This wasn't how I imagined my day at school, chasing down Monty, and finding Tyler, before Monty would beat the shit out of him, more than he already did so.
My eyes had lost Monty as soon as I entered the school halls. All eyes on me, everyone must have gotten the photo. And they act like I am the slut around the school. There are a far more worse girls in my year that had done more than me.
Looking around the halls, I had to try and find the boy with light to dark brown hair, usually holding a very expensive camera. I believe it was his second new camera, the first, Monty broke. But that was when we weren't together. Controlling my rushed patrol of finding Tyler, I soon found him at his locker, gently placing his camera inside. Rushing to him, I tapped his shoulder.
"Don't say anything, but you need to come with me, Tyler" I told him, looking around for Monty. I know Monty is already protective of me, but now someone had seen my naked body, us having sex, invading our privacy, Monty wasn't going to take it kindly.
"W-why? What's going on?" he asked furrowing his eyebrows together.
"Let's say, there is a bounty on your head, and Monty is the hunter, just come with me, please" I asked him, worry in my eyes was showing.
"Y-yeah of course" he nodded closing his locker door behind him. I had to find somewhere safe to go. Girls bathroom, perfect. Monty wouldn't go in there without knowing I was in there.
Quickly rushing to the next available girls' bathroom, I opened the door, double checked for anyone I didn't want in there, before quickly rushing to the very end, disabled toilet. Opening the door, and shoving Tyler inside, I locked it behind me.
"Well I never envisioned this happening to me...locked in a disabled toilet, in a girl's bathroom, with you...Monty might kill me more knowing people spread things around school faster than chlamydia". Tyler commented, chuckling to himself, before seeing the serious expression on my face. "What's going on Lexi? Why is Monty after me...though it's becoming a every day thing. I get he is protective of you, but he doesn't need to shove me against the locker nearly every day" Tyler pointed out.
I looked at him, with an expression of wanting him to stop talking. "You finished?" I asked. He nodded. "Look, I'm sorry for what Monty does to you. But you do take photos...of mainly girls without their permission, it's something you have to ask nowadays" I explained "But enough about that. Monty is after you because of the photo that is going around school" I informed him.
"Oh...that photo...yeah I've seen it" Tyler nodded before raising his eyebrow "Wait...does Monty think I took it?" he asked me.
"Yes, of course he does. Ask anyone around the school, their first choice would be you Tyler...I'm only going to ask this once. Did you take the photo?" I asked him. Hoping he would say no. But then in the back of my mind. I wish he said yes, if he said no, then we had no idea who had taken the picture, and if they would be taking any other pictures of Monty and I together.
"What? No of course not! I know I...sometimes take photos without girls' permission, but the natural pose is never as good as a fake pose- "
"Tyler, you're getting off track here" I told him.
"Sorry. No, Lexi I didn't take the photo, I don't even know where that place is" Relief washed over me, but now I was generally worried.
"Do you know anyone else who would have taken the photo?" I asked.
"No. If I'm being honest, it appears I am the only student who takes photos outside of class. Unless maybe a school project. Honestly, Lexi, I have no idea...it could be another student, or someone outside of school" Tyler explained to me.
"Like who?" I asked.
"I've no idea" He shrugged. "What are you going to do?" he asked me. I had no general idea.
"No idea. Something has got to come up to expose who ever took it. I mean..."
"What?" Tyler asked me, standing up from the toilet seat.
"The word, 'SLUT', is captioned as the photo"
"So?" Tyler looked confused.
"Only one guy has ever called me that...and some girls associated with him, and now he is coming back...I just want one day of school, without drama" I sighed rubbing my face. "Look, I'll stick by you until Monty finds you, or I find him, I would let him hurt you, he's just protective"
"I get that, but he's too protective" Tyler added.
"He has a reason to, Tyler, and if you knew the whole truth, you would probably thank Monty for protecting me" I added, opening the disabled toilet, seeing the coast was clear, before heading out of the bathroom, but stopping in my tracks, seeing Monty with the rest of the boys. "Shit" I mumbled.
