Making Circles - Vanessa Gilbert (recommended reading txt) 📗

I answered.
Kyle walked closer towards me, grabbed my back, and gave Carter the nastiest of looks. Carter glared at Kyle and said, “Bye babe, I’ll talk to you later.”
Carter stomped off and left me and Kyle standing in the middle of the hallway with a couple of eyes staring at us. “Wow he’s pissed off,” Kyle said.
I laughed and nodded, “He’s pissed because you’re helping me and making him look like a bad boyfriend.”
“So I’m showing everyone what he is?”
I let out a bark of laughter and nodded, “Yea pretty much.”
Kyle smiled, put my backpack (well more like a side bag) on, wrapped one of his arms around my waist, and helped me make my way over to my first class. I smiled and began to hop along as fast as I could. “You know what? This isn’t working. Here,” Kyle said as he bent down, wrapped an arm around my legs, and then stood up bringing me to lie down in his arms…like a bride.
I smiled and laughed. “Wow you’re strong,” I said.
“Nah you’re just really light,” Kyle said.
Bull shit I’m light, I thought. Kyle carried me through the halls, ignoring the weird stares we got, and into the class room. I smiled as we passed the group of my old friends and at how they stared at me in shock as I was being carried into a class room by a very hot guy as if though it could never happen to me…ha well it has. Kyle carried me to my desk then gentle sat me down on the table portion. “Did you see those girls faces when I carried you in here? They are jealous,” Kyle said sitting my bag beside my desk.
I laughed and nodded, “Yea I think that they are jealous.”
Kyle smiled at me and asked, “Well, my lady do you want me to carry you around so we can walk and talk to people?”
I laughed and shook my head, “Nah I’m going to stay here but you can go and talk to people.”
Kyle starred at me in shock and asked, “You sure? I mean I don’t care about talking to people I’ll stay here with you.”
I smiled at Kyle and nodded, “Go ahead I’ll just rest here besides no one really wants to talk to me.”
“Yea and you still have to explain why,” Kyle said as he made his way out of the class room.
“I will,” I called out as he left the room.
I smiled at the empty room and felt the smile slowly disappear as I finally realized that I was along…completely alone. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to calm myself. “Well, well, well look who’s all alone,” I heard a familiar high pitch voice say.
I opened my eyes, it can’t be. It was. Standing in the mouth of the class room was no one other than Jessica in a slutty outfit and starring at me as if though…I had a target on my forehead or somewhere on my body. “What do you want Jessica, “I asked.
Jessica had her black layered hair straightened, her blue eyes were covered in black mascara, black eyeliner, grey eye shadow, and she had her pale perfect body covered in a tight low cut, crimson shirt that shows off to much cleavage, a thigh length black leather skirt, black leather high heel boots, and she had on fish net stockings. Jessica smiled evilly and said, “Well it’s time for pay back.”
“What do you mean Jessica? I did nothing to you,” I said.
“You’re right, you did nothing to me it’s what you did to Terri and Jacie,” Jessica said.
I starred at Jessica in terror and then jumped from the desk and backed away towards the nearest wall. Jessica made her way towards me anger all over her face. “Jessica, please think of what you are about to do,” I begged.
Jessica kept making her way towards me, smiling her evil smile the whole time. I closed my eyes, brought my fists up to protect my face, and got ready for the beating of the century. “Yea that’s right protect that pretty little face of yours you little whore,” Jessica voice called.
A tear rolled down my face and I listened and waited for a punch or something. I heard a small scream and then a whimpering. I opened my eyes to see Kyle with one of his hands covering her mouth. “Kyle, what are you doing,” I asked.
“I’m saving your butt,” Kyle said.
I stared at him and then at Jessica who glared at me in anger as she mumbled something unpleasant into Kyle’s hand. Kyle glared down at her and tightened his grip on her mouth. She squealed loudly and began to struggle against his grip. I looked at Kyle and said, “You can let her go Kyle.”
Kyle starred down at her then let her go and said, “You try this again and next time you won’t live to see another day.”
Jessica glared at him then at me and said, in a harsh, cruel voice, “Fine I won’t try again.”
Jessica stomped out of the class leaving me and Kyle standing in suspense. “Thanks Kyle,” I said.
“No problem Arien,” Kyle said.

