Chapter 12, and I don't own anything.
"You both owe me so much after this," Gina growled as she looked at Cameron from the corner of the cafeteria. He was on his way out with Alex under his damned arm.
"Both, as in –"
"As in you and Alex!" Gina sneered. I held back my smile, and answered "sure". We ran across the cafeteria to follow Cameron and Alex, and found them in the hallway. Alex was just entering the bathroom.
"Perfect," I squealed. Gina groaned.
"Does this mean I have to do it now?" she asked.
"Yup," I smiled reassuringly. "Be strong, soldier," I said mockingly. She shot me a dark look.
"I won't let him kiss me," she promised me.
"I'm not expecting you to, either," I assured her and gave her a small push towards the creep across the hall. Now he had dragged up a mirror from his pocket and was studying his greasy hair. I grimaced and felt really sorry for Gina, who had to be the one to sacrifice.
Gina walked hesitantly over to him, and several times it looked like she wanted to turn around and run right out of the school.
She put a hand on Cameron's shoulder when she reached him, and he turned immediately, alert. He grinned widely when he saw it was her. She said something in a voice too low for me to hear. He answered with an even wider grin that made me want to puke.
Gina took a few steps around him and he followed her face, so his back was turned to the bathroom-door. I understood this was my cue. I hurried across the hallway and into the bathroom behind Cameron's back. He didn't even turn to the sound of the door opening and closing, he was too busy staring at Gina's pretty face.
I bumped into Alex at once. Her expression turned furious when she saw it was me. She made to walk past me, but I stopped her.
"Just hear me out, one more time," I pleaded as I stepped in front of her. She hesitated and looked at my face, thinking.
"Fine. I'd love to hear your side of this," she said in an icy voice. I forced a smile.
"Okay. Don't believe Cameron," I started, and Alex became irritated at once.
"Kim –"
"No, please. I'm telling the truth, honestly! I wasn't the one to flirt on Friday. He shifted our roles, because he didn't want me to go blabber to you. He was the one to act inappropriate, not me!"
"Kim, I –"
"You believe me, don't you?" I said and made my eyes big and pleading. "Believe me, Alex! I would never lie to you, and you know that! I'm so sorry, but it's the truth –"
"I really don't want to have this conversation right now," Alex cut me off angrily.
"But –"
"Not now, Kim," she repeated and made to walk to the door. I panicked, trying to find something to distract her. I wasn't sure Gina had come very far with Cameron yet.
Suddenly I started to worry that he would reject her. What if he saw through our plan and pushed her away? Or what if he wasn't tongue-tied when we came back out, what if he immediately made up another excuse? My genius plan didn't seem so genius anymore.
"Alex, please listen to me!" I begged and stepped in front of her again. Unluckily Alex was both taller and stronger than me, and she pushed past me without much difficulties. The door was open before I reached to stop her, and I darted after her. Alex's loud gasp told me that what she saw wasn't something she liked to see.
I jumped past her, and gasped myself, both out of shock and as an act.
Cameron was pressing Gina to the lockers and had his lips pressed to hers. But she wasn't fighting against him, she clung to him as if her life depended on it. The position lasted for about half a second after our gasps. Both their heads turned to us, and they broke away from each other immediately.
Gina looked annoyed.
Cameron looked confused.
He looked from Gina to Alex a couple of times, and then he did exactly what I'd feared.
"What the hell?" he exclaimed and looked at Gina with shocked and indignant eyes. He was a poor actor. Even I could seen through him, even if I hadn't already known.
"What are you doing?" Alex whispered and looked furiously from Gina to Cameron. I was pretty glad to be held out of this. No one seemed to blame me.
Yet.
"What do you think you're doing, you stinking… little slut," he pressed out, obviously struggling to find suitable names to call her. I felt the rage build in my chest. What a hypocrite, I thought. And calling my best friend a slut? He was going down.
Gina looked pretty annoyed too.
"Jerk!" she shouted at him. He ignored her and walked to Alex's side. He took her arm roughly and started to drag her with him as he muttered things about how this was all Gina's fault. Alex didn't struggle with him. What had he done to her? She looked like she believed his every word.
I was speechless until the two of them disappeared around the corner. Then I turned my furious glare at Gina.
"You were supposed to fight him off!" I hissed. Gina blushed. Yes, she actually blushed.
Does anybody have a camera?
"I did that first," she defended herself.
"Idiot! Now it looks like we're both trying to steal him from her! That's gross!"
"But I couldn't help it! He's such a good kisser!" she argued. I raised my eyebrow at her.
"Ew, Gina," I reminded her. She shrugged.
"He's still gross, but boy, can he kiss!" she insisted and got a fair, dreamy expression over her face. I closed my eyes and shook my head.
"This didn't turn out right," I muttered to myself.
"Why?" said a voice behind me, making me jump.
"Jared!" I shouted before I turned. I heard Gina's low grumble when she saw Jared. She clearly didn't like him that much.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you," Jared said, but he was grinning.
"You keep saying that," I mumbled.
"I'm leaving," Gina muttered. I ignored her as she went on with her low, angry speculations when she walked away from us.
"What happened?" asked Jared when Gina was gone.
"Gina fell for his lousy tricks," I said unhappily. "And where were you? You should have been her to witness!"
"Sorry, had things to do," he apologized. I stared at him for a minute.
"You're not going to tell me what, are you?" I asked. He shook his head with another one of those grins that said that this discussion was over. I sighed. "Well, the only thing this resulted in is that now Alex hates both me and Gina, and she'll probably trust Cameron just as blindly as before," I said sourly.
"It'll work out. He'll screw up for himself soon enough," Jared assured me and put a hand on my cheek. It was so big that it covered most of my face, so I blushed. He smiled.
"You're funny when you blush," he noted.
"Good for you," I muttered silently.
He chuckled slightly and ruffled my hair, resulting in me jerking away and flattening it.
"You're messing up my hair!" I hissed at him. He chuckled again.
"Your hair looks great, no matter what," he snickered.
Yeah, right, I thought, and narrowed my eyes at him. I hated my hair. It was flat and boring, and it never seemed to get any volume in it. I'd used all my savings to buy these fantastic products and hairsprays to make it prettier, but no.
The bell started ringing, and I turned to leave for my class. Jared dragged me back for a tight hug that gave me difficulties breathing.
"What was that for?" I asked as he let me go and I had caught my breath.
"Just because," he said. He paused for a second. "And I might skip the rest of the day," he added with apologetic eyes.
"Where are you –"
"That was what the hug was for. I'll tell you later, 'kay?" he said. I suddenly felt myself lift halfway from the ground.
"Really?" I asked.
"Sure," he said with an amused smile.
"Thank you!" I said and grinned widely. I spun around and hurried in the direction of math-class. The butterflies was still flying wildly in my stomach as I entered the classroom two minutes late. Once again I had trouble concentrating, and this time Jared wasn't even in the same room.
Jeez, Kim. This is getting pretty bad.
Yeah, well, I didn't care if I failed every single subject as long as I got to stay with Jared.
My Jared.
My wolf-boy.
So, that was chapter 12.
Wow, never thought this would turn out this long... And it is far from finished yet, I think.
Once again, if you see any grammar mistakes, just tell me. I won't be sad, I'll be happy =P
I've got many reviews and PM's where people are asking me if I can kill Cameron.
Haha, didn't know there were so many violent people out there. I, for one, won't kill him. I have this thing called a conscience and it would really bug me if I murdered someone.
And I think Alex would get sort of angry with me too.
But just keep reviewing. It's just fun to see how you are reacting!
