Exuses

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                              (The next day)
"Ugh."
I sigh hearing that god awful alarm noise.
I turn it off and get out of bed like usual.
I grab my backpack and this time I decide to skip breakfast, I'm too nervous as it is.
I need to know what score I got on that god damn test.
Anything less then an A and who knows what will happen to me.
I meet Nikki and Neil by the tree like usual but I notice that Nikki and Neil seem... off.
They start to question me as we walk like usual.
"So, Max..."
Said Neil, sounding determined.
"are you ready to tell us what happened yesterday?..."
"W-What? I-I already told you! I fell on my way to my locker!"
"Max, you don't get those kinds of injuries from falling straight into the floor..."
Said Nikki with concern apparent in her voice  .
"Yeah, we just didn't want to talk about it yesterday because you seemed really on edge."
Said Neil.
"Ill answer your questions on one condition."
I say calmly.
"What?"
They both replied.
"Nikki."
I say pointing to her.
"What happened yesterday in the bathroom with Tabii Erin and Sasha."
I say more of a statement than a question.
Nikki looks... shocked.
I look at her as she contemplated what to say for about a minute.
"They dragged me into the bathroom because they wanted to talk about their cookie sales to other people, or something.
"And why were you hurt after that?"
I say in response.
"W-well I heard the bell rang and I was so exited for class that I ran too quickly and tripped into the sink."
She said stammering.
"I don't believe you."
I said.
"Yeah me neither, your never exited for class!"
Said Neil shortly after.
"Yeah, and how the hell did you get random bruises all over your arms and legs?"
I say in a soft tone, trying not to trigger her.
"W-well t-that's the t-truth!"
At this point pain is apparent in her voice and I suddenly see her tearing up.
I watch as she tries to hide it but Neil dosent seem to notice.
Seeing her cry, pains me...I lean closer and unexpectedly hug her.
We stop walking and Neil looks back at us.
"What the-"
Neil cuts himself off as he looks back at us.
"N-Nikki..."
He then joins the hug and tells her that she dosent need to answer.
(At school)
We reach our lockers and see that the spray paint from yesterday was... gone?
Who cleaned it? Maybe the Janitor?
Either was we were happy to see it gone.
Nikki has stopped crying but her eyes were still puffy, and it was still apparent that she had cried.
There were just too many things going on this morning.
And then the flower scouts came.
They just had to make all of us feel worse.
"What the hell do you guys want?"
I say in a mad tone.
"WOOOW can we just get to our lockers without you flipping out and getting all Triggerd!?"
Said Sasha, in her normal bitchy tone.
And that was when this morning went from bad to worse.
I watch horrifically as all of their eyes point to Nikki.
"Woeh What happened to you Nikki?"
Said Erin, In a non concerned voice.
Then Tabii had to open her big mouth.
"Yeah, you look fucking awful!"
"Not that that's not new."
Said Sasha as she followed up what Tabii said.
I see as Nikki opens her mouth, but a split second later she closes it like she re-thought something at the last second.
Before I could tell them to fuck off the bell rang
for our next class.
We walk in, sit down and my heart starts racing again.
The teacher seats us down, and before she handed back the tests she made something clear.
"And remember, your grade is final.
Test corrections will not be allowed. And one more thing, I man NOT happy with all of your results."
She said in a raspy tone.
She then starts handing them back.
Then she finally got to me...
"I'm happy with your grade Maxwell..."
She said quickly.
"P-please don't call me that."
I say in response, but she dosent seem to notice.
I hesitantly take the stapled pieces of paper and flip them over.
"GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!"
As soon as I heard what I said I immediately cover my mouth.
Thankfully only the kid in front of me noticed and turned around to give me a look.
But turned back just as quickly.
I take a look at this goddamn stupid test one more time to make sure that what I just saw was true.
But all that stared back at me was a fucking B.
Not even a B+, just a B.
I-I thought I got them right!
I start to stumble over my thoughts.
What the hell will happen? What will my parents think? Should I try to explain that the questions were hard?
My thoughts continue to race and it's not helping anything.
I swear to god it's this goddamn teacher, she didn't teach us half the things on this fucking test.

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