Chapter 25: Unstable Creatures
Adonis has been leaving me alone lately. Maybe I socked some sense into him. Maybe he'll think twice next time. Only he's also been casting dirty looks at me in return.
We were in fourth hour once again, it was free time, we were all doing are own thing. Garfield was playing on his phone, before he excused himself to go to the bathroom. I read a book that I had bought yesterday, Jen was studying her fake long nails she recentlg got, trying to figure out tricks on how to pick up things, getting frustrated and making an omen to never get fake nails again, then proceeding to try. Jade was doing her homework, and Roy was outside, getting a drink or whatever. Miss Henson, was rocking on her own feet, the palms of her hands resting on her desk, grinning excitedly as she scanned everything. Her eyes darted left and right, her smile getting wider, if possible.
After a few minutes of silence, Miss Henson called all the girls over. "Okay," she started, peeking over are heads to make sure Adonis wasn't looking, he was tapping on his binder with his pencil, seeming to be thinking of himself, unaware of his surroundings. "So, it's Adonis's birthday today, and his mother had bought a cake for him and brought it over. I bought ice cream and everything. It'll be a mini party for us! Can you guys help me set up? " She asked. I adore Miss Henson. She's so damn nice, you can't be mad at her over anything. She's kind of like Kori.
"Sure!" Jade automatically agreed, it was the first time we heard her speak up. We stared at her in amazement, she let a small smile cover her mouth. We smiled back. After me and Jen agreed, we started planning.
"I can hear you guys talking about me," Adonis said, still drumming on his binder absent-mindedly, we thought we were caught, but we remained silent. "If you guys want me to leave, all you have to do is just say something. No need to gossip about me back there in your little girl pack." He snapped.
"Adonis, nobody was talking about you. " Jen sighed.
"That's okay, you don't need to pretend, I'll leave then."
"Shutup!" Jen retorted. They continued too argue with Miss Henson trying to come into a compromise when Roy and Garfield walked in.
"What's wrong?" Roy asked, his eyes darting from Jen to Adonis, who both had snarls on their faces.
"Nothing, just these mean women." Jade and I shared an annoyed sigh. "These sensitive-ass females, dealing with their damn hormones. Those are some unstable creatures! I'm not gonna even say the B-word, I'ma say unstable creatures!"" He pointed at us accusingly. Jade had an amused look on her face, my eyebrow was raised, and Jen was rolling her eyes.
Miss Henson walked towards Adonis, grabbed his shoulders, and steered him out of the room. "You boys go do something," Miss Henson ordered, throwing the door shut before one of them could even protest. She locked it.
She turned to us, that smile never failed to follow her face. "Raven, can you go hang the balloons and streamers? Jen, can you help set up, put the tables up , you know? Jade, maybe you can take care of the cake and ice cream?" She asked us before going off to do a task of her own.
We all got straight to work. I was trying not to fall off the tall, about-to-break-and-is-teetering stool while stretching myself to hang up balloons, and blowing them up. At one point, I was desperately trying to hang a streamer when a leg of the stool broke on me. So, of course I fell down onto the table, rolling off and taking the tablecloth with me, smacking the side of my face on the floor.
"Hey! Is everything okay in there? Can we come in now?" I heard Garfield's voice on the other side of the door. Miss Henson had scrambled over checking if I was okay. I told her I was.
After we got all set up, we let the boys in. They were surprised at first, but after a second, grins set in, Adonis being the biggest.
"What's all this for?" Roy asked, walking around the room.
"IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!" Adonis squealed like a five-year old girl. He didn't seem to care. Miss Heenson led the song in.
"Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you," The song continued. Garfield didn't sing, instead he hummed. I finished the rest of the song in my head.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, But fuck you Adonis, no one really cares about you.
I'm aware that this is mean, but I couldn't help myself. After all, at least I didn't voice it aloud. We all whooped for Adonis, who just stood there grinning like the idiot he is. It is now time for the cake.
Jade, who Adonis gave permission to cut the cake for him, walked over with the pointy knife, and literally stabbed it as hard as she could (in which we all winced) and sliced the cake, and continued doing so till the cake was in reasonable slices.
We all sat at a table and ate our slices, till Adonis decided (stupidly) to throw a forkful of cake at my cheek. I retaliated back by doing the same thing, and returned his glare also. Someone noticed this, and soon we were all throwing pieces of cake at each other, sometimes ice cream, which was really cold on my behalf. We did this till the bell rang. Miss Henson waved us goodbye, and that is pretty much how my fourth hour went.
