Paige hid in the bathroom for the rest of the lunch period, with her arms set between the sink and she examined her face structures in the large mirror over the sink.
Come on Paige! Pull yourself together! Paige scolded herself; forget about Dean, he's nothing now. I'm better now. Paige then reminded herself. But Paige knew she wasn't better. She was so confused. A tear caressed Paige's pink cheeks.
"Paige?" A voice asked through the door after a knock. "Are you in there?"
Paige quickly wiped her tears away, and answered. "What do you want, Ashley?"
Ashley then appeared through the door. She walked over to Paige, and put her arm around her to console her friend. "Paige, I saw what happened. I just don't understand why." Ashley said in whisper.
Paige pulled her friends arm away, and looked away. "I blanked out." Paige tried to explain. Ashley was still puzzled by the vagueness of Paige's explanation. Another tear streamed down, Paige used her sleeve to brush it away. "The touch of his hand, took me back…"
"Back when?" Ashley asked, intrigued with Paige's answer.
"Back when I first met Dean!" Paige screamed her answered as loud as she could. The answer echoed through the whole bathroom. Paige slowly slid down to the ground and cried.
"Paige, don't cry." Paige's face turned bright red, "Don't cry? Don't cry? Don't tell me not to cry!" Paige snapped, and stormed out of the bathroom.
I need to get out of here as fast I can. I can't take it anymore! Paige thought.
Paige's mind was pounding like two bricks being clapped together. Paige felt like the world was spinning and her body wasn't functioning correctly with it. She ran back into the bathroom. And spent the rest of school, sick in the stalls.
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When school was finally done for the rest of the day, Paige walked home alone in peace. She thought about everything, except what was haunting her. She thought about school, she thought about how funny and cute she thought of J.T.'s begging, even though she acts like she hates it. She thought about how hyped she was for her new CDs coming out. She smiled to herself; I guess you can be happy if you put aside what's bothering you. And think about the good things.
"Hi Paige." A familiar voice said belonging to a person tapping on her shoulder. She knew who it was: "Hey, Spinner."
Spinner walked beside her, "So, Paige. I haven't seen you all day." Spinner went on. "And I wanted to ask you something, during lunch…but I couldn't find you."
Paige stopped dead in her tracks, and looked Spinner in the eyes. She began to poke him in the chest. "What's your point?"
Spinner became confused. "There is no point." His eyebrow rose. "Is there something you're keeping from me?"
Paige sighed. She hated keeping secrets; she sometimes wanted to scream out the answer as loud as she possibly can until her lungs bursts. But some secrets she had to keep hidden. Paige wanted so much to tell Spinner what had happened during lunch. But she would have to tell every detail, even the part about her flirting with Chris. But she couldn't. Spinner and Paige had been going out all summer, but after a really stupid argument they decided to see other people for a while, but they were still girlfriend/boyfriend. Even though they decided to see other people, Spinner had been hoping that Paige didn't take it for real. He knew if Paige started to date another guy, he would be extremely jealous and heartbroken.
"No." She lied, feeling guilty. "Nothing."
Spinner smiled. "I was wondering."
Paige then began to walk again. "Yeah, and what were you wondering?"
Spinner began to hum a song. Paige sighed. "Okay, tell me instead of humming Lifestyles from Good Charlotte."
Spinner began to jump up and down like a maniac. Paige laughed. "That's not lifestyles, Paige! That's the Anthem!"
Paige chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Okay, sorry."
"Paige, how would you feel about me and you getting back together for a concert?" Spinner suggested.
"Oh my God! You got tickets to the Civic tour?!" Paige began to get hyped. Even though she's not into the Rock Genre but loves going to concerts. But knowing Paige: She was also in it for the guy scoping.
Spinner put his hand in his back pocket and pulled out two tickets. And waved him in Paige's face. "I got them two days ago, from my dad. He said I could take one of my friends, but I rather take my girlfriend." He smirked. "The concerts tonight. He got them last minute from a friends whose kids had to bail out as some harsh punishment." Spinner explained. "So are you in?"
"Totally!" Paige's eyes twinkled with excitement. "What kind of seats are they?"
Spinner snickered. "Paige, they ain't no seats. We're down in the pit! It's going to be awesome, there's gonna be moshing, maybe some crowd surfing. Paige, if you feel lost, just gooo with the crowd." He laughed.
Paige just nodded, "Okay."
Paige and Spinner went their separate ways, but Spinner said he would come to Paige's door around seven, concert started around eight so they had an hour to get there and do their thing. Paige agreed, and walked through her front door, plopped on the couch and watched TRL and daydreamt about her future night with Spinner. She forgot about Dean, she forgot about Chris, Ashley, she forgot about everything that bothered her before. Now she felt free from pain, and eased with passion. For once, Paige felt like she was back to her normal self.
* For those anti-punk band ppls, I'm only using the civic tour simply because I was listening to GC at that time.
