Chapter 3 Invitation

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The recess bell chimed.Everybody swooped out of their various classrooms into the cafeteria.The line is not as long as it should be and as you'd expect only the normal people eat at the Cafeteria. By normal, I mean the average people.People like me.I'm at the back of the line as it moves fast and I see Victor pick up a food tray and move in behind me.

"So,it turns out that Alfie is gay.Like gay gay." He let's out it with loud sigh.

"And you know this how exactly?"

"A lot of people said and I confirmed it" he said snapping his fingers.

"Yeah? how many people do you talk to besides me?"

"I have real friends , Will,and they exist,okay?"

"Except the janitor?" I poked.

"What?! The janitor is nothing like a friend to me and as a matter of fact to prove it to you,I'm going to sit on that table."He pointed with his already full food tray to a table filled with random people as he walked beside me.

"Yeah. The one with Kennedy on it?" I pointed out as one of the boys on the table sneezed and let out a big yellowish goo out of his nose onto the whole table.

"Uhmmm...no?, but my point still stands I have other real friends that are definitely not you" He replied.

We approached our table and sat down.It was secluded from the rest.But it was ours.The one of the few places we felt comfortable on.Just somewhere right there in the middle of the others that were occupied.

People started bringing out their phones, taking pictures as Abby made her way into the hall accompanied on both sides by her minions,Meridith and Meg.Some they amazed, others they irritated. But all of the attention was on them as she made her way on the table right at the center of the hall.

The center table.Carefully putting one leg first on the bench and making her way to the top of the table,caring not if her panties were exposed from her skirt that was inches above her knee.

She stood firmly on the dining table,cleared and throat and waited for the a few of her mitigens to gather around her. It was psychological.She didn't have to tell them to do that little bit.Both her friends were right there beside her. Meridith stood with her arms crossed,while Meg sat her face buried in her phone.

"So earthlings, I have gathered you all here to allow you all experience my blossom first hand anddddddd....I'll be having a party at my house this evening,so,for the first time ever I will be inviting you all there.Every single one of you boring lots is invited.

Doesn't matter what you are all doing with your little inconsequential lives.I want to all there." She said as she genuflected through the air with both her hands.

. This piece of information was followed by a loud roar of inaudible praises from the few who gathered and the rest who sat but listened as she made her way down the Table. The party girl threw a party on a Monday.And everybody was invited. It was all unusual.

Normally she would throw a party at either of her follows place on a weekend and invite strictly. That was what made most of who cared curious to want to get in that party.But unlike others,I didn't.

She made her way down and sashayed to another table.It was the one Adam sat on. And, Glenn sat opposite him. As she assumed her position beside her former lover, her pair took the space both beside Glenn.It was just to either intimidate Glenn or just annoy Adam and it was working. Working perfectly.

She reached for what was on Glenn's plate without asking as she took a banana from her tray, like she was a bully.

"So, what am I missing on lovebirds?" she asked as she peeled the banana.

"Nothing"he said as he reached for Glenn's hand to hold it.

Abby got vexed.She let out a forced smile to calm her nerves.

"Anyways I would love,love, loveeeee to have you both at mines,this evening"She interrupted pulling Adams hands away from Glenn gently.

" And you, my darling are the special guest"she continued.

"Abby listen."

"Hush now baby boy" With a single hand on the lip she interrupted the only guy on the table amidst the four girls on the table.

"Don't be to fast to decide" She said as she returned the half eaten banana back to Glenn's plate and winked at her.

"Now bye lovelies" She gestured like she was throwing a kiss towards Glenn and stood up in style.Pretending what she just saw didn't hurt her, whereas,it poked her to the bones. She left the hall the same way she came - dazzling.

"Yeahhh,she's a dramatic one isn't she?"Vic asked me rhetorically while playing with his spoon through the macaroni and cheese he had on his plate.It wasn't such that I'd dignify with a response.Wasn't worth it.

" And she's on everybody's story on snaps again!"He added pointing the screen of his phone between me and my overpriced lunch.

"Do you mind?"

"As a matter of fact I do mind,I mean look at her" He took the phone from my face staring at it too now,dazzled by what he was watching.

"Poor Vic,you want what you can't have huh?" I teased him up a bit.

The dismissal bell rang,ending all bustles going up and down in the hall and everybody returned to classes for the second half of the day,most reluctantly,but all obeyed.

"Well unfortunately, you now have Mr Newman's class or as he likes the call it - The Almighty physics" Victor teased back.

"Well yeah,I'm going to survive. I hope." I chipped in.

"Listen we can't do this.We can't keep doing this. I've told you a dozen times that I can't be with you and for what its worth I'm sorry!"I heard Glenn yelling while on a call.She was somewhere in the middle between annoyed and sad.It definitely wasn't Adam,they just had lunch together.

I shrugged it off.Sounded personal and didn't need any meddling in it.

The school period ended. For real now.The peace and joy that comes with knowing you have the rest of the day to yourself is second to none. And with it, you can live your life however you want with the exception of assignments of course. But yes,that was the freedom I felt as I walked through the classroom doors.

" Hey Sisi!!,I better see you at that party"Todd said as he pushed me against the lockers by the walls.

"And you better not be late!" He added as he made his way out of my sight.

"Breathe in Wilson,breathe." I sighed out before making my way through the school front door that led to the hallway.Looking ahead me I saw Victor wave his hand at me from afar and wondered why he was holding a bike with him.

"You jumped someone for that one?" I asked.

"Do I look like the one who does the jumping to you now?" He laughed.

"Nah.I always had it with me son" He said putting a hand on my shoulder. Like he was saying something true and honest.Like he was a father figure. Theatrical much?

"Okay people, remember to bring me gifts and don't be late, okay?" Abby yelled into the crowd of dispensing students to her Roofless Red Mustang with her batch of friends. All making giggles and running clumsily. Flying through the top of the car and arguing on who's driving till the meanest one.

Meredith grudgingly agreed to it, reversing the car anyhow but not sanely. She zoomed through the clusters of students on the premises. Victor and I walked out facing the direction that led to our road home.

"So what do you want to do when you get home?" Victor asked.

"Not sure yet but I have a lot of Star Trek catching up to do"

"Star Trek? Really?" With disappointment round his face he looked at me with both hands still on his bicycle.

"Uhhhh...Yeah? why not?"

"Today is Monday and our school's biggest party thrower is throwing a big one.And for the first time 'We' are being invited."

"Hm. And I suppose you are following the herd?"

"Of course I am!Like every other sane person who is looking forward to having a decent social life.Tell me something? Mafia or not Mafia?"He asked quickly

"What is mafia? And what is not?"I asked with a puzzled look on my face.

"Well you see, Mafia is me wearing all black with my shades on looking all stabby"He said demonstrating with a mafia like pose.