My Name's Not Mary

Chapter 2

It has been two weeks since the start of school. My class this year is a perfect way to end my year. I have my 3 best girlfriends and Linc. Ivy is one of my best friends. With beautiful auburn coloured hair and green eyes she is a stunner. She's very blunt and to the point and very adventurous. She is Lincs girlfriend, they have been dating since the start of High School. The fact they are in the same class this year surprises me, being a Catholic School the teachers usually keep them seperate because they cant keep their hands off each other. Once they got busted by the principal for having s*x in the male toilets!

Ruby sits next to me, she is also very beautiful, with Sandy blonde hair, blue eyes and legs for days. She is a little more reserved but not when it comes to boys. Some would call her a slut but she likes to think of it as having her fun and testing out the merchandise before settling. I love how she didn't care what others thought of her. It's one of the many reasons I loved her. Then sitting in front of us was Kendall. She had dark nearly black hair that fell half way down her back. Icy blue eyes and fair skin. She looked like something out of a fantasy novel. She was extremely outspoken and very strong, both in nature and physically. She did boxing and mixed martial arts, always entering competitions. As beautiful as she was everyone knew you don't f**k with Kenny. And then there was me. The odd one out. I never felt quite as beautiful as these girls. I'll cut straight to the point, I was the only virgin in my group, or in most of my year for that matter. I wasn't ashamed of my choice to save myself, but sometimes it bought me more attention than I liked. I felt like I was being targeted for being a virgin. It all came out back in year 9 when my first and only High School boyfriend broke up with me for being frigid. I said no to having s*x with him after 6 months and the next day his friend rang to break up with me. The little s**t couldn't even do it himself. Prick. Kenny made short work of him of course and gave him a black eye. Naturally within 24 hours the entire school knew and I gained my nickname Mary, as in the Virgin Mary. I was annoyed to begin with but soon accepted my nickname proudly, I mean it could be worse. I knew a girl who got labelled a slut in year 9 for being with a guy at a party and she hasn't shaken it since. I smile looking at all my friends and think how lucky I was to have them in my life. 

"FLORENCE HENDERSON!?" Ms King yells across the classroom. "Oh ummm..sorry...what was that Ms King..?" I stutter as I am being snapped back to reality. "I was asking if you finished your english essay?" Ms King says raising one eye brow. "Oh yes of course Ms King" "Great. Now considering you were so distracted could you please go around and collect everyones essays for me please?" I stand nodding and smiling at Ms King. I make my way round and collect everyones essays when I get to the last table. I go to grab the essay not looking who's table it was when a hand grabs my wrist "So has Mary given it up yet?" I look up to see Ryan smirking at me "f**k off Ryan!" "Ohhh Mary is upset, did your holidays make you more of a frigid not getting any" Ryan says laughing. "f**k you!" I say under my breath so the teacher doesn't hear. I got to walk away when he pulls me back "Oh yes please. It would be my pleasure to finally be the one to f**k the Virgin Mary" Ryan says with that smirk on his face. I yank my wrist away from him and quickly walk away. Ryan is the bane of my existence, constantly harassing and tormenting me. He was the most popular guy in school and the hottest. He's had most girls that he deemed hot enough and he absolutely loved himself. Yeah he was good-looking but his disgusting personality ruined it. Normally I wouldn't let him get to me but over the last 3 years it has gotten worse and his torments more intense. I was finding it hard to ignore him unfortunately. I handed the essays to Ms King and went and sat back down. Kenny gave me an intense questioning look but I just smiled and shook my head to say all was good. 

It was the final 2 periods on a Friday and we had Religion. The class was a little restless and the teacher Mrs Gleeson was struggling to keep the class in check. She was an older lady and the sweetest woman. She was one of my favourite teachers. I kept my head down and did my work like always, all the while trying to ignore snide comments coming from Ryan across the room. At one point he literally asked Mrs Gleeson if she thought the Virgin Mary remained a Virgin her entire life, "Like surly eventually she gave it up when she met a hot guy. All women do Ms!" He said this whilst looking towards me *f*****g disrespectful s**t* The teachers learnt to mostly ignore Ryan and his attention seeking behaviour and only rarely gave him detention or sent him down to the principals office to cool off. As much as I loved school and would miss my friends I couldn't wait to get away from Ryan and never have to deal with him again. Finally the bell rings and we all start collecting our things making our way to our lockers. "What are your plans this weekend Flo?" Linc asks me. "Mmm not much at all, you?" Ivy slides her arm through Lincs and smiles at me "You have to come with us to Sarahs tonight, she is having one her gatherings whilst her mum is away" I sigh. Gatherings at Sarahs was a standard most weekends and I mostly avoided going. I never really drank and always ended up looking after someone who was too drunk to stand. I wasn't a complete party pooper, I occasionally had a drink and loved to dance. That was one of my favourite things to do, dance. On occasion when I did have too much alcohol I wound up making out with the girls. But tonight I wanted to go home and get started on my literature assignment. "Come on b***h you never come anymore. It has been ages since you've come to one of her parties. Plus when was the last time we all hung out together?" I turn to look at Ivy who's giving me those puppy dog eyes and then Linc gives me the same look. "FINE" I say laughing "but do not think I will be holding your hair back whilst your drunk ass is head first in the toilet because you drank too much AGAIN!" Kenny closes her locker door and looks over at me "Great you can hold mine then" we both laugh. "We can all get ready at mine and I will ask mum to drop us off at Sarahs around 9?" Ruby says not looking up from her phone. We all agree and head to our bus. With my head phones in I start thinking about how tonight will go. Even though it's meant to be a small gathering of school kids, so many people from different schools and random older people will come. It never stayed small and I always found myself looking around at people wondering who they were and how they found out. I hear a voice behind me "So will we see you tonight Flo?" its a whiney high pitched voice that makes me cringe "Yep" i say without turning around. I don't need to, I know who it is. Selene. I don't hate people but her and Ryan came close. She was in the popular group. There were 4 of them. I used to be close with a couple of them as we went to Kindergarten and Primary School together. Soon after we were in High School they changed and became 'popular' so they didn't have time for me. It saddened me sometimes but after I found my group of friends it hurt less. I knew if Selene was going to be there then Ryan would most likely be there too. Those two s**t stains are together, or so Selene likes to think. Selene loves the attention but turns a blind eye to the fact he cheats on her every weekend. They deserve each other. Maybe tonight will be different....