(AN Sorry it's been so long since I've updated. My computer is acting all screwy. I Would like to thank mcal55cb a bunch for inspiring me in this chapter and letting me transform her idea a little bit. Be sure to read her story, Rumors! :])
The next day at school was... interesting. For starters, Tori's whole entire face is an ugly, blotchy mess. She looked even worse than that time she let me do my monster movie make up on her. That was a funny time, I'm still laughing at that little incident. You have to admit, that was hilarious. Anyway, that must be from Jade and her bush daisies. I was still giggling at that too. But it did not make me forget about her ruining my moment with Andre. That one moment that I had always yearned for. Why wouldn't she just let us have that one little moment?
Well, anyway, besides Tori and her puffy, blotchy, face, other stuff happened. not neccasarily good things, but things. Things were super awkward between me and Andre for the majority of the day. Sure, we hung out all day and all that good stuff, but... I geuss that there was just this weird feeling between us all day. More than once, one of us would try to hold the others hand, but the other one would pull away whenever someone was looking. Everytime I did it, I would feel terrible about it. I think Andre was feeling the same thing. I hope Andre was thinking the same thing.
So now, here I am. In the hallway. With Andre. Finally all alone. No people, no teachers, and especially not that creepy janitor that always seems to be hanging around all over the place. No one could possibly interrupt us now. And guess what... Just as I finish thinking this, me and Andre are starting to move in a little closer, and guess who just so happens to be running down the hallway. Who else but Jade West. She's clutching onto her Pear Phone for dear life as she's rushing down the hall towards us. Dang it, Jade! You always do this to us!
"Cat," she panted "You should really see this. Andre, you too."
Jade shoved her phone into our faces and kept switiching it to from Andre's view, to mine, and back to Andre's. I finally snatched it from her were two pictures of me and Andre on the screen. The pictures were on TheSlap mobile and was opened up to this popular gossip blog. One of us kissing after that dance we had, and the other of Andre taking me into the closet.
"Oh! Look Andre, it's us!" I said and giggled a little bit.
"Yeah, Cat..." He said and took the phone from my hands. "But look at the captions..."
I took the phone back and looked at the screen again. The captions were in really tiny, red letters. They were barely readable, but I guess it was just because of the tiny screen. I read, and re-read the captions, I couldn't beleive it. No matter how many times I read, it just seemed... impossible.
"Virgin Mary no more?" I read out loud to Jade and Andre. "Jade, what is this? Is this supposed to be some sort of terrible, mean joke? If it is, please tell me now."
"Lil' Red... Cat, I'm really sorry, but I don't think this is a joke."
The bell rang and all my fellow classmates came barging out of the class rooms and flooded intothe hallways. All of them making noise and some of them starting to sing and dance. Which is what usually happens when we switched classes. EVerybody had their phones out and were most likely on TheSlap, looking at those pictures of me and Andre. Everytime someone saw us, they stopped and took their sweet time looking at the two of us together. People were whispering and pointing at us. Because that is exactly what I needed right now, people spreading rumors about the two of us.
"Well, who did this!" Jade shouted into the crowd of people. "Who put up these stupid pictures!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the three of us. They all knew exactly what Jade was talking about, everybody read that gossip blog all the time. If somebody didn't read it, then they obviously had to be new to the school. Yet, no one stood up and said that they were the one who put it up. I could understand that. That certain blog is run by the seniors. The seniors were at lunch right now, so I could understand why no one was stepping up.
I could tell that Jade had to be thinking the same thing that I was thinking. So was Andre. They both started running towards the direction of the Asphalt Cafe, leaving me by Andre's keyboard locker. Everyone stared at me, all by me lonesome. If I was a turtle, I would be using my turtle abilites right now to pull my head into my shell and completely shutting out the world. The best i could do was tuck my head into my shirt and.
I turned around to face the keyboard that Andre attached to his locker at the beggining of freshman year. I could still feel the eyes burning holes straight through my skin. I could feel them. All of them. I just hope that they can't see through my clothes. And then... someone said it. Something that i had just been waiting for someone to say. To mutter underneath their breath to their friend. I tired to ingnore them and press the keys of the keyboard, but the notes didn't block out any of what they were saying. I could still here them.
"Do you see the way she dresses? She is such a slut..."
"I know right."
