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She's With Me (A Wattpad Novel)(8)
Author: Jessica Cunsolo

The teacher, seemingly bored of the topic already, takes this as an appropriate response and goes back to his laptop.

“What the hell, man?!” Aiden turns his deadly glare to his best friend.

“Dude, Mason saved your ass. You can’t get suspended again, and we all saw it coming if he didn’t jump in,” Noah points out.

“You could’ve at least thought of a better excuse. One that’s more believable. We all know I’m way smarter than you kids.”

“Are not! I can out-sociology your ass any day! This isn’t math,” replies Noah.

“Noah, you get lost tying your shoes,” Mason points out.

“What’s that got to do with anything?!”

“Are one of you geniuses going to help me with question two or am I on my own?” I decide it’s time to intervene in their display of male bravado. God, boys are so competitive over such trivial things. Aiden mutters something under his breath as he turns back to his textbook.

“Screw that. Let’s talk about Halloween!” Mason says, completely abandoning their little dispute.

“What about Halloween?” I ask, fully turning my chair around to face them.

Noah looks at me like I just asked him where babies come from. “It’s this Friday.”

“And?”

“Do you have plans?” Mason asks.

I honestly didn’t really think about this Halloween. I used to love getting dressed up and going out with friends. I remember loving putting on makeup and dressing up as anything I wanted, and the best part was that no one could judge because the crazier the outfit, the better. Halloween was the one day you could be anything you wanted.

One year, my best friend and I went as a pair of giant pink fuzzy dice, like the stereotypical kind that would hang from a muscle car’s rearview mirror. We even had a fake giant rearview mirror with thin cardboard strips imitating string that attached us. We laughed all day as we kept bumping into everything.

But ever since that horrible, life-altering event I endured, and everything that followed, I can’t stand Halloween. It’s turned into a day when kids glorify murderers and serial killers, where the gorier and more horrifying the costume, the better. When kids take joy in being able to scare the crap out of one another. Now, ever since that day, I just can’t go through Halloween without thinking of him.

“Probably just going to watch a movie at home or catch up on some homework,” I say honestly.

“No you’re not,” Noah states.

“I’m not?”

“Nope, because you’re coming to Noah’s party.” Mason smiles at me triumphantly.

Me. Going to Noah’s house. Surrounded by drunk teenagers. On Halloween. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“You’re coming, k-bear. No way to get around it.”

“No, seriously, guys. I can’t.”

“We’re not taking no for an answer,” Noah states.

“You probably won’t even notice if I’m there or not!”

“Amelia, seriously. You’re coming. It’s for your own good.” Mason stands his ground.

“Who will give the children candy?” I say.

Noah shrugs. “Obesity in youth is a growing problem.”

“Aiden, tell them I’m not coming,” I say, hoping he’ll back me up since he probably doesn’t want me there anyway.

Aiden looks up from his book at me, then looks behind him at Noah and Mason.

He shrugs. “It’s Noah’s house.” Then he turns back to his textbook.

The one time I depend on Aiden’s hatred for me he doesn’t come through …

“You can bring Charlotte! Chase invited her anyway, but you guys can come together!” Mason pushes.

“Yeah, Chase will be there!” Noah adds.

“I don’t know,” Maybe if I can convince Charlotte to come with me, it won’t be so bad.

“Amelia, if you don’t come, I’ll follow you around making obnoxious siren noises all day at the top of my lungs. And believe me, I’m incredibly annoying and I know how to make quite the scene,” Noah says with a spark of mischief in his eyes.

“He wouldn’t actually do that would he?” I look at Mason for confirmation, but he just smiles triumphantly.

I look back at Noah as he takes an audible inhale of breath before: “WEE OU WEE OU BEEP BEE—”

“Okay, okay! Stop! You win—I’ll come!”

A few students look over at us quizzically before returning to their work, and the teacher gives us a disapproving glare. I wait a minute before I turn back to the boys.

Noah and Mason high-five in victory and grin from ear to ear. “Being the most annoying person in the room never fails.”

“I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that you have no shame or the fact that it doesn’t seem like it’s the first time you’ve done that in order to coerce your friend,” I say to Noah.

“Hey, no pain, no gain.” He winks.

 

 

4

 

 

Today is Friday. Meaning it’s been almost a full week since I made my return to school. Also meaning it’s Halloween, and Noah’s party. It wasn’t as hard to persuade Charlotte to come to the party as I thought it would be. With Chase and I both pestering her, she gave in pretty quickly.

My phone chimes and I read a text from Charlotte: Be there in 5 :)

I take a calming breath and try to push my mom’s words out of my head. When I told her what I was up to tonight, she did not take it well.

You promised, Amelia, she lectured. You’re not supposed to be out partying and drawing attention to yourself.

It’s just one night, Mom. I’ll be on my best behavior.

She shook her head, not believing me. Fine, go, but this is a bad idea. You need to be more responsible. People around you get hurt, and it’ll be your fault if they do.

Pushing her warning out of my mind, I grab a small purse to put my keys, gum, and phone in, then run downstairs.

At 9:34 p.m. Chase’s car pulls into the driveway. My mom is at work, so I send her a quick text, knowing she probably won’t even respond until later. She’s a flight attendant, so not answering is nothing new. Tonight she’s on a long haul to from Seattle to Australia, so I won’t see her for a couple of days.

Here, now, in King City, I’m going to do things differently. I may have already screwed up my plan to keep my head down all year, but I am going to have friends. I want to have friends. I want to live through a normal school year. I want to finish my senior year at one school and one school only—King City High.

I lock the door and head toward the car, where Charlotte is getting out of the front seat so we can admire each other’s costumes.

“You look hot!” she says with a smile.

I’m dressed as a ’20s flapper, in a black dress and dangling beaded necklaces.

“You too!” I smile back at her.

Charlotte’s dressed as a Pink Lady from the movie Grease. The look is complete with her curly, mocha-colored hair tied in a high ponytail and a small black scarf tied around her neck.

“Um, hello?” Chase interrupts us as he walks around the front of the car from the driver’s side. “Why has no one commented on my hotness?”

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