Chapter 9

Students keep coming into the class each having their fair share of "come at Kylie". The whole thing is exhausting and I don't anyone has the right to make Kylie feel like bad guy.

The class keeps getting louder and louder and louder until the perpetrators come in. Robin an Richard came into the class with confidence. They are acting as though they could not be bothered by anything today;not even the chemistry test we are having (did I tell you it's real? )

I want to give them a piece of my mind but they are not worth it. I not exactly the most popular girl in class and confronting these jerks in a crowd will only be hell. Robin aren't necessarily the best of pals but I will find a way to make them pay.

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Class is over and usually Robin and Richard are the last ones out of class so confrontation with them may not be as bad so I pack up my books turn to approach them as they were seated at the back.

"Where are you going?" Kylie asked while pulling my hand.

"To them." I said as I pointed at Robin and his friend.

"That's a bad idea, I'd rather you don't leave them besides this is my fight not yours"

"It's our fight, that's what friends are for"

"Ash I don't think-"

"Hey porn star" I say out loud to Robin.

Hey looked back as if he was looking at someone else then looked back at me and smiled.

"Your problem is?" putting on a mask of anger as he snaps at me.

"Mind your business sweetheart"

"Don't call me that, and you posted something that had nothing to do with you!"

"Please you don't have a boyfriend so you wouldn't understand." Robin said casually.

"Please if the world offers you as a boyfriend then I am good." I retorted.

"Sweetheart have you noticed that I've slept with every girl in this class? Have you wondered why I haven't touched you? You are undesirable and I touched even the ugliest and dumbest of girls - your friend so you would never understand.

I only coughed. That's all I did. His reasoning was dumber than he is and it somehow left me defeated. And you know what? He said everything I have been fearing about myself. I am not stupid enough to care what boys think of me but it hurts when girls label you the "untouched nun". I don't want to mess around but just knowing that someone likes you means something, right? I never want to degrade myself in the name of being "good enough" for a boy then again I don't want to be the joke that I already am. I wish the foolish reasoning didn't hit me hard but it did. It's taking me back to Nick and it hurts.

"Say hi to Nick for me" and they leave laughing.

How could Robin know Nick? Did he know about everything? If so will everyone else know about it soon. If I thought I was socially dead this is it.

I turned to Kylie and a tear dropped.

"Nick, wait he knows Nick and what happened between you and Nick?"

I can't answer I have to leave. Maybe she was right I should not have confronted them.

I leave the class room running and go straight to the life coach's office to ask for permission to go home. I'm not exactly doing bad at school so I'll catch up later. I wouldn't be able to concentrate anyway so I am going home. The test. I forgot it's actually tomorrow. I get to Miss Smith's office and sit down without saying anything.

"I don't want to talk, I just want to cry."

"Of course, then can we talk afterwards?"

"I want to go home afterwards."

She smiled and and stood up to give me a hug.

I have been crying for 15 minutes straight in this office. This when I realise that I need my mom. I realised that it's been a while since I opened up to her and I feel bad. But I guess I am making up for it now.