A/N - Wow, the reviews keep coming in quicker and quicker. Thanks for taking out your time to read and review the story!
Going into homeroom the next day, I saw that Nate seemed pretty pissed. What could be bothering him? As I sat down, I ask him "Hey, what's wrong?" He looks up to me. He has dark circles under his eyes, like he didn't sleep. He replies "You spent an entire fucking night with Shane?" Nate usually didn't swear that much, so this came as a small surprise to me. I answer him "Well, it was an accident, really…. Nothing big." Nate sarcastically says "Sure, not at all."
What's up with his attitude today? Why would he be bothered by Shane spending time with me? Breaking me out of my thoughts, he asks me "Do you want to come to my birthday party?" I'm pretty sure I look surprised, so he continues "Well, my birthday's a week from now, but I'm celebrating it tomorrow, before the first game of the season starts. That, and because it's a really small party. Nobody knows about it except for you and my brothers."
"So, a special little secret party?" I ask him. He answers "Yeah, and you're invited." I yell out "Oh shit, that means I've got to get you a present then!" Mrs. Martin yells at me for cursing out loud. I apologize then revert my attention back to Nate. "Okay, I've got ONE day to get you an awesome present. What do you want?" I ask him. He sighs and says "I'll tell you by the end of the day." I'm pretty broke right now, with only 50. I hope I can buy Nate Grey, one of the richest kids in school, something good with that.
"Wait, so you've already decided?" I ask him. He says "Yeah, but like I said. I'll tell you by the end of the day." The bell rings signaling that homeroom is over. I walk over to gym, the class that I have with Shane. As I finish changing and get out of the locker room, I see that unlike Nate, Shane looks cheerful. Hmm, Shane, cheerful?
Instead of fooling around like the other kids usually do, I just sit down in my squad, like I always do. Like I said, I'm a good student and don't fool around. Since I had a song stuck in my head, Enter Sandman by Metallica, I didn't notice someone walk over to me. That person sits down and says something, but I don't hear it at first.
Instead, I just whisper to myself "Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, pray the lord my soul to take.." I jump when that person, who turns out to be Shane asks me "Uh, do you have any mental problems or something?"
"What the fuck? You don't just surprise a person when they're in a trance like that, you know?!" I yell at him. "Sorry, I mean, I had to. You sounded kind of suicidal. What were you saying anyways?" he asks me. I answer "It was just a song, okay? You should know it, too. It's on Rock Band."
He looks like he's thinking for a second, then exclaims "Enter Sandman!" I scoff and say "Yeah, no duh. Took you long enough." Then he asks me "Why were you singing it then? I mean, you could've sung other parts, but you chose the creepy prayer." To tell you the truth, I don't know why I sung that.
"Let's just drop this pointless subject. Now, let's talk about Nate's.. party." I whisper the last part. "Oh, yeah. You coming?" he asks me. I reply "Yeah, definitely. Wouldn't miss it. I mean, it's Nate." Shane frowns, then asks "Well, what about my party?" I bite back "I heard it was last month. Wait eleven more months and see."
Today in PE, we were walking through the trails in the woods. I think it's pretty fun, actually. You just have to watch out for twigs and roots that will trip you, and try to not get ticks. Yes, it's possible to get a tick. Just as I was thinking about ticks, I hear Morgan scream "AHH! A TICK! ON MY ARM! AHHH!" Oh my God. That's got to be the most hilarious thing ever. Morgan, getting a tick!
I think this makes up for her being a bitch to me for the past couple days. While Mr. Wendler tries calming her down and sends her to the nurse, Shane runs up to me, since I'm ahead of him on the trail. "Hey, can you believe it? Morgan's getting her blood sucked out! The tick keeps getting bigger."
"Yeah, she's getting that filthy blood of hers sucked out, and I couldn't be happier," I say to him. I laugh and continue walking. Then I remember something. "Shane, why was Nate so pissed off this morning?" I ask him. He doesn't talk for a couple seconds, then he quietly answers "I got home pretty late, because of well, you know. Nate said that he was really worried and shit, so I told him the truth. I was at your cousin's house with you. He seemed pretty aggravated."
After some awkward silence between us, I say "I think he was worried that you got in an accident or got kidnapped or something." He gives me a tight smile and says "Sure, he was worried about me." I could tell he was being sarcastic, but I decided not to point that out.
