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I dragged Gerard over to an empty table across the room. He looked back over his shoulder at Heather who was still staring at him.

"What the hell was that about?" He says as we sit down. He sat next to me with our backs towards the door.

"Hmm?" I say ignoring him pulling out my math notebook.

"With Heather." He repeats nodding towards her. I look over. She was leaning over whispering to Lisa and Marie who had just sat down now and they were all staring at Gerard. "What the fuck did you tell her Elle?" He says as they all start giggling.

I look back down at my math notebook and try not to smile. I couldn't help it though.

"Elle!" he insists poking me a little.

"Okay fine!" I laugh looking up at him. "I may have started a rumor about you." I say trying not to laugh.

"What kinda rumor?" He says raising his eyebrow slightly at me.

"That you're really good in bed- like unbelievably good." I say smiling a little looking back down at my notebook.

He leans back a little. "Well baby if it's true, then it's not a rumor." He says quite cocky too.

"Ha!" I cry out. He laughs a little.

"You think that's funny." He teases wrapping his arm around me and squeezing my waist a little.

"Come on I gotta do my work." I protest.

"Really?" he laughs
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"Really." I say firmly picking up my pencil. "I gotta pass something this year if I'm gonna graduate." I tell him and he smiles at me. "You know you do too." I add and he frowns a little. "Come on I'm serious." I tell him. "Pull out your book." I insist. He sighs, but pulls out a beat up notebook.

He started scribbling numbers down too. It was silent for a moment.

"Hey, what'dya put for number 2?" I ask looking over at his paper.

"mmm 16." He says reading it.

"Okay." I say scribbling a number 16 on to my paper. He paused a moment.

"Elle we're not even in the same class." He laughs looking over at my paper. Our papers were totally different. His had triangles and shapes and mine was all letters and numbers.

"It doesn't matter." I shrug and he shakes his head a little. "Really Gerard." I tell him. "I just need to fill it out so it looks like I did it." I explain. "I mean she never really checks it." I say and he rolls his eyes.

"And you're making me actually do this crap!" He laughs tossing his pencil on to the table.

"You were actually figuring them out." I say looking over at his paper smiling. He smiled at me smiling. Then he looked over my shoulder and his smile faded.

I glanced over. That blonde girl Mikey was talking to earlier had just walked in and was handing a note to the study hall monitor lady. God she looked kinda familiar... I couldn't quite place her though. She came walking towards me and Gerard. Fuck... what is her name...

"Jessica." Gerard says plainly as she sat down across from him.

"Gerard." She smiles at him.

"You know Elle." He says reaching over and putting his hand on my thigh and squeezing it a little.

"I think we had Spanish together last year." She says briefly taking her eyes off of Gerard and glancing at me. She gave me a weak smile.

"Um yeah." I say trying to sound convincing. I don't know who the fuck this girl is. I think I took Spanish last year... last year hmmm... "So you're a sophomore?" I ask her and she nods a little. Oh! Mikey's a sophomore too. I wonder if she's.... aw that's so cute. I wonder if Mikey and her have something going on! She's looking over at Gerard again.
Gerard sat upright. He looked a little tense.

"Do you mind me sitting here?" She asks reaching for her bag. She wasn't really gonna get up, she just wanted him to say she could she could stay.

Gerard hesitated for a second. He looked over at me. What because of how I carried on about Chrissy? Shit if this was Mikey's girlfriend or possibly gonna be Mikey's girlfriend then I wanted to be nice to her. Shit- I love Mikey...

"No its okay." I tell her and she smiles a little. Gerard shrugs a little and looks back down at his notebook picking up his pencil.

"Oh good." She sighs. "They switched my schedule around and I don't really know anybody else in here." She laughs a little, tossing her hair to the side as she leant forward onto her elbows propped up on the table. "I mean its not like I'm gonna go sit with the cheerleaders." She makes a face looking over at them. I was a little confused by that comment. She made it sound like cheerleaders were bad... "Oh I'm sorry." She smiles a little at me. "Aren't you a cheerleader too?" She says looking over at Gerard again.

"Uh no." I laugh a little.

"I just thought you were." She shrugs looking back over at me. Okay this chick is weird... Mikey could do so much better... She was dressed a little slutty too. I mean she was pretty and all, but her top was a little too low cut. I mean you could practically see the edge of her bra peeking up as she leant forward on the table. She had her elbows pressed to her sides to forcing her breasts up a little.

I look over at Gerard pretending to scribble on his paper.

"Whatcha working on Gee?" She says leaning forward a little more. Gerard looks up and he glances over at her chest for a second and then quickly turns his eyes back to his paper.

"Math." He mumbles. Aah. What do you expect. He's a guy! And she's a slut! Aw. Poor Mikey... I hope he doesn't really like her... Gerard looks over at me. I guess to see if I saw him look at her. I try not to smile at him and look back down at my paper again. He reaches over and grabs my hand under the table squeezing it a little hard as the bell rang.

