The Girl Behind The Books

Chapter 8

Emma's POV

I wake up at the sound of my stupid alarm buzzing, I hate waking up so early in the morning, like why can't school start at 10?

I drag myself out of bed and walk to the bathroom, took a shower, brushed my teeth and went to my wardrobe to pick an outfit.

I grabbed my baggy polo shirt, leggings, and my white vans, and put them on.

I brushed my hair and tied it up in a high loose ponytail.

I put all my books in my black leather bag and walked down the stairs.

I find my dad pouring his coffee into his mug "good morning sweetheart" he says looking up to me.

"Good morning dad," I say tiredly walking towards him, he grabs his coat and bag and give me a kiss on my forehead "have a good day at school," he says and quickly rushes out of the house.

Yeah, if only you knew dad.

Since I've got some time before Becky comes to pick me up, I made some eggs and bacon and sat down to eat.

While I was halfway through my breakfast, I heard a loud honk outside, I jump up to grab my bag and keys and ran out of the house.

Getting into the car, Becky starts telling me about the latest gossip of the school.

I don't understand why people make fun of other people, bully others, laugh and gossip about others. The worst part is that if your crying, or getting bullied, no one cares.

I knew Becky would never ever bully someone, ever. It was own thing I loved about her.

But other people...

Everyone cares only about themselves and decides to make fun of other people, instead of caring for others.

Like please if you're going to only care about yourself, then at least don't do anything to hurt others.

I believe that all the bullies have a reason for bullying, no one does anything without a reason, unless the reason is really stupid, that you can't really consider it a reason, but everyone has a reason for what they do.

Like bullies, they bully others because whether they are jealous, or they have a miserable life and thinks everyone else should have a horrible life like them.

Even though it may be understandable that a bully is going through a hard time of their own, it isn't right to put the blame on an innocent person, and giving them a hard time, just because the bully isn't in a good mood.

"EMMA, are you even listening?" Becky yells. "Um..hehe no, sorry," I say.

She rolls her eyes "of course you weren't, you were busy having a conversation of your own in your head instead of listening to your best friend".she says, emphasizing the 'busy'.

The rest of the ride, Becky kept on blabbing about like everything. I just stared out the window, half listening to her.

As the car stopped, we walk out and we start towards our lockers, her locker was a row after mine.

We go to homeroom together and sat at the back."Couldn't you wear something a bit more..cute?" She asks looking at my outfit.

"what's wrong with my outfit?" I say rolling my eyes.

I look at Becky's outfit, she was wearing a blue cropped top with some skinny black ripped jeans and wedge desert boots, which are black as well.

Her loose blond curls were left untied.

I wasn't jealous of her appearance, since I don't want to stand out, and I don't care about my appearance as much as she does.

I look around the class to see Theo and Brendon sitting together two seats in front to the left side. Theo was looking at Becky, then looked at me and threw a crumpled piece of paper to me, I surprisingly caught it and opened the paper and it said.

-I hope you don't mind me asking, but could you help me out with Becky? Please? Meet me in the library at lunch.

Theo-

I look back up and nodded.

His lips form into a big smile and looked away starting to talk to Brendon, who was next to him.

I turn over to Becky, seeing her playing a game. Instead of interrupting her, I decided to continue reading my book from last night, since I have a few more pages.

After a while, the bell rang and Becky and I go to our own classes, I have chemistry. I walk into class finding no one there, as usual, since I'm always the first one to come in.

I hate coming late because if I'm late, everyone would be looking at me, and I would probably get a panic attack.

Anyways, after a few minutes, students started pushing their way into class.

I see Brendon walk in, and take a seat in front me. He turns around and says hi, then gives me the most attractive smile in the world.

I smile back at him, and he turns back around.

I sighed and put my head down on my table.

My cheeks hurt from the fake smiles.

The lesson was pretty boring so I decided to go to the bathroom to waste some time. So I raise my hand and got excused, I get up seeing Mackenzie drop something, but I don't care to know what it is, and as I started to walk.

When suddenly, I slipped on a banana peel and landed straight on my ass.

I felt the stinging pain, as I look up, I see everyone laughing at me, including Mackenzie, of course, she was laughing, she had an evil smirk, which made it very obvious that she 'dropped' that stupid banana peel.

I look up to see if Brendon was laughing, and to my surprise, he wasn't laughing, instead, he quickly got up and helped me up, the whole class got quiet, staring at me and Brendon.

After I got up, I quickly let go of Brendon's hand and the whole class starts snickering and giving me nasty looks since Brendon and Mackenzie are 'together'.

My cheeks heat up and I hear someone yell "Oh my god, her face is a tomato" and the next second, I hear everyone laughing their asses off, I don't get how that is funny.

Without looking up, I quickly grab my bag and books and started running to the bathroom, again. Ignoring the teacher's calls for me.

Why is chemistry class mean to me? Is it like cursed or something? Ugh.

I open my bag, sadly, I didn't have any books that I haven't read in my bag, so I decided to revise my chemistry since I'm skipping anyway.

I sat in the bathroom until I heard the bell ring so I walk out of the cubicle I was in, and washed my face, I did put some ChapStick on because my lips were chapped and bleeding.

I walk out of the bathroom, shaking a bit, I really wish I had brought my hoodie, it makes me feel invisible.

I walk over to my locker and find Brendon and Theo leaning on the lockers next to mine. How did they find out where my locker is?

I find myself walking towards them, well towards my locker. When I get there, I open my locker, while getting my books, I had a feeling that they were staring at me, which made me extremely uncomfortable

When I closed my locker, Brendon says "Hey, you okay from what happened in class?"

I nod and look down at my books."Thank you for helping me up." I say " a-and not laughing" I blurt out.

Holy sh*t, did I just say that?

"Anytime, and why would I laugh anyway?" He said.

"So..we are all going to be late for our classes, and Emma you're coming at lunch to the library right?" Theo says breaking the awkward silence.

"Yup," I say popping the 'p'. We say bye and I walk towards my next class, English.

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