Between the lines
lor
ng to spot the idiot, so while everyone else hurries to their classrooms and the morning announc
lesson, though that doesn't particularly matter to me because I'm pretty sure that no person in their right mind
ry to intrude but there's an emergency. Davidson and
urns to Kyle and gives him a quick
pping his pen and leaning back into his seat with folded arms. He's not h
he script?" I in
onfused, oblivious
Kyle has such
; the script we got ye
ns calm and sighs. "No, I
I roll my eyes and they land on Olivia, sittin
I give her a pointed look. I turn back to K
he middle of learning?"
cles. I unzip my schoolbag and
living daylight out of my bad luck and basically abusing the poor sheets of paper to the point where it looked lik
. All the other students in the class –and
Bu
osition. He yells, and I proceed to pull him out of the classroom while simultaneously apologizing to th
ainful groan before yelling, "Let go of m
e at me in horror. After I decide that a moment is all he needs, I grip at his s
hair! Not the hair!" T
ou by those two unflattering black snake bites
gth of Hulk. He pulls away from me and finds a way
. "Do you want that septum piercing yanked out of
reply. "You're so incompetent. If you had read the script last night you'd know why I'm bu
sincerely hope that it hurt. "What's so despairing that you had to kidnap me from class and coul
e rolling his eyes and glaring at me to sha
follo
we enter the room. I pinch Kyle by his ear again and he stumbles away from me to cover it. If it had ripped off I'd bore a hole into it and wear it as a necklace. If I wa
xpression over her pearly smile before respond
teeth and inhaling deeply. In as low a tone as possible, I try to rem
exa
ds. It's rather fitting that you'r
hering you? I hope you two haven't gotten yourselves
, "I'm missing physics because of you. What th
n, "I have learnt parts of it before," another poke, "And while taking into account every single time I've ever crossed
ice shakes
hat
under my finger and flipping through it, s
urning to him. "You see, Clueless Clif
ing to flip through the script like an imbecile with a futile motive. "Look at all these damn scri
fool out of himself. I pull the script from
say to the adults in front of us. He runs a hand down the back of
quite soft –at least it felt like he had a pretty good
e the
l its changes up till the point where you crossed the line with the kis
. "We aren't
We are not
ssed through the room a
th done?" Mr
de the rival party aware of the iss
for the explanat
Ye
board had sponsored it so she sat still until it was over to present her own idea. Then, it was scripted in into its current concept and left to rest until this new school year began. The contents of the
ads. You dummy. You absolute idiot. You sickening dweeb. You
we don't have to do
ave me from this unin
protests, sternly. "You dare not rem
you agree to uphold the initial terms
HANK
THANK YOU,
the kiss scene, I'd still have to cooperate wi
, turning to Kyle wit
," Mrs Bev's voice
s literally no other reason
ght abou
eat, his expression softening. "
to kill
cene, right? Is that right?" I ask in a desperat
rs Bev says, in her expressionles
almost ye
yle yells
sh bag. I study Kyle for a moment
*
d I take our trays to a table
urger it's like she's swallowing a whale
out of the cafeteria right then a
I say, bitin
plies, through
into my mouth. "Did
night. I'll do it bef
d or seen it. There are... things. Things that weren't there before. Strange things. Things I don't want to talk about while eat
just chew your food," she scolds me. "Yo
in front of us. Kyle slams his tray down on the furniture. He picks up his burger –drenched in so many sauce
ious b
Pal." H
most
ivia and reply to him. "You disgust me. No, you know what? I'm not even going to tempt you to insult or figh
are a stifled snic
y to talk to someone you're trying to cooperate wi
e over his head. He stands frozen at the feeling of the liquid on his skin, rolling down his cheeks, soaking into his scalp. Students who witness the action laugh and
e to run down his fac
holds an expression of shock –covering her
of his disgustingly sloppy burger in his hand and proceedin
p in h
dar
stern and frightening. "Don't test me." He says, walking away and pull
y," Ron says, following
barrassment, or I'll die of shame, or I'll die of frustration or anger, or I'll die because I'll kill myself. The two of us are never going to cooperate." I close
turn to look up and find Adrien Evans with an exte
go. Take these. What was all that abo
t the thought of Kyle and I being friends, but I'm too upset. "Thanks, Adrien -and hell to th
ping sauce on someone's face is the closest I've seen that guy come to having physical contact with
," I
eady looking up at him but turns away the moment he turns to her.
le too quickly, "Everyone in senio
ace. "You can take a sea
ging into his plate of potato wedges. Olivia goes
into my best friend –she's such a sell-out of herself w
g to snap her out of her daze before she embarrasses herself. S
turns to me. "Huh? Oh,
ere you're surrounded by too many friends to even be spotted among them? You've been pretty dis
so many times. That kind of life doesn't exactly allow one to settle with a sizable g
move so much? And to think you could've been done with all this high school c
got full custody of me when I was eight, and things were fine then but now he's a mess. So whenever he
ord to buy a house as recently as a year and a half ago. I've moved and rented houses and apartments my whole
sks, gesturing to Olivia, "or
. He never was my friend. He nev
e able to do anything t
do you
a tough one," he compliments. "He can't knock you down. He won't. And i
One of the class
rs –this one will make it the fourth. I just can't believe now it's gotten to the point wh
you two have to take the leading roles and how apparently the two of you are a popular pair in the school when it co
wards me. So I just return the favour. I
ivia. "You're a
" She r
t? Olivia Pres
aybe her reserved demeanour is roped to the fact that her parents run a church, but what I know for
a little tired, I think. And upset. Malory, you're still not telling me about what happ
script, Olivia. I'm not getting int
*
on
before approaching him. I finally find him in the boys' bathroom
ory Lloyd... and after four –almost five- years of b
I say to him. "S
h spite. "Sure. You might as well go sit with her an
having strong, impulsive urges to get violent when threatened specifically when it involves Kyle, and spit some seriously wounding insults most
hose who take the time to prove they're being genuine towards him. Like me. You'd think that after four, almost five, years of knowing him I'd be able to pick his brain
r waiting to pounce. One step over the line and he would go insane. I've only seen him get pushed over the e
aggressive a handful of times but I know that it could get out of hand. She
him –when I try to protect him. "You know, Ron," he says, his tone mechanical, "it's like you know me but you don't know
en talking about?
in. He sighs, closing his
my side or not. Sto
into my shoulder on purpose and walking
ly smart and has a funny bone every once in a blue moon, or that he's
ill can't pinpoint a defined method of dealing wit
m, I've spent far too much time by his side to mope over defeat w
meday I'll get the answers I want –that someday Kyle would learn that life isn't all about wo
t part of
Romance
Romance
Romance
Modern
Romance
Romance