“Oh, she’s gone too far this time.” I shook my head as I heard Tim’s voice from outside the girls’ bathroom, which technically had thin walls. Note to self, never cry inside the bathroom, since everyone outside of it could hear me clearly. Just great.

“I’m gonna make her pay for this.” I wanted to laugh, and then cry, and then laugh again. I was soaking from the drink she had spilled onto me, and here he was talking about making her pay. She could do the same to him.

“Don’t worry. I’m okay.” My voice sounded unconvincing and small, but he was able to hear it, since he immediately replied. “No, you’re not! She spilled her drink all over you, and then left with a smirk. Not to forget the damn paper bag you keep wearing.”

I sighed at his small rant, as I could hear him pacing around outside the bathroom. “Tim.”

His pacing stopped and this time I heard his sigh. “Yeah?”

“Thanks for being my friend still, after that horrible incident.” No one knew how grateful I was to still have people like Tim beside me. Paige didn’t know as well, and now, maybe she would never know since she stopped talking or even looking at me.

I heard Tim sigh again before he spoke, “Shut up. You don’t have to thank me for such a small thing. I was always your friend.” I knew he was. I just wanted him to know how much his friendship meant to me.

“Well, I’m cleaner than before.”

“You are? Show me.” I rolled my eyes at him before going over to the door and opening it up. “Here. Happy?” Tim looked at my clothes with his hand holding his chin. He looked deep in thought as he evaluated my cleanliness. “You could pass for the day.”

Giving him a smile, I playfully curtsied at him, making him do the same.

“Shall we go to class now?” He asked as he looked at his watch. Granted, we were gonna be late for the sixth period, but I wouldn’t have even wanted to go if it weren’t for Tim seeing me run past his fifth period classroom with liquid dripping off of my clothes.

I didn’t expect Tim to see me, or even come help me. He was in class and he left his class, just to come see if I was okay. He was definitely the greatest friend I had ever had.

“Yeah, we should.” Nodding at him, I took my backpack from him, which he had gone to get from the cafeteria where I had completely forgotten it. “What class do you have?” Tim asked me as we fell into step, with our classes in mind. “Uh, I think, math.”

“I have biology.” I smiled at the disgusted face he was making. “I hate biology.” Nodding at him, I laughed, “I know, since you love frogs so much.”

“Hey, they are so cute, once you look over the fact that they’re green.”

I snorted as he gave me a glare. “You can’t look over that fact.”

“Whatever.”

This moment would’ve been so great if it wasn’t for the little thought that crept up inside of my head. Maybe, he just pities you.

Shaking away at the thought, I tried to smile, to forget that a thought like that had ever come to my mind.

But, it is hard when you know it could be true.

 ***

Let’s just say that my day after sixth period was awful.

Two guys from my sixth period class continuously threw rude remarks and spitballs at me, and since god literally hates me, the two stupid idiots were in all of my classes that were left for the day.

Honestly, I had seen worst days, but this day could get itself its own category.

The worst of the worst days ever. Sounds pretty catchy.

Apart from the fact that the pessimist side of myself would talk about how dreadful and pitiful I am, and aside from the optimist side of me telling myself how wonderful and misunderstood I am; there was Tim.

He had found me in the parking lot waiting for Paige…Caleb, someone, to just come pick me up from school. I was drenched in the rain which had decided to show itself out of nowhere. Like any cliché movie, I was there soaked to the paper bag, and I felt it flush against my face.

The coldness was there, and I was just wishing that the paper wouldn’t rip or something. I did not know how strong paper actually was.

“Hey, you waiting for someone?” Tim approached me with an umbrella above his head. I gave him a smile which I knew he couldn’t see, so I gave him a wave, but something behind him caught my attention more than his smile and polka dotted umbrella.

It was my blonde girl who was looking straight at me, or was she looking at Caleb? I had no idea, but when I saw her start walking in my particular direction with her red pinkish umbrella, I immediately panicked.

“What? What happened?” Tim held a confused look as he began to look over his shoulder to the person I was currently looking at. After watching the person approaching us for a while, Tim turned back to me with a smirk which I didn’t like one bit. “Guess, I’ll leave you to it, then.”

