I won't be updating for a week because I'm going on holiday and won't have internet. I'll update when I'm back.
Selena's POV
It was some point during second period in Science when I heard Chloe Evans talking to Maria Porter about Alyssa. 'She's clearly a dyke as well if she's hanging around with Gomez. People had better steer clear.' I was angered that they were talking about her like that before they had even spoke to her to find out if it was true. Alyssa was sitting next to me and heard her as well.
"What the hell is your problem? Everyone at this school so far seems to hate gays. You're aware that it's not a choice and that Selena and I won't change just because people don't like it, right?" She asked as if it was obvious. Obviously Chloe hadn't expected Alyssa to hear her, or maybe she just hadn't expected her to react.
"So it's true then, you are a dyke?" Maria asked in shock. I looked around the classroom; everyone was looking in our direction because before Alyssa had spoken at a normal volume to Chloe, the whole room was silent.
"I'm not a dyke and neither is Selena. We're gay, my god, you don't even know me and you're judging me on the one little thing you know about me. You've all known Selena for years and you hate her because of the same thing. It's disgusting that you lot would treat your friends like that." Alyssa scrunched her face up in disgust and shook her head, now fully aware that everyone was looking. She had a fair point and I was quite flattered that she was sticking up for me after recently meeting me.
"We're disgusting? You're the disgusting ones. How could you do those kinds of things with other girls? It's dirty and wrong. You're both going to hell I hope you know." She spat at us with venom in her words.
"We may be going to hell, we may not be, but at least you guys will all be there as well. You're not exactly an angel are you Chloe? Drinking, doing cocaine, and having an abortion? I tell you what; I'll see you when we get there, kay?" I asked her sarcastically. Chloe's face paled at what I had just announced to everyone. The classroom was deadly silent, even Mr. Harding wasn't stopping us from speaking, I think he was too shocked to say anything after what I had just announced about Chloe; the class angel.
"Fuck you." Chloe whispered with a dangerous edge to her voice. It took a few moments but Mr. Harding spoke again.
"Right, now that that's over I'll get back to my lesson. Miss. Evans, Miss. Davies and Miss. Gomez, I would like to speak with the three of you at the end of the lesson." Mr. Harding said as he switched the clip on the interactive whiteboard to show a venomous snake. I rested my head on my arms and listened to what he was saying about how this particular species of snake could rip a full grown rat to pieces in just less than twenty seconds.
The end of the lesson rolled around quicker than usual. I was eager to know what Mr. Harding had to say about what Chloe was saying to us as he knew that if I got any shit whatsoever it went straight to Mrs Jacobs.
"Miss. Evans, Miss. Gomez and Miss. Davies, I would like to speak with you. Remain in your seats; everyone else, off to break." Mr. Harding announced seconds after the bell rang.
Students piled out of the classroom with their bags and books and headed outside or into the corridors for their twenty minute break time.
"Miss. Evans, I am going to ask you straight up now; is what Miss. Gomez said about you being on drugs and having a termination true? If you lie it will still be reported and a female member of staff will have the right to search your bag and find any records of you at abortion clinics and hospitals within one hundred miles from here. Bare that in mind." He said as he looked at Chloe firmly. Chloe clutched her bag to her chest tightly and nodded her head. I couldn't see her facial expression but I guessed she was wearing her guilty face to get some sort of sympathy. It didn't work.
"Go down and wait outside Mrs Jacobs' room, I will be up shortly." He instructed firmly. Chloe nodded again and walked shakily out of the classroom and down the hallways. Busted.
"Are you girls okay after what she said to you?" Mr. Harding turned and asked us. I nodded then looked to Alyssa.
"Yeah I'm okay; I'm just not used to people having a problem with me liking girls. My old schools were completely different to this." She said with a sad smile.
"I'll make sure Mrs Jacobs is informed about what was said. I'll escort you to Miss. Lovato's room now, Miss. Gomez." He said with a firm nod. I nodded back and got up from my seat, followed by Alyssa.
"How come you're going there?" she asked me curiously. I explained to her about Nick and the plan to keep me safe. She didn't say much, she just listened intently and nodded occasionally until we reached the room.
