RUNAWAY GIRL

CHAPTER 7

MELLISSA POV

The next morning when I got up and saw Luke had kept the whole damn duvet to himself leaving me with no cover. I kicked him in the back and shooed him out of my room to get ready for school.

I entered the shower and lathered myself up with my vanilla and orange bodywash and coconut shampoo and conditioner. After the shower I wore my clothes for today which consisted of blue ripped jeans, a grey cropped sweatshirt and grey converse to go with it. I doubled checked to make sure I was wearing my eye contacts and that my original hair colour wasn’t showing. I picked up my black school bag and ran down the stairs to have some breakfast. As I came down I saw mom flipping some pancakes and Luke was eating some.

“Morning mom. Morning Luke. Where’s dad?” I ask.

“Morning.” Luke says.

“Morning dear. Your dad had breakfast and went to have a bath. I swear that man stinks so much.” She says laughing.

After having breakfast Luke and I sat in his car and we drove towards the school.

“Are you okay, little one? I mean should I be worried about you throughout the day?” He asks.

“No, big bro. It’s okay. I don’t know why I had the dream but I am really okay and am going to be alright the whole day. Don’t worry.” I say smiling at him lightly.

We reached the school in another five minutes and parted ways after hugging each other. I saw my friends standing by Jack’s and Moses’s car and went to them to greet them.

“No. My eyes are turquoise not just any blue.” Riley says getting frustrated.

“hey guys.” I say and glance at Nathan who was wearing black jeans and a white t-shirt that fitted his torso so nicely that I could see his sculpted six pack from the folds. Suddenly yesterday’s kiss came to my mind and my face started burning a little.

 “Hey chicka. You look nice.” Peggy says.

“Where’s Arya?” I ask seeing that she was absent.

“She is coming late and YES. They are blue. Just get over it.” Jack says.

“Guys please. Can you stop fighting like kids.” Moses says.

“What happening?” I ask.

“We are seeing everybody’s eye colour. Apparently this guy over here,” pointing to Moses, “read that the eye colour changes in the sunlight  so we were testing that theory.” Nate says.

“Hey let’s check your eye colour too. We all checked our eye colours.” Moses says and pulls me towards the sun lit area.

Shit! What if he notices that I’m wearing contacts!

“It’s okay. My eyes are a basic brown in colour. We are getting late for class. I guess we should go for homeroom don’t you think?” I say.

“Oh, it wont even take a moment.” Moses says and quickly sees my eyes holding my chin lightly.

He looks at my eyes very carefully and then says, “Basic brown it is. Let’s get going for homeroom then.”

I just hope Moses didn’t see my contacts and from what I know he is a very good observer and nothing ever goes past him.

We reached the homeroom and after it got over we all headed towards our respective classes. I checked my time table and saw I have classes with most of them today.

Hr 1- Pyschology (Room 206) (with Peggy)

Hr 2- Chemistry (Room 102) (with all except Peggy)

Hr 3- English (Room102) (everyone)

Hr 4- Lunch (All)

Hr 5- Math ( with Moses, Arya and Nathan)

Hr 6- Histrory (no one)

“Let’s go we have Psych with Ms. Gellar. She is new and I hear she doesn’t like tardiness.” Peggy says and drags me with her.

We reach the psych class and take our seats after five minutes the Ms. Gellar comes and starts teaching.

“Today class we shall be starting section one which is about human behaviour and how they react to it. So open your text books to page 10.” Ms Gellar says.

The lesson goes by in a blur and we head to our respective lockers to get books for the next class.

“See you in English.” I say to Peggy and go towards the Chem classroom.

I walk towards chem and see Riley coming out of the storage closet settling her clothes.

Wait, What?!

“Riley!” I called out to her and she stiffened and turned around, “Wait up. I’m coming too.” 

“What were you doing in the storage closet or should I say whom were you doing huh?” I ask nudging her elbow with mine.

“No.. No. It’s nothing like that” She says steading her voice.

“Oh. I might be new here but I know what storage closets are used for. So tell me who it was.” I say smirking.

“I.. I… Ummmm….. I’ll tell you when I’m ready to tell you all okay. But for now I really need to you to not tell anyone about it okay. Please please please.” She says stopping and holding my hands in her hands.

“Okay alright. If you need to talk about it then I’m here okay.” I say smiling to which she returns a smile as we reach the classroom and go to our respective seats and said hi to our friends who were sitting and Nate was looking as disinterested as he could. That very moment his eyes met mine and he winked

The chem class was boring as usual with the teacher going on and on about the organics section and me not getting a word of it. I swear why did we have to take these subjects as compulsion. If it were up to me I would happily take English, Art, Psychology and different languages around the world.

The class was dismissed and all of us met Peggy in the hallway and started walking towards the room were English class was supposed to be held.

Suddenly Arya, excused herself and went really quickly murmuring that she had to use the loo. It was quite weird as she had been doing this for a long time.

We ignored it and walked towards English. We entered the class and went to sit at our places with Riley sitting at the front desk as Luke has changed her seat to the front as she is the TA now.

The class was nice as we read the fourth chapter of Scarlet Letter. He made Marrissa, the hippie girl read out loud in the class because she retaliating a lot in the previous classes to his teaching methods saying it was like a nursery classroom where everything is read out loud.

One thing Luke doesn’t like is disrespecting him in any manner. So he made it a point to make her read for the next week. Looks like Marrissa and Luke will not be getting along anytime soon.

