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Paige looked around the lunch room and was disappointed not to see Jay. She didn't get to talk to him since the morning and she had a lot that she wanted to say to him ever since the kiss happened. Paige sighed and took her seat at the usual table. Jimmy, Hazel, Ashley, Craig, and Marco were already enjoying their lunch.
"Hey Paige, how did things go with Raditch?" Ashley asked as Paige sat down.
"Swell just because of my little out burst in class, the highlight of my weekend is going to be me as a human trash bin." Paige replied dryly. Jimmy started to laugh. Paige glared at him. "What's so funny? I like to see you clean up after the barbarians that go to this school."
"Nothing, I just hope you and Spinner have some dirty fun on Saturday." Jimmy said with a smile.
"Jimmy please tell me you're kidding. Tell me Spinner is not going to be there." She said seriously.
"Not going to be where?" Spinner asked as he pulled up a chair, the side of his face and lip was swollen. Paige rolled her eyes and turned back to Jimmy.
"We were just talking about your little punishment Raditch dished out on you." Jimmy said smiling.
"Dude, don't even start with that. I so didn't deserve what I got." Spinner said shaking his head.
"Spinner, you're the one who started the fight." Marco said looking at him.
"Whatever, that loser got what's coming to him. He should've known better than to..you know." Spinner replied.
Paige pushed her tray to the side and folded her hands on the table. "No, I don't know Spinner, tell me, what did Jay do?" She asked firmly.
"Paige, don't start you know what I'm talking about." Spinner said trying to avoid her gaze.
"No, Spin. I don't. Why don't you clue me in why you went on this rampage? Or why you have been acting so incredibly immature?" She said still focused on him.
"You know I still care about you." He said softly. Paige let out a short laugh.
"You still care about me. So you decided to prove this to me by throwing your fists around and trying to beat up someone as if you're auditioning for a part in Gorillas in the Mist?" Paige asked exasperated. Everyone slightly chuckled, Spinner shot them all looks.
Spinner leaned in closer. "Paige, he's no good for you." He said finally looking at her. Paige stared at him for a moment. "Spinner..just butt out of my life." She said as she got up. "For good." She added as she walked away. Spinner shook his head then kicked a chair out before he left the lunch room. Everyone looked at each other. They were silent before Craig spoke.
"So how bout those Maple Leaves" he asked as he took a bite of his lunch. The girls rolled their eyes while Jimmy and Marco shook their heads.
Paige managed to get through the day with out seeing Spinner, but she still didn't get to see Jay until after school. She saw him walking and went up to him. He walked in the other direction when he saw her approaching. She ran up to him. "Jay wait." He sighed then stopped in his tracks.
"Are you avoiding me?" Paige asked as she approached him.
"What makes you think that?" He asked still looking ahead.
"Oh I don't know, not being at your locker all day, not showing up at lunch, that little antic just now." Paige said looking up at him.
"Paige, I have just been thinking." He said still not looking at her. Her heart dropped at those words. She knew it couldn't be good.
"About what?" she managed to choke out.
"I'm just thinking that maybe we shouldn't be doing all this, who are we kidding you know what I mean?" Jay said. Why am I saying this? Why do I always push people away? This is for the best, it has to be. He thought to himself.
"You mean the bet? We can't just stop now, we have come so far already. I know things got ..weird..but that was probably just because..I don't know..we got wrapped up in things. Just please tell me you're not backing out now." She pleaded softly looking up at him. He looked down at her and saw her eyes. His stomach flipped flopped. He gulped.
"Fine." He replied softly. She gave him a slight smile. She couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. Does this mean the kiss meant nothing to him? She thought. "I have to stay after and make up some work in auto body. I'll catch you later." He said walking away. She watched him as he walked away, she felt tears start to brim her eyes. She held her head back before they could fall.
Jay walked in his auto body class, a few other kids were working but all his friends left. He quietly went to the back of the room and began fiddling with the engine he was working on. Why the hell couldn't I just leave? Why do I even care so much about this stupid bet? I guess it has gone pass the bet but…I don't know…today has been the most fucked up day ever. I get in a fight, I'm stuck with clean up crew with brillo head, now I hurt Paige's feelings because of my own stupidity. Tonight I'm not thinking about any of this.
After Jay was done in the auto shop he went home to change and get ready. He was relieved to see his parents weren't home he didn't want to deal with their drama after the day he had. He quickly got ready then headed out the door. By the time he got to the ravine it was already busy and full of people. He helped himself to a bottle of beer then walked over to his bench. He was greeted by Tre and Tony.
"Yo, Jay. What's the deal? I heard you and the Spinner kid went at it today." Tre said as he took a seat next to him.
"Dude, I came here not to think about my day ok? Can we possibly talk about something else?" Jay said aggravated. Tre nodded his head then took a long sip of his drink.
"How about we talk about that hot chick you brought around here the other day." Tony said his face lighting up as he nudged Jay.
"Can we not talk about her either?" Jay said as he pulled the label off his beer.
"What? She didn't give it up?" Tre asked laughing.
"What did I say man?" Jay asked angrily. Tre put up his hands.
"Ok ok, chill, I was just joking around. What happened to the old Jay. You know the one who could take a joke?" Tre asked.
"He realized the jokes aren't funny anymore." Jay said as he got up to get another drink. While he was search in the cooler a familiar female voice called him.
"Hey Jay." Jay slowly turned around. No it couldn't be. He thought. When he saw her face he found out it was. His face fell from shock to a satisfied grin. "What are you doing here?"
Paige sat curled up on her bed watching a "chick flick". She finished off her container of Ben n Jerry's ice cream and sighed. "Ok Paige you're acting as if you just suffered some big break up here. Old sweat pants, chick flick, calorie fest." She said as she looked around her room. She clicked off her T.V. and fell back on to her head. "Why do I even care so much? All we did was kissed, hell I barely even know the guy. Jay..is just..I don't know what it is about him. Why do I keep pushing this issue? I should just go talk to him and let everything out then I will feel so much better. Yea that's what I'll do." She said sitting up. "I also need to stop talking to myself." She said smiling.
She quickly changed in to some jeans and sweater then brushed her hair. She looked over at her clock. 10:05. Her mother was in bed watching the evening news but she didn't want to take the chance of just walking out the door. She decided to use her little "escape" routine that she mastered since the days she was with Spinner. She guided herself from her window and down to the ground. She knew he would be at the ravine, which was a 5 minute drive from her house but a 15 minute walk. She wrapped her sweater around her closer as she began walking.
Ahh who's at the ravine with Jay? What will happen when Paige gets there? : D
