Cat's POV
Robbie's completely ignoring me now! He doesn't look at me, he doesn't talk to me and he hasn't been to any lessons we have together since the kiss. I leave notes on his locker but he just screws them up and throws them away like the others! I need help. I told Tori that nothing happened during the study session but it's been a week now and Robbie's still ignoring me. I'm desperate for advice! That's how I ended up in Tori's bedroom on a Friday evening, trying to stop her screaming.
"I can't believe he kissed you!" she cried.
"You've said that about 80 times!" I pointed out. "Now can you please stop shouting!"
She quickly pretended to zip up her mouth and sat down, ready to listen to me.
"So are you two like together now?" she said excitedly.
"No, because he's completely ignored me ever since" I whined.
"Have you tried talking to him?" she asked.
"Yeah, the very few times we've actually been near each other and he always just ignores me and brushes past me!"
"Then it's obvious what we have to do."
"It is?" I questioned, completely oblivious to what she was talking about.
"If he won't pay attention to you, then we've got to make him!"
"Make him?" I asked, nervous.
"You don't need to worry, little grasshopper, aunt Tori will take care of everything" she said, patting my head.
I was nice and cosy in bed when I heard my mom calling up to me. I looked over to my clock and saw that it was 6am. I groaned and dragged myself out of bed, plodding down the stairs when I saw Tori in my hallway with my mom.
"Tori, what are you doing here?" I moaned.
"I thought we were going to get ready for school together" she said innocently. My mom just shrugged and went back upstairs to bed and I dragged Tori with me up to my room.
"6 o clock?! Really?!" I hissed.
"We have a lot of work to do" she said, pushing me to sit down at my vanity. I then saw her get something out of her bag and plug it into my wall.
"What exactly are we doing then?" I asked nervously.
"Making you irresistible!" she said excitedly. She grabbed a brush and ran it through my crazy curls. She then got the thing plugged into my wall, which turned out to be straightening tongs, and started flattening my springy curls. Once she was done I pulled at my now-straight locks as she grabbed a bag out of her backpack. She pulled out a large bag that was purple and covered in various grubby marks.
"What's in there?" I asked, nervously.
"Make up" she stated, opening the bag to reveal a sea of pots and tubs and brushes.
She began by moisturising my face and then did a layer of foundation. She then covered up any spots or blemishes with some concealer then did a layer of powder and a layer of bronzer. She tinted my cheeks with a pink sparkly blusher and then began on my eyes. A pale, shimmer eye shadow and then the corners and creases done with a bronze/purple colour. She then used black kohl to outline my eyes and did a flick of black, liquid eyeliner on my lids. She then stuck some long, thick fake eyelashes and topped it up with some mascara. She finished with my lips, colouring them in pink with a lip pencil and then putting lip gloss on for shine.
"Tada!" she said, stepping back with a flourish. But before I even got a chance to have a proper look at my new face, she dragged me towards my bed and sat me down. Reaching into a plastic bag she was carrying, she revealed some black high-waist shorts and a white bra-let with red polka dots.
"Tori! I can't wear that!" I exclaimed, looking at the clothes she was holding up.
"Look, do you want Robbie's attention or not?" she asked, exasperated. I remember the kiss and how much Robbie had ignored me recently. With a new push of determination, I grabbed the clothes and hurried off to my bathroom to get dressed. I reappeared and Tori wolf whistled at me before reaching down and revealing a pair of white wedges. I sighed and put them on before grabbing my backpack and heading downstairs to eat some breakfast. As I entered the kitchen my mom gasped audibly and my dad choked on his cup of coffee.
"You are not going to school dressed like that!" he exclaimed, pointing to my outfit. I looked back to Tori for help and she just shrugged, avoiding eye contact and suddenly being very interested in our kitchen walls.
"Please daddy" I said in my best begging voice. "I really want to try a new look for my new school!"
"Well let her dress how she wants" my mom said, ignoring my dad's angry glares because she didn't want to make a scene in front of Tori. "High school is the time for experimenting with looks and things, isn't it? I mean you didn't like her hair at first and now you love it!" My dad just grunted in response and went back to his newspaper. "Speaking of hair, it looks lovely like that baby" my mom said, tugging at the ends. I smiled a genuinely happy smile at her, she was like my best friend.
