Falling by Scarlett Kol

Author:Scarlett Kol [Kol, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781775226017
Publisher: Vicious Pixie Press
Published: 2019-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

12

I dropped my backpack on the school desk and rested my head on the makeshift pillow of lumpy books inside. My entire body hung limp, exhausted from lack of sleep, but I didn’t care. I’d stayed out with Chloe until the chilling fall air seeped deep into our bones and made it too uncomfortable to sit on the deck. Then we’d simply moved inside, talking and laughing late into the night until we both fell asleep. Now, the only thing left to bother me was the nagging feeling at the back of my brain that in a few days I’d have to leave her.

“Well, you look like hell.” Seth dropped into the desk beside me, effortless and uncouth as usual. “What happened?”

“Nothing. Just didn’t get much sleep last night.”

He raised his left eyebrow into an arch and stared at me.

“Nothing, Seth. Nothing for you to be concerned about anyway.”

“Good. I didn’t want to lose my breakfast over you gushing about that purple-coated knucklehead.”

I wrinkled my nose at the insult, but Griffin and Seth were as far apart as two beings could be, so how did I expect him to understand? Besides, I didn’t have the energy to argue with him.

“But I did want to talk about our conversation last night. I’ve heard—”

“Seth, I appreciate your attempts to make new friends, but again, you aren’t in this class.” Mrs. Walker, the bespectacled math teacher, said as she darted down the row of desks and loomed over ours.

“Yes, Mrs. Walker.”

“Save your socializing for break, or post about it online or something for Miss Fell to read later.” She flitted her hand in the air.

Seth winked and slipped out of the desk, heading toward the door. Mrs. Walker stood over me and cleared her throat until I opened my backpack and pulled out a notebook. Then she turned and headed back toward the front of the class.

“All right, everyone. As I was discussing on Monday if x is the square root of m—”

A hissing crackle came from the speaker in the corner of the room. “Could Arianna Fell please report to the principal’s office? Arianna Fell to the principal’s office.”

Mrs. Walker looked at me then nodded, swiping her hand through the air toward the door. I grabbed my backpack and slipped out into the nearly empty hallway.

I entered the office. Three students sat lined up in chairs along the wall, one with a bleeding nose and another at the other end nursing a swollen fist. The secretary behind the desk, Ms. Collins as the nameplate near her coffee cup read, ignored the students, her fingers flitting across her keyboard as her lacquered nails clacked on the keys, eyes glued to the screen.

“Hello, I just got called down to the off—”

She whipped a piece of paper in the air between her index and pointer finger, her eyes still intent on the computer monitor. “A message for you.”

“Thank you.” I hesitated for a moment, then took the note from her hands.

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