Dancing Through My Life With Him

Bratina or Christina

It got worse...WAYYYYY worse! But I have to tell this story in order so let's wait til the bad parts.

I walk out of the classroom, heading to visual and performances arts. After that there is natural science, Mathematics, foreign language, and Humanity. There are so many classes here! Suddenly, I feel the strong grip of someone’s hands on the back of my jacket! They pull me into the janitor’s closet!

It was Christina and her goons. “Listen you! This is a warning that if you ever…DARE lay one of your dirty, filthy fingers on my Devon, I swear to god you will not see the light of day!”

“Christina, you’re just jealous because he told you he wanted you to stop sucking up his time, money, and effort in you. You’re just a lovesick little leech on his back. You heard what he told you.” Her goons surrounded me as I continued to talk.

Christina gritted her teeth. “He was just kidding! I am the one he loves! The one who he will marry after college. He sees the evil in you!”

“You don’t know when to give up, do you? You were laughed at by the whole class, Christina! Don’t embarrass yourself further! After all, you’re not on my level.”

“HOW DARE YOU?! YOU INSOLENT THING!” She slapped me across the face, the sound echoing in the small space. “Girls!” As soon as she snapped her fingers, her goons started to tie me up to the broom.

“HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”

“I warned you..don’t worry! The janitor will come next Friday!” She cackled like the witch she was as she placed a strip of tape on my mouth. She and her goons left me in the closet as I tried to scream. The tape grinded against my teeth as I tried to scream. I banged my arm on the door, trying to make as much noise as I could for someone to come.

I was alone…in the dark closet. Suddenly, the door opened and the light came in!

“Lavender?” It was Charles. His deep voice was soothing in the darkness of the closet. It was like his voice was so soft that I could feel the warmth of it. It was like a radiant sun…Until he ripped the tape off my mouth…which let me tell you, it HURTS!

“AGH! CHARLES, SERIOUSLY?!” I yell as he untied my arms.

“S-Sorry…I was just trying to help! Who did this? Why did they do this?” He untied my sore arms. I stepped out of the closet and sighed before telling him about Christina and her goons.

“I’m not surprised, really. She’s always scaring off any girl that gets close to Devon. She’s always trying her hardest to get his attention but he doesn’t want to have anything to do with her! She’s overprotective, bossy, annoying, selfish, self-centered…everything a weirdo would want in a cheerleader. She’s always staring at him in every class; trying to impress him with her personality and gymnastics all the time. I don’t know why. Devon’s not the only guy here at Duke…”

“Wait…” I said. “How do you know so much about her?”

“Easy. I dated her before you got here.”

“Wait…whattttt?!”

“Yeah…After a few months, she said she didn’t know what she saw in me and broke up with me on text. She said she is in love with Devon. I asked her if she had told him yet and she never responded. She just blocked me and never talked to me again.”

“…so she’s a drama queen, so called “heartthrob,” and a lying cheerleader? Wow. An all in one prize.”

“Tell me about it.”

The bell rang, signaling the next class. Charles walked with me to the lecture hall for natural science.

“Good morning class..today we are going to be talking about natural science.” said Mr. Vindeta the science teacher. “Now, Natural science focuses on the phenomena of the natural world, whether it be through the eyes of a chemist, physicist, astronomer, or biologist…” he continued and of course, I didn’t listen.

I sighed, bored of classes and punctuation already! The clock ticked and tocked down to each minute, but it felt like an eternity had passed! Finally, the bell rang, signaling it was the end of class...now, I have to survive mathematics, foreign language, and Humanity.