Curse You 7

"Wasn’t that a fun party?" asked Devin the moment he drove up to the curb of my house.

I nodded my head, combing my hair back. "Of course it is."

"So …"

"So what?"

"Well…I’m not sure if I should ask you or not?"

"Ask me what?" I turn to look at him raising one of my eyebrows at him. He turns to look at me as well. "C’mon Devin you know that we’re friends. You could basically ask me anything you want and I’ll give you an answer."

"A straight answer?"

I nodded my head. "Yeah a straight answer."

He takes a deep breath. "Okay…umm…do…do you want to go out with me?"

"Go out with you? What do you mean? Like going out to eat together?"

He slowly shakes his head. "No, I…mean…like a date."

"A date?"

He slowly nodded his head. "I…I want you to be my…girlfriend."

The moment when he said girlfriend, my eyes open wide including my mouth also. I slowly move my mouth and said, "You want me to be your girlfriend."

He nodded his head and shyly scratching the back of his head. "Yeah."

I look away from him thinking to myself what I should say. I don’t want to go out with him. I just want to be friend with him not more then a friend. I open the door about to head inside the house but Devin grab onto my hand.

"Mina, you know that I liked you since high school. Why won’t you notice that I love you?" Devin asked me.

I turn to look at him. "Devin I notice but it’s just that I don’t love you."

"Why? Why don’t you love me?" Devin asked me again pulling my hand. "Did you have someone in heart already?" Still I won’t answer him. I look away from him and he grabbed onto my shoulder forcing me to face him. "Is it…Lucas?" I slowly turn to look at him not even answering him. "It is huh? I thought you use to hate Lucas and now you’re admitting that you like him. Why him Mina? Why not me? Whenever you’re in trouble, I’m always there for you. And whenever you’re sad or mad, I’m always there to lend you a shoulder. And you’re just…turning away from me like that. Why Mina? Why?"

I pushed him away from me. "Devin I think you need to take a rest. Go back home." I started to head inside the house then Devin grabbed my hand again.

"Why won’t you answer my question, Mina? Do you really love Lucas more than me?" Devin asked me again.

Again, I pushed him away. "Devin, go back home and think over what you’re saying to me."

"I’ve been thinking it over and over. And that’s why today is a great day to ask you because when I look at you, you’re distancing away from me farther and farther. And you’re not the same person anymore…"

"I am still the same person, Devin."

"You’re not…you’re always playful and you always know what to do. And today, you and Lucas were in the kitchen together. The both of you were so close to each other when I enter. You don’t like it when guy do that to you but for Lucas, you just let him have it."

"Devin what are you trying to say huh? That I’m a slug!"

He shakes his head. "That’s not what I’m trying to say Mina."

"Then what are you trying to say then?"

"All I just want to say is that…I can’t let you go to Lucas. I wanted you to be mine, forever not anyone else."

"Devin, times change but I still look at you like my friend nothing more than that. I maybe not yours but I’ll always be your friend nothing more than that."

He pushed me away angrily. "Mina, I can’t believe you looked at me like your friend. Can’t you just see who I am to you instead of a friend?"

I slowly shake my head. "You’ll always be my friend and I’ll always see you as my friend too."

"Mina, do you really love Lucas that much and that’s why you can’t accept my love?" I didn’t answer him but just kept quiet. Devin grabbed onto my shoulder again and said, "Why can’t you answer me, Mina? Do you really love Lucas that much?"

I slowly lift up my head to look at him and slowly looked away from him, nodding my head. He angrily pushed me away from him and angrily walked into his car, driving away.

***

Monday was finally here and I was feeling horrible to face Devin again. He didn’t even want to turn to look at me one bit. I also told Joan about it and she said to me that I was being harsh and I believe so too.

"Gosh right now Devin really hate me," I said bending my head down on the desk.

"No I guess he’s doesn’t hate you but he’s mad at you," said Lilly patting my back.

I look up and see Lucas with a grin face entering the class. He sat down next to me, still smiling. "Hey Mina and hello Lilly."

"Hey Lucas, waz up with the grin face today?" Lilly asked him.

"Oh, nothing that you shouldn’t know," Lucas answer her.

"I want to know," I asked him.

Lucas moves his chair closer and our face also touch. "Do you really want to know?"

I nodded my head. "Of course I want to know."

"Do you really, really want to know that badly?"

I pushed him away from me. "Of course I do want to know that badly, Lucas you dork."

He laughed and grabbed my waist as our face touches.

"What are you trying to do, Lucas?" I asked him trying to push him away from me.

"I just want to finish off what we were doing during Friday when your friend, Devin, interrupted us," Lucas answers me.

"Have you been drinking?" I asked him again trying to get away from him.