Marie got up and walked towards me. "Elle, I wanted to talk to you." She says in that sweet quiet voice of hers. "Um about Mikey." She whispers to me.

"Okay." I say as we walk out. Did she say Mikey? What the fuck does she want with Mikey? As we walked out Gerard still had my hand clenched in his like he was afraid to let go.

"Which way are you headed?" Jessica says to Gerard.

"Gym." He tells her.

"I'm going that way too." She smiles. "Come on walk with me." She says grabbing his other hand.

I try to let go of Gerard's hand, but he wont. "I'm gonna go with Maire." I tell him. He makes a face. I laughed a little and kissed his cheek. "Go" I encouraged him. I wanted to know what Marie wanted with Mikey and she certainly wasn't gonna tell me in front of Gerard...

"I'll see you at lunch Elle." He said as Jessica tugged on his arm, pulling him away. I smiled watching him go.

"Wow." Marie said looking at me funny.

"What's up Marie." I say looking back over at her as we turned to walk away.

"I mean I could never be that..."She said softly.

"Huh?" I said leaning in trying to hear her. She talks so softly it's hard to hear her sometimes...

"The way she grabbed him and pulled him away..." Marie looked over her shoulder. Gerard and Jessica were gone.

"Who Jessica?" I ask trying to follow the conversation.

"Well yeah!" Marie exclaims quite loudly. "You do know, they use to date." She says a little softer.

"Who Jessica and Mikey?" I say a little confused.

"No!" she laughs. "Jessica and GERARD!"

“Jessica and Gerard?" I say a little confused.

Marie nods. "You did know that right?" She says slowing down as we approached the math room.

"I um... no. No I didn't." I say shaking my head a little. "When was this?" I say a little loudly to her.

"Last year I guess." She says looking around me into my math class. Mikey was already there. Marie took a step back from the doorway. Last year? Fuck... I had no idea.

"Well how serious were they?" I ask Marie and she looks at me dumbfounded.

"I have no idea Elle." She responds very seriously too.

"Well, thanks a lot Marie!" I tell her sarcastically.

"I'm so sorry Elle." She says genuinely apologizing to me.

"I was kidding you Marie!" I tell her pushing her arm slightly. God, she's too nice for own good sometimes...

"Oh." She just laughs a little and peeks in the class again.

"What exactly did you want with Mikey anyway?" I say to her.

"Well, you know how Jeff and I broke up." She said looking down at the floor.

"Oh I didn't know that Marie." I said softly. I would've said I'm sorry, but I'm not.

"Huh. I thought everyone knew that he dumped me." She sighed. Fucking Jeff. She was lucky in a way. That he left her... Not like Paul- who cant seem to accept its over...

"And this has to do with Mikey how?" I ask her stupidly and she blushes- a lot. "Holy shit- You like Mikey!" I say kinda loud and Marie's face dropped. "Don't worry! He didn't hear. " I say looking over into the class. Mikey had his head down scribbling ferociously into his notebook.

"Do you think that he...might?" She said hopefully looking in at him.

"You know what Marie." I tell her. "I'm having a party Friday night, why don't you come and find out." I say and she shakes her head no. Oh fuck. I forgot about what happened at the last party Marie and I went to! She looked a little pale. "No, no," I insist. "Its just a couple of people hanging out at my house, just a few couples Marie... nothing freaky!" I add and she looks at me like she's considering it.

"I'll let you know later Elle." She says as the bell rings. I walk into class and kneel right in front of Mikeys desk.

"Jessica." I say plainly and he looks up.

"Excuse me?" He says pushing his glasses up a little squinting at me.

"Tell me all about Jessica." I say smiling a little.

"Um Elle." He shakes his head a little.

"Sit down Miss Waller." I hear the teacher call out.

"I am sitting." I protest looking down. I'm on the floor in front of Mikeys desk. I'm down. Its not like anyone cant see the board!

"At your desk!." She says loudly. I roll my eyes and get up and sit at my desk sighing a little. I look over at Mikey. He won't look at me. The entire class he just stared at his paper and at the board and at the teacher. Anywhere but my direction.

Finally I had enough. I lean over and drop my pencil. Well actually I threw it on the floor near him. Fucking Dave leans over and picks it up. I gave him a nasty glare as he handed it back to me. What the fuck! I wait a few seconds and toss it back again. I look over at Dave like you better not fucking pick it up again. He laughed a little under his breath.

"Mikey." I whisper. He ignores me.

"Miii-keeey." I hiss. He glances over. "I dropped my pencil." I say nodding towards it. He rolls his eyes and picks it up.
He reaches over to hand it to me while looking at the board still. I don't take it. He looks over to see why. I just looked at him blankly.

