Two worlds

Chapter 12: Casting

Chapter 12

Emma

The next day when we come to school, the guys are the laughingstock. Everywhere we go students laughs at them and their faces turn red.  I smile devilish throughout the whole day since I'm enjoying when they're being laughed at.

The video I posted on YouTube has spread on every social media network in the matter of twenty hours, so now the whole town has seen them covered in what looks like poop. And that makes me very happy.

"Great! Just great!" Lucas sighs as he pops down on the chair beside Julia at the lunch table. "Now I'm in two videos on the Internet that's being laughed at".

He's referring to the video Chris posted when Lucas, Julia, Carter and I fell onto each other on the floor because I ... Well that isn't important. 

"This one is your own fault!" I say putting two fries with mayonnaise in my mouth. 

"Yours you mean?" Lucas asks.

I narrow my eyes as I look at him. "I didn't force you to read my diary, Crown!" I say. "And I've told you, mess with me or my girls, and you're in for a world of pain, you should be thanking your girlfriends, I wanted to do something very different, but they didn't let me!" The guys don’t say anything. They just sit there, being quiet. "And for the record, you didn't really seem to hesitate to read your girlfriends diaries either", I say. "Which we kind of already knew!"

"So, you never cheated on us?" Gavin asks, his voice full of shame.

Mia takes Gavin’s big hand in hers.  "No, but you had to be punished for what you did to Emma", she says. "It's not okay to read a girls diary where she puts her deepest and inner thoughts, not a boys either for that matter, you had to feel betrayed and humiliated like she did".

"Don't you guys know that I can be hurt too?" I ask trying to keep my voice steady and they all look up at me. "Look I know that I seem all tough, and yeah I am tough because I know how girls are treated in this world, like objects, but that doesn't mean that this object doesn't have feelings, and when I caught my best friends reading my diary, I got hurt! I felt betrayed and humiliated".

And with that I slide my food tray up on the table and stand up. I leave the table and walk out of the cafeteria. Sometimes the guys seem to forget that I am just a girl with feelings.

The rest of the day goes by pretty slow actually. I rot in the classes and can only think of how I want to go home. I'm actually really not in the mood for school today. 

I still get those hate letters, but the others think that it has stopped. I told them that it stopped, they believed me. But I take the letters before anyone can see them. I hide them.

I'm not even mean to Carter anymore. I'm actually pretty kind to him if I can say so myself. Okay well besides calling him Carter. I'm not ready to call him by his first name yet, he's still Carter to me. Baby steps.

I don't know what I did to those people who sends me those letters. Why can't they just tell me what they're thinking to my face? I know why. They're cowards. That's all they are. A bunch of cowards. It makes me angry to get them though. I'm trying not to think of it.

"Emma!" 

I jerk and realize that Julia is waving her hand in front of my face. 

"Huh?" I look around and realize that the whole classroom has been emptied. 

"The class is over", Mia says.

I see that the group are the only once who are still here. Sophia is not though.

"Where's Sophia?" I ask as I gather my things.

"She ran out of the classroom as soon as the bell rang", Belle shrugs.

I nod and stand up. I yawn and walk out of the classroom with the others following me. I totally ignore the boys. Julia hooks her arm around my arm, and we walk towards our lockers.

"Emma, wait!" Lucas says and I turn around.

"What?" I ask tired.

"I'm sorry", he says. "I'm so sorry I read your diary out loud to the others, I really really am so sorry".

That's what I've been waiting for. For an apologize. I nod and Lucas sighs relieved and pulls me in for a hug.

"But don't do it again, okay?" I say with my head on his shoulder. 

"I promise I'm not going to do it again", he says.

"Good", I say as I pull away.

"It takes a big man to apologize", Carter says and hits Lucas arm playfully.

"Yeah what can I say? Soon I'll start losing my hair", Lucas jokes.

The group starts laughing. We all stop laughing when Sophia comes running towards us.

"Hey", she says.

"Where were you?" Chris asks.

"Just ... Somewhere", she says innocently and slips her hand into Chris's big one.

"I sense that you did something none of us will like", I say, and Sophia looks down at her feet.

"What did you do?" Julia asks suspiciously. 

Sophia mumbles something. None of us hear what she says.

"What?" Mia asks.

"I signed us up for the casting to the school play", she says low.

"Wait you did what?" I almost shout.

"And the casting is in ten minutes", she says. "We're off from our last class".

"Sophia!" I shout. "Why did you do that?" 

"Because our group is falling apart and I wanted to make our bonds stronger, so we could get closer!" She says.

"We all live together!" I point out. "How much closer can we get without everyone sharing one single bed?" 

The guys start laughing at the thought. I smirk and shake my head.

"Come on we have to be there in five minutes", Sophia says and starts pulling Chris with her.

The rest of us sighs and follows them with angry steps. We reach the auditorium and see that half the school is here. We take our seats and wait for the director to walk out on the stage.

After about three minutes she runs up on stage in her abnormal high heels and golden wig together with a pink puffy dress. Savannah Plank. The school’s music and drama teacher. And also, our home room teacher.

I can’t believe that Sophia got us into this.