Craig sat down next to Sammy at lunch in the cafeteria. Spinner, Marco, and Jimmy were sitting across from them and Paige and Ellie were next to Sammy.
"So what happened?" Jimmy asked. Jimmy had heard what had happened and he was curious to find out what Craig's decision was.
"I broke up with her," Craig said.
"What?" Spinner asked.
"Yeah, I broke up with her. She didn't trust me," he said.
Craig leaned forward on his arms. He looked up and saw Ashley walking toward him.
Craig turned to his friends.
"Hi Craig," Ashley said.
Craig looked up at her. "Hi," he muttered.
Ashley looked at him. "I'm sorry for making you break up with me," she said. "Can you give me a second chance?"
Craig knew about second chances. His dad wanted Craig to give him a second chance, but Craig knew that his father wouldn't change. So what were the chances that Ashley would change? "Sorry, Ash," he said. "I have a bad experience with second chances."
"But I can change."
"You say that. But you don't." His father said that he could change but he didn't and Craig wasn't upset that his dad was dead.
"Craig—"
"Ashley, I don't care how much you say you'll change," he replied. "But the fact is you don't trust me."
"Fine," Ashley said, she stood up. "I don't care." She turned on her heel and walked away, without another word. She had spun around so fast she almost knocked over Hazel.
Craig always had this guilty feeling in the pit of his stomach whenever he upset someone but not today. Today he felt good that he had made Ashley mad…for some strange odd reason.
"Watch it," Hazel said, as Ashley walked away.
She threw her lunch down next to Jimmy and sat down next to him.
"Hey," she said to Sammy.
"Hi," Sammy replied.
"What happened to Ashley?" Hazel asked.
"Craig broke up with her," Paige said.
"Oh."
Terri walked over and sat down next to Hazel. She groaned. "What is this?" she asked, poking at the lunch with her fork.
"It's, um, lamb guts and I think, that's suppose to be a monkey's liver," Spinner said.
Craig had went to take a bite of his sandwich but threw it down. "Dude, not while we're trying to eat. Need I remind you?" he asked.
"Sorry, I was just telling her the truth," Spinner said.
"Yeah, you going to work in the cafeteria this year?" Paige teased. "I think you look really hot in that hairnet."
"Hairnet?" Sammy asked.
Paige nodded. "Long story, Sammy," she said.
"But to make it short I worked up there," he replied, he pointed to the line. "I had to wear a hairnet and these guys made fun of me."
"Oh," Paige said. "I'm sorry you felt that way about us teasing. We'll stop."
"Good," Spinner replied.
"There goes my reason for coming to school," Jimmy said.
Spinner made a face at him. The bell rang and lunch was over.