The President's Daughter by David Dower (if you liked this book txt) 📕

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My eyes widened. Never in a million years would I have thought somebody would talk to me like that, besides Ashley. Nevertheless, I was not going to let a freshmen sass me.

“Listen here blondie.” I said, getting her attention. “You have five seconds to leave this bathroom, before I make your life living hell. Got that?” Repeating the words that Ashley had said to try to scare me off one time.

I was not in the mood to deal with this girl’s shit and it wasn’t just because I was on my time of the month, but also because I was tired of being pushed around.

“Whatever,” She said, closing her makeup case as she walked out of the bathroom with a red head chick in tow.

I rolled my eyes, the situation felt too familiar.

I turned around knocking on the door of the bathroom where Ashley’s sniffling had now started to become less frequent. “I know you are in there.”

I heard her sniffle, “If it is the person who caused me to cry my eyes out. I would rather not talk to them.” She said, snapping.

“You aren’t going to scare me off.” I told her honestly. I wanted to fix this situation with her, there was only three months left of school left and I wanted to make my last few months of high school memorable. Not, picking a fight with everyone who crossed me.

“Like how you scared those freshmen off?”

“You heard that?”

“I am not deaf.” She said, in a duh tone.

I let out a sigh, running my hands through my brown hair. “Look? Are you going to let me in or not?”

“What do you think?”

I took a step back from the bathroom stall. Ashley was in the handicapped stall, so it had more than enough room for me to crawl under, since she wasn’t planning on letting me in. I mentally shuddered, trying not to think of how dirty the floor is.

“This better be worth it,” I said, getting on all fours and crawling under the door.

I heard Ashley shriek, as I got up from the floor dusting of the imaginary dust off my jeans. Once I was done, I noticed Ashley against the wall of the bathroom, her mascara staining her cheeks.

“You probably didn’t hear me before, but I didn’t want you to come.”

“I heard you, but I ignored you.”

She clenched her teeth. “So why are you here? To rub it in my face that you finally got Gavin? Well congratulations, you stole the one guy I truly cared about.”

I tilted my head, walking over to her and taking a seat beside her, leaning my back against the wall. “You care about him?”

She looked at me, annoyed. “Didn’t you hear me? Of course I care about Gavin. I love him.”

I sucked in a deep breath. I did not expect her to say that from all things...

It was quiet and tense for a few minutes after Ashley’s confession, “Sorry.” I muttered.

“Whatever, I guess he just didn’t love me, like how I love him. Even though, I gave him everything.” She said, bitterly.

I turned my head to look at Ashley, “You know… Sometimes everything isn’t what the person is looking for.”

“Of course you can say that. After all, Gavin is head over heels in love with you.”

“How would you know that?” I asked, interested to know what she means.

“Then don’t give them the satisfaction,” He said, his eyes scanning the cafeteria.

I nodded my head, not wanting to look at the people who were whispering about us. I knew that Gavin and I were going to be the talk of the school, even though we aren’t necessarily dating.

“You ready to go?” Gavin asked, plopping his last of his fries into his mouth and getting up from his seat. I nodded my head doing the same.

I shook off Gavin’s hand grabbing my empty water bottle and the remainder of the plastics walking over to the trash can and tossing them in.

The bell to third period rang in fifteen minutes and I wanted to get away from the whispers and stares as fast as I can. Once I tossed all the garbage away, I turned back to look for Gavin who along with others were staring at me.

“Are coming or not?” I asked, walking back over to him where he hasn’t moved.

His brown eyes scanned my face looking for some sort of answer. “Are you embarrassed to be seen with me?” He asked, quietly.

My eyes widened at his question, “Of course not!” I said, appalled.

“Then, don’t ever let go.” He said, grabbing my hand and entwining it in his. “Because honestly, I don’t plan to.” He said, a small smile appearing on his handsome face.

I grin made its way onto my face. It took all my might not to break out into a girly scream and a goofy dance for snagging up someone who was supposed to be a real butthole.

Hand in hand, Gavin and I walked towards the doors of the cafeteria. Not caring at the looks we were getting ever since Gavin came to sit with me instead of his usual group.

I turned my head slightly and caught eyes with someone I didn’t really expect or want to see at the moment. However, instead of glaring at me like the rest of the female population at this school. She was doing quite the opposite. Yes, she was staring at me, but with sad eyes.

“Wait,” I said, stopping Gavin in his tracks as I watched Ashley get up from her chair and run out of the west side cafeteria doors, I knew she was crying because before she turned around to flee I could’ve sworn I saw a tear.

