Madeline was the last
person to sit down at her friends' table in the cafeteria in time for lunch.
She had various cards in both hands when she came in and smacked them down on the table before she sat down.
"Read
these," she ordered.
"All of them?"
asked Lizzie.
"Just pick
one."
Each of the girls
picked up a card from the pile and looked them over. Most of the cards were of a
pastel color, decorated with ribbons or glitter.
"These are
Valentine's Day cards," noticed Skye.
"I know,"
said Madeline.
"'But soft! What
light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the
sun.'," Debra read from her card. "Aw! They got one that quoted
Shakespeare."
"Oh, I know that
one!" said Lizzie. "Is that from 'High School Musical'?"
"Oh, Lizzie,
no."
"Are these from
Chad?" asked Andrea.
"Yeah,"
answered Madeline.
"Why is he so
hung up on you all of a sudden?" questioned Skye.
"I don't know. I
mean I am super fine. Who wouldn't want me?"
"All the guys who
broke up with you."
"Shut up. Anyway,
he's being really annoying."
"Why don't you
tell him you're uninterested?" suggested Debra.
"I have. Several
times!"
"Maybe you're not
being stern enough."
"Oh, I know how
to be stern."
In a little while,
Lizzie's boyfriend, DeMarcus, sat down next to her with a tray of school
lunch. He set the tray on the table before kissing her on the cheek. He then asked, "What's happening?"
"Madeline has two
boyfriends," responded Lizzie.
"No, I
don't," said Madeline. "There's this guy who has decided to bother
me."
"Oh," DeMarcus
nodded. "Is that him right there?"
Madeline turned her
head and yelped, startled at the sight of her old friend, Chad, just standing
right behind her. The girls almost jumped when they heard her scream.
"Hey,
Madeline," he said, trying to be bashful and nice.
"What are you
doing here?" Madeline asked.
"I came to see
you."
"But I don't want
to see you."
"You haven't made
that clear."
"I've made it
crystal clear!"
"Just talk to
him," suggested Debra.
"Fine. You wanna
talk? Let's go."
Madeline got out of
her seat and hurried out of the cafeteria with Chad following her. Once they
were a couple of feet from the entrance, Madeline stopped and turned around to
face him. She crossed her arms and cocked her head.
"Okay, so spill
the deets," she asserted. "What do you want to say to me?"
"Everything I've
practically said before," replied Chad.
"Alright. So if
you're gonna tell me something that you've said before, why do you think it's
going to change my mind now?"
"Because I'm
serious."
"You weren't
serious then?"
"No, I was. I
just want to get my point across."
"You did get your
point across and I killed it. It trespassed so I killed it like a drone. So how
are you going to convince me with a dead point?"
"You're being
really stubborn."
"If I'm really
stubborn, then leave me alone."
"No, it's
okay."
"Chad, why are
you so fixated on me now? Of course, I'm more banging than I ever was but that
still doesn't mean anything."
"I just miss you,
okay? We used to have so much fun together and I want what we had again. I
never stopped liking you, Madeline."
"Your girlfriend
broke up with you, didn't she?"
"Yeah."
Madeline tried to step
around Chad to walk away from him but he blocked her.
"But! But I
realized that she never made me as happy as you made me."
"We were together
for a few months. And we weren't even together; it was more of a
flirtationship."
"Hey, it was the
best flirtationship I ever had."
"Whatever,
Chad."
"Please hear me
out."
"No. And if you
don't stop stalking me, I'm gonna press charges against you."
"I'm a minor; you
can't do that."
"I don't care!
Just leave me alone or I'm gonna get my friend, Andrea, to come and kick you in
the face. And you're gonna deserve it because you're gonna watch the foot come
directly to your face."
Madeline walked past
Chad, going straight into the cafeteria.
"Will you just
listen!" begged Chad.
"Ahh!"
Madeline waved her arms around, not looking back at Chad.
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