Like the stars

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Becca

Somehow I manage to shake Evens off, I decided to take another way to school, hoping that he wouldn't follow me. It takes a while longer to walk but it was worth it, he didn't follow me and I didn't feel the pressure to almost run to school. I walk into school and head straight for my locker. The longer walk

"Hey Becca", I hear behind me.

I know that voice all too well. It’s almost a bit annoying, but I can’t tell her that. I turn around and see my cousin. Rain Sims. She's my father's brother's daughter. I don't even care to turn around, I know that she's already behind me.

"Hey Rai", I say, taking my books out of my locker.

"Could you please start hanging out with us again?” She says, jumping straight to the point.

I sigh. She can't take no for an answer, she's on me about this every day, and every day I give her the same answer.

"No, no, no and I hear a big fat NO", I say the last no louder, when is she going to take me seriously? Probably never.

"Oh Becca comes on", she says and sounds frustrated. That makes two of us. "Pretty please, they really want you to, and Marlow loves you".

"Yeah well, one small problem, kind of a huge problem to be telling the truth", I say and look at her seriously. "Evans”.

Rain is trying to get me back to the circle of friends I once had. I left a few years ago and ever since that, Rain has been trying to get me back and change my mind, but the problem is that Evans is a part of that circle of friends. I can't be around him.

"Becca, when is this battle between the two of you going to end?" Rain whines and leans against the locker beside my mine. She looks at me with puppy eyes, she knows that I have a hard time to resist her puppy eyes, that's a low move.

"It didn't even start Rai, we just don't get along, as I said before, we accept each other's existents", I say, closing my locker. "I hate him because he hates me and I don't know why he does, he's an asshole and I don't want anything to do with him, so I'm sorry Rain, thanks but no thanks I don’t want to come back".

And with that, I walk away. I have a good connection with my cousin, but I haven't told her about Sally and the harassment. She would take everything into her own hands and murder Sally, and I'm not kidding, that's the thing.

I walk into the girl's bathroom. I stand in front of the mirror and look at myself. I can’t say that I’m comfortable with what the mirror presents to me. I wish I looked better, that I found myself beautiful, but I don’t. I don't get how other girls can have such confidence, I could only dream of having even the slightest bit of confidence, I know it's important with self-confidence but for me, it's so out of reach.

The door opens and guess who enters. No one is other than Sally Salt and her minions. I'm sure that they saw me walk in here, and of course, they felt the need to follow me and make my life even more miserable. Sally can never let me be in peace, she always has to push things further and make things complicated for me. It's like she's obsessed for some reason.

"Oh but look guys, it's Pee-Pee", she laughs and the others start to laugh as well. I roll my eyes. Here we go again. Pee-Pee. She has been calling me that for as long as I can remember, and she never seems to become tired of calling me that either, even though it's very childish. I try to walk past them, but Sally takes a hold of my top. “And where are you going Pee-Pee?"

"None of your damn business, Salt", I hiss. "Now let go of my damn top and leave me the hell alone!"

"Oh no, why would I do that?" She asks and I slap her. Two of her minions, grab both my arms and I drop my books, they hold me in front of Sally. ”Listen here Pee-Pee, you are my business, alright?" She says and strokes my cheek. What the hell?! "Every move you make is my damn business, every breath you take is my business, so watch it before you say anything or do anything that can make me angry for real".

And with that, she knees me in my stomach and my breath stops. They let go of me and I fall onto the floor gasping for air.

They laugh and I hear the door open, and they leave. I hear the school bell ring, and I need to go to class, but I can't bring myself to stand up. I try to breathe and with a burning feeling in my chest I succeed to get some air into my lungs. I don't know how long I'm lying here. But finally, I get enough strength to stand up.

I pick up my books and walk to my class. I knock on the door and I hair a faint.

"Come in".

I sigh and open the door.

"Ms. Sims, you're aware of the fact that you're fifteen minutes late?" My teacher Mrs. Que asks.

"I am, Mrs. Que, and I'm sorry, it won't be happening again", I apologize.

"Since this is the first time, you'll get an away with it, just don't make it a second", Mrs. Que says.

"I won't", I say and look into the classroom after a place to sit.

I usually sit in the corner in the back of the classroom, but now those seats are taken and the only seat left is beside Evans. I don't believe this. How can this be the only seat left? Usually, I’m the first to enter a classroom and I always chose the seat in the back, and no one cares to sit beside me so I’m usually alone. I prefer it that way to be honest. And I don’t want to sit beside Evans

I hold back a sigh as I turn my feet towards the seat. It wouldn’t help to make a fuss over this, it would only make Mrs. Que even more irritated with me and I don’t want that right now.

The only thing pleasing me in this situation right now is that Evans doesn't seem pleased with this either.

But I have no choice. So I sit down without a word and Mrs. Que continues with the biology lesson.

"Okay, so where was I? Um yes... So to prevent a pregnancy you have to use a condom", she says. Oh god. "But ... If we say that you're older and do want children, what would they look like? Well, that depends on who it is of course, but if we take two of you guys ..." She starts to look around in the class.

"Ms. Sims, Mr. Evans would you mind coming up here?"

This is not happening. I do mind very much. But I don’t have the guts to say it. Mrs. Que looks at me and I know that this is happening.

I slowly walk up to the front along with Evans. He looks bored. He doesn't look ashamed and he doesn't look angry.

He stands beside me.

"Now... What would their children look like?" Mrs. Que asks.

Rain’s hand shoots straight up. Damn you Rain!

"Well ... They could have a child with dark hair like Becca’s but with blue eyes like Nathan’s", she says. I look at Evans. His eyes really are blue. Blue like the ocean itself. But that doesn't change anything. “Or they could have a child with blonde hair like Nathan, or grey eyes like Beck", Rain continues. She really had to call me Becca in class.

"Yes Ms. Sims, very good", Mrs. Que says.

Yeah and embarrassing. Thanks, Rai-Rai!

"You two can go and sit down again", Mrs. Que tells Evans and me.

We leave without any words.

During the rest of the lesson I try to focus on what Mrs. Que says, but I can't. I'm too aware of Evans' eyes that stare at me discreetly. Why is he even looking at me? Why would he? Oh, I hate him so damn much. He confuses the s**t out of me.

When the class is over, I gather my stuff and almost run out of the classroom.

"Wait Beck hold up!" Rain shouts.

I turn around and watch how Rain jogs towards me. She runs with her boyfriend's hand in hers. Marcus. He's Marlow's twin brother. Although they're not alike, they are. Fraternal twins. They can't be identical since they are boy and girl.

"What?" I ask, looking at Rain. "Want to humiliate me some more?"

"Oh come on Beck, it wasn't so bad", she says and as she stops.

The rest of her group comes up behind her.

Two of the boys, Calvin and Vic, are dragging Evans with them like Evans doesn't want to go in this direction and I don't want him to either.

"What do you want Rai?" I ask, sighing.

"What do you think?" Rain asks.

"I already said no!" I say.

"Yeah so accept that and let's go!" Evans says irritated and starts to walk but Vic grabs Evans' shirt and jerks him back.

"Look, I don't know what happened between the two of you, but I know that you were friends once, so just please find a way back to that", Rain begs. "Because I do want my cousin to be with us again".

I just look at Evans. He looks at me. I shake my head and look away.

"I'm sorry Rai-Rai, but I can't", I say and look at Evans again. "And that's final".

With that, I walk away again and I don’t look back, I would only start crying.