Chapter 2

"Hey Simon" Hailey said as she walked over to the bench where he was sitting eating his lunch. Hailey sat down and started eating her sandwich. "Emmm...Hey...Hailey...emm" Simon said with a mouthful of food. "Simon don't talk with your mouth full." She pointed. Simon looked at her with raised eyebrows. "What? You know I don't like it." She explained. Simon swollowed his food. "I failed my test." He said blankly. "What? And why might that be?" She asked. "I dunno, I tried to nick some answers from Nathan but he didn't have any." He shrugged. "Well good cause you would have cheated and that wouldn't be fair to others right?" she asked. "Well why would you care? I'm sure you got an A." he replied. "Yes, but that's not the point!" she snapped at him. "What's wrong with you, are you alright?" Simon asked concerned.

"Nothing, I'm fine..." Hailey trailed off as she took a bite of her sandwich. "Hailey come on fess up" Simon said with a puppy dog look on his face. Hailey gave a quick smile at him then sighed. "Courtney and Michelle ran into me before at the lockers" she replied.

"Oh" said Simon. "Yeah" she sighed. "Did anything happen?" he asked again. "No" Hailey said looking away. "I see..." Simon replied. He could tell she was hiding some detail and he would have to get it out of her someway. "Hailey I've known you a long time, and I think I know when you're hiding something from me missy," he said slyly. "No I'm not" Hailey spat defensively. "Ok, well how about this…." He said as he started tickling her. "Simon…..no…stop ….." she laughed. "Not until you tell me what they did to you." He demanded. "They….didn't…do anything…they said…."she said while laughing. "What did they say Hails hmmm?" he asked. "They…didn't….ok,ok…stop." She pleaded. Simon stopped tickling her. "Well?" he said. "Ok…" she said trying to capture her breath, she hated being so ticklish. "They just said that it's sad that all I do is study and that I couldn't get a boyfriend because of it." She said embarrassed. "Oh Hails…why do you listen to those bitches?" Simon asked annoyed. "I dunno…it's kinda true though..." she began until Simon cut her off. "Hailey No, you are beautiful, smart and kind. Don't ever listen to anything that those sluts tell you. Ok?" he said. "I guess so." She replied. "Hailey look at me" Simon said. Hailey raised her head to look him in the eyes. "One day you'll find the right guy out there, and you'll fall in love with each other, get married and have lots of babies together, and that will be good, cause you'll be a great mom cause you're a great girl." He said with a smile. "Thanks Simon" She said with tears in her eyes as she reach over and gave him a hug. "It's true though." He said. "Speaking of which have you talked to Brooke yet?" Hailey asked. "No" said Simon starting to go red. "Simon you totally like her, why don't you ask her out?" She asked. "I guess I should." He said. "Yes you will." She snapped. "Oh you're telling me what to do with my love life when you can't sort out yours." He laughed. "Oh shut up!" She laughed back. "Oh you're telling me to shut up?! Big mistake girl." Simon laughed as he started to tickle her again. "No…Simon…stop…Arghhh!" She yelled as she smacked her elbow on the table sending her chocolate milk all over her. "Shit…Sorry Hailey" Simon said. "Argh Simon, I don't know why I bother!" She yelled grabbing her napkin and wiping her top. She stood up and marched into the girls bathroom.

Courtney and Michelle were in the bathroom fixing their hair. They saw Hailey near the sink with paper wiping her top. "Gee Hailey you really made a mess of yourself." Courtney said. Hailey stopped what she was doing and looked at them. "And why do you care?" She replied. "Oh Hailey that's not very nice." Michelle said with a frown.

"Here let me help you with that." Courtney said grabbing the paper from Hailey's hand and started wiping her top. "What are you doing?" Hailey asked shocked. "This won't do." Courtney said and grabbed the collar of her top and pulled it down, ripping her whole top off her now exposing her bra to the world. Hailey immediately covered herself up. "My My' Michelle laughed. "Courtney you made her all embarrassed" She laughed again. "Yeah well she doesn't have much in the chest area to expose…or cover up." Courtney laughed looking at Hailey covering herself with tears in her eyes. "Which reminds me…" Courtney said adjusting her top revealing way too much cleavage. Michelle grabbed the remains of Hailey's top and the two of them walked out of the bathroom laughing. Hailey sat down on the cold floor and burst into tears. Katie one of the cheerleaders in the toilet at the time saw what happened and came over to Hailey. "Oh Hailey its ok." She said in a soothing voice. "I… hate…. them" Hailey said in between cries. "I know they're horrible" Katie said while rubbing her back. "Here" she said and took off her jacket and gave it to Hailey. "Thank-you" Hailey said as she put it on. "You'll be all right" Katie said and gave her a tissue. Hailey put on a fake smile and walked out of the bathroom. Simon saw her and noticed she was wearing a jacket and had been crying badly. "Oh Hailey I didn't ruin your jacket too much?" he asked worried. "No, let's get out of here." She said, grabbing her text book and walking out of the cafeteria. "Ok" Simon said following her, seeing that she was upset about something and knowing only too well what it was and who did it.