Monty's eyes glanced around the area, before Bryce got his attention on Tyler and myself. Monty's facial expression turned quickly. From focus and determination, to fury. His jaw clenched, his eyes locked on Tyler, before he walked towards us both.
"Down!" Monty shouted at him. Students making a path for Monty and the rest of the boys.
"Stay behind me" I whispered to him, before quickly getting a hold of Monty. "Stop! Monty stops!"
"Lexi, baby, get out of my way, I need to deal with dear Tyler here" Monty spoke, his eyes locked on Tyler's.
"No Monty! It wasn't him" I told him. "You touch Tyler...you are going to scare the living shit out of me, Monty. I can't let you beat him up"
"But he took the photo" Monty suddenly calmed down, hearing my words. I knew Monty probably, maybe beat some kids up sometimes, I wouldn't know. Just rumours, but I didn't want to see it with my own eyes.
"I asked him, he said no. I believe him. And if he has lied, it's my own fault for believing him, but Tyler knows I like truth and honesty...so Monty, calm the fuck down, before you cause problems for us", I warned him, before turning my head to the boys. "Thanks for the help guys, you're supposed to calm him down, not egg him on to beat up an innocent person" I scolded them. And they knew I wouldn't forgive them for a while for doing so.
"And what if he is lying, huh?" Monty asked. Placing my hands on both of his cheeks, I sighed to him.
"Then let me deal with it, beating up someone will only cause more problems, and I don't want you getting suspended or worse, Montgomery" I usually only used his whole name when I was serious about something. And this was it. "If he says it wasn't him. It wasn't him. He said he doesn't even know where that place is"
"I also, know that Lexi isn't...you know...what the photo caption said" Tyler called out softly. Monty's eyes darting to him again, Tyler becoming silent.
"Damn right she isn't. And let me make this perfectly clear to everyone!" Monty called out, getting the students attention. "My girlfriend isn't a slut! She is the most innocent girl around, compared to half the girls in this school who are willing to drop their knickers from any guy who looks at them"
"Seriously Monty?" I asked whispering, the doors of the hallway opening, Chloe and Jessica rushing in and to my side.
"Tyler is alive, I'm surprised" Jessica commented, before looking around. "What's going on?" she asked.
"Monty being Monty" I mumbled.
"If anyone thinks that about my girlfriend, you will deal with me! And when I find out who took that photo of us, you better be praying to God, I don't find out!" He shouted, before students whispered and looked away, getting back to their self's.
Sighing to myself, I felt Chloe tap my arm. Looking up, she motioned to something. A photo on the pin board wall, usually announcements or anything random from the school pinned up on the corkboard. But a photo laid upon their, big bold black letting, spelling out 'SLUT', written around the picture. Quickly walking over to the photo, I ripped it off, staring at it. Of course, the word was computer generated and not hand written.
"Please tell me these are not around the school?" I asked, the boys turning their attention to me, Monty grabbing the paper and screwing it up.
"I think I saw a few down another hall" Bryce spoke up.
"We need to take them down, all of them" Monty mumbled, looking at me sadly. "I'm sorry, baby" he whispered. Why was he saying sorry?
"Why are you apologising?" I asked him.
"Because I thought what I did was good and romantic, make you forget about him, but instead things have gotten worse" Sighing to my boyfriend, I placed my hands on his cheeks again.
"What you did was good and romantic, and you made me forget about it, now we just have to face another problem, and we will conquer it. It's not our fault there is a pervert stalker out there" I told him. "Let's take down the photos, it will make me feel a little bit better...then we can deal with the online situation"
"Do you need a lawyer?" Bryce pipped up.
"Why is a lawyer always an answer to any problem, Bryce? No, I have my own, but thanks" I told them.
"de la Cruz, Cabello! My office, now" The headmaster, looked at us both.
"Now it starts. We get in trouble for something we didn't do" I sighed.
"Go deal with that, we will search the halls for photos, I promise we will take them down" Chloe assured me, hugging me tightly, before heading off with the rest of the gang.
I looked at Monty and sighed, reaching his hand out, I took it, feeling his fingers entwin with mine, before we headed off to the headmaster's office.