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Ten: Whipped
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
I poked my head out from underneath the cocoon of blankets on top of me, and was met with a rush of cold air. Quickly I retreated back under them, snuggling into them, seeking their warmth.
Beep!
Without moving I briefly opened my eyes, but was met with the sight of total darkness. Closing them again I whimpered aloud, before peeking my head out from under the blankets to check the time.
Beep!
The shrill beeping of my father's alarm clock echoed in my head, painfully loud. Ducking my head back under, I blindly reached with my arm for the clock.
Beep!
Bee…
Rejoicing inside, I rolled onto my stomach ready to enjoy a couple more blissful moments of sleep. I tried to burry deeper inside my shelter when I heard someone mounting the stairs. But before anything could register in a sleep muddled brain my dad had already came in and yanked the blankets off of me.
"What the hell!" I screamed, trying to grab hold of my covers but with no success.
"It's time to get up, Rory," he told me before placing my blankets on the floor at the end of my bed and walking back into the hall.
I pouted for a minute trying to pull my legs tighter against my stomach and shelter my body from the cold. Again I didn't find success so I abandoned that notion and as quickly as possible I scooted to the foot of my bed. Placing my feet on the ground I stood up, but when I tried to walk my feet got tangled in the mound of blankets on the floor and I found myself taking a nose dive into the carpet.
"Rory come on you gotta get going or you're gonna be late!" Chris told me walking into my room. He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.
"I fell," I told him, putting on my best puppy dog face. Laughing he walked over to me and pulled me up. I walked with him downstairs and into the kitchen. Plopping myself down onto the stool next to Lilly. "How did you get up so fast?" I asked her amazed.
She smiled at me before nodding at the cup of coffee nestled between her hands. "Sarah brought me coffee."
I looked down at her mug then back up at Sarah, the cook. "Why didn't I get any coffee?"
Sarah, who had been buzzing around the kitchen preparing breakfast for everyone, stopped at my side and placed a giant mug in front of me. "I was just going to run this up to you," she said, her velvety and smooth.
I looked down lovingly into the mug, breathing in the aroma of freshly brewed coffee –one of my favourite scents and tastes. Without waiting for it to cool I brought the mug to my lips and took a sip of the elixir.
Lilly and I finished our coffees, grabbed a pop tart each and headed back up the stairs to change into our uniforms. Once we were changed and ready for school we went down to the living room, kissed both parents on the cheek and proceeded out the door.
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I got to my locker just after the bell rung to signal the beginning of class. I put in the combo and opened it up, searching for the books I'd need for the morning. I piled them into my bag before closing my locker and dragging my bag down the hall to my first period class. The halls were practically empty except for people who were late or had spares. I finally got to my class and I peeked in through the windows on the door. The lesson had already started so I quietly pushed the door open and slipped through. Everyone's eyes went to me and I put my finger to my mouth, telling them to be quiet. I looked back over at the teacher who was busy writing something on the board so I silently made my way to the back of the class and plunked myself down into the seat by the window.
"Okay now I want everyone to quickly write this down in their notes," she told the class pointing at the board. Everyone obediently got out their binders and pens to start copying down the note. I watched the teacher for a minute the smile on my face growing even bigger. I glanced over at the clock noticing that I had missed almost twenty minutes of class.
"Awesome!" I whispered to myself before getting out my notebook and taking the pen out of my hair. I jotted down the just of the note but then my thoughts started drifting towards the night before. Who would have thought that I could've had so much fun with a bunch of jocks? And it was true I had never in my whole like wanted to spend time with them even if it was for school I had always found a way around it. But last night I had wanted the guys to come to Tank and I had wanted to spend the night with them. That reminds me…I have to talk to Lilly and the gang about Tristin being in my room! I looked back over at the clock; I still had about a half an hour left of class. I quickly made a mental note to talk to them at lunch.
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I walked into the cafeteria a couple minutes after the lunch bell. The whole morning I was distracted during my classes, preoccupied with thoughts concerning a big headed blonde.
