I'm The Geek Who Slapped A Football Player.

14 - Papers

Chapter 14: Papers

          It feels like one of those freeze frames in a movie, when everyone stops moving in horror.

         Everyone seems frozen. All of the people around us. Me. Sebastian. His friends.

         Everyone except Scarlett, who’s currently appearing to seethe with a rage that beats an angry mother grizzly bear’s by 150 bajillion points.

        Oh my god.

        Oh my god!!!

        Scarlett just yelled at Sebastian!! Scarlett Bilger!!

        My eyes seem stuck wide open, unable to blink at the girl I call my only friend. The normally gentle, logical, friendly girl whom I’ve never thought would be even capable of contorting her pleasant face into a glower. She’s standing firmly, glaring fierce angry daggers at Sebastian MacCrain. I am utterly speechless. Flabbergasted. Fucking blown from the damned water!!

        Scarlett just yelled. At Sebastian MacCrain.

         Holy fucknuts.

         Sebastian seems just as utterly aghast as I am, because he’s blinking down at her with his golden-tan eyes cracked open and his mouth hanging. Thin little Scarlett looks like she’s about to jump up and rip his head off. I have to admit, fuck, she’s actually kind of scary looking.

          Sebastian stares down at her, blinking, then kind of sputters, “What?”

          Scarlett looks like she’s about to combust. She takes a step forward, jabbing her finger up at Sebastian’s chest and he flinches back like it was a knife. “You are a complete, thoughtless, stupid, mean, asshole!” Her sentence whipped out fast and hard and Sebastian looked as if each word gave him its own personal bitch slap.

          Sebastian then blinked at her like she’s just threatened to knee him in the manparts.

          “You don’t ever account for your actions, or even stop to think about how anything you do will effect someone!! You’re lucky Clarisse is a strong independent person who can put up with your crap!” Scarlett snarled viciously, the back of her neck turning red from shouting. Crap, someone give me a diaper.

          Sebastian looked like he was going to say something (in a terrified tone, I might add) but Scarlett was far from done.

          “Which doesn’t mean it’s ok for her to have to put up with your crap either!” Her voice rose an octave but it somehow managed to make her all the more frightening. Sebastian was leaning away from her, his eyes wide and fixed on her like she was some kind of bomb which’s fuse was fizzling down to the last bit. I’ll admit that I’m the same way. Leaning away and terrified.

          “You are a real jackass for keying her car and even letting someone take her money!! That’s a dick move, something that I didn’t think you’d stoop too!” She jabbed her finger at him again, and again he flinched like she was waving at sword at him. I’d be laughing if I wasn’t so afraid of Scarlett right now. Good Lord, who replaced her with Xena the Warrior Princess?

          “So you, owe her!! You have to fix that damn scratch on her car, and you – not the kid that actually stole it – have to pay her back!! Forty dollars!! You!”