Chapter 38: The weird nerds

The next day, I woke up and got ready for school. When I was done wearing my uniform, I remembered I slept off without hiding the pills, I walked to my bed and searched for the pills but it wasn't there, I searched under the bed and in my closet but I couldn't find them. I was worried about it but I ignored it and hope Mom doesn't find it so she won't think otherwise.

I headed downstairs for breakfast, on my way to the dining, I peeked into Dad and Mom's room and they weren't there so I walked into the room and found the pills on the bed. I became worried that Mom might punish me because I took drugs. I headed downstairs for breakfast, I greeted Mom and Dad and sat on one of the chairs in the dining.

"Good morning Angie... Angie, you never told us you were finding it difficult to sleep," Dad said,

"And you never told us you were in pain," Mom said too.

"Oh... Yeah, yesterday I was having a serious headache and I couldn't sleep so I got sleeping pills,"

Mom sighed,
"Darling you should know these things have their side effects, if you keep taking sleeping pills, it would get to a stage where you won't be able to sleep unless you take pills," she said,

"I'm sorry Mom, it was just once, it would never happen again," I said and stood up then I headed out,

"Wait," Dad said, "You haven't even touched your food,"

"I'm not that hungry Dad," I said

"It's okay darling," Mom said and walked to me, "Here is some money, use it to get lunch," she said, I collected the money from her hand but then Mom held my hand and whispered, "I know what Jones did to you, and when you come back we would talk about it," she said and smiled as she headed back to the table. I was a bit surprised by what she said but I acted like I didn't know what she was talking about.

After a couple of minutes, I arrived at school, while I was walking in the hallway, people said hi to me but I ignored them until I got to my locker, I got some textbooks and headed to class. Immediately I got to class, I walked to my seat and sat down without looking at anyone's face. Shortly after I sat down, Jones walked to me,
"Angie, why aren't you replying my messages?" he asked,

I swear, when he asked this I felt like giving him a dirty slap, how could you cheat on your girlfriend and expect her to reply your texts, I ignored him and opened one of the books I got from my locker and acted like I was reading so he could leave. Jones closed the book and sat on my table, he tried to touch my cheeks but I shifted my face.
"Baby I was lonely that night, I needed to be with someone and you weren't there for me," Jones said

"Really? We were together on Saturday night and on Sunday night you are already feeling horny? I called and you didn't pick, I took a risk coming to your house at midnight and the best way you could repay me is to cheat on me. On my way home I was robbed and almost harassed, I lost my phone, my money and my....,"

"Wait, you were robbed?" Jones interrupted,

"Yes, I was," I yelled and everyone in class looked at me, I stood up and kept yelling at Jones, "Why the hell would you cheat on me, do you know how much it affected me?"

"Angie I'm sorry,"

"Keep your stupid sorry to yourself and stay away from me," I yelled but Jones kept apologizing so I picked up my books and went to another sit. Jones was about to come to meet me but then the bell rang and our science teacher walked into the class,

"Alright 12th grade, have your seat and let's get started," he said. After everyone had settled down he cleared his throat,
"Good morning," he said and we all replied to him, "So as you all know, we have visitors coming to our school on Thursday and Principal George has asked us to come up with a science project, but the problem is we weren't informed on time," he said and everyone began side talking, "But..but I and your physics teacher spoke to him about it and he cancelled it, so we won't be presenting any project on Thursday," Everyone cheered out loud when he said this, "But they are still coming on Thursday so let's try to be on our best behaviours," he said and went on with the class.

12:00 PM

When it was time for lunch, I headed to the cafeteria and got my food tray, I looked around searching for where to sit and finally sat with some boys at the end of the cafeteria. The boys were unpopular nerds and people barely knew them so when I sat with them, they were so excited. They didn't even dare to talk to me. I looked at one of them and smiled at him, when I did this, I could tell he was so excited because then he poked the guy next to him and smiled. "Talk to her silly," he whispered. I heard him but I acted like I didn't.

"So ... Why aren't you uh... Sitting with Jones?" he asked,

I looked at him and smiled,
"Because I need some space from him," I said,

"Can I ask why?" he said, "Yeah why?" the other guy asked and then they all looked at me.

"Because he cheated on me," I said, they all gasped which surprised me,

"Why are boys so weird, I mean who cheats on a pretty girl," he said, I looked at him and smiled which got him nervous, "I mean you are beautiful and uh...{He swallowed the lump in his throat} he shouldn't have cheated on ... you,"

"Hey, it's okay, you can talk to me, don't be shy," I said,

"I'm not shy," he said,

"It's cold here but you're so sweaty," I said

"I know, I'm just ... Reacting to the uh... Cold weather," he said,

I smiled and shook my head, and then I started a conversation with them and they began to talk to me freely.