And you wanna know what doesn't help my situation? Having him in my third period class! And us having the same lunch hour! It was insane and probably the works of the devil or someone evil like him.
I plowed my way through the crowds of people inside the caf and when I finally got to my regular table I let my bag fall to the ground before I, myself, collapsed onto the table. The whole gang was there already; also a few other people we were friends with and they all watched my scene unfold with amused grins.
"What's up with you?" Maddy asked me, she was sitting on the opposite side of the table along with Lilly.
I picked my head up from the table, letting my eyes focus on her for a second before placing it back down. "I have issues," I responded though it was muffled do to the fact that I spoke it into my arm.
"Well we all knew that," Nikki told me, placing her arm around my shoulders. "So why don't you go ahead and tell us what's really bothering you?"
I smiled a little but it quickly faded when I looked up and caught the sight of the guy who had been dancing around in my head all morning. He just happened to look over at me right then and our eyes met across the cafeteria. I shivered, and not from the cold, as his eyes raked over me. It was like he was staring right through me, right into my soul.
The girls looked over the cafeteria, spotting Tristin seated at one of the front tables. They all smiled at the exchange but soon grew impatient so they all coughed at the same time attracting a lot of attention from various students, including me. I gave a modest blush when I noticed they had all witnessed that.
"Sorry I'm all spacey. Just thinking about some things," I told them, which wasn't a lie I had been thinking all morning.
The girls all smiled even wider and Lilly and Maddy came over to huddle next to me and Nikki. "So we're talking about a guy, right?" Nikki asked me, even though it was more of a statement then a question.
"No cause if we were to have a conversation about a guy there would have to be a guy for us to have a conversation about…" I trailed off becoming confused myself.
"Okay that so wasn't a sentence!" Maddy exclaimed laughing.
We all laughed for a second, and I actually forgot about Tristin and everything for a while but I knew it was to good to be true when I looked up and saw a group of girls making their way towards us. "Oh great!" I exclaimed sarcastically.
Carly Swanson was leading the group; she was being followed closely by Kayla and Alicia. Carly's mouth nose was turned up in that snotty way and she looked disgusted to even be seen near the back of the cafeteria. They stopped in front of our table, hands on their hips and chest's stuck out. "Why hello ladies," Carly greeted them with forced politeness.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the sheep," Lilly said smirking at them and receiving murderous glares from each one of them.
"As much as I would love to argue with you today, I'm here to talk with Rory," she stated formerly her years of upper-class training shining through.
I looked up at her, "Carly we don't talk. We're not friends…unless all that hair spray you use finally seeped into your brain and you lost your memory?" I asked her sarcastically.
She laughed fakely before sending me another sweet smile. "I just happened to hear the juiciest piece of gossip today," she announced.
"And that would interest me because?"
"Because it was about you…" she trailed off waving her hand.
I exchanged looks with the gang, "What can I say I've always been one for the tabloids," gesturing with my hand just like she had.
Carly huffed before stepping closer to the table her eyes ice cold but I didn't even flinch. "Ok I'm done being civil. I just want to make something clear;" she lowered herself to my level and stated menacingly, "Tristin is mine. I don't want to see you talking to him, I don't want you to be friends with him and I better not see you dating him!"
"Okay, Blondie Bear…yah hi," Nikki said waving for her attention. "Two small details. It isn't Christmas and Rory isn't Santa. So you ain't getting what you want!"
I stood up out of my seat flashing a small smile at Nikki before setting my face. I tapped Carly on the shoulder making her turn around, jumping when she realized how close I really was to her. "Okay you better listen and listen well because I don't like having to repeat myself. You might be spoiled and you're daddy probably buys you anything you want but when you're talking to me, you're not little Miss High and Mighty! So get off your throne and start living in the real world!" I got closer to her, and even though she tried to hide it I could tell I was scaring her, the extra couple of inches I had on her helped a lot though. "You don't control me and you can't order me around like your little posse. I will talk with whoever I want, I'll be friends with whoever I want and I will date whoever I damn well please!" I finished my rant with the sweetest smile before sitting back down and sipping at my drink.