Garfield kept his distance from me in seventh hour today. He also avoided eye contact. Kori kept her hand (that was covered by her pink sweater )over her mouth, smiling at her paper.
Hm.
I decided to ignore their strange behavior and focus on my school work, because that was more important. So later, when my eyes traced over my desk, I was kind of shocked to see a paper painted blood red with dripping black painted letters, like it was a deathnote.
I read it, and what it said only comfirmed my suspicions. I admit, I was a little weirded out by the letter, my main reaction was the widening of my dark blue eyes and a momentary scan around the room for any suspicious faces. They'd sure to be smiling, giggling, staring intently at me, some-
Kori and Garfield, of course. Kori was giggling and grinning at her bellwork, Garfield was smirking at the floor. Looks like they got what they wanted out of their stupid little prank. I walked up to Kori, paper in hand, and slapped it down on her desk.
"Gee, guys, I'm a little dissapointed. You guys are clearly amateur murderers. You guys would be in jail like that." I snapped my fingers to make a point. "You guys could have been more creative on my death, you know." I frowned at the two teens. Kori smiled innocently up at me, and Garfield was still looking at me with that same cocky smirk earlier.
"Correction: We merely warned you. There was no death, although we were halfway there. I could've caught you in your bedroom in the middle of the night." He played along.
"Either way, you still end up in jail. Nice one. I'll admit you had me weirded out for a second there."Kori giggled, grinning at their little prank.
We were in fourth hour again. I think Miss Henson just made the list of some of my favorite teachers.
She is letting us play truth or dare. Not that I wanted to play, but I really didn't like the way Jen and Jade had grinned at me when I refused to play and whispered into each other's ears, so here I am sitting in a circle of future humiliation, scowling at the floor.
Roy placed his half-empty water bottle in the center. "Who wants to go first?" The game was innocent, mostly because we were still in school and Miss Henson was sitting behind us, doing work. But that doesn't mean we got embarrassed quite a few times. Jen had dared me to sit on Garfield's stomach for two rounds. For those uncomfortable two rounds, Garfield managed to keep poking and pinching my thighs until my two rounds was up. Jade had been dared to proclaim her undying devotion to the next person who walked inside the room. That person happened to be the principal, so Jade had told him how much she loved learning, and when she refused to stop talking about it, you should have seen the look on the principal's face. Adonis was forced to repeat anything Roy said. Roy was dared that he had to slow dance with Jen the next two rounds. Jen was forced to become Garfield's slave for the next three rounds.
So yes, we had a lot of embarrassing stuff we had to do in that one fateful hour.
Jen, on one dare, had wanted to get back at Garfield for becoming his slave. And she did. Really well. I despise Jen's power too manipulate people. She had dared Garfield to do this, and this is how it went.
"Garfield, truth or dare?"
"Dare." He said without thinking. Jen grinned and rubbed her hands together.
"Cool. I dare you to go sit next to Raven and slip and arm around her shoulders." He did so with a cocky smirk on his face, thinking that was the end of it.
"Good. Now ask her out."
That sure got everyone's attention. I tried my hardest not to blush, but I'm sure I failed at it. Garfield, on the other hand, was as red as a tomatoe. And Adonis had no problem pointing that out, making him redden even more, if that was possible.
He leaned in and whispered into my ear, the question. I nodded. He gave a light chuckle before pulling away. Jen was smirking at us. Jade was staring intently at us, which kind of creeped me out. So it was settled that I now had a date.
So yes, I should probably apologize for the long wait. Please know that this isn't my intention. I've been really busy lately since school got out, and earlier I would've updated if my kindle didn't momentarily disconnect with the internet, deleting at least half of my chapter, along with some other stories I've been working on. But I am updating now! :D
To gogurl: I would've used your idea, trust me , I would have, I spent two days dwelling on whether I should use it or not, but I can't. I need this story done before I go to California, because up there is where I spend most of my summer, and my grandma only has one computer, plus I have a whole bunch of cousin's that stay with us up in California, and we all have to take turns on that one computer, and that computer crashes sometimes, plus I can't bring my kindle uo there because my cousin's might break it, so most likely I can only update for when we go to the library, it's my turn on the computer, or from my phone. So I need this story done or it may never get finished.
Anyway guys, I hope you enjoy this chapter despite it's lateness!