“Don’t you dare even move an inch.” My voice came out low and venomous, but it wasn’t scary enough to make Tim obey me, since he was running away from me in an instant while laughing maniacally.

I couldn’t fight the urge to roll my eyes at my best friend with a fond smile on my face, but that smile went away when Paige reached me.

With only a two feet distance from each other, we stared at the other as if it were the first time we had done it. She looked like she wanted to say something to me, because her eyes looked so sad, and defeated.

“Come on, I’ll take you home.” I know that wasn’t what she wanted to say to me, but not wanting to call her on it, I just followed her when she turned around and began to walk to her car.

The silence consumed us as we walked to her car – I, with my head down, and her, with a frown gracing her lips. The rain fell hard against her umbrella and my paper bag. I knew that I would be sick and that her car seat would get all soggy because of my soaking wet clothes, I did not make any move to get under the umbrella with her.

There were the sounds of other students running around, playing in the rain, while some were just running to get to their cars fast enough to not get wet. Only a handful of students had umbrellas, Paige being one of them.

There was no forecast of a rain today, but since it did, no one was prepared for it, except for a few.

We reached her car, and I sighed in relief. No more walking in the rain. I was beginning to get really cold and the feeling of clothes sticking up to my skin wasn’t a feeling that I wanted to remember or even feel, but gulping down the urge to just take all my clothes off, I quickly got into the car after Paige unlocked it.

Getting in herself, she glanced at me before placing her umbrella in the back seat. I had gotten the paper-bag off of my head since it was the one thing that I was completely loathing at the moment. Placing it in my bag even if I didn’t want to, I sighed out a breath of relief.

I coughed and sniffed, putting my bag by my feet in the space of the passenger seat, before resting my back against the seat. Sighing, I rubbed my hands together, trying to warm them up.

Paige, who had glanced at me, maybe thinking that I didn’t notice her, quickly started the car before turning the heater on. Even though, I was incredibly grateful, I didn’t show it at that insane level. “Thanks.” Muttering under my breath, I began to feel the heat spread throughout my wet body.

Paige only nodded before driving out of the parking lot.

One thing that I had begun to really detest was the silence that spread around us, stretching in the small area of any place that we were together. In the car, in class, or school. I really hated seeing her so quiet and frowning. It made me feel like she didn’t enjoy being with me, which definitely must be the case.

She didn’t even seem a little sorry for the thing her friend did to me in the cafeteria at lunch. She didn’t even seem like she cared at all.

“Who knew it’d rain, right?” I could not believe that I was starting a conversation, and on the weather at that. Wanting to face palm myself, I gave Paige a small awkward smile as she glanced at me in confusion.

“Yeah.” Her answer seemed forced as well as her smile, which was telling me that she did not want to continue this conversation with me. Sighing, I leaned back against the seat with a frown on my face.

What had happened? Well, except for that kiss that took place in that bathroom. But, even if it was in an undesirable location, it was still so sweet and soft, as if she was afraid that I would disappear if she was even a little bit rough with me.

Honestly, I wanted to feel that again.

I was in my thoughts, thinking about those heavenly lips and how much I wanted to feel them against my own again, that I didn’t even see that the car was beginning to slow down until it completely stopped.

“What the…” Paige trailed off as she tried to not let the car stop in the middle of the road. I stared at the car for a good minute, not believing that this was happening, before I stared at Paige for a good minute as well, believing that she had a plan.

The blonde goddess tried to make the car work by starting it back up again, which was completely futile, since it didn’t do what it was supposed to do. “Damn it.” Muttering under her breath, Paige’s eyes turned to me and she waited, as if I was going to give her the solution of a math question.

“What?”

“What do we do?” She asked me, as if I could know. I didn’t even know how to tie my own shoe laces. “I don’t know. I never had my car stop on me before.” Rolling her eyes at me, Paige sighed loudly.

Wow, was she giving me an attitude? What was the problem with her?

Not knowing what else to do other than call her on this, I just said it, and oh, did I say it, “What the hell is wrong with you!?”

Paige’s eyes opened widely and her mouth flew open as I glared at her, with my breath heavier than before. I could hear the nasal sound in my voice, already feeling the impending sickness. “W-What?”

And this is how I had found myself in the small confinement of Paige’s car, with my anger flaring and Paige’s attitude softening.