As the bell rang for lunch Riley had to wait up to get the notes for this class so she stayed back for a few and all of us reached the cafeteria, took our lunch and sat at the table. I took the seat between next to Nate and Jack. Arya sat in between Peggy and Moses and a seat was left next to Jack for Riley.

“Where’s Riley?” Arya asks.

“She will be here in ten minutes. Luke held her up to give her the notes for today’s class.” I say.

She just nods and after five minutes Riley walks in panting heavily.

“Where did you run a Marathon?” Peggy asks as she sits and stuffs her mouth with water.

“Excuse you Thursday pasta day. I was scared its going to finish. So I ran all the way here.” She says and all of us chuckle at her.

All of eat silently and I see that Moses and Nate are having a silent telepathic conversation about something.

“So how’s everyone?” Moses asks suddenly and all of look towards him.

“Bro, you okay?” Jack says.

“Yeah. Why would I not be?” Moses says.

“Coz you are acting a bit differently. Plus I saw having an eye talk with Nate.” I say.

All of us snap our head towards Nate and then back at Moses.

“Okay. Spill. What did you both do and now have decided that should tell us. Please don’t tell me you guys have started selling drugs and are going to get caught and in the near future we will have to come and see you in the jail.” Peggy says.

“f**k. What!” Nate says.

“Man. I always liked your imagination.” I say to Peggy.

It’s true. The girl has an imagination better than an average people.

Moses suddenly looked at me uncertainly and then a commotion just broke out and everyone started speaking at the same time throwing all kinds of stuff verbally in the faces of these two guys.

Suddenly Arya banged her fist on the table and silenced us.

“Shut up. Just shut up all of you. I can’t stand it. We have something to tell you guys.” Arya says.

“We as in?” Jack says.

“Moses and I have something to tell you.” She says.

“Finally. Are you guys together?” Riley and Peggy say at the same time.

“Yes. We are together and there is something else too.” She says.

“Ya. What is it?” Peggy says.

I look at her and see her holding her stomach. I have been taught some body study and someone does that if they have pain or in females when they are protective of their young. f**k she’s pregnant.

“You’re pregnant.” I blurt.

All of them just snap their heads at me.

“You knew?”

“How.”

“What.”

“Holy Fuck.”

“Is this true?”

“s**t just got real.” Yep this was Jack. 

These were the replies I heard.

“Yes she is pregnant. And we are keeping the baby.” Moses says.

“What about your mom? You know how orthodox she is.” Riley says.

“I know that. We will figure something out.” Arya says.

“Wait. You knew she was pregnant. How?” Moses says.

“Yah. How did you know?” Nathan asks me.

“Well usually when someone keeps a hand on their stomach it is due to a painful feeling but in females they do it to protect their young. And they just told us about their relation and I put two and two together.” I say.

“Where did you learn all that?” Moses asks.

“The academy in DC.” I say and f**k! I spilled it.

“What. The FBI taught you that?” Moses asked.

“FBI?” Riley asks.

“The academy in DC is for trainees and recruits.” Moses says.

“How did you reach there?” Nate asks me.

“We had a school trip once. We had to sit in one class for the beginner interns and this was the lecture going on. So ya. Plus psych is my forte.” I say.

Phew! Nice save Azzi. You would have spilled every f*****g s**t right now.

“Okayyy. Nevermind. Back to the two of you. What are you going to do now?” Jack asks.

“I really don’t know but no way can I abort my baby or carry it for nine bloody months and give it away to someone else.” Arya says rubbing her still flat stomach.

“It’s okay we’re all there for you. Even if you guys didn’t tell and I am a tad bit sad about it but it’s okay, everyone deserves privacy.” Peggy says.

During all of this conversation my thoughts suddenly wander to Riley who was just nodding and not saying much. I remembered her coming out of the supply closet, clearly indicating that she had a hot make out session. Maybe she saw me looking at her or something that she looked up and saw me. She made a gesture with her eyes for me not to say anything and I just slyly nodded. I am not going to tell anyone about anything unless she wants to tell them about it themselves.

The lunch goes by and so does the whole day after that. Luke had texted me saying that he didn’t have any work today so will be going home with me and was waiting in the parking lot for me. Since I joined in the middle of the year my locker was towards the end of the line. As I was walking back I got pulled into one of the classrooms and a hand was kept on my mouth to shut me up.

My self defence skills kicked in and I beat the person fair and square after which I saw that I just beat the hell out of Moses.

“What the f**k! Moses! Why would you do that? I’m sorry. Are you hurt anywhere?” I say.

“What the hell, Mellissa. How did you learn to do that. Damn you could have knocked three to four more people down.” He says sitting and clutching his stomach where I hit him the most.

“I’m sorry you sneaked up on me like that. What sane person does this?” He says.

“You know what, I am going to be really straight forward and speak everything up. I know you wear contacts of this brown colour when you have green eyes. You were studying at The Academy because they don’t allow visitors. And now this self defence. You seem to know all of us so well and your characteristics match with this girl we knew who went AWOL. So tell me, Mellissa Scott, Who the f**k are you?” He says.

“What the hell. I am no one. I am just Mellissa Scott. Just because I am new you don’t get to do this.” I say defending myself.

Fuck! This guy has got brains.

“Fine. Don’t admit it. I will get proof and will see you then. If by any chance you f**k us over specially Nate as he seems to be a little smitten by you, I will become your worst nightmare. Trust me on that.” He says and gets up and leaves the classroom with me standing behind not understanding what Moses is thinking.

Some s**t really went down if he is thinking I am here to harm anyone. I’ve got to dig deeper and really need to tell everyone about it.

Well for now I guess I have to more careful as I have Moses on my back.