A/N: Sorry for the language in this chapter, guys. I think I was at that stage when I thought that cursing was "cool" when I wrote this…like, two years ago or something. And I realized (well actually I realized this MANY chapters ago, but in this one it was really bugging me) how I tend to make my characters sigh, shrug, or roll their eyes. Oh how redundant of me. But anyways, go ahead and continue to read my twisting and confusing story!
"Ew. Look what the Desperate and Lonely Fairy gave us." Heart said in a voice of pure disgust.
Tess and Sarah rolled their eyes and pushed by her, scoffing at the young girl before themselves. Tess saw Shane and her eyes lit up brightly. She ran to him and gave him a loving hug. Shane didn't return the hug though. He just stood there, speechless.
"Shane, I missed you! Why didn't you go to the burger joint? You got my note, didn't you?" Tess asked.
Shane sighed. "I did but…look, I have a girlfriend. I moved on. We're just not meant to be. Tess, you're a beautiful girl, but we just can't be together." Shane said with a frown.
Heart fought the biggest urge to yell 'In your face!' at Tess's face as she smiled victoriously at the two.
Mitchie suddenly woke up. She got up and walked downstairs, wondering who was speaking so loudly downstairs. Tess frowned when she saw her, her eyebrows furrowing. She turned back to Shane angrily.
"Is it because of that little whore?" Tess demanded, her hands on her hips now.
Mitchie was about to yell, but Shane beat her to it. "Hey! She is not a whore!" Shane exclaimed furiously. "You have no right to call her that!"
"Oh yeah, she's just a sweet and innocent sixteen-year-old who just happens to be pregnant. So not a whore." Tess drawled sarcastically.
Mitchie couldn't take it anymore. She attacked Tess and started tugging on her hair. Tess fought back, pulling Mitchie's hair as well. Mitchie was winning though despite the fact that she was pregnant.
Shane ordered Nate to help him break these two apart, and Nate obliged (no matter how much he wanted to continue watching these two girls fight); but Mitchie kept on fighting along with Tess, the two girls not ready to admit defeat.
Heart, on the other hand, stood there, laughing. "Go Mitchie! Rip her stupid, fake, blonde hair out!" She cheered. Shane shot her a death glare, signaling her to shut up. "Oh, don't act like you don't enjoy this." Heart snapped at her cousin.
Shane and Nate held onto Mitchie as Tess angrily stood up.
"What is wrong with you?!" Tess yelled, fixing her hair. "You messed up not only my clothes but my hair and makeup too! God!"
"Does it matter? You don't get prettier with that crap you put on." Mitchie answered back.
"Oh, like you're so pretty also." Tess scoffed. "You're like some oversized whale."
"Tess, I think you should leave." Shane said before another argument—or fight—will heat up again.
"And why should I?! You were my boyfriend first!" Tess whined.
Mitchie laughed. "Hate to break it to ya, but I was Shane's girlfriend first. Way before he mad the mistake to hook up with you."
Tess screamed into the air in frustration. "Shut the hell up, you slut!" She screamed.
Mitchie started squirming and kicking, trying to break free of Shane and Nate's grasps. They hardly held her in their grasp.
"You wanna say that again?!" Mitchie yelled, enraged. "I dare you to!"
Heart folded her arms and shook her head. "Wow, if you were smart you should leave." She said to Tess and Sarah.
"If Shane was smart then he should still be with me!" Tess yelled.
"Well too bad! Shane's not smart at all!" Heart yelled back.
"Hey!" Shane exclaimed.
"Why the hell are you guys yelling?" Jason said, coming downstairs.
Then he saw what was going on. Shane and Nate were holding onto Mitchie. Mitchie and Heart looked like they are close to killing Tess. Tess looked annoyed and Sarah looked frustrated and amused at the same time.
"Sarah? What are you doing here?" Jason asked with confusion.
"Oh, I was getting to that question until Miss Low Life Loser over here, distracted me." Heart said, pointing to Tess. Tess shoved Heart onto the couch. Nate let go of Mitchie and pushed Tess away from her.
"What the hell!" He said, helping Heart up.
Heart stared at her angrily.
