When Will This End?

Fourth period was full of stares, mostly from the people Maddie would hang out with...or in simpler terms, everyone who either don't know that I exist, or know I exist but don't like me.

I was tapped on the shoulder by Maddie's best bad example, Janet. I hated this slut with passion...you have no idea.

"Yeah?" I asked her.

"What happened to Maddie?! Is she okay?!" She yelled loud enough for the whole class to hear.

Just when you thought history class couldn't get anymore 'interesting'.

"She's just fine." I said in a calm tone to her and her alone as almost everyone was staring, trying to listen in on our conversation.

"Yeah? Because, I told her not to start anything, but she didn't listen! Is it true she killed it?!" Janet blabbed out as if this was some ordinary conversation.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" I retorted back.

Just the Ms. Pelikia interfered after hearing that bit of the discussion. "Alright Janet that's enough!"

"Thanks." I mouthed to one of my favorite teachers.

She smiled sincerely in return.

Why Janet kept staring at me for the whole thirty-five minuets of fourth period? I don't know... next thing I knew it seemed like everyone around me was whispering about the situation in front of my face, behind my back and at my sides. I can't wait for this day to be over.
Finally the bell rang! Boy was I happy to get out of there.

As I got out of history, I ended up meeting up with Dez, which rarely happens. We decided to walk each other to our classes, she had religion and I had health which was on the way to her religion class.
As we were walking I just happened to remember something...Frank is in my health class.

"Great..." I muttered.

"What's up?" Dez asked hearing me.

"I have health next."

"With Frank?" She asked just as disappointed as I was.

I nodded in response. "Aren't I just crawling with bad luck?! I still haven't told you what happened last period." I told her with a sigh.

"What happened?" She asked getting a bit worried.

I didn't have much time to tell her since my class was right in view.

"I'll tell you at lunch, you have it next right?"

"Yup. I'll pick yah up after this class, kay, wait for me." She said just before she ran off three doors down to her class as I ran into my class before we were both late.

As I ran into my health class I was blessed to have my favorite seat in the back of the room wasn't preoccupied. I smiled as I took my seat but frowned as I realized that Frank wasn't here as soon as the bell rang, signaling that the class is starting.

'Maybe he's late...' I thought as Mr. Collins went on about one of his stories about being a fireman. Mr. Collins is an awesome teacher. He's in his sixties, but he has so much life in him. He's not like most teachers, that's for sure. He never uses the textbook, sure we have a few notes on some occasions but never enough to fill up a whole page. He felt better off to teaching through interesting stories of his life rather than bore us to death with textbooks and crappy movies... okay, I take that back, he still showed crappy movies, but I'm such a nerd I actually think the movies are interesting.

Thirty-four minuets into the class with one minuet left to spare, Frank still was not here. Apparently he was absent today. I can't say that I blame him, but for some unknown reason I can't help but to feel worried.

The bell suddenly rang. I jumped a bit as it happened. I can't believe the time went by so fast. I grabbed my bag and slung it over my shoulder as I always do and made my way out the door just in time for Dez to meet me right there.

"Hey hey." She said.

I smiled slightly."Hey"

"So.." She said before she looked behind us then back ahead of us. " How was Frank?"

I cleared my throat a bit before talking. After thirty-five minuets of not saying a word, my throat gets dry. "He didn't come today."

"He's absent?" She asked to be sure she understood."

I nodded."But yah can't blame him, right?"

"Hmm I wonder what he's up to." She thought out loud, but I didn't mind because I was just thinking the same thing.

Sitting outside, braising our backs on the old tree, Dez, Mikey, Jake, and I were discussing how my day was going.

"She actually said that?! In front of the whole class?" Mikey almost yelled in shock as he was questioning me about Janet's random outburst today in history.

I only nodded. I'm not used to having my group of friends talk about my life rather than our usual discussions. It just felt weird to be the center of attention for the time being.

"What a dumb-ass." Jake half whispered.

"Ha! Seriously." Dez agreed.

"Damn...I think I'll give Frank a call when I get home today. This sucks! I can't believe he's going through something like this...I would've never had guessed..." Mikey thought out loud to us.

"Yeah? ...Can you tell me what he says?" I asked kind of shyly as I brought my knees closer to rest my chin on them.

Mikey gave me a weird look. "Yeah sure...but why, if I may ask?"

"I-I don't know. I'm just curious as to how he's feeling about this...he was really shaken up at the hospital yesterday, but what guy in his position wouldn't be?"

Mikey nodded " I get you." Just as he took the last bite of his sandwich.

I glanced over at Dez to see her eyeing me suspiciously. I gave her a very confused look as she quickly looked away as she caught me staring back.

The rest of the day was just a blur. I kept feeling eyes falling on me, I'm not sure why...maybe I'm just paranoid. After the final bell rang, I raced to my locker, grabbed my stuff and ran to the car.
I got in and made sure I buckled up and drove off to pick up Emma.

"Hey kiddo!" I said as I picked her up off the floor.

"Hi!" She smiled happily at me as I brought her over to the sign out desk. After signing her out we waved good bye to the woman in charge and left to go home.

I was anxious to see if anyone was home. The day felt long but short. I can't explain how I feel...I can't wait to get home to see what's up, but I don't wanna go home because I hate drama...

As I pulled the car into the driveway, got Emma out of her car seat, I saw that Brian's SUV was indeed parked beside me.

Emma smiled at me."Is Mommy an Daddy at home?" She asked.

"I sure hope so, Loveleh." I smiled back at her as I opened the door.

We looked inside to an empty living room. I let Emma climb off me and onto the floor as she roamed the bottom half of the house calling out for her dad and our mom. I giggled at her running around the house.
I dropped my book bag onto the before I joined Emma in the kitchen. Turns out Mom and Brian were in there. They were just sitting there sipping coffee as Mom had Emma on her lap.
I took a seat next to Brian at the old fashioned wooden table.

I took a deep breath at the silent air...well it would have been silent if Emma wasn't babbling away to Mom about what she did at daycare today. Mom just smiled and nodded as Emma talked to her. I couldn't help but frown. Mom and Brian both looked so drained. I felt so bad for them having to stay up all night and having to deal with Maddie's little HUGE mishap.

I looked from Mom to Brian as I asked "So...where's Maddie?"

Brian gave a loud sigh as Mom said " She's resting upstairs...she's really tired and shaken up about this whole thing. She said.

I nodded.

Brian, Mom, and I talked for a few minuets before I excused myself to retired to my room. As I grabbed my stuff and headed upstairs I couldn't help but hear Maddie's voice...

I didn't mean to ease-drop, but I couldn't believe what I was hearing...

"No Amy! I knew I was pregnant, but she kept leading me on! I wasn't just gonna stand there and take her crap... No I don't know how she knew about it. I know but I didn't want the baby anyway...so I guess it's okay. What? Yeah I feel bad for killing it, but I don't know...to be honest I'm happy it happened this way I was so stressed about the thought of going in for an abortion by myself. ...Oh my God no!...ha ha and poor Frankie thinks the baby was his..."

After hearing that my jaw dropped. I guess somethings will never change unfortunately...