"We're going now mommy, see you later daddy" I said, kissing his cheek. I then grabbed Tori's hand and dragged her out of the house. It was an uncomfortable bus ride as I tried to ignore everyone's stares while Tori flirted with a boy sat behind us. As we got closer to school I started to regret dressing like this, realising what a bad idea it was. Tori opened the doors and I took a deep breath, trying to prepare myself for what was to come.
As I walked down the corridors, I could feel more and more pairs of eyes on me. We approached Tori's locker where André was stood and his eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Damn lil' red, what happened?" he said, gesturing to my clothes (or lack of).
I swallowed nervously, tugging at my shorts. "Do you like it?" I asked.
"Well it's nice" he said. "But it doesn't matter whether I like it. What matters is whether Mr. Shapiro likes it" he whispered, winking at me. I blushed and tugged at my shorts some more, trying to pull them down. Tori scowled at me and swatted my hand away.
"I'm going to my locker" I murmured.
"Don't you dare touch those clothes" Tori said, turning to talk to André and I walked down the corridor towards my locker, feeling more eyes on me. As I was taking things out of my locker, I heard someone clear their throat next to me. I turned to see a boy with brunette hair and brown eyes, wearing jeans and a black shirt.
"H-hi, you're Cat right? My name's Evan" he said, extending his hand out for me to shake. I took it hesitantly, wondering what was going on.
"Hi Evan" I said, smiling lightly.
"Well I just wanted to say that you look really nice today and I was wondering if you wanted…" he trailed off and his face went white as a sheet.
"What did you want?" I heard a voice hiss. I jumped when my locker slammed shut and I turned my head to see Robbie stood behind me, an angry look shrouding his features. "Come on, what were you going to say?" he asked.
"Just that she looks pretty" the boy stammered.
"Yeah, I know she does" Robbie said. The boy just looked at us like he was going to cry. "Was there anything else?" Robbie demanded. The boy shook his head quickly and rushed off.
"I should probably get to class" I mumbled, trying to walk away. I felt something tug against the waistband of my shorts and then I was pulled back into the lockers with a bang. Robbie put both hands on either side of me and pressed up against me.
"You're dressed very differently today" he whispered in my ear, making me shiver. "Any reason?"
"Certainly not for you" I spat, scowling at him. He smirked at me, which wasn't the reaction I expected, and trailed his hands down my sides, stopping at my waist.
"I never said that it was for me" he said, chuckling.
"Good, because it's not" I said.
"You don't like me?" he said, pouting. I couldn't respond because all of a sudden he leant forwards, pressing against me again, his arms wrapping around my waist completely. "We'll have to change that then, won't we?" he whispered in my ear.
Then suddenly, I was looking at the floor and my feet weren't on the ground. It took a couple of seconds to register that Robbie had picked me up and put me over his shoulder so I was looking at his back. I then wriggled and squirmed but he didn't struggle under my weight at all.
"Put me down" I squealed, slapping his back.
"Cat, baby, that's not going to work one little bit" he said with humour in his voice. I stopped struggling as soon as I heard his words. He called me baby.
He carried me into a room and put me the right way up again. I ran to the door to try and open it but he was stood in my way, not letting me past.
"So, are you going to tell me why you're dressed like that?" he asked.
"No, are you going to tell me why you've been ignoring me for the past week?!" I demanded, suddenly full of confidence. The smirk fell off his face and his eyes turned dark.
"Well, I…I was-"
"No Robbie!" I cut him off. "You can't just kiss a girl, kick her out of your house and then ignore her for a week! It's not fair! Why would you do that? If you were just using me then fine, I get it, but if it meant more then why-" He pushed me against the wall, silencing me, and pushed his face into the crook of my neck.
"I can't-" he murmured.
"Can't what?" I whispered, my heart beating 1000 times a minute.