Lilly was smiling happily; she loved it when people put Carly in her place. She watched the girls for a couple seconds; they were standing there with their mouths hanging open and unbelievably expressions on their faces. She cleared her throat getting their attention before flicking her hand at them. "Run along now."
The huffed, flipped their hair and stalked off towards their regular table. The four of us looked at each other for a minute before we all burst out laughing. After a while we all calmed down and everyone's gazes turned to me. Seems they hadn't forgotten about our conversation before Carly had come over.
"So we all know that you like Tristin. What we don't know it why it's got you so wound up?" Lilly explained her face half serious. "So why don't you tell us."
My smile disappeared. How was I supposed to explain it to them when I didn't even know what was wrong? "Well it's just; I caught Tristin in my bedroom."
Their expressions didn't change; well some confusion was added to the mix. "So where's the problem in that?" Maddy asked.
My eyes narrowed a bit, "He was alone, in my bedroom, looking through my scrapbook," I told them quietly, not wanting for the whole cafeteria to here. "And he lied straight to my face," I added as an afterthought.
"What'd he lie about?" Lilly asked. She was starting to see a slight problem in the situation but nothing that could really cause the funk that her sister was presently in.
"Well when I caught him he said that he'd gone to the bathroom which is believable. But then when I saw my scrapbook in his hands I asked him about it and he told me he had found it on the floor."
"And let me guess, it wasn't on the floor last time you saw it?" Nikki asked me.
I looked over at her, "Nope. It was underneath my math textbook. Meaning he would have had to move that to even see it."
The other girls all thought about this situation and they all came to the conclusion that Tristin was just really curious and he wanted to know more about Rory.
"Well he obviously wants to get to know you better…" Maddy teased me.
I smiled at her, "So he decides to root through my personal stuff instead of just asking me?"
They all just shrugged and I decided that if they didn't see anything wrong about it that I would just let it go. All in all it didn't seem like a big enough problem to dwell on. "Well then that's the end of that."
"Good. Now we can get onto a better topic. Like how we're gonna get you two together…" Lilly exclaimed slyly.
I couldn't help but laugh. I could always count on Lilly for some sort ok crazy plan. And I knew just by looking at her that she was in the process of making one right now.
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"You want one?"
I looked back over my shoulder, to see a friend hanging a cigarette between his fingers.
"I wouldn't accept that if I were you, Miss Hayden!"
My eyes widened and I whipped my head around to come face to face with Mr. Charleston, school headmaster. "Wow, that's a lot of tweed," I remarked, letting my eyes take in everything from his tweed suit to the tweed bag he was carrying.
He looked down, absently fingering the hem of the jacket between his fingers. "Oh…yes thank you," he answered.
I casually looked over my shoulder once again to see the cigarette that the boy had offered now hung from his lips. "So Charleston, I'm guessing you didn't come here for a smoke?"
He regarded me with wide eyes obviously flustered. "No! Of course not!" he immediately told me, shifting nervously from foot to foot.
I raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow at him. "Okay then why did you come here?" I asked casually looking bored with the situation but really I was trying hard not laugh.
He appeared confused for a moment but then his eyes became clear and he seemed to return to his normal self. "Well Miss Hayden, maybe you would like to take a little guess at why I might be here?" he asked motioning towards his surroundings.
I smirked, cocked my head to the side and said in a knowing voice: "Meet you at your office in five."
"Yes it seems that you are correct," he replied stuffily before pointing at his watch, "five minutes." And then he turned around and left casting disapproving glances at the hordes of teens smoking.
"What'd you do this time, Hayden?" Nikki asked me, plopping down on the curb next to me.
I looked at her thoughtfully for a minute before breaking in a grin. "Well it could be because I called him El Douche, because I never handed in that one project that is supposedly worth like 5 of our grade…or it could be because I told my French teacher that I had a serious eye cancer that causes me to go blind every once in a while…"
She looked at me sympathetically, "Oh no I've heard of that cancer…it's really horrible," she told me.
