Love and Lies

15

"Can I ask you a question?" Steve asks me when we are halfway through detention. It's consisted of mainly nothing but Steve writing dumb s**t on paper.

I sit upright, fold my arms across my chest and glare at him. I think he takes that as a yes as he proceeds with his question.

"Is there a reason you're so gloomy?" He asks with a straight,unemotional face. He drops his pen so he can listen to to my answer.

I unfold my hands and look blankly at him before drawing my eyebrows in confusion. "What do you mean gloomy?"

"Well I don't know, these last three days that I've known you,you've acted nothing but sad." he shrugs and looks deep into my eyes as if trying to hypnotize me, well it's not going to work.

I let out a long, mocking laughter, "Are you kidding?" I raise one brow and shake my head, "My behaviour is nothing compared to sad dude, are you retarded?"

"There. That's exactly what I'm talking about." he points a hand in my direction.

"That's being rude, for the record. And being rude is fun." I mock him. He looks at me with a raised brow and I roll my eyes. Maybe if I tell him what he wants to hear, maybe he'll free me of this deetention.

"On second thought," I start to say  with a smirk. "If I tell you why I'm 'sad'," I say with air quotes. "Will you let me out of detention?"

"It depends." He shrugs.

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Troy's POV

"I have a classmate coming over today." I tell my little sister as we both sit in my room, on my bed, munching on popcorn and binge watching movies on Netflix, that-as in - Jenna forced me to.

She nods in acknowledgement even though I'm pretty sure she didn't hear what I said. Grabbing a handful of popcorn,she shoves it in her mouth and leans her chin on her palms. "Can you believe Marley actually loves Damian?!" She beams.

"I know. I'm watching the movie too." I sigh and walk over to the desk in my room to grab a bottle of water to drink. Our mom doesn't come home until it is pretty late at night,every single day except on Sundays and my dad isn't coming home in a month.

"Wait, what?" Jenna beams and rushes over to where I'm standing, "Girl or boy?!"

"Boy." I smirk and put the water bottle back on my desk and start to walk towards the bed. She trails behind me and jumps on the bed, to sit behind me. The laptop almost falls off the bed at her action and I roll my eyes as I catch it before it reaches its fall.

"Is he cute?" She says, giving me the puppy eyes. I laugh and shake my head.

"She's a girl." I tell her and regret it immediately as she shrieks and waves her hand, tossing both bowls of popcorn over, causing the content to spread across the floor.

"Troy, a girl is coming over, are you kidding me!" she beams and sits upright, folding both legs and pausing the movie on the laptop. "What's she like? Is she cute?"

"Well..." I stop talking. Is Janice cute? I haven't really put much thoughts into her looks. Facially, she's okay I guess. "She's okay." I smile at my little sister.

"Why is she coming over?" Jenna asks, standing up from the bed and wearing her flip flops as she heads to the bathroom.

"School project. We have to be school parents so we can take care of our 'child' and ourselves with twenty dollars. Then we have to turn in our scale of preference to the teacher." I explain.

She opens the bathroom door and walks in. She slams it shut and then opens it almost immediately. Popping her head out of the bathroom, she adds, "Oh and Troy, I totally understood what you said." Her voice drips with sarcasm.

I ignore my teasing sister and reach out to continue the movie. I stop halfway at her ringing phone. I furrow my eyebrows at the caller id, 'John my heart' with a black heart.

John my heart? What the heck?

I contemplate going to the bathroom to give her the phone. With a defeated sigh, I head to the bathroom and knock on the door gently. "Jenna?"

"What?" She yells back.

"You have a call from 'John my heart'." I announce to my little sister. I hear her footsteps hurried as she opens the bathroom door. Her pants are still down her legs but she doesn't mind as she grabs the phone from my grip with a gasp.

"Who's John?" I ask as she slams the door in my face.

"Not your problem." She yells and I sigh and walk back to the bed to continue watching the movie. Fine, maybe I am kind of into the movie. I frown at the popcorn all over my floor and part of my bed. She's going to have to clean that up.

Unknowingly,I pick up a popcorn piece from the bed and put it into my mouth.

Noises coming from my bedroom window makes me furrow my eyebrows and I turn in its direction to see the reason for the disturbing,weird noises.

I gasp when Janice waves back at me with a wide grin. Oh my God. Groaning, I jump out of my bed and hurry over to the window. Very quickly,I push it up, making it open.

She shoves me aside with the push of a hand and climbs into my room. She seems out of breathe as, without my permission, she jumps on my bed.

"You might have company." She winks at me,as if what the heck is going on right now isn't absurd but instead,totally normal. At least, she's tried making it normal.

"What?" I frown. My question is answered when a furious banging at my door interrupts me.

To everyone reading this book, do not stop! The future of this book is so erratic! I can't wait for you all to find everything out!