Lunch break was long over and now I'm having the last period of the day and still no sign of Riley.
I've searched everywhere 'I think' but can't still find her and I thought I would see her in class since we have the same schedule but nope.
I swear is as if she's disappeared off the face of planet earth
'Now your just being overdramatic', my brain tells me.
Or maybe the school just has to many rooms I will go with the latter.
Tuesdays I don't have study group instead am stuck with Ap calculus, I had no idea what the teacher was solving on the board and no idea how I ended up taking this class. Plus also with the fact my mind was thinking of where in the world Riley would be.
Immediately the last bell was heard I packed my stuffs in hurry inside my bags and rushed out the class like as if am being chased by vampires only to be stopped by a tall blonde haired girl.
Her was super shiny 'if that's even possible' it looked golden like and her eyes were this enchanting emerald green that makes you feel like your lost in some kind of mystical forest, she was unreal and then I noticed the cocky smirk on face telling me she caught me staring.
Shaking my head out from the trance 'gawd am sure I looked like a creep staring.....what the hell is wrong with me'
"Hey", she started the conversation with a soft smile. I knew her, she was the captain of the tennis team, Riley had said her name was April Cooper.
But I can't be more of creep to tell her I know her name can I.
"Hi, am Ashley West", I said stretching my hand.
"April Cooper", she said as she shooked my hand.
"Nice to meet you"
"Your looking for Riley right", she asked then I looked at her in shock and gave a look that screamed 'how did you know that'
'maybe she's some kind of alien', my brain decided to say, sometimes I wonder if we're the same person.
"Well I noticed were looking stressed out like your looking for someone or waiting for someone especially since you kept staring at the door throughout the entire class and I also heard about the cafeteria incident so I figured", she said casually with a shrug.
I stared at her her in awe.
"Wow so you were watching me", I said voicing my thoughts out.
"Everyone in class notice how our of it you were", she said making my jaw drop.
Giving a small chuckle to my reaction she added "Your hard not to notice when you looked like you practically wanted to jump out of the classroom, you didn't even answer your attendance...people where even snickering at it"
"What", I said still shocked.
"Huh....you were really out of it then, how and why the teacher didn't question you is still a mystery or maybe he was just tired of the class", she muttered the last part to herself but I still heard her.
"Shit", I muttered feeling embarrassed I am really so out of it.
'Do I need to answer that', my brain replied.
"But if your looking for Riley there's an old music room at the east wing you will find her there"
"Oh my gawd thank you so much", I breathed out gratefully and rushed out the classroom then stop midway to think about what just happened.
'wait how did she know where Riley would be', I thought.
'how am I supposed to know ', my brain replied.
Turning to ask "How did you...and she's gone", I sighed and turned back on my heels to find my friend.
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After a few minutes of opening and closing of rooms since the school decided not to put name tags in the east wing, I had to open every door to search for any sign that screams music.
And finally I found one that match my description, entering into the room I spotted Riley in the far corner seated with her head resting on her folded up legs. She looked so small and fragile.
Walking up and sitting quietly beside her I spoke in a softly not to startle her, "hey"
Riley raised up her head to look at me and I noticed her appearance, her eyes were red and her cheeks puffy and her hair was slightly mangled...she looked like she's been crying for hours.
"How did you find me", she croaked out.
"A girl named April"
"Oh", she said then looked down at her shoes.
"You guys know each other", I asked.
"Yeah we're friends...I don't know if we still are since we haven't really talked this semester"
"She seemed friendly though"
"She is", Riley said with a small smile.
My heart broke for her seeing her feeling miserable, shifting my sitting position to be directly in front of her I reached out and tucked her strands of hair beneath her ear and cupped her cheeks with my both hands while simultaneously stroking it with my thumb.
"A pretty girl like you shouldn't waste your tears on garbage", I said softly making her chuckle lightly in response and I smiled at that.
"It...it just hurts a lot knowing I used to be friends with them and ...Mia....I took her like sister Ash ,why would she do this to me"
"Is not everyone that's worth deserving of you"
"But why did they have to that", she said and broke down.
"Ahhh ahhh don't cry", I said patting her head on my shoulder and and rubbing her back. 'gawd am bad at comforting '
"What did I really do wrong though....I always share my stuffs with them, I help them out where l can, I also try to have supportive too...I even do their assignments for them sometimes"
"I don't really get why they would not like me", she added
"Probably their just jealous", I said with greeted teeth trying to contain my anger. So in summary they bullied her and she thinks it's ok.
"Of what, am just....me", she said esperatedly.
"Are you still up for the revenge stuff", I suddenly asked out the blue.
"I don't know Ash, was it going to change"
"They would feel the pain your feeling right now but ten times worse", I said with a smirk.
"Didn't you say you don't want drama.....you got that whole rule thing to survive high school"
"I know, I know but....I can still survive high school at the same time kick some butts, a little bit of drama won't hurt anyone", I said making her chuckle.
"Also is not like I won't break some rules along the way, it's bound to happen you know", I added.
"Ok then what's your oh so revenge plan"
"Since they mess with your privacy let's use theirs", I said and noticed her confused look.
"What am saying is.... we're going to expose their dirty little secrets, something that they rather not let the school know about, you know to protect their image", I said using airquotes for 'image'.
"And I know you know lots of them since you where in the media group"
"Um well the only secret am sure about is of Charlotte since Mia always talks about how gross it is"
"And that is"
"Well... she's cheating on her boyfriend with her private tutor"
"Older", I asked.
"No, one of the math guys or are they two...I dunno I know she's really bad at school"
"Wow and they call you out", I said making Riley furrow her brows in concentration then gasping in realization, she stood up immediately.
"Oh am so going to kill those bitches", she said ready to March out to find them but was held back by me.
"Ok hold on tiger we don't want to do anything irrational", I said stressing the last word even though I already did something of that nature like three hours ago.
"Yeah your right", she said sitting down back .
"But even if it's true there's no evidence to prove it..... honestly the math guy doesn't even look like that kind of guy, no one would really believe it"
"Not every character shows in the face Riley", I said with a light chuckle.
"Seriously though, how are we going to bring them down when we got no evidence plus I only know of Charlotte but am sure the rest of the group has theirs....hell the whole popular gang has"
"That's why we're going to collect them"
"Isn't that stress", she sighed "let's just forget about this Ash the storm always passes"
"And let them keep walking on you, no can do Riley"
"What if we can bring them down", she said in a small voice.
"Oh we are going to bring them down", I said enunciating each of my words.
We were silent for a moment each in our thoughts until the sound of my phone ringing cut through the air.
It was an unknown number but I still picked it anyway.
"Hello"
"Where the hell are you Callie", the voice said, I recognized it to be Ace's.
"How did you get my number"
"Answer my question first"
"No you answer mine cause I don't remember giving it to you"
"Come on Callie am hungry here", he whined but I remained silent.
"Fine", he sighed in defeat and paused for a while.
"I have my ways", he eventually said
"That's not an answer"
"I stole it from the principal's office"
"What", I said dropping my jaw in shock.
"You were no where to be seen of course I had to do something"
"I'm at the east wing with Riley, I'll meet you in like ten minutes"
"Be fast"
"Whatever", I said and ended the call. I turned to meet Riley gawking at me
"What", I questioned.
"I just can't believe that that was Ace Collen...his personality doesn't sound like how they make him out to be"
"Shocker isn't it"