Wretched And Divine
Chapter Seventeen
The morning of the senior switch was like any other morning, really. The only difference was that Lena had to drive all around town picking everyone up, including Annabelle. She really only agreed to it because of Jake. Jake seemed so excited about getting everyone together and she didn't want to ruin his excitement.
After she had picked everyone up at each of their houses, the group drove over to the meeting place. The Stop N Shop parking lot. How classy.
"Lena, turn the radio up. I love this song!" Annabelle squealed from the back seat.
Lena groaned. She hated anything to do with Ke$ha and that was the last thing she wanted to listen to at six-thirty in the morning. "No, I hate th--"
Jake reached over and turned the knob almost all the way up. Lena reacted quickly and turned the knob back down. "Noooo." She said.
"Come on, Lena. Can't we have a little bit of fun?" Carson said, the party animal of the group.
"I can't concentrate on driving with the music that loud. You think getting in a car accident is having fun?" Lena had a point.
When they pulled into the parking lot, they were all amazed at how many people actually decided to show up. The well-known "bad kids" were there, the popular kids, the outcasts like themselves and even a few "goody-two shoes" showed up as well. Lena was amazed that her high school class could actually organize an event like this and get everyone to come together as one to make it happen.
"Alright guys, gather round!" Kyle, the master mind behind the plan, announced.
All fifty to seventy kids gathered around Kyle standing on top of his car with a bullhorn. "MHS class of 2013!" He shouted into the megaphone. "The time has come for us to storm the castle. LHS is a bunch of pussies who dropped out of this awesome senior prank and they think we're too soft to go through with it. Let's show them that MHS has the balls to go through with something so epic."
Everyone cheered and dispersed, getting into cars and following Kyle's car out of the parking lot and to LHS. As they pulled into the parking lot of LHS, Lena knew that the plan was already unraveling. The LHS students knew all those people getting out of their cars weren't kids who went to this high school. And the fact that they all were going in as a group was even more obvious. They all piled into the lobby and then heard Kyle shout "Go!" and everyone started running.
Jake grabbed Lena's hand and pulled her in a random direction. The two ran down the long, skinny hallway and entered a random classroom.
"Hey, you two aren't in my homeroom." The teacher said as soon as she saw the two. "Get to your own homerooms."
Jake and Lena looked at each other and then turned around and ran back down the hallway. "Hey, down this way!" Jake shouted but Lena couldn't hear him. He ran down that hallway and when Lena looked around for him, he was gone.
Panic ran through her body. Jake was gone and now she was alone in a school she'd never been to before. The only thing she could think of doing was to run. She hoped maybe she would find an exit somewhere.
She passed by a group of girls at their locker who gave her a nasty look as she ran by. She passed a group of guys further down the hall who called out to her, and tried to hit on her as she ran by them. At the end of the hallway, she turned the corner and found herself in an empty corridor. It was so silent in that one hallway. The sounds of her footsteps reverberated off the walls and made an echo.
She started to panic again. It wasn't natural to have a random, abandoned hallway in the middle of a bustling high school.
"I want everyone who doesn't attend this high school out of this building immediately!" She heard a very masculine voice yelling in the hallway she had just been in. His voice sounded close and she figured he must be coming to check and see if any student was hiding in the abandoned hallway. She took slow steps backward, not wanting him to catch her by surprise from behind. Her breathing picked up and she felt the adrenaline rush. She kept backing up further and further until two hands shot out of an indent in the wall and grabbed her, pulling her into the indent with them.
She wanted to scream but the person put their hand around her mouth. "Don't say anything." It was a boy. "It's me, Andy."
Lena turned her body around in the small space and looked right into Andy's eyes. They were crammed into such a tiny space that their bodies were pushed up against one another's. Andy was getting to her again. His skinny torso was pushed up against hers, his arms were on either side of her, supporting himself, and their faces were so close to one another that their noses almost touched.
"What are you doing in here?" Lena whispered.
"Hiding." Andy smiled, then put his index finger to his lips to cue Lena to be quiet. They both looked to their right out into the hallway and saw the man Lena had heard yelling walk by slowly. The crevice they were tucked into was dark so he couldn't see them.
"I think he's gone." She whispered as soon as the man was out of sight and his footsteps were no longer heard.
"There you guys are!"
Lena let out a small, short scream and looked to see Jake standing in the hallway in front of them. "I've been looking all over for you two. Let's get out of here."
Lena shimmied her way out of the indentation in the wall and Andy followed. Jake took Lena's hand in his own and linked their fingers together. He didn't want to admit it to himself or anyone else that he felt extreme jealousy wash over him when he saw his best friend and his girlfriend crammed up against each other like that. He wanted to think that there wasn't anything between Lena and Andy but he knew that Andy had some sort of attraction to her and he could see Lena felt the same.
