When Past Meets Present

Chapter Three: King of Jerks

Dana's POV

I woke in my bed. It was morning.

I groaned. "What happened? Where's Logan?"

"Oh, Logan carried you bridal style here. He said you fell asleep on his shoulder." Explained Nicole in a peppy, annoying voice. Who could be this happy in the morning?

"What did you say?!" Lola said coming back from a shower.

"Uuh, nothing." Nicole replied leaving with Zoey. (They were both already showered and dressed so they went to get breakfast before our classes.)

"Did Logan meet with you after our date?!" Lola screamed.

"Uuh yeah." I said calmly. "He said you were jealous so he left."

"Me," Lola screamed, "jealous of YOU?!!!!! WOW. Logan must have really lost it."

"I think maybe you lost your special touch that gets him running back to you since he came to me after your date." I said starting to pick up what I needed to go shower. I was trying to get her mad. She looked so funny when she was all worked up over nothing. "And just like Nicole said, he carried me bridal style. Has Logan ever carried you bridal style? You're so skinny and light, he must have. Unless…" Lola's face was red now. "Oh, well never mind. Logan Reese." I sighed. "He's such a sweetheart really." I finished getting the last thing and heading out the door.

Lola grabbed my hair and yanked it. "Look you b-" she was cut off when Logan came in.

"Uum, Dana you left your scarf." He said. "What's going on here?"

Lola broke into tears. She ran into Logan's hands. "She was strangling me Logan!" she cried. "It was just self defense. She said I should back off. She also said something about you two being meant to be. She called me names and said you called me names last night when you were together. I didn't believe her." She started sobbing really hard. I heard she was a good actress but, WOW!

Logan looked at me surprised. "What's the matter with you?! Leave my girlfriend alone!"

"OH MY GOD; YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE HER?!!!!!!" I screamed. I couldn't believe this two faced jerk.

"Well, she is the one crying, Dana." He said

"You expect me to cry! You expect me cry? You expect me to cry." I said. "You know no matter how you say it, it still sounds crazy. I am Dana Danger Cruz! You really don't know me at all!!!!!"

"No obviously, I've never seen this side of you!" said pointing at still crying Lola. I swear she was laughing now. Idiot couldn't even notice. He was too busy yelling at me. His girlfriend was the possessed one!

"Why are you even here, other than to accuse me?!" I asked rather loudly.

"Your scarf." He said.

"Well then hand it over idiot!" I said.

"Which half." He asked sweetly.

"What?" I asked looking at my scarf which was in one piece.

He ripped it in half, and then asked again sweetly, "Which half."

I couldn't believe my eyes. No Lola must be doing this. This wasn't Logan. Lola was playing an acting part where she had to look like a super FINE guy.

But it was Logan. This was the scarf my grandma, the only person that ever loved me had given me before she passed away. I screamed and slapped Logan. I was about to do it again but he grabbed my hand tightly. So much it hurt. I winced.

"Haven't you ever heard never to hurt a girl?!" I screamed in agony.

"You're a girl," he asked, "not with that scream." He laughed at his own joke as he imitated me. Meanwhile Lola seemed to be enjoying this.

"Yes Logan, I'm a girl and I've got the chest to prove it to you. Unlike your stick figure girlfriend!" Lola frowned. I stared at the scarf. It was ripped between the part that said To: Dana

Love from: Grandma

Now one half said, To: Da

Love fr

And the other half said, na

om: Grandma

I kicked him in his treasure. I wrapped my hands around his neck and started to choke him. It was either choke Logan or cry and I was not about to break down in front of Lola or Logan. He pushed to my bed and tore both halves of my scarf again leaving: To : Da

Love fr

na

om: Grandma

I broke down. Lola left.

"Dana I…"

"Leave me alone!!!!!" I screamed.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to…" he tried to explain.

"NO!" I screamed. "I don't wanna hear it! You can't just barge in here, accuse me of something I didn't do, and then tear up the scarf the only person that ever loved me gave me before died!!!!!!"