"Oh mature. Now we're playing the pushing game." Heart said to her.
"You started it." Tess said back.
"That makes you way more mature." Heart responded sarcastically. And that coming from Heart Gray, well, that was certainly saying something.
Jason stood next to Shane and looked at Sarah.
"Sarah, what are you and your little sister doing here?" Jason asked.
"Why don't you sound happy? Wouldn't a guy be happy if his girlfriend is at his house?" Sarah said, smiling.
Heart gasped. "You said you weren't dating that bitch!" she said. "Jason!" She whined.
Sarah glared at Heart. "Shut the hell up, kid!" Sarah yelled. "You have no right calling me a bitch! You should take manners lessons or something."
Heart gave Sarah a fake smile. "And you should go to a 'Stalks your ex-boyfriend Anonymous' convention. Bring Tess with you too."
Tess and Sarah gasped.
"I hate you!" Tess yelled.
Heart rolled her eyes. "What was that supposed to do? Hurt my feelings? Because guess what—I hate you too! Wait, no, I think—no I'm sure—that everyone in this room hates both of you right now." Heart stated.
Tess looked at Shane. "You don't hate me…right?" she asked him, sweetly.
Mitchie started kicking and squirming more again. "Say no and you're so dead to me." Mitchie said to Shane.
Shane sighed. "Actually I do hate you right now." He said, truthfully.
Mitchie smirked at Tess in triumpth.
"And by the way, Sarah is definitely not my girlfriend. She broke up with me." Jason said.
Sarah gave him a smile and touched his arm. "But I wanna get back together, Jason. We look so cute together, and we're just perfect!" Sarah said in an annoying peppy voice.
Heart felt like she was going to throw up. "Why can't you two just freaking leave the house!" Heart yelled.
"No, not until I get a reason." Tess said, close to tears. She looked in Shane's eyes. "Why do you hate me?"
"Why shouldn't he hate you?" Mitchie scoffed.
Shane sighed. "Tess, just leave." Shane said, not looking at her.
"Yeah, Sarah…just please go." Jason said. Tess and Sarah looked at each other, teary eyed. They walked out of the door, causing Jason and Shane major guilt trip. Shane let go of Mitchie and she sighed angrily.
"If I ever see her again, I swear I am going to kill her." Mitchie said. She walked upstairs to her room, slamming the door shut.
Heart sighed and leaned on Nate's shoulder. "If I ever see any of them, I'm not only going to kill them, I'm going to bring them back to life so I can kill them again." she said.
Nate laughed and put his arm around her shoulder. "Well that was enough drama for one night. Let's go to sleep." he said, randomly picking her up and carrying her up to her room over his shoulder as Heart protested and whined, demanding that she should be placed back onto the ground.
Jason and Shane looked at each other, still feeling that guilt trip.
"What we did was right, right?" Shane asked. Jason shrugged.
"I guess…" He said, unsure.
Tess and Sarah were in their car, smiling. "Did you see the look on their faces when we left? Total guilt trip! Now they'll have to get back with us!" Sarah said.
"I know! Shane will be all mine and that little slut will be out of his mind like yesterday's news." Tess said. The sisters laughed and continued to drive home.
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The next day at school, Mitchie and Heart met up with Alex at the front of the campus. Jason dropped them off bright and early this morning, so early that half of the student body wasn't even there yet. (Which made Mitchie mad because she wanted to sleep in. Darn her pregnant hormones again.)
Nate came by a couple minutes later. He glanced at Alex and winked and smiled before walking into the school. Alex smiled and sighed dreamily. Heart and Mitchie, on the other hand, rolled their eyes, but a grin was still on their lips.
"You should be careful, Alex." a voice said. They turned around to see a girl who looked like she came out of a fashion runway or a magazine that showcased nothing but perfect models. Her perfect gold-brown hair. Her perfect blue eyes. Her perfect shining teeth. She was absolutely beautiful. Who was this girl?
"Uh, why should I be careful?" Alex asked.
The girl laughed. "Isn't it obvious? Because you're dating Nate Gray."
"I know what there's to look out for. Thanks for the heads up, but I don't need it." Alex replied in the nicest way she could muster.
