thing that could get me and Roy out of this fight was Lya's master plan.