Chapter Seven: Weekends

Well it’s been about, I’m going to say, three or four weeks since school started and everything is fine…well actually everything is okay. Kyle and Carter keep arguing whenever they are near each other about how one of them isn’t helping me get around as much or one of them is ignoring me…they just won’t shut up in general. Well at least this weekend I can get a vacation from their arguing, fighting, and-before I could finish the sound of our doorbell filled the house with its loud song of welcoming of visitors. I groaned as I opened my eyes and sat up in my bed. I guess I’ll never get to sleep in on the weekends. Last weekend Rose came over at like five in the morning saying that she wanted a break from her parents for a week or so…we just got her to go home yesterday. I sighed, the weekend gods are apparently not happy with me.

I threw my legs over the left side of my bed and slowly stood still dazed from sleep. I rubbed my eyes for a few seconds then made my way out of my bedroom, down the stairs, and over towards the door. I sighed then opened the door and was greeted by Carter dressed in his faded jeans, his white tight t-shirt, his black and white skater shoes. “Hey gorgeous,” Carter said smiling at me.

I sighed and rubbed the bridge of my nose as I said, “Carter, what are you doing it’s….what time is it?”

Carter laughed and said, “It’s eight.”

“Right, it’s eight…wait….its eight,” I asked.

Carter nodded slowly and laughed when panic hit my face. “Oh my god, oh my god, I need to get dressed I need to get going,” I said as I began to make my way towards the stairs.

“Babe, calm down. Your parents got it handled. I helped them out and they are already at the market selling everything all you need to do is get dressed and come with me to meet up with Rose,” Carter said as he stepped fully into the house and pulled me into a hug.

“Wait, you got up at five in the morning and spent two hours helping them get everything ready for the market,” I asked him.

He nodded and smiled down at me as he said, “What can I say, I’m just that kind of guy.”

I sighed and pushed away from him and said, “Well I’m going back to bed. It’s the weekend and I refuse to be up this early.”

Carter laughed then grabbed my waist and began to walk with me back up the stairs. See each weekend mom and dad gather all of our goods and then sell them at the fresh market and this weekend I was suppose to help and if I did they’d let me sell some things at the market to make money for myself. I opened my bedroom door that I had shut in the rush to go open the door and then flopped back down on my bed while Carter just laughed and leaned against the frame of my door. “So you’re just gonna stay in bed all day,” Carter asked.

I shook my head and said, “No I was just gonna go back to sleep for two or three more hours.”

“I know you and you can only sleep that much when you stay up the whole night and even then you wake up around now,” he said.

I sighed, he was right. It didn’t matter if I went to bed early or stayed up till five in the morning I get up exactly at eight. “Fine, where are you guys hanging out,” I asked Carter.

Carter smiled his devilish smile and said, “It’s a surprise so get dressed and I’ll drive us over there.”

I starred at Carter and watched as he turned and headed down the stairs. Well, I guess I should get dress. I sat back up on my bed, crawled over to my dresser that is at the end of my bed, carefully leaned over, opened it, and searched for the right clothes. I pulled out a my black ripped up skinny jeans that hug my legs perfectly, my thigh length, tight, white t-shirt that in grey and black writing says, “Bad Romance,” and I pulled out my favorite choker necklace. It’s a black, stone heart that has love writing in white on it. I quickly kicked off my black and white stripped night gown and pulled on my clothes. After I was dressed I walked across the hall and brushed my hair then styled it. After my hair was styled in the same style I style it every day I swept on some black eye liner and black mascara and walked down stairs. Carter was leaning up against the front door starring intensively at the stairs waiting for me.  “Well you look ready so let’s go,” Carter said.

 I nodded solemnly then walked out of the house. I don’t really want to hang out with Carter and Rose. I know that as soon as we all are sitting and comfortable Rose is going to start teasing me saying that Kyle likes me and that we have been flirting...then Carter will get mad and then all hell will break loose. I sighed quietly to myself as I quickly locked up the house and then fallowed Carter over towards his SUV that his parents decided to give to him for the school year. The SUV is still the same old grey brown, the grey brown that every time I stare at it, it makes me sick. I climbed into the SUV and buckled myself in and then turned my vision to outside my window. I starred at the barn and saw Apple and her love prancing around in the training arena doing their same old love dance that always made me smile.

Apple circled around Pie and whined her lovely tune that she got from me when I was out there cleaning her and listening to