"Hey Miss. Is it cool with you if Alyssa comes in as well?" I asked Miss. Lovato who looked up from the papers she was grading.
"Yes, yes of course it is." She offered Alyssa a grin which she returned. Miss. Lovato then looked back to me, "Selena, I'm pretty busy today with marking these papers so maybe Alyssa can occupy you during break and lunch today so that I can get them out of the way." Miss. Lovato said with an apologetic look on her face.
"Yeah that's fine." I said as Alyssa and I took our seats in the back. We turned our chairs so that they were facing each other and I remembered what she said before about her last schools being accepting of her.
"So how come you moved if your last schools were so nice about you being gay?" I asked her with plain confusion on my face.
"Well, I lived in Florida when I was born, my first high school was in France, and I lived there from the ages of seven to thirteen. Then we moved back to America but to Louisiana. My mom was offered a promotion last month but the job was here in LA, so she literally whacked our house up for sale and brought our new house last week. It was all a quick move; we never even viewed the house before we moved we just saw pictures. The house is nice though." She said with a smile.
"Wow. So can you like speak perfect French and stuff?" I asked. Alyssa nodded and I thought of another question. "Do your mom and dad know that you're gay?" I asked her.
"My father's dead. My mother knows but she doesn't like it. She said if I ever have a girlfriend I'm not to bring her home and she won't be going to the wedding. She wants nothing to do with me being a lesbian. She doesn't really mention it unless I bring it up though; she acts like I'm straight. I think that she thinks I'm just going to switch back when I'm older. She's not horrible and she still loves me but she just doesn't accept it if you get me." She tried to explain her mother's complicated views.
"Oh, I'm sorry about your dad. That's not really very fair for your mom to say that though." I said as I tried to imagine my mom being like that. I couldn't really see anyone's mom being like that; mothers should accept their daughters for whom and what they are with no exceptions.
"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. My mother just needs to get over herself really. It's not like she's not going to have grandchildren I mean, bloody hell, she's already got one grand-daughter." She said with a roll of her eyes. Miss. Lovato looked up quickly from her desk at Alyssa then back down at the papers she was marking with a tut as she put what was presumably a cross by an answer.
"Oh cool. How old?" I asked her to change the subject as she seemed to be getting slightly angry talking about her mom's disapproval.
"She's three. Her names Lucy and she's absolutely beautiful." She told me with a proud smile.
"Wow. So you have a niece then. That must be so cool. Do you get along with your siblings?" I asked, curious as to what life with siblings was like. As I had grown up and only child and would never have a niece or nephew by blood, I always found it fascinating when people with siblings told me stories about how different life was.
"I'm an only child… Lucy's my daughter." She told me shyly looking out of the window. I could see her face reflected and she looked shy again like when she'd first walked into the classroom a few hours earlier. I looked at Miss. Lovato who was looking at me with confusion on her face, much like mine I guessed.
"That's… really cool actually. I mean it's cool that you kept her and looked after her… how old were you?" I asked her. I wanted to make sure she knew that I was okay with her having a daughter and wasn't about to flip out and call her a slut.
Fifteen minutes later and the first student came in. The lesson began as usual and the rest of the day went on as it usually did. Lucy wasn't really mentioned again. At the end of the day Miss. Lovato walked me and Alyssa to my car. With one day we'd become practically joint at the hip.
In the month before I had actually somehow managed to pass my driver's test so I could drive on my own now. When we stopped at my Porsche Alyssa's mouth dropped open.
"Please tell me that's not your car." She said in complete shock as she took in the shining red body of the one hundred thousand dollar Porsche in front of her. I nodded embarrassedly and her mouth opened even more. "Your parents must be rich or something. That's beautiful." She said as she kept a slight distance from the car; probably worried about breaking it.
"You could say that. Did you want a lift home?" I asked her whilst I searched my bag for my car keys which I found quickly. I unlocked the car and it bleeped. Then the robotic voice came from inside.
"Gomez?" It asked.
"Yes." I said simply.
"Passcode." It said again in the same robotic voice. I took the keypad that was connected to my car keys and typed 8274, the code to make the car let me in and work usually.
