Chapter 2
The day I died most certainly wasn't the best day of my life.
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The day I died started off pretty normal to be honest.
It was a Monday, which meant the start of another gruelling week of school. I woke up, got ready, dressing into some back leggings, a white tank top which clung to my body, showing off curves but not in a slutty way. I put on a cropped faded denim jacket, a pair of brown Ugg boots and left my house, making sure to grab 3 slices of toast on the way out and eating as if it was the last supper and I was about to be killed.
As i walked down my drive way, I heard it.
“Ladies should really eat like ladies, not wild animals” I scowled as I heard his cocky smug voice, which must have helped the whole lady theory because I still had a mouthful of toast.
“The only ‘ladies’ you know are the ones that are laying on their back a few hours after you meet them, so I'm not really missing out on much am I?” I replied, stuffing another piece of toast in my mouth.
Jared was obviously walking to school, which meant I either had to walk ahead of him, which was never good due to his wondering perverted eyes. Option b was walking with him, that could never end well.
He was walking next to me now, smirking. He was hot, I can’t deny. He had on a pair of jeans, and a black t-shirt with the words ‘made to be laid’ written across it. I rolled my eyes. It was hard taking any of his looks seriously when I had known him for 10 years and known firsthand how much of an a**hole he really was.
“We all know there is something you’re missing out on” he replied, wiggling his eyebrows and pointing his finger at his crotch area. I looked at him, trying to hold down sick.
“Oh poor little me, how will I go on?” I said sarcastically.
“You sarcastic little slut” he smirked, watching me closely obviously wanting a reaction out of me, and he got one.
I stopped walking, and turned to look at his smug face. I shot daggers at him, and debated on what to do. We were stood there for about a minute, staring at each other, and just when he thought that I had no comeback and was just going to walk away, I did the only thing I could think of doing.
I spat in his face.
Well, that wiped the smugness off straight away, and I turned my heel and carried on my journey to school like I had intended to. Alone.
I got to school early, which was extremely odd. I made my way down the corridor, walking to my locker which is normally where I would meet Eve in the morning. Before I even reached my locker, I saw Eve running towards me. She was beautiful, with her dark skin and glossy black hair. She was also crazy...
“RUN OR STAY AND FEEL THE WRATH OF KONG!” she yelled, as she ran past me. What the hell was going on?!
Then I realised. From the distance, I saw Miss Kongda, the health teacher who basically had steam coming out of her ears she was that angry.
“Oh sh*t” I mumbled, and turned my heel and ran after my crazy best friend. We had managed to reach the cafeteria, and we both ran directly into the corner, behind a food counter and crouched on the floor, ignoring the eyes that were looking at us and probably thinking we had escaped a mental asylum.
“She has been chasing me all morning, I'm guessing she’s found the midget porn we put on her laptop Friday.” She informed me, breathless. I snorted with laughter.
“Didn’t you hear? She had a class after we uploaded it on there. She must have got it muddle with a Health ed. Video and played it in class. Seth told me last night” We both burst out laughing, losing our balance and falling flat on our a*ses.
We were rolling on the floor with tears falling from our eyes, when I saw a pair of shoes step towards us.
“Babe, this is a little embarrassing. People are asking me if my girlfriend is on drugs?” I looked up and saw Seth, smiling down at me and shaking his head in amused disapproval.
Me and Eve climbed to our feet, and stood up straight when we were sure had lost Kong.
“Seth, am I embarrassing you?” I asked, over exaggerating the shock in my voice. He smirked.
“Of course. You’re nothing but a mad embarrassment. Why am I even with you?” he replied, sarcastically. He grabbed my waist and pulled me towards him, my arms wrapping around his neck.
“Because without me, life would be just a little bit duller” I mused back at him. He laughed, and then nodded his head. He lowered his face and kissed me. I responded immediately and kissed him back.
“I'm not being the 3rd wheel, wrap it up!” Eve yelled from beside us, but we both decided to ignore her and carry on.
I loved being with Seth, but I’ve heard so many times about ‘fireworks’ going off when you kiss the person you love. I didn’t feel fireworks when I kissed him, maybe some sort of party popper, but not fireworks. but I knew in my heart I loved him.
What more could I want?
“OI YOU FILTHY LITTLE SLUT!” I heard the yelling of the person I loathed, and immediately pulled my face away from Seth, both of us groaning in frustration. I turned my head and looked at Jared, who was storming over towards me and Seth. They were both friend, but Seth knew how much I hated Jared. He didn’t know why though, no-one did. I plan on keeping it that way.
“Can I help you?” I asked politely. Also known to some people as sarcastically. He stomped up to me so our faces were an inch apart.
“You spat in my face” he hissed, his breath hitting me, making me shiver slightly. Eve snorted with laughter next to me.
“You called me a sarcastic slut” I replied.
“YOU DONT SPIT IN PEOPLES FACES!” he yelled.
“I know you don’t, but technically you’re not a person, you’re a rodent.”
His eyes bore into mine, and I could clearly see how angry he was. I tried hard not to laugh.
