I had been thinking about my ride with Brittany all day long. I couldn't stop, it was so weird to hear someone say it out loud. I didn't ever hear anyone say they hated me becuase they were racist. Somehow though, something about them made me feel like it really wasn't because they were "racist". Would a racist person really give a ride to someone they truly hate? They'd rather let the person suffer in the rain. I was curious about them and what they actually wanted from me. I demanded to figure it out and I would.

Today was a normal day, me, Tina and Rachel were the only ones at the lunch table. Me and Rachel sat next to each other so she kept talking about herself and what she wants with life. I pretended to be listening but really I was just looking for Brittany. And Quinn, I guess. I couldn't see them yet so I faced Rachel and concentrated harder on what she was saying.

"What are your dreams then?" she asked when she finally stopped talking.

"To get the hell out of here"

She didn't answer to what I said. She gave me a half hearted smile and started a conversation with Tina just to avoid my pessimistic self. Just that moment, Quinn and Brittany walked into the lunch room. They looked at our direction and when Quinn met my eyes she quickly looked over at Rachel and her face expression was beyond hilarious. She looked pissed, so damn pissed. It made me laugh a little bit and I didn't know why but I couldn't control myself.

"What the hell are you laughing at?" she came up to me and said.

"You, obviously" I said with no fear of her at all.

She looked at Rachel again and Rachel just looked down at her plate like a sad little puppy. It was annoying to watch her be so afraid of Quinn.

"Is she one of your victims too?" I asked and pointed at the puppy eyed Rachel beside me.

"You can say that" she said and smirked at Rachel.

I furrowed my eyebrows and ignored it. I looked at Brittany who as always, just stood behind Quinn and waited for a opening to say something mean. It was funny now that I think about it. They were both very funny.

"Will you ever leave?" I asked when they had been standing there for too long without even saying anything. I succeeded to make them go away though, they left and sat down at their normal table.

"What the hell was that, Rachel?" Tina wondered.

"Nothing, Quinn is just messing with me like she is doing with everyone else" Rachel answered and started eating again.

Something was clearly up but I didn't care enough to even ask or get nosy. The sound of everyone in the background talking still didn't make me think of anything else. I couldn't get Brittany out of my head. It wasn't a crush or even feelings in that case, at all. It was just very hard to stop thinking about her. It really was. Every now and then I would glance over at her table at look at her just to maybe figure out what it was that made her get stuck in my head. I didn't come up with any conclusion. She smiled at her friends and they really seemed like normal, nice girls when you watched them from a far like this. However, when you get to know their type all of your hopes of maybe one day being friends with them or anything like that flies out the window. I found it odd how Brittany didn't even act like she gave me a ride home or that she almost was nice to me, and even more interesting, she didn't say anything to me today. Not a word. Even though she promised, or claimed, she wouldn't be any nicer to me just because of the ride home she gave me. Compared to her previous comments, what she was now, was being nice.

Today I decided to wear a jacket, I felt it was neccessary in case anything like that happened again. I walked to my locker to get my books in order to get my homework done tonight. That's how I spend my Friday nights when I don't have any friends. Or well, I do have Tina. And I guess you could say I had Rachel too. Although we hung out in school all the time we didn't make plans outside school property. Not that I'm upset about it or anything, it's just that sometimes I wouldn't mind hanging out with them outside school, like today. Studying on a Friday night? Not really my first choice, but it was also my only choice. I put the key into the keyhole and opened the locker up. I got my books and shoved them into my bag that was almost full because I had the gym clothes in there too. Not the smartest choice but what do I do? Before shutting it again I noticed there was a piece of white paper folded inside the locker right on the left corner of it. I took the piece of paper in my hands out of curiousity, I didn't remember putting it there. I shut the locker and unfolded it on my way to the bus stop. Two words were written in a girly, yet elegant script. Be safe. The first one I thought of was Brittany, it had to be her.

In biology class, nothing ever seemed to be fully okay. It was always something up, people arguing, the teacher getting furious and the most usual thing, me and Quinn fighting. I was relieved when I looked up at the clock and found that there was not more than five minutes left of the lesson. I would hurry out of the classroom and wait for Brittany and Quinn to walk out so I could ask Brittany what she meant by the note she put in my locker. When the teacher dismissed us I picked up my books and stood outside the classroom. Not too long after me, they walked out. I made my way to stand in front of them and they stopped walking.

"What do you want?" Quinn bugged.

"I want to ask Brittany something" I responded.

I looked at Brittany who was some inches taller than me and tried to keep my eyes away from meeting hers. Each time I looked at Brittany I always looked at her eyes, not because I wanted to but because the blue color they had made something inside me curious. However, I did catch her attention and I took the note out of my pocket.

"What did you mean by this?"

She looked at me and took the piece of paper in her hand and read it briefly. She shook her head and gave it back to me with a mocking smile.

"As much as you'd want it to be.. I didn't put that in your locker" she said.

"Come on, if you didn't, then who else would it be?" I nagged.

"I don't know. Don't ask me, maybe someone likes you" she laughed and they walked away.

Something about her made me sure about the fact that she was telling the truth. I just didn't want to believe it because I was worried about who it might had been. Could it be some random guy who's been watching me and stalking me? It could be anyone, really. I was desperate to find out exactly who.