"I didn't know it…" he started.

"Leave!!!!!!!" I said throwing a glass object from the floor at him. He ducked and it hit the bedroom door. I then realized what I had thrown at him. It was something made of real emeralds that said D&L. He had given it to me years ago. It was broken now.

"Hey!" he yelled. "That was not cheap and you could have killed me just then." Then he saw me still crying and said, "I am so sorry. I…" He tried to say.

"Logan I swear to God if you don't go now, I will throw something else at you!" I screamed between tears.

He just wasn't getting the message. "Please just…" he said.

I held up a real diamond flower over my head ready to throw it. He'd also given to me when I was here before.

"Logan, I will not hesitate to throw this. I swear…" I said

"Come on Dana. You are not gonna throw that." He said in a know-it-all voice. I gave him a serious face and put my arm back a bit just about to throw it. He left. Idiot! What kind of girl would give up a diamonds? I wiped my tears. Then realized I was sooooooooo late to school! The first day of the semester; my first school day back here and I was late because of Logan Reese! I didn't think it was humanly possible to hate someone more than I hated him right now!

I smashed my fist against the closet hard at all the drama that had just happened. It hurt. It hurt a lot. I tear rolled down my cheek. He had made me cry. I was crying over a guy. Just like every other woman in my family.

Lola was probably going crazy wondering what had happened. I smiled at the thought. I quickly ran to shower and stuff. I dressed up a black tank top, black shorts and black sandals. I wore black eyeliner, black mascara; I put some pale foundation on, and then after considering, black lipstick. I would show Logan I was not happy at all and not to be messed with. I finished by putting on skull rings and skull earrings.

Logan's POV

After I left Dana's dorm, I went back to mine to shower and stuff, I changed and got ready for class. I was almost at homeroom, when I saw Dana. At least I think it was Dana. She was wearing all black with heavy makeup.

"Whoa!" I said. She gave me a dirty look and walked by. We got to homeroom around the same time.

"You're late." Said Mrs. Dennis. (I just made that up).

"Sorry." We both mumbled.

"Detention after school, okay." Mrs. Dennis said. Mrs. Dennis was a pretty nice teacher. Good looking too. Mr. Dennis was one lucky man. "Oh, Dana nice to see you back." Mrs. D. smiled. Dana mumbled something.

All through class, Dana gave me dirty looks. Like really dirty looks.

Slowly after school came which meant detention. Maybe I could talk to Dana then. I was so stupid for ripping her scarf. She cried which meant it was a very important scarf. Sometimes I don't think before I act. I hit my head against the wall a million times when I got back to my dorm. I had never seen her so mad. I bet she would try to kill me some other time. I knew she wouldn't throw the diamond at me. I think. I just didn't understand why she told Lola all the stuff she said. I had never seen Lola cry so hard. At first I thought she might be acting but shook the idea out of my head. Lola wasn't that bad. Maybe Dana still liked me so she told Lola the rumors. I wasn't sure.

Dana's POV

I wasn't going to detention. Not on my first school day back. I had an idea. Mrs. D. always seemed to understand me, so I would tell her what happened.

I went to my dorm to get the 4 pieces of my scarf and the broken crystal. When I got there, I saw Lola reading lines or something.

"Hi Dana," she said in a fake, sweet voice. I gave her the finger and left.

I found Mrs. D. still in the classroom. "Oh, hey Dana." She greeted. "I'm really sorry about the detention; just doing my job."

"Actually, I came to explain why I was so late." I took a deep breath and told her the whole story, leaving out the part where I cried.

"Oh, Dana I'm so sorry." Mrs. D. said giving me a hug. She looked at my scarf. "I know you wouldn't rip that scarf on purpose to get yourself out of detention or break that crystal thing. Don't worry, you can forget all about detention. You need time to heal." She was so sympathetic.

"Thank you." I said then walked away.

As I left I saw Logan going to detention. I walked by him.