I pretended to wipe at tears falling down my cheeks, "I know and doctors said I'm just gonna have to live with it for the rest of my life."
"That's terrible," she cooed mockingly and before we knew what was happening we were both laughing so hard actual tears were streaming down our cheeks.
The others were looking at us amused by our little show. They had all seen something like this and even some of them had been part of something like it. So it wasn't new just funny.
"You guys gonna be okay?" Maddy asked smiling kindly.
I nodded my head and quickly stood up from the curb. "Yah I think we'll live," I told her, thinking about how crazy Nikki and I really must be to laugh hard at something that wasn't even that funny. "Anyway I should go. I'm already five minutes late."
"See ya," everyone called to me as I walked back towards the front doors of the school.
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"I can't believe you guys actually spent an entire day with them."
About a half a dozen guys were leaning casually against a group of lockers. They were all dressed the same. Same uniforms and same jackets that seemed to magnetically pull girls to them. They all appeared to look the same. Just some minor details were different like hair colour and skin colour. Most importantly though, they all wore that same trademark smirk.
"Yah not one of my best days," a very low, husky voice replied. It belonged to Brad.
Tristin who was standing next to him rolled his eyes. "Oh come on man, you had a great time you just don't want to admit it," he told Brad.
"Yah right," Brad scoffed.
Tristin turned his head to talk to Blake who was standing beside him. "Guys so annoying," he said.
Blake smirked at him. "I'm surprised you even noticed he was there last night." Off of Tristin's confused look Blake elaborated. "Oh come on you were practically drooling in the girls lap."
"What girl?"
Tristin head whipped around so fast I could have swore he got whiplash. His blue eyes were wide with surprise on seeing me and he looked nervous about something.
"Oh you know just some random girl," he told her nonchalantly, earning himself smirks from the guys and an evil smile from me.
I walked closer to him, just until I was a couple inches away. I slowly let my hand wander up his chest and wrapped it around the green tie he was wearing. "Does this girl have a name?" I asked him innocently, twirling the green material around my finger.
I eye his adam's apple, watching it grow bigger as he swallowed. I was clearly affecting him and I couldn't help but smile proudly. This had been Lilly's plan; get bold around him, make him squirm and then after you've teased him for a while make your move. I had been iffy about the plan at first; I didn't want to seem like a slut. But she had reassured me that it as just one guy and it wasn't like I was leading him on, I was going to give him what he wanted.
"Uh…yeah…sure she does," he choked out; his voice was very low and very sexy.
I tilted my head back making my ponytail falling between my shoulder blades. "So then what's this mystery girl's name?" I asked him quietly, abandoning his tie and letting my fingers trace unknown patterns running along his collarbone.
I heard his sharp intake of breath and I smirked at him once again. He closed his eyes briefly, letting himself drown in the way my fingers felt dancing across his skin but he quickly opened them again and was about to answer when a shadow fell over top of us.
"Miss Hayden, I believe we were supposed to be meeting in my office," Mr. Charleston said in his snotty, rich voice, "oh lets say 10 minutes ago."
I still hadn't turned around to acknowledge his presence. All I did was roll my eyes, which were a bright blue, and smile apologetically at Tristin. I leaned up to his ear and I could feel his heart pumping fast against my chest and I placed a very light and soft kiss on his pulse. He let out a very, very soft moan that went unnoticed by everyone except me and I smirked at him when I pulled back letting him know I had heard it.
I followed the headmaster down the hall and towards his office not allowing myself to look back even though I could feel his eyes burning holes in my back. Good thing was that he had been so focused on how I was affecting him he hadn't noticed the way my own heart was pounding in my chest.
Tristin finally broke out of his trance and a huge smile took over his face as he fell back against the lockers again. "Man, she's something isn't she?" he asked the guys who were all staring at him.
They all shook their heads at him; they could all tell he was seriously whipped. They all knew that I had him wrapped around my finger and some of them thought it was funny and others thought it was disgusting.
"Oh yah she's something, she's a pain in the ass," Trevor Jones exclaimed before grabbing his bag off the floor and sauntering down the hall.
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