6

The next morning, I ended up waking up a little bit late, ok scratch that really late. I only had like 15 minutes to actually get ready, fuck fuck fuck. But to be honest, it's the price I pay for deciding to stay on that call until the clock hit 12. 2 whole hours just talking to him. Isn't that special but thinking about that now will most definitely not save me. I got up out of bed and saw my sister checking herself out in the mirror and giving herself a pep talk. Of course.

"Blair, why didn't you wake me up!"

"Is that attitude I hear? Don't blame me for your issues, I actually tried waking you up but you were in your hateful mood and tried to kick me so I let you be. Maybeeee you shouldn't spend like 3 hours talking to a guy. Liana, be smart, like me."

"It was 2 hours actually. Anyways it does not matter. I'm smarter than you and I'm going to go get ready." She continued on with her pep talk and I walked into the bathroom and threw a fit about how I have practically no time left.

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When me and my sister came to school we were only a few minutes late but of course Mr Cooper still gave that detention. Mr Copper was our art teacher and I absolutely hated him. He always found a way to make the gorgeous subject that art is absolutely horrible. Maybe it's just because of the shit students? Who knows.

"And you want to take your pencil and just swoo-" Mr Cooper's explanation was stopped when Mason walked into the room.

"Sorry I'm late sir I got lost. I'm new."

"That's what they all say. Take a seat boy. Name?"

"Mason Gray."

"You can find your own seat. But I must warn you, show up late to my lesson again, there will be a detention waiting for you. Ok?" Mason nodded as he turned to look at the class trying to find someone to sit next to. I waved my hand and pointed to the free seat next to me. Thank goodness that I have this whole row next to me. He looked and came to sit.

"Well looks like you got lucky. I got a detention for being late." He laughed at my mishap but as I looked over at him, I saw something on his neck. A hickey. Welp.

"You really...You really did get lucky." I said before pointing at his neck trying to bite down the jealousy on my tongue. He immediately moved his hand to his neck attempting to cover it. "Hey, no judgements here, I'm glad that at least one of us is getting action you know?" My hands held a tighter grip on my chair, why did I think this would go somewhere?

"Thanks but in all truth last night was a mess for me that's how this whole messy thing even happened." Last night? Damn. The night where he kept me up therefore making me late for school? The night where he stayed up for 2 whole hours talking to me? That night? Well fuck. I felt my head start exploding with so much negative shit. Why'd I trust it so much I didn't even know him like that. I guess it doesn't take a lot to change a man's emotions towards you huh? He started talking about some random shit but at that point I'd already gone into my own mind. His words were practically meaningless at this point, they carried through  my ears and turned into nothing.

"Are you ok Liana?" In that moment, I truly just wanted to tell him to call me Julianna. Liana was the comfort name I asked people I actually liked to call me by. Not the name I'd want Mason gray to be saying. But, of course, I couldn't actually say that. Actually I could but it'd just mean making things even more awkward right now.

"Huh? Yeah yeah I'm fine." Lies. I put my hand up to ask to go to the toilet, the grand escape. Annoyed, Mr Cooper agreed and I rushed out of the room.

"Liana slow down!" I looked behind me and saw my sister with a worried look on her face. "I saw the hickey. Come here." She pulled me in for a hug as I took deep breaths in trying to forget about it.

"I don't know why I care. This is so stupid. I just got out of a relationship of course I can't expect him to lik-"

"Bitch if you don't shut up right now. Stop it. Firstly it's ok to be jealous, he meant something to you and also it's not right for him to give you the impression that he likes you only to show up with that. He's projecting shitty guy behaviour. You're not at fault for his shit mistakes k?" I nodded, this girl is actually smart when it comes to pep talks.

"How'd you even get out of the class? Only one person allowed out."

"I walked out, I'll just say I had period issues, it'll probs make him awkward enough to not get me into any trouble."

"That's smart. Wanna go skip for a bit though?"

"Toilet." She said grabbing my hand leading me into the toilets.

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