"Oh, I just wanted to say that Nate doesn't love you."
"Excuse me? Who are you to tell me that?" Alex said with her voice rising, her temper as well.
The girl laughed again and put her hands on her hips. "Trust me, once he has sex with you, he'll just keep going back to you for more and more. Once he gets you pregnant, first he'll force you to get an abortion then he'll break up with you."
"And you would know, how?" Alex demanded, even though she knew that Nate fully admitted a similar story to her. But that's what made her angry: how this girl was telling the truth.
Then Greg came up to the girl, innocence in his eyes. "Hey, Leah, shouldn't you be home right now? Your home schooling lessons start soon." He said.
Greg looked at Heart and smiled. She didn't notice his presence after he spoke the word, "Leah" though. Heart, Mitchie, and Alex then widened their eyes as shock engulfed them.
"You're Leah?!" Heart exclaimed.
The girl nodded. "Yeah, why?" she asked.
Alex fought the urge to slap Leah. She walked into the school wordlessly instead, angry and hurt as ever. Mitchie followed behind her, trying to catch up to Alex. Heart remained at the front of the school and stared at Greg. Then her eyes moved onto Leah and she felt pure hate, even more hatred than what she felt for Tess and Sarah last night. Heart soon followed behind Mitchie and Alex without another word.
Leah looked at her brother. "That's the girl you have a crush on right?" she asked. Greg nodded as curiosity sparked him. "Isn't she Nate's little cousin?" Greg nodded again, a sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach. "Oh…perfect." Leah smiled at her brother and walked to her car and drove back home. Greg sighed, knowing his sister will have a devious and stupid plan that involved him unfortunately.
Alex sighed as she quickly opened her locker. "What gives her any right to say that?! She doesn't even have the right to tell me all of that stuff! Oh my god! I hate her! I hate her so much! She's trying to break us apart!" Alex said to Mitchie quickly as she angrily threw her books into her locker and grabbed the books she needed for next period.
Nate turned to see his girlfriend, very pissed off. He walked over to her and put his arms around her. "Why is my baby so mad this morning?" He asked, kissing her cheek.
"Nate, I'm not in the mood!" Alex yelled as she stuffed her books into her backpack roughly.
Nate took a step back away from her. "Should I be afraid?" he asked Mitchie. Mitchie nodded her head, giving Nate a weary look. He walked back over to Alex. "What happened?"
"Well…" Mitchie started.
"Oh nothing really! Really nothing, actually! I just had a little encounter with your ex-girlfriend, but it's not like it matters!" Alex yelled.
"Which one?" Nate asked, getting nervous.
Alex screamed silently. "I hate Leah so much!" with that she slammed her locker and stomped to homeroom.
Nate ran his hand through his curly hair. He groaned when Alex said that name. That was the worst thing that could have happened, and now it just occurred. His crazy ex pissed off his girlfriend.
Nate looked at Mitchie. Mitchie returned his look with an apologetic one. "She really hates this Leah chick…and that Leah chick seems psycho. You have the weirdest tastes in girls, Nate." Mitchie said.
Nate rolled his eyes. "At least my girlfriend doesn't attack my ex-girlfriend." Mitchie slapped him in the arm. "Hey!" Nate whined, rubbing his arm.
Mitchie rolled her eyes and walked away.
Then Heart came in to find Nate and Mitchie going their separate ways. 'Where's Alex?' she thought. Heart ran up to Nate to ask him. Before she asked about Alex, though, she hit him in the arm.
"Ouch! God! Why is everyone slapping me today?" He said, rubbing his arm.
Heart rolled her eyes. "Don't be such a wimp. You deserve that."
Nate sighed. "What did I do this time?"
"You dated Leah! She tried to break you and Alex up!"
Nate exhaled a deep breath. "Yeah, I heard. Look, she's just crazy. She doesn't know what she's saying."
Heart sighed. "You know what I just noticed? You, Jason, and Shane have really messed up love lives."
"Don't remind me." Nate folded his arms and the two heard the bell rang. "See you in math." With that, Nate walked away in silence. Heart nodded her head and walked to homeroom.
