Behind The Hoodie

Chapter 7: Nerd Gone Bad

As I walk in the door cheers come from the class. I keep a straight face and walk to my seat. Mrs. Wallence follows in and gives then that warning look that every student knows means to stop whatever they are doing.

"Get to work on your assignment."

I pull out my work and start taking notes for the test. The person next to me soon taps the table to get my attention and whispers to me.

"Nice one. They asked for it."

"Lilly, back to work! I swear this class is gonna make me lose my mind."

She breathed that last part under her breath.

The rest of the day goes by and what I had done disappears with all the other drama and at the end of the day, it is brought back up with twists. Rumors about it spread. As the day comes to an end and I am running errands for the gym teacher I walk past a few groups of people.

"I heard she caused the accident."

"I was told that she was bragging about hiring the guy as a hitman."

"She even knocked out his tooth, I was in the class and saw it happen."

"What happened to the nerd?"

"Nerds lost it."

"He said all he did was ask her if she was okay."

A few more whispers surround me as I walk past them. A few catcalls sound and I ignore it all. I won't see these people after high school, don't matter. As long as my grades are good I'll be okay. 

I go to the office and ask for three new pairs of pants and five new shirts along with two more pull-ups. Babysitting isn't too bad. We are only allowed to take care of kids five and up. 

Any child under and the parent has to come in and take care of certain things. They hand me a box of clothes and another box of pull-ups. I put one in each hand and carry it while trying to move my crutches. I walk out of the office and down the same hall.

"Those for you?"

I get a bunch more remarks trying to make me go off but I ignore it. As I am almost at the end of the hall Lela and her crew walk by. Brittney is behind them all. As I go to pass them they grab my crutch and pull it out from under me making me fall. They laugh at me while I lay on the ground. Brittney drops my crutch next to me.

"Oops."

They continue to walk and I sit up. I pick up the clothes and put them back in the box. My leg hurts from me not being able to protect it but I put it in the back of my mind. No one makes a move to help me till footsteps sound down the hall. 

I don't look and I continue to put the scattered clothes back in the box. That is till A appears in front of me and puts some clothes further away in the box. 

"Thanks."

He nods his head and smiles at me. As I go to pick back up the boxes he helps me up and hands me my crutches.

"I got it," I say.

He ignores me and grabs the boxes and carries them for me anyway.

"Where to?"

"Gym."

We start walking that way.

"Thanks for this."

"No problem. So you threatened him?"

"Yeah."

"Good for you. I think we might be a bad influence on you."