eighteen

"Michael was so jealous." Ashley said with a smug look and I smacked her shoulder.

"Ash, he wasn't jealous he was just pissed for no reason." I said, closing my locker shut.

"Why would he be pissed for no reason?" She asked, narrowing her eyes. "C'mon Sierra, stop acting like a fictional character."

"Look Ashley, I don't expect anything from anyone anymore because expecting something from someone makes your hopes rise up higher. Everything is not going to happen according to our will." I said. "And I have to talk to you about dad."

"What about him?" She asked.

"I'll tell you later." I really needed to tell Ash that dad came to our house maybe he needed something, but I was still needed an explanation for leaving me without even a single word.

"Can I ask you something?" She asked and I nodded.

"Do you still expect something from Mr Ventresca, that he will come back and give an explanation for leaving you?"

I gulped in a lump down my throat before speaking up. "Yes I do."

"So why can't you expect anything from Michael?" She asked and sighed. "There's a reason for everything Sierra."

"Do you have a reason for balancing pencils on the desk in maths class?" I asked with a smirk.

"Actually, I do" she said. "Because during maths class everything else seems interesting."

I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. "Okay, for a second if I believe that Michael likes me.." I said and Ashley had a huge grin on her face. "So why was he sleeping with a slut last night?"

Ashley's mouth hung open and her lower jaw was almost touching the ground. "Yeah you heard me." I said, casually.

"You must've fucked something up." She said and my eyes widened.

"Are you crazy? I've not-" I stopped between the sentence and Ashley gave me a death glare.

"Knew it." She almost shouted in the middle of the hallway and I smacked her shoulder. "Now shoot."

"Okay, so....you know, I kinda told him that I like someone else." I said in a whisper and she took a deep breath, rubbing her forehead in frustration.

"May I know who's that someone else?" She asked and that's when it got hard. My heart started beating and I almost fainted at the thought of telling her who that someone else is.

"L-Logan"

"What?" She shouted again and this time half of the students in the hallway were glaring at us. "What... an amazing dress Sierra." She continued with the sentence and everyone started giving us more awkward stares because I wasn't wearing a dress.

"Can you stop overreacting so much, everyone thinks we're crazy now." I whispered and the suddenly the warning bell rang and everyone started rushing towards their classes.

"I have a free period" Ashley and me said at the same time and started chuckling.

"Lets go to the library, I'll take a good nap and maybe think about solving the mess you've made." She rolled her eyes.

We both strolled towards the library and as soon as we opened the door Ms Mason looked at us with a pointed look before placing her index finger on her lip and signaling us to keep our mouths shut.

"I don't like her" Ash said and narrowed her eyes at her before walking towards the conner most shelfs. She sat on the chair and rested her arms and head on the table. "Wake me up when the bell rings." I nodded and kept my bag on one of the chairs before walking further inside towards the shelfs and started looking for a good book to read.

As I started digging further inside the shelf looking for a good book to read, I heard two muffled voices coming from the back of the shelf. I furrowed my eyebrows and silently started walking towards the back of the shelf and I wasn't surprised to what I saw.

Michael was having a hot make out session with a honey blonde who was apparently sitting on his lap. I couldn't see the girl's face and so tried to see who she was when suddenly someone tapped on my shoulder and I almost flinched turning around to see a very awful looking Ashley. "What are you looking at?" she said and I covered her mouth with my hand and dragged her in front of the shelf.

"I thought you told me you are going to take a nap?"

"Yeah, but I needed to pee and when I opened my eyes you wasn't there, so I started looking for you." she said dryly. She had dark circles under her eyes and her hair was a mess.

"You need to fix yourself." I said and she nodded, but didn't moved from her spot.

"What were you looking at?" she asked and I let out sigh before taking hold of her hand.

"Promise to keep your mouth shut because you're not going to act normal after this." I said and she nodded.

"Promise."

I told her move without making a sound and when we reached behind the shelf and saw Michael and that honey blonde making out, she started taking quick breaths and her eyes were wide opened all the time. "So, that's what you were looking at." she whispered and I pursed my lips before nodding. Pursing my lips was just a method to stop my tears, which were threatening to fall.

Ash rubbed my back as I let out one tear or two. "Hey isn't that Mikaela Jean, the one from the cheer-leading team?" she asked and I stared at her before nodding. "Doesn't the bitch has a boyfriend."

"I can't believe she cheated on Kevin Hart." I said in a loud whisper.

"Mikaela?" Ash said and my eyes widened, what is she up to?

Mikaela broke the kiss awkwardly standing up with crimson cheeks. She should be fucking ashamed of herself. She looked at Ashley, waiting for what she was calling on her while I felt a pair of eyes staring straight at me. I turned my head, slightly to see Michael giving me a cold look, there was no expression on his face, just a cold, bland face staring at me. But there was something in his eyes, something I couldn't make out. "Kevin was looking for you everywhere." Ashley broke the ice, after the weird amount of silence between us.

"K-kevin." Mikaela stuttered.

"Yeah, should I tell him that you're here with Michael?" Ashley asked with an innocent face and all the colours from Mikaela's face drained into depths of hell.

"N-no, I-I should get going." she stuttered again before almost running out of the library, leaving Michael, me and Ashley in awkward silence. I glared at Michael before rushing out of the library too.

"Sierra? Sierra wait!" I heard Ashley yell behind me and I stopped in my tracks.

"What?"

"Are you going to let this go so easily?" she asked and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"It is as clear as a fucking crystal that Michael is trying to make you jealous and the fun fact is that it's actually working." she said and my head dropped, staring at the ground I didn't dare to utter a word. "You can do two things now, A: cry like a little toddler or B: Get him back for what he did?"

"I don't know Ash, I can't think straight right now."

"I actually have one more option, but it's kinda lame." she said, but I nodded anyway.

"And it is?"

"C: kick him where the sun doesn't shine." she said with a huge grin and rolled my eyes.

"Okay, if I choose B how are we suppose to get him back for what he did?"

"You still didn't got an idea?" she asked and I shook my head.

"Well, Ms Ventresca you're going on a dinner date with Mr Milanovic"