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At lunch, Nate sat with his friends. He didn't say much though. Lots of things were on his mind and he didn't want to deal with them. It didn't take a while before his friends realized their friend's unusual quietness unfortunately. "Nate, dude, you were like quiet the whole entire time." One of his friends said.
Nate sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Guys, my life sucks like hell right now." he said. "Like, no joke."
Another friend let out a low whistle. "Wow, that must really suck." he said.
Nate groaned. Honestly, he rather be sitting with Mitchie, Heart, and Alex right now. At least they would actually understand what he's going through.
"Why are you looking at those girls? I mean they're hot and all. That sexy Spanish looking girl looks hot in bed. Oh and so does that little freshman. She looks more developed than natural, if that's even possible. Then there's Mitchie. I heard she's pretty good in bed."
Nate shot his friend a deadly look. "Do I need to remind you who those three girls are?" He asked, tempted to kill him.
"Who are they?" his friend asked, confused. Obviously he forgot or just simply didn't listen to Nate when he told him about them.
"Okay, Mitchie is my brother's girlfriend! That little freshman girl is my baby cousin! And the Spanish looking girl is my girlfriend!" Nate yelled. "How the hell do you not know this?!"
"Sorry, man. It was tempting." His friend said, shocked. Nate groaned in frustration and pushed his tray aside.
"I'm not hungry." Nate got up and left the cafeteria. He walked down the hall and turned to another one.
Then he saw her. She was leaning on the lockers, smiling seductively. Perfect and sexy clothes. Perfect and shiny hair. Perfect and curvy body. Perfect and beautiful face. Nate looked at her angrily. To Nate, she wasn't perfect though. She was far from perfect. "What in God's name are you doing here, Leah?" He demanded darkly.
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Alex watched the doors moved back and forth as Nate made a dramatic exit out of the cafeteria. She sighed and looked down at her food, her apetite dying. Alex rested her head on her hand and looked at Heart and Mitchie.
"Do you think he's okay?" Alex asked. Mitchie shrugged as Heart took a bite out of her sandwich.
"He'll get over it. That's nothing compared to how Nate really reacts when he's pissed off." Heart said. "He's fine." She assured. Alex's were still locked on the doors, not sure. Heart sighed. "If you wanna know though, go follow him." Alex nodded and stood up and left the cafeteria to follow Nate without a second thought.
Mitchie took another big mouthful of spaghetti. Heart looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "So what are you going to do when…" she started. Heart couldn't finish her sentence, too embarrassed and afraid to.
Mitchie looked at her. "When what?" she asked, wiping her mouth. It was covered with tomato sauce.
"When…it get's obvious."
Mitchie looked at Heart, confused. "When what gets obvious?" Heart touched Mitchie's stomach. It was barely big, really mostly because Mitchie was just about a month and a half pregnant. Mitchie's face fell and she folded her arms, her mood entirely dying down. "I don't know. I guess I'll just have to…drop out of school."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want anyone to know what I'm carrying." Mitchie said in an angry but hushed voice. "This is my baby and I don't want anyone to know that I'm having one."
Heart nodded. "I think Shane would want you to stay in school."
Mitchie scoffed. "I would also think Shane would want to follow his dreams instead of learning about stock marketing and all those other business crap."
"Well we're pretty fortunate. He can afford a home school teacher for you." Heart said softly.
"And are you saying that I can't take care of myself or that I'm dead poor?!" Mitchie yelled. Heart was silent. She didn't know Mitchie would outburst like that, but now she regretted saying anything in the first place. "I can take care of myself, thank you very much!"
"Mitchie…you know that you can't take care of yourself. You're…well…pregnant." Heart whispered.
"I've been taking care of myself since I was fourteen! I think I can take care of myself now—pregnant or not pregnant!" The cafeteria was silent and looking at Mitchie. All eyes were on her. She was speechless. "Did I say that too loud?" she whispered. Heart nodded, sadly.
"Oh my God! You're pregnant?!" A girl said loudly.
Mitchie's eyes started getting watery and she ran as fast as she could to the girls' bathroom.
Heart instantly ran after her.