He slowly shakes his head. "No I haven’t been drinking but I’ve been thinking about you."

"Don’t try to sweet mouth me so you could get away with it."

He gently kissed my lip. "I’m not, I’m saying the truth."

I shyly looked away from him, pinching him on the waist to make him let go of me and he did.

"You’re so mean," whined Lucas.

"Hmph! That’s what you get from me," I said back to him.

I pushed his chair using my leg to make him move farther away from me. He just laughed lifting up his chair each time I pushed his chair away from me.

"Aww, you two are so sweet," said Lilly looking at us.

I turn to look at her. "Sweet…naw!" I pushed her chair also and she laughed. Suddenly everybody in that class started to push each other around. The teacher, Mr. Jewels, step into the class furiously yelled at us. He also asked who started it and they all pointed at Lucas and me. Mr. Jewels sent us to the principal office. After that I felt horrible because starting next week, Lucas and I have to stay after school to clean up the cafeteria and the bathroom all because of Lucas smart mouth.

"I can’t believe you made us get in trouble Lucas. Thanks for your ugly smart mouth," I said to him getting out of our last period, getting ready to go home.

"And you love me because I have an ugly smart mouth," joked Lucas.

I pushed him away from me. "Go away Lucas! You stink!"

"And I know you love it!" He grabbed onto my waist and I pinched him on the rib.

"Lucas you idiot!" He let go of me and I kicked him on the knee. "Stay away from me or else I’ll hurt you even more."

"What are you going to do?" he asked me trying to get me again.

"Don’t you dare make me take out my pepper spray, Lucas?"

"You’re so evil, that’s what I like about you."

"Oh shut your sweet mouth Lucas. Don’t think that I’m going to buy that."

"Yes you well."

Before Lucas could even touch me, I take out my pepper spray about to spray him and he started to run away from me.

"Don’t ever come close to me ever again or else you’ll get it!" I yelled at him.

He did a kiss goodbye to me and started to head down the hallway going home. I put my pepper spray back into my backpack, heading to the bathroom before I go home. When I got into the bathroom, washing up my face, I heard a click on the bathroom door. I turn around and it was Katie and her friends.

"Hello Mina," said Katie.

I turn off the water and wiped my face on my sleeves. "What do you want, Katie?" I asked her.

"What do I want? You know what I want already, I want you to stay away from Lucas and never get close to him ever again," Katie answer me.

"I’m not the one who’s getting close to Lucas. He’s the one that wanted to be close to me," I give her a smart remark.

"Whatever Mina, you think that I’m blind."

"What do you think?"

Two girl names Jenna and Crystal grabbed onto my arm, locking it. I try to break free from their grip but they won’t let go. They also twist my hand too.

"Let go of me!" I yelled at them.

"Only if you promise not to get close to Lucas," said Katie.

"Why would I do that? I thought you’re going out with Nathan, isn’t it? Why are you still jealous of Lucas? You were the one that broke up with Lucas."

"You were the one that made me broke up with Lucas."

"I’m not the one who made you broke up with him. You were stupid enough to break up with him. And now he started to like me and you’re being jealous of it."

She started to laugh evilly at me. "Stupid Mina, he like you from the start, didn’t you notice it? He was just dating me because I liked him and he felted sorry. Didn’t you notice?" I didn’t answer her but just stand there looking straight at her. "You didn’t even notice a bit huh? How sad? He was so happy that I broke up with him that’s why he didn’t felt any pain. Didn’t you even notice a clue at all?"

"He liked me?" I asked her.

"Of course, didn’t you hear Katie been repeating that," said Jenna hitting my head with her other hand.

"So…what if he likes me? I can’t control him who he should like or not?" I said straight to her.

"So you deny my words. Girls," said Katie.

Vikki take out a rope from her backpack and handed it to Crystal and the both of them tied my hand together.

"What are you going to do to me?" I asked her trying to wriggle out of the rope.

"We’re going to tie you up in here seeing if you could escape from here," Katie answers me. She came up to me, wrapping a towel around my mouth so I won’t scream and she also slapped me too.

"Who dare you disobey my words and now you’re going to pay for it? Don’t worry; this is just a little torture. The next one is going to be worse," she said taking out a knife from her pocket. "The next time I’ll cut up your pretty face leaving you a mark that you’ll never forget, see if Lucas still like you." She started to circle the knife around my face. "C’mon girls, let’s go and don’t forget to lock it up." She removes the knife from my face and headed out. Jenna and Crystal throw me onto the ground and walked out of the bathroom too. I started to wriggle around seeing if I could loosen up the rope but I couldn’t. Tears started to come out from the corner of my eyes, wishing somebody to come and help me.