After she had picked everyone up at each of their houses, the group drove over to the meeting place. The Stop N Shop parking lot. How classy.
"Lena, turn the radio up. I love this song!" Annabelle squealed from the back seat.
Lena groaned. She hated anything to do with Ke$ha and that was the last thing she wanted to listen to at six-thirty in the morning. "No, I hate th--"
Jake reached over and turned the knob almost all the way up. Lena reacted quickly and turned the knob back down. "Noooo." She said.
"Come on, Lena. Can't we have a little bit of fun?" Carson said, the party animal of the group.
"I can't concentrate on driving with the music that loud. You think getting in a car accident is having fun?" Lena had a point.
When they pulled into the parking lot, they were all amazed at how many people actually decided to show up. The well-known "bad kids" were there, the popular kids, the outcasts like themselves and even a few "goody-two shoes" showed up as well. Lena was amazed that her high school class could actually organize an event like this and get everyone to come together as one to make it happen.
"Alright guys, gather round!" Kyle, the master mind behind the plan, announced.
All fifty to seventy kids gathered around Kyle standing on top of his car with a bullhorn. "MHS class of 2013!" He shouted into the megaphone. "The time has come for us to storm the castle. LHS is a bunch of pussies who dropped out of this awesome senior prank and they think we're too soft to go through with it. Let's show them that MHS has the balls to go through with something so epic."
Everyone cheered and dispersed, getting into cars and following Kyle's car out of the parking lot and to LHS. As they pulled into the parking lot of LHS, Lena knew that the plan was already unraveling. The LHS students knew all those people getting out of their cars weren't kids who went to this high school. And the fact that they all were going in as a group was even more obvious. They all piled into the lobby and then heard Kyle shout "Go!" and everyone started running.
Jake grabbed Lena's hand and pulled her in a random direction. The two ran down the long, skinny hallway and entered a random classroom.
"Hey, you two aren't in my homeroom." The teacher said as soon as she saw the two. "Get to your own homerooms."
Jake and Lena looked at each other and then turned around and ran back down the hallway. "Hey, down this way!" Jake shouted but Lena couldn't hear him. He ran down that hallway and when Lena looked around for him, he was gone.
Panic ran through her body. Jake was gone and now she was alone in a school she'd never been to before. The only thing she could think of doing was to run. She hoped maybe she would find an exit somewhere.
She passed by a group of girls at their locker who gave her a nasty look as she ran by. She passed a group of guys further down the hall who called out to her, and tried to hit on her as she ran by them. At the end of the hallway, she turned the corner and found herself in an empty corridor. It was so silent in that one hallway. The sounds of her footsteps reverberated off the walls and made an echo.
She started to panic again. It wasn't natural to have a random, abandoned hallway in the middle of a bustling high school.
"I want everyone who doesn't attend this high school out of this building immediately!" She heard a very masculine voice yelling in the hallway she had just been in. His voice sounded close and she figured he must be coming to check and see if any student was hiding in the abandoned hallway. She took slow steps backward, not wanting him to catch her by surprise from behind. Her breathing picked up and she felt the adrenaline rush. She kept backing up further and further until two hands shot out of an indent in the wall and grabbed her, pulling her into the indent with them.
She wanted to scream but the person put their hand around her mouth. "Don't say anything." It was a boy. "It's me, Andy."
Lena turned her body around in the small space and looked right into Andy's eyes. They were crammed into such a tiny space that their bodies were pushed up against one another's. Andy was getting to her again. His skinny torso was pushed up against hers, his arms were on either side of her, supporting himself, and their faces were so close to one another that their noses almost touched.
"What are you doing in here?" Lena whispered.
"Hiding." Andy smiled, then put his index finger to his lips to cue Lena to be quiet. They both looked to their right out into the hallway and saw the man Lena had heard yelling walk by slowly. The crevice they were tucked into was dark so he couldn't see them.
"I think he's gone." She whispered as soon as the man was out of sight and his footsteps were no longer heard.
"There you guys are!"
Lena let out a small, short scream and looked to see Jake standing in the hallway in front of them. "I've been looking all over for you two. Let's get out of here."
Lena shimmied her way out of the indentation in the wall and Andy followed. Jake took Lena's hand in his own and linked their fingers together. He didn't want to admit it to himself or anyone else that he felt extreme jealousy wash over him when he saw his best friend and his girlfriend crammed up against each other like that. He wanted to think that there wasn't anything between Lena and Andy but he knew that Andy had some sort of attraction to her and he could see Lena felt the same.
Notes
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This story was amazing! I'm gonna go read the sequel now!
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