Chapter Twenty
You Have To Take The Good with The Bad
I walked down the hall to my homeroom. It was my first day back at school since being released from the hospital. When I opened the door everyone stared at me and then went back to their conversations. Only one pair of eyes remained on me. They belonged to Travis. I glanced at him and our eyes met. I quickly looked away as I felt my stomach tighten. I stared at my shoes as I walked to the back of the class and sat down in my rusty chair that was probably thirty years old.
For the next fifty minutes I tuned out my homeroom teacher who was droning on about how we should replace play time with work time and have three traits that would help us throughout life: Being trustworthy, respectable, responsible, and fair. I had heard the lecture so many times I had in memorized. I looked up at the clock and saw that we had three minutes left. I looked back down at my notebook and felt something hit me in the back. I leaned down and picked up the note that lay at my feat.
Lily,
We have to talk. I had a long conversation with Robbie last night and I realized some things I hadn't thought about before. Please meet me under the Weeping Willow in front of the school during lunch???? I'll be waiting.
Travis
He wants to talk to me!!! He wants me back; I just know it! I neatly folded the note and placed it in my backpack. The bell rang and I headed off to my history class. I floated on a cloud all the way there. The only problem was that the cloud floated me straight into Audrey. Her stare was cold as ice and her face was filled with only one emotion: hatred. She brushed past me and attempted to walk away.
"What is going on Audrey?" She quickly stopped and spun around on her two-inch heel.
"You've got to be kidding me." I winced at how mad she sounded. "I can't believe you!!! First you steal Travis from me and then you steal Ray too!!! You must have no idea how much Ray means to me." Tears poured from her eyes yet she still looked mad.
"Audrey I'm..."
"Don't even talk! Okay, I don't want to hear it. When I lost Travis I thought I had lost everything. But...then I found Ray and things-they seemed so much better. I've never been so happy in my life. That is, until you took that away from me." Audrey stormed off and left me alone in the hallway. I fell to the floor and banged my head against the locker behind me. Little did I know that what happened next would alter my perception of life.
You Have To Take The Good with The Bad
I walked down the hall to my homeroom. It was my first day back at school since being released from the hospital. When I opened the door everyone stared at me and then went back to their conversations. Only one pair of eyes remained on me. They belonged to Travis. I glanced at him and our eyes met. I quickly looked away as I felt my stomach tighten. I stared at my shoes as I walked to the back of the class and sat down in my rusty chair that was probably thirty years old.
For the next fifty minutes I tuned out my homeroom teacher who was droning on about how we should replace play time with work time and have three traits that would help us throughout life: Being trustworthy, respectable, responsible, and fair. I had heard the lecture so many times I had in memorized. I looked up at the clock and saw that we had three minutes left. I looked back down at my notebook and felt something hit me in the back. I leaned down and picked up the note that lay at my feat.
Lily,
We have to talk. I had a long conversation with Robbie last night and I realized some things I hadn't thought about before. Please meet me under the Weeping Willow in front of the school during lunch???? I'll be waiting.
Travis
He wants to talk to me!!! He wants me back; I just know it! I neatly folded the note and placed it in my backpack. The bell rang and I headed off to my history class. I floated on a cloud all the way there. The only problem was that the cloud floated me straight into Audrey. Her stare was cold as ice and her face was filled with only one emotion: hatred. She brushed past me and attempted to walk away.
"What is going on Audrey?" She quickly stopped and spun around on her two-inch heel.
"You've got to be kidding me." I winced at how mad she sounded. "I can't believe you!!! First you steal Travis from me and then you steal Ray too!!! You must have no idea how much Ray means to me." Tears poured from her eyes yet she still looked mad.
"Audrey I'm..."
"Don't even talk! Okay, I don't want to hear it. When I lost Travis I thought I had lost everything. But...then I found Ray and things-they seemed so much better. I've never been so happy in my life. That is, until you took that away from me." Audrey stormed off and left me alone in the hallway. I fell to the floor and banged my head against the locker behind me. Little did I know that what happened next would alter my perception of life.