The Mystery Boy

Chapter 5

Brrrrrrr!

Brrrrrr!

Brrrrrr!

........

Please 

Stop

Calling 

Me

Moriah

My mind was blank. I'd been hugging my pillow all night. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to have to see Ezekiel again. He hurt me... and he scared me. Not only him, but the other friends he had with him... they scared me. 

But Mr. Steiner wants me to help him....

I don't know what to do...

I don't know what to tell him...

I'm such a wreck right now. I couldn't even answer the phone. She's definitely going to know that something is wrong with me. I don't want her to be upset, but I don't want to speak to anyone right now. I still can't process what I've just learned...

"Caroline dear, can you come downstairs so we can go!" my mother yelled from downstairs

Wait

What time is it?

"AHHHHHH!!" I screamed

I didn't know how late I was. I stayed up all night. 

How could I have not noticed the time?

"Caroline are you okay!?" my mother said running up the stairs to my room

I quickly jumped up out of bed and went to slam the door shut so my mother couldn't see that I wasn't ready yet. As I slammed the door shut my hair blew in front of me and some got caught in the door.

"OWWWW!" I screamed again

"Caroline honey you open this door right now! This is the second time you've yelled! What is going on!?" my mother asked firmly

"Uhhh nothing mom. I just... CRAMPS.  I have super bad cramps and its bothering me. But don't worry, I can walk to school. You just go to work and have a nice day okay?"

I said this and immediately started to bite my lip hold back my whimper of pain from my hair caught in the door. I really hope she doesn't notice any hair sticking out the door.

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know you were dealing with that this week. If you need anything to help with the pain, then come let me know so I can get it for you okay honey?"

"Yes mom thank you, have a nice day" I tried to say happily

I kept trying to tell her to have a nice day to end the conversation so I could open the door.

"Okay Caroline, just make it to school on time okay? Bye sweetie" my mother lastly said

When she said these words, I was so relieved. It hurt so much when I opened the door. I'm just not going to touch that part of my hair for now. Jeez that hurt so bad, now I can't do my hair before I leave. 

This morning has been the worst. 

I didn't have as much time as usual, so I just threw on a white skirt with black leggings, some flats and a white turtle neck. I didn't have time to prepare myself for today so I guess this is the best I got.

I grabbed my things and speed walked to school. I didn't want to risk being late. 

~A couple hours later~

"So you don't know how to tell him that you don't want to help Ezekiel?" Ally said

"Y..yes" I said quietly

"Why don't you just lie and make something up?"

"I don't want to do that. That's wrong and mean. He trusted me with this task but I just can't do it for him"

"Your such a goody two shoes."

I sat there for a moment thinking about ways to tell Mr. Steiner that I couldn't help Ezekiel anymore. I'm clueless and I have no idea what I'm going to do.

"What about the cheer leading squad?" Ally said breaking me from my thoughts

"The cheer leading squad?" I asked confused

" Join them. If you join them, then you have an actual excuse. That way you won't have to lie, and you get to do something that you like."

"That's a very good idea Ally, but..."

"But what?" she said confused

"...what about Ezekiel?'

"What about him?"

" I mean, I don't want to ever see him again. It seems like whenever I run into him, he just hurts me somehow. I don't want to keep getting put in these random situations with him."

"Don't worry about him, its not like he comes to school anyway." Ally said shrugging off the matter

"But he was here the first day I was here. He obviously comes here sometimes. How are we going to know when he is here and when he is not? I said looking for an answer 

"Caroline he only came that day because he was hungry. It's not he like he makes a  habit of it. Come on, this is Ezekiel we're talking about." Ally said while giggling about what she had said.

Ringggg

Ringggg

Ringgg

"Ugh, lunch ends too quickly" Ally said while groaning

"Don't worry, we can talk about this more later okay?

"FINEEEEEEE. But since I have to wait, I want every last detail okay?

"Yes deal. you got it." I said trying to hurry for my next class

I need to prepare anyway because after school, I need to join the cheer leading squad.

~later after school~

Alright, I have to find out a way to let Mr. Steiner down easy. I don't want him to feel hurt since he personally asked me to help Ezekiel out. 

Ezekiel...

Every time I think of him, my head goes blank and I just think about the things he's done to me. I've only known him for a little bit of time and yet it seems like he's permanently impacted me. 

Alright... I'm here. Just let it out, and....

wait...