He quickly grabbed the side of my neck, and pulled me towards him with a lot of force.
“Me being a rodent never bothered you before...” he whispered in my ear, so low that I knew I was the only person to hear it.
“Jared get off her!” Seth hissed next to me, and Jared let go, his eyes never leaving mine.
Jared face slowly formed a smirk “So shall we have a nice in depth conversation right here about what happens when you spit in people’s faces?”
He was threatening me. He was threatening to tell everyone here, which turned out to be a lot of people as a crowd gathered over our little show.
“Jared I need to talk to you!” I hissed, walking towards him and grabbing his arm, pulling him with me.
“Oh Leah why not here in front of all these people” he asked sarcastically. He knew exactly why I didn’t want to talk here.
“Because these people are nosy pr*cks and can go back to their mindless lives instead of getting involved in others!” I yelled to basically everyone staring at us. Immediately people went back to what they were previously doing. I wasn’t ‘popular’ but people took notice of me, a few I think were a bit scared of me and Eve. They knew that we wouldn’t stop at anything.
I looked at Seth, who was looking at me and Jared in confusion. I mouthed an apology to him.
I dragged Jared to the nearest empty classroom, and pushed him in, closing the door behind me.
I turned to face him, while he was stood in front of me with his arms crossed across his broad chest and he was leaning against a table.
“Can I help you?” he mocked my voice from earlier. He knew he had this over me, and didn’t fail to let me know every day of my life.
“Why are you such an asshole!” I spat.
“Because I have the body and the attitude for it”
“In case you didn’t realise moron, it was more of a statement that a question!”
“You’ve got some tongue on you Preston. But of course I know that.” He winked at me.
I walked over to him and pushed him, so he fell further down on the table. I lowered my face near his.
“I told you Jared, it was the biggest mistake of my life. I don’t want anyone knowing!” I warned him, while he smirked back up at mine. He lifted himself up, grabbing my wrists and spinning me around so he was pinning me up against the desk. I didn’t lose eye contact.
“You don’t want anyone knowing what Leah?” he asked, musing the entire situation.
“You know what!”
“I don’t think I do, you may have to remind me.”
“That we slept together you dick!” I yelled in his face, making the smirk spread over his smug face.
“And don’t you forget that we did, cos Preston I will always have that over you!” he growled in my face, letting go of my wrists and turning his heel to walk out the door. He stopped suddenly.
“What?” I asked.
He walked towards the glass on the door and looked through it.
“Nothing I thought there was someone there.” He mumbled. He turned his head back towards me, grin back on his face.
“Il catch up with you later sugar” and with a wink, he opened the door and walked out, leaving me sat on the table, once again fed up of the situation I’d got myself into.
Yes, I had slept with Jared. It was before me and Seth got together when we were 16. It was the worst mistake of my life, because we were friends before that night. Then once that happened, I just went into the category of being another girl he shagged and he completely ignored me, showing his true colours. I was just another girl to add to his ongoing list.
No-one knows, much to my surprise he hasn’t told anyone either. I was too ashamed of myself to tell anyone, even Eve. So this is the thing that had been hanging over me for a year, and the thing that asshole throws in my face every chance he gets.
I couldn’t handle today. This argument had put me in such a bad mood I'm sure I would kill any man woman or child who even looks at me in the wrong way today.
I walked out of the empty classroom and went to find Eve, who was sat in the cafeteria covering Max’s face with slices of ham. Normally I would laugh, but again bad mood getting in my way.
“Eve I'm skipping today, I need to go home before I murder someone” I fumed at her. She quickly left Ham man and caught up with me as I went to walk out of the door.
“Hey Leah hold on, what the hell happened with Jared?” she asked, she knew I hated him. She just didn’t know why.
“He’s an asshole who makes me want to burn things Eve!” I yelled. Okay abit over dramatic I know.
“Jesus, I haven’t seen you this angry in years Leah.” She was right, I can’t remember the last time I was this angry.
“I just need some time to myself, away from everyone before I end up in prison for manslaughter” I hissed.
“Okay Sweet, but if you’re going to take off again please let me know. And please try not to go anywhere until after tomorrow, its Tyler’s party tomorrow night and I really want you there!” she pleaded.
She knew me too well. Normally if I ever have a problem or things get too much, I get in my car and disappear for a few days. Yeah I'm a coward and run away from my problems, but this time there was no way I was going to let him chase me out of town.
I haven’t done that for years though, since before me and Seth got together.
“Don’t worry I’ll be there to get ridiculously drunk, and hopefully once I finish what I'm assuming will be a bottle of vodka, I’ll smash that bottle over his big f*cking head!” I forced a smile, which were met by her worried eyes. “I’ll talk to you later.”
I walked back to my house, slammed the door shut behind me and stomped to my room, flinging myself on my bed and screaming in frustration.
My mum was at work, so noise wasn’t really an issue. I must have fallen asleep, because I was awoken by my phone ringing.
I groaned loudly as looked at my clock, 3pm. How long was I out for?!
I pushed myself out of my bed, and made my way to my phone to answer it.
And that is the last thing I remember about being alive.