"You may enter." The doors slid upwards to reveal the portal into the two front seats. The back doors didn't open unless I made them open from the back.
"Do you mind? I don't mind catching the bus." Alyssa said shyly.
"It's fine, hop in." I said as a group of students from the year below us walked past and shot us both dirty looks, immediately stopping when Miss. Lovato glared at them. Alyssa carefully climbed into the car and sat awkwardly in the white leather seat. I think she was scared of breaking something or breathing too much.
"See you tomorrow morning then girls, Alyssa are you coming to homeroom early with Selena?" Miss. Lovato asked me after I climbed into the car and rolled the window down so I could still speak to her.
"Yeah if that's okay with you and Selena I will do." She agreed as she quickly looked through her bag and pulled out a black and blue LG KS360.
"Yes that's fine I'll see you both tomorrow." Miss. Lovato told us as she flashed us a grin and turned to leave.
"Right. Where do you live?" I asked Alyssa who looked up from the text she was currently typing. I couldn't help but notice that she was shy to say.
"It's uh… its 37 Franz road." She said as she twiddled her thumbs. I had no idea where it was so I got my satnav out of the storage compartment and typed the address in. It was the rough area a few miles down from my house. I was slightly scared to drive my car down there because of what I'd heard about it. I didn't want someone to egg or crash into my baby. I understood why she was shy to say where she lived.
"Okay then. I'm going to make a pit stop at my house to dump my bag and tell my mom where I'm going or else she'll worry. Is that cool with you?" I asked her as I started the engine and backed out of the parking space. I maneuvered the car in and out of pupils who were walking down the school driveway. I saw Nick and had an urge to just push him along a little bit. I restrained myself though because I didn't want any trouble. The buy hadn't given me any trouble since the day he beat me up.
"Yeah that's fine." Alyssa agreed as I took a left turning, then a right to get to my street. I say street, there's around six houses there. The houses on the street went from big to huge, and mine so happened to be the end one that was huge. I pulled onto the driveway and Alyssa looked at the house in complete awe.
"This is your house?" She asked me, never taking her eyes off the house in front of her.
"Yeah, I'm going to go and take my stuff in, you can come if you'd like." I suggested with a reassuring smile before I opened the car doors by typing the code into the keypad to let us both out.
"Yeah sure." She said as she got out of the car and followed me to the house. I unlocked the door and I swear that Alyssa nearly fell over when she looked inside. I led her to the living room where my mom was watching TV and on the phone to someone. She saw me walk in with Alyssa and told the person she had to go.
"Hey honey, who's your friend?" She asked me as she averted her gaze to Alyssa who offered a small and nervous smile to my mom.
"This is Alyssa. She started at our school today. I offered her a lift home so I was just coming to dump my bag and tell you where I was going." I said happily as I sat down on the couch. Alyssa was standing awkwardly in the corner of the room where we had walked in.
"You can sit down you know." I told her as if it was obvious. She sat down stiffly next to me on the couch, much like she had done in the car.
"You can stop a little if you want, my mom won't mind cooking for you and stuff, will you mom?" I offered before checking it was okay with my mom, who nodded.
"If you don't mind that would be lovely. Is it okay with you if I use your cell to call my mom? I kind of ran out of minutes yesterday. I can give you the money for the call I make." She asked shyly. I think she felt cheeky for asking but I just handed her my iPhone.
"Go for it. You press this to dial the number." I pointed to a bit of the screen which Alyssa pressed and started dialling.
"Hey mom, it's Alyssa… Yeah it wasn't too bad thanks… Yeah… I was wondering if I could stay at my friends for dinner tonight… Yes…" She carried on speaking before she covered the speaker and turned the face my mom. "She wants to speak to you to check if it's okay." She said to my mom as she blushed slightly. My mom put her hand out to take the phone and spoke to her mom. She put the phone down and handed it back to me after about a minute.
"She said it's fine… she also asked me if you two are dating. I told her no, should I have told her yes?" My mom asked me seriously.
"No mom, we're not dating. We're going to go upstairs though. Call us when dinners ready. Love you." I said as I kissed my mom's cheek and took Alyssa's hand to drag her upstairs and too my room. She nearly fainted when she saw it.
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