By the time lunch rolled around, word had spread that Morgan had to be sent to the hospital. Okay, I admit it. I feel bad for her now. But hey, I've seen worse. When I was eleven, I remember this one kid. My sister broke her arm when she was eight, and we saw a cute six year old kid waiting with us in the emergency room. He looked perfectly fine. Turns out, he got a tick behind his ear, and his mom got the body off. The head was still attached and was still sucking blood. Pretty gross if you ask me. (A/N - True story. Poor dude..)
I wasn't that hungry today, so all I bought were some curly fries. Nicole on the other hand had buffalo wings (AGAIN) and a whole bunch of other junk. As we were walking to our table, Nate yelled to us "Hey, why don't you guys with us today?" Nicole shrugged her shoulders at me as in to say 'what the heck, might as well' and I did the same.
We walked over to their table and noticed that some of the other guys were missing. "Uh, where's the other jocks?" I ask no one in particular. Shane says "They're trying to see if they could go to the hospital to keep 'poor little Morgan' company." Nicole spits out some water and says "Psh, why would anyone want to visit her? It's just a stupid tick. They probably just want to get the rest of the day off." I agree with her and say "Yeah, you're right. Then they're gonna come back for football practice."
I grab one of Shane's napkins and wipe down that mess Nicole made. Notice how we clean up after each other? Nate asks Nicole "Hey, Nicole. I'm having a really small birthday party tomorrow. Wanna come?" She spits out more water before saying "Uh, yeah, sure. I'll get you a present tonight." I finally say to her "Dude, learn how to hold in your liquids." She sticks out her tongue at me while I do the same.
You wouldn't believe what happened in History today. We're studying Rome and their emperors when the teacher Ms. Thimm announces that we have a project. Another fucking project? You're kidding me! Once I heard what the project was, I wasn't so pissed anymore. I kind of did this in seventh grade.
You're supposed to pick an emperor and write a five page essay about them. Then do a PowerPoint presentation on them. Pretty easy if you ask me. The difference between this project and the one in seventh grade is; you have a partner, and you have to make a skit about something the emperor was known for. In high school, everybody gets partnered by their last name, so of course Nate was my partner. We could pick our emperor, and I instantly chose Nero.
He was known or quite a few things. He was probably one of the most messed up emperors there ever were. He killed his mom, banished his lover, cheated on his wife, and the list goes on. The skit had quite some potential for being a good one.
The due date was September 30th. That gives us a lot of time to do it. Nate leans over and whispers to me "So, what's Nero's life like?" I say to him "Fucked up. Really fucked up. I think this will be fun!"
He looks at me like I'm crazy, so I say "I've already done a project on him, okay? If you're Christian, you might get offended, though." He raises one of his brows and says "Well, I'm Christian. Why would I be offended?" I answer "I remember writing in my essay that he burned Christians in his garden." His eyes got wider in shock.
"So like I said, fucked up. Very fucked up" I say to him. "I'm guessing this project will be.. Interesting. What kind of scene do you want to do?" he asks me. I think about it for a moment, then say "Well, the one where he banishes a.. lover? I think, I don't really remember. She gets exiled because she can't have babies.. I think. Then some people have a protest to bring her back, and she finally comes back. But when she does, he gets some dudes to kill her when she steps foot in Rome. I'm not sure if that's how it goes.."
He stutters "Well, t-that I-is pretty.. Wow, like you said, fucked up." I smile "Yeah, sure is." It's been about a year and a half since I've done research on Nero, but I was pretty sure this project would be easy. Right before football practice, Nate, Shane and I agreed that they would buy the poster board for the Geometry project today, and we would continue with the project after Nate's small party.
Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. I ask Nate "So what do you want for your birthday?" He gives me a cute grin then says "Just bring a formal dress and shoes to school, okay?" What would he need a dress and shoes for? Good thing my closet has a bunch of dresses for me to wear. Then I ask him "You mean high heels, right?" he replies "Yeah!" as he walks away towards the boys locker room to prepare for practice.
Nate's birthday seems like it's going to be pretty fun. I get on the bus with Nicole and tell her what Nate told me to bring. She says "Oh my God, I think he wants Shane to dress in that!! That would be so hilarious!" We both laugh at that. Shane wearing one of my dresses.. He wouldn't even fit. I hope tomorrow won't suck.
A/N - Ooh, what does Nate have planned? Sorry this was so short. I had terrible stomach pains while writing it.