High School Bad Girl [COMPLETED]

THE SURPRISE TEST

** ZANE’S POV **

Although Zoey and Leah are both my best friends I am a tad bit closer to Zoey as we have been friends longer than Leah and at some point, I did kind of have a teeny tiny bit of a crush on Zoey. Seeing her all beat up with a cut above her lip boiled my blood over ‘If that Ryder did this I swear to god I am gonna rip his guts out!’ Zoey told me that it was one of Ryder’s idiotic friends ‘Owen’.

Looking at her I forgot for a minute what was the reason for asking her to come to school so soon. After remembering the reason we went to the auditorium where I played the song I had prepared ‘I hope you tell where I am going wrong’ I played the song and just as expected she pointed out my mistake immediately. Once it was corrected the song came along beautifully “I can always and forever count you Z” I hugged her breathing in her scent which always seems to calm me down.

I didn’t want to go to my competition for the simple reason that Zoey is not here and this was going to be the first time ever that she is going to participate in the race without us by her side. I was feeling restless for some reason but then Leah came up to me “Do this for Zoey, Zane. She will be heartbroken if you don’t win this! I am sure she is thinking the same right now common Zane blow them off!”

I know Leah means well but it’s not the same as Z being there for me standing by my side ‘Ugh… common buddy you gotta do it for Zoey just as Leah said!’ I mentally chided myself as my turn came.

The song was perfect and I ended up winning the competition. Leah and I decided to surprise Z so we drove down to her place and waited for her to come. Leah who was looking at her hands “I know she holds a special place in your heart a place that I can never replace and it goes without saying that you hold the same special place in her heart but I hope to someday be just as special to both of you as you are to each other!”

‘That came from left field’ “Hey Le we are not complete without you so never ever think any less of yourself. The Three Musketeers wouldn’t be Three Musketeers even if one of them is missing from the picture!” I hugged her to me “I don’t have a change of clothes babe so please don’t wet my shirt!” she punched playfully on my chest “Oww… that hurt” I rubbed over the place she hit faking hurt and placed a gentle kiss on her hair.

A little while later I heard the very familiar roar of her bike “She’s here!” When she took off her helmet she looked upset for some reason so we ended up bombarding her with questions even though we were sure that there is no way that she lost the race.

We decided to have a sleepover at Zoey’s place to celebrate our double win. We were sitting on the couch with the pizza that we had ordered on the coffee table. I was sitting between Leah and Zoey, and man watching rom-coms and chick flick with two girls is a pain in itself as they would tug on my arm or talk through me as if I didn’t exist and the rest of the night went like this with me being their pillow.

** ZOEY’S POV **

The rest of the week went uneventful. The project that Mr. Donovan had given us was not coming along as Ryder was not being helpful at all, we were sitting in the chem lab “Ryder if you are not gonna help with the project I will present it with just my name to Mr. Donovan!” I folded my hands over my chest as I glared at Ryder.

He simply sneered scribbling in his book and then scooted closer to me as the class was yet to start there were not many students in the class “I know a best-kept secret of yours, which is of course now not so best kept, so if you do this project I will not tell anyone!”

I squint my eyes ‘What secret of mine is he talking about?’ “It’s not just one by the way!” I moved closer to him pointing my finger at him “You… What are you going on about? I have no secrets!”

He inched closer whispering in my ear “BLACK PHANTOM” I whipped my head to the side my eyes almost popping out of their sockets “Whaaaa… uh… umm… I… I don’t know what you are talking about!” I averted my gaze casting my eyes down to the book that was in front of me.

I looked at him from the corner of my eyes “In that case, I guess it won’t be a problem with you if I upload this picture online?” He took out his phone fiddling with it and my hand shot out on its own to snatch his phone, which he successfully avoided “Ah ah ah… I don’t think I will let you off the hook that easily sweetheart. YOU are going to finish the project and explain it to me before presenting it!”

‘s**t of all I had to get caught by this i***t? Man, he is going to do me in for good!’ I faked a smile scrunching my nose up “FINE but you are going to help me when I need it!” Ryder placed a hand below his chin and rubbed his chin between his thumb and forefinger seeming to be thinking. I was waiting with bated breath for his answer and seems like he was enjoying torturing me as he was taking his own sweet time in responding “Ok” that’s all he said just Mr. Donovan came in for the class.

Our Math’s teacher Mrs. Jones decided to surprise us with the surprise test. Since the chapter she finished is the easiest it was easy to finish the test. Zane and Leah too finished the test a little after me. I looked at Jenkins who was scratching his head confused and occasionally glancing around the room trying to get some sort of help ‘Poor you Jenkins!’

** RYDER’S POV **

I was back home pacing in my living room thinking about the little fireball or should I say Black Phantom when my phone buzzed bringing me out of my thoughts it was Steph who was calling ‘Oh s**t I totally forgot about her!’ if I pick her call I am sure she is going to show me hell now and if I don’t she will show me hell tomorrow. I contemplated my choices and thought it to be better to push the inevitable to later at least the intensity will reduce.

My little sister came running up to me “Ryyyyyyy...” and wrapped her little hands around me “I missed you and you are never going out at night from here on” she unwrapped her hands as she folded them over her chest glaring daggers at me. I leaned towards her pinching her chubby cheeks “Ok my little princess. Your wish is my command!”

Dad walked down the stairs “Don’t spoil her too much! I got a call from her school. She failed in most of her subjects. Make sure I am not getting a call from your school as well Ryder. Your football is one thing, you gotta concentrate on your other subjects as well.” ‘Damn I need to get my game up!’

The first class we have today was going to be interesting only coz of my lab partner. She was startled when I called her Black Phantom ‘I got you now Collins, you are going nowhere!’ The class went on just fine more than fine in fact.

Mrs. Jones walked in and the first thing she says is that we are having a surprise test today ‘s**t! s**t! s**t! I am f****d! I am screwed! I am gonna get my ass whipped’ I looked around and found a similar reaction from my friends who were riding in the same boat as me. There is no point in looking for help from these guys.

I looked at the test papers and I was sure that dad is going to get a phone call sooner than anticipated. I still had questions to answer when I saw Collins hand over her test paper and walkout followed by her friends. Most of the students were looking at each other wanting some sort of help.

I clutched at my hair suppressing a groan. Once the bell rang I handed my test papers reluctantly and joined my friends as we went to the school cafeteria for our lunch break.