"What do you want Elle." He whispers waving the pencil a little for me to take it.

"You know what I want!" I whisper back. I want him to tell me about Jessica. He rolls his eyes. "Come on Mikey." I beg. He looks like he's gonna say something as he hands me the pencil but then he looks at my bandaged arm and starts to pull the pencil back.

I reach over and snatch it from his hand as the bell rings. What the fuck? He's not gonna tell me about Jessica cause I might slit my wrist again? Over a slut like her! Is he kidding me!

I stand in front of Mikey. Blocking his way a little. "Come on Elle." He groans a little.

"Just tell me." I say wrapping my arm around his.

"There's nothing to tell." He laughs a little.

"Well they went out right?" I say and Mikey shrugs.

"You see... you give me answers like that Mikey." I tease. "It makes me think something bad happened." I say shaking my head a little. "I mean you're not TRYING to upset me are you." I say squeezing his arm a little.

"You're nuts, you know that." He says shaking his head at me.

I smile a little. "Then just tell me." I whine."Dont make me have to go all psycho on your ass Mikey!" I tell him piching his arm a little.

"I don't know what you want me to say!" Mikey laughs a little. "They um started going out last year." He says trying to pull away from me.

"When last year?" I insist not letting him go.

"Right before school got out." He stopped resisting. I guess realizing I wasn't going to give up.

"And?" I said raising my eyebrows at him.

"And they broke up over the summer Elle." Mikey sighed a little.

"And?" I repeated.

"And I don't. fucking. know." Mikey says a little frustrated. "You should just ask Gerard." He adds. I let go of his arm.
"Thanks Mikey." I say jumping up and kissing his cheek. He blushed a little. "Hey are you coming over Friday?" I ask him as I go to turn away.

"I don't know." He sighed. I guess the thought of everyone else being with someone kinda had him bummed out.

"No you have to come!" I exclaim grabbing his arm again. He laughed a little. "I got you something." I say smiling a little.

"What?" He called out as I walked away. "Elle!" I hear him yell as I turn down the hall...

Aah.. Marie! She is so perfect for him!... She's so sweet and kind and morally upright. Just like Mikey... I hope she comes... otherwise I'll have to order Mikey a hooker... hmmm...I wonder how much that would cost.

Ray pushes past me into the social studies room. "Hey Ray!" I call out and he looks up, well actually down at me since he's so tall. "How much do you think a hooker costs?" I tell him and he makes a face.

"A what?" he laughs as he sits at his desk.

"A hooker." I repeat. "Just for a few hours." I add.

"I don't know Elle." He says looking at me like I'm nuts.

"Are you sure?" I ask him leaning over my desk a little.

"Why do you think I would know that!" He says pretending to be offended. Maybe he really was offended. It was hard to tell.

"You're the smartest guy I know." I tell him. I was serious too. "I mean you seem to know a lot about everything. I'm sorry- I just thought that you could help me." I say looking down at my desk sighing a little.

"What night of the week are we talking about?" I hear Ray say reluctantly.

"Friday." I tell him nodding a little. He looked like he was thinking a little. "This Friday." I say and he makes a face.

"This Friday?" He repeats and I nod. "What do you need a hooker for this Friday Elle?" Ray leans over and whispers quite loudly.

"Shhh!" I hiss at him as the girl in front of me turns a little.

"I mean we are talking about a hooker- a girl hooker right?" He says and I nod again.

"Uh yeah Ray." I say to him. What the fuck did he think I wanted a guy?!

"Does Gerard know?" He says a little louder.

"No!" I gasp.

"Is this like some kinda surprise Elle, cause I don't think he'd" Ray started to say.

"NO!- what the hell is wrong with you!" I cut him off. I looked at him like he was crazy. He looked at me the same way.
"You know -I'm really not comfortable with where this conversation is going Ray." I tell him roughly opening my book up and shaking my head a little at him.

He looked over at me wide-eyed. "You're not comfortable!" He laughed in disbelief. "You started this!" he said shaking his head at me as the bell rang. "Fucking 'how much does a hooker cost ray'?" I hear him mimic me under his breath.
I turn and smile a little at him

Aw. Speaking of hookers. I should ask him about Jessica! Mr. Richards is handing out some kinda test sheet. Great another fucking red bubble strip. He pauses in front of my desk. He holds it out.

"Miss Waller do I need to remind you..." He says shaking his head a little at me.

"No." I sigh taking it from him. Multiple choice. Fuck... I stare down at the paper and the test. I cant fucking do this... I'm all jumpy. I don't even think I have anything in my purse... Fuck maybe I can run home during lunch and do a few lines...

I pick up my pencil and fill in the C column all the way down. I figure C's the most likely answer. Yeah I think I read that some where... Oh well... We'll just "C" what happens...