lacuna

21

        "JJ, I don't think you're supposed to-"

"Shut it Scar, I'm making a masterpiece here."

His 'masterpiece' included him trying to make a volcano out of mints, fanta, and brownies. We were in third period science and the teacher, as usual, had her head on the desk sleeping. I guess having JJ and me in your class wears you out.

Right as I told him not to, JJ shoves the mints in the soda, and immediately the 'volcano' exploded. JJ freaked and put his mouth over the can, which caused him to choke from the sudden amount of soda in his mouth.

"You're an idiot, you know that?"

He tried to speak, but ended up slobbering soda everywhere. Everywhere meaning me.

"You ass!" Sticky liquid was flowing down all over me, soaking my clothes.

"Sorry." JJ said, before bursting into laughter.

"Give me your hoodie."

"Oh hell no, ask one of your boy toys to give you their clothes, I like my hoodies."

"Why am I friends with you?"

"Cause you love me." He snapped back with a slobbery kiss on my cheek.

***

When the period ended I stomped out with JJ hot on my heels.

"By the way, could you not tell Damon and Liam I spit up on you? They might commit murder!"

"And I would be right beside them when they kick your ass." I grumbled.

As usual, the rest of the crew were loitering around my locker, Damon and Ryder were talking. Hazel and Olivia were talking as Hazel kept trying to inch closer to Damon, and Liam was talking to a silent Kai. When Damon saw me, he smiled, then frowned as he saw my appearance. He hurried over, and everyone else turned to where he was going. Liam came rushing over too, deeming to try to get to me faster than Damon. Damon, for his credit, was already tugging off his red champion hoodie as he got closer, giving it to me once he was close enough.

"Thank you." I said as I quickly shoved it over my head. It practically engulfed me.

"No problem. What happened?"

"Hey, that's not fair! You're wearing his hoodie! That sends the wrong message to everyone." Liam said as he too took off his hoodie and started shoving it over my head.

"Now I look fat." I whined as I looked down at my potato body.

"Good. Now no boys will be checking you out." Damon said as he gave a nod of approval to my form, well, circle.

"Yeah. No boys." Liam said as he slapped the back of Damon's head.

"I think you guys should just roll me into math." I muttered as I remembered that us three had the same class together.

We got to my locker and Hazel eyed me, jealousy in her eyes. "Why do you look fat?" She asked.

I raised my eyebrows. "Well damn, hi Hazel, my best friend." I said, emphasizing the end.

She narrowed her eyes and turned around to whisper something to Olivia. Olivia in turn glared at me. Ok, so all the girls hate me.

I looked at Kai, since he was the closest to them, and raised my eyebrows to see if he heard. He nodded his eyes and raised up his phone slightly. He was texting me. I grabbed my phone from my back pocket and checked the message.

Kai: Hazel told Olivia they had to take out competition

Scar: Well shit. They planning to murder me or something?

Kai: Hope not, but I'd watch out for them. Tell Damon too, he should know.

I stopped texting and silently handed the phone to Damon, motioning for him to keep it to himself. He read it, then glanced over at the two girls who now had their heads bent together and focusing intently on Hazel's phone. No doubt looking up 'how to kill someone without drawing attention' on google.

Damon handed me the phone back, and I saw that he wrote something. Don't worry about it.

He was probably right.

a/n: short, but way quicker than the last times ;)