On my way to lunch, this time without Tina, she was sick today so I didn't have anyone to hang out with. I hadn't seen Rachel around either and a part of me was kind of happy about that fact. Still, it would be nice to have someone to hang out with. I would look pathetic sitting there alone. It was so empty in the hallway that I could hear the people who were outside school shout and talk awfully loud. I didn't usually hear them when the hallways were full of students. Most people were still in class and the other half was probably already at lunch.

"Hey" someone said and dragged me by the arm and pushed me to the wall.

With her hand placed on my shoulder she looked into my eyes with a playful, annoying smile on her lips. I shivered as her hand started to move from my neck up to my cheek. I could bet the whole world she could feel I shuddered. I looked at her and tried to push myself away but she caught my eyes and I stopped.

"It was me," she whispered into my ear and I swear to God I felt her tongue wander across my ear as well "you know.. I've built some kind of obsession with mocking you all the time.." I swallowed a big lump in my throat to prevent myself from either laughing or saying something stupid. I didn't know how to react.

I pushed aside her and stood there with my back facing the hallway and her back facing the wall. I took several steps back slowly, and quickly rushed to the lunch room. I searched the lunch room until finally and luckily, I found the blonde guy and the dark girl I had talked to the first day I got introduced to my "new friends" the one I really became friends with was Tina. Nevertheless, I walked towards them and hoped they would be okay with me sitting with them. And of course, they were.

"It just hit me you don't even know my name," the dark girl laughed "my name is Mercedes" she smiled.

"You already know my name though" I joked and looked around the room, nearly all the time.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yes, how come?"

"Well.. for starters, your eyes are scanning every single clique in this room all the time and secondly, you haven't even picked out your lunch box" she said with a sympatethic look on her face.

"I'm fine" I assured and picked the blue lunch box out of my bag and began to eat.

I would eat the food we get in school but it's really disgusting. I tried it once and I'm never putting myself through that again. Ever.

"So are Quinn and Brittany still on your back?" Mercedes questioned.

"Kind of, not like the first few days but they are, yeah" I implied.

She just looked around as I did and furrowed her eyebrows at me.

"Seriously," she laughed "what are you looking for?"

"Nothing, nothing"

"Are you sure? It doesn't seem like nothing"

God. She was worse than that Rachel girl, so damn nosy. Couldn't she just mind her own business and not ask me about every single move I make. It was impossible to avoid her questions. I looked at Mercedes and tried to smile but my face wouldn't allow me to look nice.

"It's nothing. Let it go, will you?" I almost begged.

"Fine," she said "but, if it's Quinn and Brittany you're looking for.. They're sitting on the table behind you by the door" she pointed at them and looked at me.

I sank into my chair with my arms crossed and my eyes facing my untouched lunch box.

"I figured" she cleared her throat to obviously stop herself from laughing.

When the subject was off topic and we started discussing other not interesting stuff I sneaked a look and caught Quinn looking at me. All I could think about now was how the anger in my chest began to expand through my whole body. Only now, when I was out of the shock moment, I wanted to go up to her and punch her head off. I didn't though, I kept sitting with Mercedes and her blonde friend. I hoped they wouldn't come up here like they usually did. I knew that if I had the chance I would start fighting with her. The feeling of her tongue brushing against my ear made me so uncomfortable, and the note.. The confusing note. It was all so messed up. She kept finding new ways to torture me basically all the time. This though, it was too much for me to cope with.

During all yesterday, Tuesday, I didn't see the cheerleaders. It was a good thing because I was still very confused with Quinn and the way she acted. I kept the note in my pocket still, just to pick it up and try to read between the lines every time I thought of it. Why would she want me to be safe if she's the only person who's making it not safe for me in this school? She was hard to read but after analyzing it since Friday, I decided to think of it as a warning. Quinn and Brittany had probably planned something awful and she put that note in my locker just to prepare me for it. Then again, what was with that little scene she caused? Where she threw herself on me?

On Wednsdays, we didn't have many lessons. It was math, English and P.E class only. I didn't have any of those lessons with Quinn and Brittany, except for P.E, which I didn't want to face. Everytime we had P.E they would choose me to be on their team only to make it seem like I'm a shitty player on whatever sport we are doing, even though I'm better than them most of the time. Or, they would not choose me so I was on the other team and they had the chance to attack me so it didn't look like they hated me to the teacher, they always made it look like an accident. Also, in the locker room I always changed in the bathroom, I know, it was silly but I didn't feel good about the fact that I was one hundred percent sure that they would either hide my clothes or pull some other sick joke.

When the moment came and I had to be in the same room as them, I tried to avoid Quinn as much as possible, Brittany on the other hand, didn't give me any attention at all anymore, not even a glance or a angry glare for that matter. It was only Quinn, she as she said some days ago, was obsessed with mocking me.

"Okay guys, team up" the teacher demanded and we got into teams.

For my luck, Tina didn't skip P.E today, she always did but I convinced her not to do it today. I really didn't feel like being alone near Quinn. Me and Tina were in the same team and so was Brittany, Quinn was in the other team. We were playing volleyball and I kicked ass on this sport so I was going to beat the other team by myself if I had to. And of course, I did. Not alone though, but we did win. Not surprisingly at all, Quinn was pissed off about it. She was saying things about me cheating and coming up with excuses to why she couldn't win, until she got calmer and walked up to me.

"Nice played, Lopez" she passed me and nudged my shoulder.