Holding On Forever - Hillary NGO (a court of thorns and roses ebook free TXT) 📗

me, don't touch me and don't talk to me! Just stay the heck away from me, okay!?!"
She got up and left me with my mouth wide open. No one has talked to me like that in a long time. I always got my way and people just followed my orders with barely any questions asked. So what the heck just happened?

Chapter 10: Sympathy In The Air

"Who the heck punched me?" I wondered as my eyes started to flutter close.

As on cue, Kat and Jen started mumbling about plans of attacks and revenge on some football players and their captain Shay.
Shay! In all of Oceanside, why did he go here?

I started to get dizzy and the next thing I knew I blacked out. I woke up to the sounds of groaning and lifted my head up to see the commotion. I looked around the room and saw half of the basketball ball team laying on the beds or sitting on the chairs and they were all lying there and mumbling out cuss words. A white elderly lady came in wearing the school's nurse uniform and hurried to my side of the bed I was laying on. She looked at me and asked me something.
"Oh dear, do you feel any better?"
I stammered back, "Uhm, yeah. What happened while I was out?"
"Why you were first punched is what I heard and then two girls came rushing into my office holding you and said you passed out."
"Oh."
"Yep. Then all of a sudden a fight broke out in the cafeteria and many people were rushed in here."
Before I could reply, my cheek began to hurt. I touched it with my right finger to check and pressed lightly.
"OW!" I shouted out loudly.
The nurse rushed outside of the room and came back holding a cold ice pack wrapped in a paper towel. She handed it to me and told me that I should hold it to my cheek until the swelling went down. I got off the bed and walked outside the room with her. She asked me what class I had next and I replied gym. She quickly wrote me a pass excusing me from the activity and I gladly took it. I slowly walked to the gym and gave the pass to the girls' coach. The coach smiled at me and instructed me to sit at the bleachers near the soccer field because they were running today. I walked over to the bleachers and sat down thinking about the fight that broke out in the cafeteria. The girls then rushed out of the locker rooms and ran around the track for 10 laps while the coach timed them. The boys came out soon and they started playing soccer. I looked over and saw Shay standing there, looking straight at me. As I was about to blush, I remembered what he did to me and scowled at him. The girls' coach blew her whistle and I walked away from the guys and headed back into the gym to the girls' locker room. I threw the ice pack away and sat down on the gym bleacher waiting for the bell to signal that it was time for the next class. Then came out the devil himself, he walked towards me and said something that I couldn't quite hear. My heart was beating so loudly that his voice felt like miles away.
I couldn't take it anymore so I shouted at him. "I don't care. Don't go near me, don't touch me and don't talk to me! Just stay the heck away from me, okay!?!"
I got up and stomped towards the gym's door and left. I hurried to my locker and dialed in the combination. I snatched my iPad and slammed the locker door shut. I sauntered and tried avoiding any eye contact whatsoever in the hallway and slipped into my next class, calculus. I seated myself in the middle of the class and more kids piled in as the bell was about to ring. Kat and Jen walked through the door laughing and looked straight at me. They rushed to my side and and sat down at the two seats on my sides.
"Aqua!!!" squealed Jen. "Are you okay? Want us to beat Shay into pulp. You know we can right?"
I started laughing at her comment and she smiled real big at me.
"I know what we should do to get back at them." grinned Kat. "We should throw toilet paper all around his house!"
"I don't think that's a good idea," I replied.
"And why not?" they answered back in unison.
"For one thing, I know his mother wouldn't be so happy about that and two..."
"Wait! Hold up a second. How do you know his mother?" questioned Jen.
"Uhm."
"Don't leave us hanging!" cried Kat.
"Fine," I sighed. "I know his mother because I used to always go over to his house and hang out with him and his brother."
"Wait. You knew Mr. Hotshot Quarterback before you came here?" Jen probed.
"Yes. But that was a long time ago and I just want to forget about it..."
Just then our teacher came and lectured us about how we needed to learn the formulas for certain shapes that would be on our test next week. After class was over, Jen, Kat and I headed off into different directions. I wandered around the hallway and stopped at the class marked '230'. Time for English.

I stepped into the classroom and heard the whole class stop talking. Awkward.

The teacher looked at me and pointed at an empty desk in the back. She then went on talking about an essay we would be working on and that we should start planning it today. I turned on my iPad and started to get to work. Once the bell rang at 3:30 p.m, the whole class rushed out. I save my draft and strolled out of the classroom. I headed to my locker and saw Kat and Jen standing there waiting for me.
"Hi guys," I greeted.
"We need to talk." They both said in unison. Creepy!

I dialed in my combination and grabbed my backpack and threw it over one of my shoulder. I quickly open the zipper and stuffed my iPad inside as I walked through the hallway with Kat and Jen. We exited the school and I told them to follow my car. We separated and went to our own car. I threw my backpack in my convertible and drove over where I saw Kat. She was leaned back and in a metallic silver Volkswagen Tiguan 2013, I drove past her and she followed. Jen followed behind Kat in a sleek silver Aston Martin DBS and we all headed back to my house. We drove up to my house and I used my remote and the gate slowly widen open. I drove up my driveway and parked in front of the garage while Jen and Kate parked their cars right next to mine.

Chapter 11: Hold That Drama

We strolled into my house and I showed them a quick tour. After the tour, we settled into the indoor cinema I had in the basement and started discussing about what Kat and Jen were going to tell me at school.
"So about you and Shay..." asked Jen.
I interrupted her and quickly said, "Here's the story okay. He and I used to be best friends and suddenly that all changed when I was 12 and he was 13. The next thing I knew, a week later I left this place and never came back till a week ago and I'm guessing I'm here to stay."
Kat and Jen stared at me with open mouth.
"Close it before you swallow a fly," I snapped.
They instantly listened to my order.
"Wait. We could use this as an advantage to get back at them." Jen implied.
"What do you mean?" Kat and I replied.
"I mean you were his best friends so he would probably jealous if you hanged out with his rival, Andrew!"
"Oh yeah. That's perfect Jen!" Kat cried out.
"I don't know about this guys..."
"Listen Aqua. We will all head off to the basketball team's territory of the beach and words will spread and of course the football players would show up to prove how stronger they are and Shay always leads this. So if he gets jealous at the sight of his ex best friend with his arch rival Andrew, he will probably lose it and it would be perfect time to prank him and his team for what they did in the cafeteria." Kat said eagerly.
"Now how do we prank them?" Jen questioned.
"We can ambush them from afar! Like half the basketball teams could play with us on the beach and the other half is actually hiding somewhere ready to attack." Kat replied.
The whole night we started planning out tactics and calling up the basketball team and telling them about our plan. They gladly agreed and the plan was to be in action this Saturday at 7 o'clock sharp.
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The week went by fast and before long it was already Friday night. The girls and I decided on staying at my house so we could all get ready for the plan the next day. Already dressed in our PJ's, we pigged out on a banana sundae we made together that had 3 bananas, 9 softball size scoops of vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream and strawberry with chocolate and caramel syrup dripping down the sides with loads of candies sprinkled on top in a huge glass bowl. We