Something Between Us ✔

4| Payback Between Us

4. Payback Between Us

"Payback's a bitch."

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After our unsuccessful attempt to teach Jesse a lesson, I didn't forecast another revenge plan looming on the horizon. It was going to have to wait. Or maybe we won't do it after all.

I ignored Claire at first because I wanted her to feel guilty of what she did yesterday. But even I couldn't be mad at her for too long and eventually I forgave her the second she mentioned that she was going ​to pay for my lunch for a month.

"What about Jesse?" I asked Claire. We were by our lockers, retrieving our books for our first class. I had Physics while she had English.

"What about him?"

"Don't you want to punish him for using and then dumping you?"

"Um...I don't really think we should do that. Not after what happened yesterday. I'm over him. And I want to avoid him as much as possible. That's best for both of us," She said with a small smile in the end.

"Uh, okay," I was a little disappointed. But that was exactly what I was expecting. She was not the bad ass type.

"Hey, do you know that Brian is not in school today."

"I didn't know. What about him?"

"Don't you see! Your plan worked. He must be in his bed nursing his bruises."

"But I feel so guilty of doing that to him! Even though he is such a jerk."

"It's okay. He'll be alright."

I nodded, "I better go. Bye."

"Yeah, bye," she replied and then I walked towards class.

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"Hey, did you hear that Brian was attacked by two girls yesterday? One of them threw blue paint on him and then started hitting the crap out of him?" Josh asked us.

I choked on my water and Claire stared at me. We were in the cafeteria. Apparently, the whole school knew about it. Darren, Josh and Tyler were laughing at this. How mean. Should I do that to them too? That way they'll know how it felt to be in Brian's place.

"Um...no," I said. I looked at Claire and she had her eyes on the food in front of her. She was biting her lower lip, controlling herself from laughing along with them.

I felt more guilty because of it. He didn't deserve it. I was stupid. I should have checked who it was. It was not Jesse. His asshole-ish behavior was totally justified. I would be angry too if I get attacked like that.

Darren, Josh and Tyler went on gossiping about some other stuff and I went back to my food.

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Two days after our prank gone wrong, Brian still hadn't returned to school. I wondered if I hit him that hard. If that was it, then I would definitely not try it again. Of course, I could make exceptions to abominable people like Jesse Winters.

I was in the locker room, retrieving my Chemistry books. Claire was with me. She was talking about Darren's party and she had finally said that she herself wanted to go and not because I told her to.

I was checking if I had left something undone in my Chemistry homework when an angry fist banged my locker door shut. I jumped a little at that.

I looked up and there he was, the wrong victim, Brian. He was glaring at me. Behind him was Jake. He was smirking at me which turned into a charming smile when he eyed Claire. When Claire saw him, he winked at her and she blushed. Ugh! Teens and their freaking hormones.