"Dana skipping detention wont help anything." I just left. I decided to shoot some hoops to calm myself down.

At the basketball court, I saw Zoey. "Hey, how come you were late today?" she asked.

"Some jerk made me late." I said angrily.

"Oh my gosh, what did Logan do?" she asked coming over to me.

"I don't wanna talk about it." I said missing my first shot. Man I was stressed out. If I got a zit because of this I would kill Logan.

Evening at the Beach

I sat legs in front of me and hands behind my back on the sand staring at the sky. The sun was just going down. It was beautiful. I cleared my head.

"Sky's beautiful." I heard a voice say. Please if there is a God, don't be Logan. I turned around. The whole world was against me. I got up to leave. "Wait, Dana." He said.

"Logan, get away from me. What are you doing here anyways?" I asked.

"Well, for one, I love watching the sun go down and two, there's only sand and water so if you thrown those at me, it wouldn't hurt."

I smiled, then quickly got some sand and put it down his pants. He started jumping around, and itching. "Goodbye Logan." I said calmly.

"No wait!" he said grabbing me by the hand. Then from all that wiggling or something, he fell dragging me down with him.

"What is your problem?!" I screamed falling hard, luckily the sand was soft.

"Sorry." He said still itching. I rolled my eyes and left. I had to remember not to come to the beach too often. It wasn't really a nice, relaxing spot to go to anymore.

Room 101

I got my room ready to just fall on my bed but as luck would have it, Lola was there.

"Oh hello Dana, how very pleasant to see you." She greeted sarcastically. Zoey and Nicole were probably brushing their teeth.

"What now!" I said too exhausted to start a fight.

"Well, just to let you know, the Dean has to move you or me out tomorrow and since Nicole told him we would end up killing each other and three is the maximum number for a room this size, one of us is leaving." She said

"That's great." I said getting cozy in my bed.

"Well, I told him to move you since I was already here and your bed's inflatable, but he said that wouldn't be very fair. So I told him that you were like strangling me, but he needed a witness, which is where Logan comes. Of course he'll defend me since I'm his girlfriend.

Wow, this chick could talk. "Logan saw nothing but your fake tears." I stated.

"Like I said, I'm his girlfriend, and he also saw you cry Danger Cruz." Lola replied with a laugh.

I got up, walked to her bedside table, got her script and ripped it into fours.

"I hope you're ready to re-type that!" she said angrily. I ripped it into smaller pieces and threw it in her face. Nicole and Zoey came in and got into bed. I went to brush my teeth then came back and got into bed.

"Goodnight, friends, goodnight Lola; and by the way, Lola, you've got some paper on your face." I switched off the light. Tomorrow, somehow, I would make Logan defend me. I then fell asleep.

Logan's POV

I got up early and showered and stuff. I went to get breakfast. I got in line for pancakes. Dana had just got hers and was about to brush by me hard, but tripped on my leg and fell down, face in her food. She got up.

"Logan!" she screamed.

"I totally didn't mean to do that." I said apologetically. Why do these things always happen to me?

"Whatever." She said. "And I didn't mean to do this." She took the large bowl of syrup and dumped it on my head. Lots of kids laughed.

Sand in the pants, syrup all over; soon we'd be equal and she'd forgive me. Soon I hope. Dana wiped her face with some napkins, and then stuck some on me. She laughed along with some other kids, then left to get a table. I stayed calm. Soon this would all be over. Walking all over campus itching myself had really got me mad, but I stayed calm, it would all end soon. Dana knew I would stay calm through anything and she was taking advantage. I got my food and started to walk away.

"Hey Reese," Some guy on the basketball team said, "Look at the bright side. There are two. One, when we play basketball and you're on defense, you can really stick to the offense; and you never have to get up to get more syrup for pancakes again." He laughed hysterically with some other kids. Loser. He hated me because I gave him huge wedgies in class last year and put itching powder in his shorts before the basketball finals; also last year. Coach couldn't let him play at all.

I sat down alone. This would be a long sticky day.