Kate Marsh
"Kate?... Kate, What did you put for this problem?
Kate snapped out of her daze and turned to her friend Alyssa. She heard kids farther back in the classroom giggle and whisper to each other, feeding Kate's ever growing paranoia.
"Uhm. I got 18 for that one…"
Math was Kate's most dreaded class. She wasn't bad at math really, in fact she was quite good at it. It's just that her worst nightmares Victoria Chase and Nathan Prescott are in that two of them alone are enough trouble, enduring them together though was hell.
This crazy rumor about her had gone so far she'd started believing it herself.
What if I really did make-out with all those boys? Is this my fault?...
Alyssa gently nudged her obviously downtrodden friend, and flashed a sweet smile.
"Don't worry about them Kate, rumors don't define you."
Somehow Alyssa always knew the right thing to say. Guess that's what friends of 5 years are best at. But this reassurance only gives temporary satisfaction, and then the heavy weight of her reputation settled back in, dropping right to her stomach.
Kate felt herself getting teary eyed and knew that she needed a break. She shot her hand up to ask to go to the restroom, and the teacher simply nodded at her.
As Kate was making her way to the door she felt a crumpled paper hit her back, and the following giggles and hushes which were unmistakably Victoria Chase's.
She didn't need to read it. She knew what it would say.
Not even bothering to turn back and look, she covered her face as she sped through the door and out of the school, desperately searching for a place where she could be as far away from school as possible.
It would be another shitty day...