"There's something about you. I don't know what it is. It makes my head go fuzzy" he said. He then gently nipped the skin on my neck, making me gasp audibly.
"Robbie?" I whispered.
"What?" he said, looking at me with lidded eyes. I didn't say anything but somehow he knew exactly what I wanted. He kissed me and I felt my legs go to jelly. I kissed him back just as enthusiastically and wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling him even closer to me. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes until we really had to come up for air. We pulled apart and he put his forehead on mine, closing his eyes. Our breathing was so loud I was sure that somebody in the corridor would hear it. But I didn't care. Robbie Shapiro had just full on made out with me. In a janitor's closet.
"My head's all fuzzy again" he moaned.
I giggled and pecked him on the lips. "Mine too" I whispered. He chuckled deep in his throat and I felt my stomach flip. He kissed me again and his arms wrapped around my waist. He lifted me up and pushed me against the wall, hard. I wrapped my legs around him and my hands travelled to his messy, dark hair. We stayed in the closet for a while until Luther, the janitor, came in and found us wrapped up in each other. I blushed but Robbie just told him not to say anything and so he didn't. I went to class because I had already missed the first lesson and I couldn't afford a bad attendance record. Robbie went to do whatever it is goldens do when they're not in lessons.
It was lunchtime and I was skipping down the corridors, putting my books away and getting my purse out for lunch. News of new student Cat Valentine's outfit had spread through the school and everyone was staring at me. But I didn't care. I was on a Robbie cloud high. Nothing could bring me down. Except maybe what happened next.
"Cat Valentine to guidance councillors office please" I heard over the school talloy. Immediately people started talking in hushed tones about what I could have done. I closed my locker and nervously headed to the guidance counsellor's office. I knocked on the door and heard a man's voice welcoming me in. He sat me down on a black, leather seat and sat down in some egg chair hanging off the ceiling. I'd probably find it cool if I wasn't so terrified.
"Now Cat, we must talk about your…attire" he said, gesturing to my outfit. I blushed and fiddled with a loose thread on a cushion, embarrassed that a male teacher had analysed my clothes. "Now I'm not sure whether it's a statement against your parents or what it is, but it's really not suitable for school" he said in a dull voice. "You must wear more appropriate clothing tomorrow or you'll receive a warning." I nodded and felt my heart rate increase. I've been here a couple of weeks and I'm already seeing a counsellor?!
I was snapped from my thoughts when the door was flung open and Robbie walked in. I tried to control my breathing when I saw that he was mad. Which instantly made him extremely hot.
"What's happening here?" he demanded.
"Cat's getting a warning for her cl-clothes" the counsellor stammered.
"No she's not" Robbie said, taking my hand and pulling me from the couch. "She's with me."
"Oh" the man said, suddenly changing his demeanour. "Well you two should go and enjoy your lunch" he said.
"Thanks Lane" Robbie said, winking at him before dragging me out the office.
"Do you control everyone in this school?" I asked disapprovingly.
He laughed at me and then pushed me up against his locker, the smile on his face gone. "Yes. I do. I completely agree with Lane. That outfit is inappropriate for school. I can't have other boys looking at what is rightfully mine. And besides, how am I meant to get any work done if all I can think about is ravaging you in that janitor's closet again" he whispered huskily against my jaw. I felt my legs go weak and I just wanted to kiss him so badly. He leaned in to kiss me but just as he was centimetres away from my lips, he pulled away and smirked, walking off.
I stood there in a daze until Jade West came along.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, scowling at me.
"Nothing" I said, trying to clear my head.
"That's a lie" she stated, opening her locker and getting some scissors out. I gulped and tried my very best to not annoy her while she was carrying her instrument of death.
"I…uh…got to go" I said, rushing off.
Jade's POV
I looked at the redheaded girl's retreating figure and smirked. She was so caught up in Robbie. Like 99% of the girls in this school. Thing is, she's different. I see everything and I know there's something about her. It's affecting Robbie.
He's falling.
AN: Tada! Cat and Robbie in a closet during class, tut tut ;)
This is the top that Cat was wearing: white_bralet_with_red_polka/thing?id=68056071
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