“What are you looking at?” Gavin asked, whispering into my ear.

“A broken girl and most probably a broken heart.” I mumbled, not really wanting him to hear what I had just said. “I will catch up with you in Algebra. I’ve got to go do something,” I said, apologetically to Gavin. Shaking off his hand from mine and running towards the same doors Ashley had run out of a few minutes ago.

Once I was out of the cafeteria doors. I ran towards the closest bathroom, the same place where I knew any girl would go even if they weren’t crying their eyes out.

I pushed open the doors to the bathroom, automatically hearing sniffling coming from one of the stalls. I also noticed two small girls who were most probably freshmen doing there makeup in the mirrors.

“Do you guys mind?” I asked, walking over to the door to where Ashley was behind.

“No we don’t mind.” A blonde girl answered back, not bothering to look at me because she was too busy applying some mascara.

I wrinkled my eyebrows in confusion, “I meant do you guys mind to leave?”

The blonde girl turned to look at me a nasty look on her face as she glanced at me head to toe. “This is a bathroom not a crying facility. So you can do the hell you want and I will do what the hell I want.” She hissed at me.

He rolled his eyes, “I didn’t even insult you.” He said, opening up his lunch container and taking out a few fries, plopping it into his mouth.

“Were you going to?” I questioned.

He nodded his head, “Yeah. Most probably.”

I shook my head, “Well bud, I beat yeah to it.” I said, immaturely sticking out my tongue.

Gavin brought his head close to mine, resting his forehead on mine. “If I was you, I would put that tongue back into your mouth before it goes into mine.” He whispered, staring at my lips.

I gulped staring into Gavin’s dark brown eyes, ignoring the tingles running up and down my body.

“Alright!” Holly said, loudly causing Gavin and I to break apart. “I thought I was going to be able to handle on this cuteness. But, I just ate a salad. It was hard enough to get it down and I doubt anyone wants to see it coming back up.” She said, looking at the two of us with a look in her eyes that I couldn’t really decipher. “I don’t know about Sarah, but I am out of here.” She said, collecting her things and getting up from her chair, towards the exit of the cafeteria.

All three of us watched as Holly walked away, soon Sarah began collecting her lunch things too. “Your leaving too?” I asked, confused.

She nodded her head, “Yeah. I love you Ali, but I honestly don’t want to be a third wheel.”

“You’re not a third wheel!” I said, defensively.

“That’s what people say to others to make them feel like they aren’t third wheeling when they are.” Sarah said, with a smile on her face. “I’ll see you two love birds around.” She said, getting up from her chair and walking to the same way Holly disappeared off to moments ago.

“Well that wasn’t awkward at all.” Gavin said, trying to fill the awkward silence that was hanging in the air.

I shrugged, going back to eating my lunch. “So where were you during first and second?” I asked, taking a sip of my water.

“Garrett got sick, so I had to take care of him for the duration of the morning, then dropped him off at a close friend of mine who usually watches Garrett when I can’t. Considering the bastard of a father doesn’t care about us.” Gavin grumbled, staring at his fries.

I grimaced, it wasn’t something I wanted to hear. I stared at Gavin who was staring blankly at his food. I took a deep breath, reaching out and grabbing his hand, entwining it with mine. Gavin’s head slowly turned to look at his hand now entwined with mine, he turned to look at me a grateful look in his eyes.

I gave his hand a squeeze, turning back to finish up the last few bites of my bagel with the hand that wasn’t connected with Gavin’s.

Once I was done, I looked up my eyes scanning the cafeteria. I was finally soaking in all the people staring at Gavin and I. They whispered amongst their friends as they kept turning back to look at us, like we were on an art display.

When I made eye contact with a few students they turned around so fast as if they didn’t want to get caught staring. But, too bad I already noticed all the whispers and looks we were getting, which was starting to annoy me.

“Just ignore them,” I heard Gavin say, snapping me out of my thoughts. “They are just being nosey.”

“But, it’s kind of hard when you have so many people looking at you and you know that they are judging you.”

“I know what you mean. But, wherever you go people are going to judge you. It’s up to you if you want them to get to you or not.”

“But, I don’t want them to get to me.” Chapter Forty-Three: Progress Relations

“She looks like she’s dead,” I heard someone whisper. I didn’t feel like moving and snapping at the person, due to my sleepy state.

“I would say she’s dead, but she has a little bit of drool on the corner of her mouth.” I heard the one person