I think he's talking to someone. I'll just wait until he's done

I guess this gives me a chance to think about what I'm going to say to him. I guess I'll just explain that I used to be a cheer leader and now I want to pursue that again. Then I'll say that I won't have as much free time to help people like I usually do. Hopefully that will be enough and he will understand. I'm certainly not going to tell him the real reason why I can't help Ezekiel anymore. That will probably just bring more problems and I don't want to be the cause of more problems.

10 minutes later

It has been awhile since I came. I wouldn't think that he would be talking to someone after school. If I had known then I wouldn't have come today. I guess-

"You think I don't know what your doing when your not at school!? You think I don't know why you and Marcus left your house!? YOUR BEING A STUBBORN BRAT. JUST LISTEN FOR ONCE! I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!" Mr. Steiner yelled

What the heck?

Who was Mr. Steiner talking to?

I've never heard him so angry. He was always so nice to me. What could make him so angry?

The room was just quiet now. Was he talking on the phone?

SLAM!!!!

The door just crashed open and hit the wall. when I saw who Came out... I froze in fear

He looked so angry...

He was the one Mr. Steiner was talking to..

Ezekiel...

He glanced at me and I thought he was going to hit me. I just stood there despite being so scared.

Why does it always have to be me he gets mad at?

The next thing he did wasn't hit me though, he just walked toward the exit of the school. 

That's it..

I'm so relieved... He didn't hurt me again.

I don't know what to do. Should I go in and and tell Mr. Steiner or should I walk away and act like I heard and saw nothing? I didn't know which decision was best. I really wanted to tell Mr. Steiner, but at the same time, I didn't want to face him after what just happened.

What to do...

Okay, I'll just tell him another time then. I don't want an awkward situation to appear. I just wanted to be away from all this hostility. I guess I can go to the gym and see if one of the cheer leaders are there so that I can join the squad.

As I'm walking, I can't stop stop thinking about what happened just now. Who could forget something like that. Why won't they just get along? What happened to Ezekiel that made him so disobedient? And why did Mr. Steiner mention Marcus? How does he know about him?

Well I guess they both go to school here. But still, it seemed like an awkward time to mention his name. Well hopefully I can forget about this. I've spent more time thinking about Ezekiel than I have on myself since I moved here. Well at least I'm at the gym now. 

I smell sweets. Are people baking at school? That would be convenient. I do like to cook. Maybe this school has a cooking group or something. That would be fun. I could meet even more people that way. Jeez, now I'm starting to get hungry thinking of sweets. Let me just see what's going on in the gym.

"Umm is anyone here?" I asked 

"Who is that?" A female voice said

Where is she? I don't see anyone.

"I said who is that!?" The female said again

As she said that, she came out of the locker room and I saw it was one of the cheer leaders I met at the party. Her name is Beth. 

"Oh, its you Caroline. I'm sorry, I didn't know who it was" Beth said

"Don't worry, I was just coming to see if I could join the cheer leading squad." I said

"Is that even a question? Of course you can join!" Beth said with a huge smile on her face

"Alright that would be great. When can I start working with you guys?"

"Come by the gym next week and we can get to work. I'll let everyone know that you joined. They'll be so happy you wanted to join us." 

Wow she seems really excited I joined. I didn't realize how much they wanted me to join

" Okay that'd be great. I do have a question though." I said

"Sure, what is it?"

"Why does it smells like people have been baking in here? I smelled it from outside."

"Oh... umm. I've, uhh..." She stuttered

"What is it?"

"Okay I'll tell you but promise you won't tell anyone okay?"

"Okay I promise"

"Well, I bake sweets often so that my group can try it out. We all bake sweets and whoever gets the most votes wins."

"What do you mean most votes?" I asked confused

"We all try each other's sweets and desserts and then we vote on who's was the best. Whoever gets the most votes win and they get to choose what we get t go out and do for that week. For example if I get the most votes, then we all go out and do what I say. So if I want to go to the movies, then we'll all go to the movies because I won. We do this every week. It gives us something to do throughout the week." Beth explained

This sounded so fun. I wanted to join so bad. Not only do I get to cook, but I get to hang out and have fun with others. This sounds really cool

"Can anyone join" I asked

"Yes of course"

"Then can I join. I really like cooking and baking."

"Wow you like baking as well!? Yes please join! It will be so much more fun with you there!"

"Thank you so much! When can I meet with you guys?"

"Meet with us next week. Come find me and we'll go together."

"This is going to be so much fun" I said with a wide smile on my face

Despite all that's been happening, this has outweighed all that. Good really can come out of nowhere. I'm really looking forward to everything next week. Some things have been bad, but now things are really starting to look up.