𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CELESTE SAT IN math class, trying to find a mechanical pencils that she left in her bag days before but couldn't find a single one. celeste sighed in annoyance when she couldn't find a single one.

normally she would just use a pen but this was a test and ms santo had stated multiple times that if anyone used a pen during this test it would be an automatic zero.

meaning celeste would have to ask someone for a pencil, so she had to actually communicate with somebody in her class which she wasn't too fond of.

now celeste's main plan was just to pest isis for a pencil but she remembered that she wasn't even in this class. suddenly the guy next to her which she recognized as elian, had passed her a wooden pencil since he noticed she had been looking for one. 

celeste sent him a warm smile as a thanks not noticing how elian's face heated up when she smiled at him. it was no news that elian had a huge liking for celeste and everybody knew it, well expect celeste of course.

what celeste didn't know was that darrian was looking from the other side of the class mugging the two. darrian was already set in a bad mood for reasons and seeing his girlfriend talk with the guy that had a crush on her made him irritated.

when the bell had rung darrian rushed out the room so fast celeste didn't even see him leave. and she knew that they had their next class together so they would be walking together so why would he leave in a rush?

celeste slinged her backpack over her shoulder and began walking through the hallways trying to find darrian. celeste walked around until he found him smoking on a empty staircase. 

darrian saw her and even if he was slightly mad he still took out the blunt since he knew she hated smoking. celeste smiled at the small gesture and sat next to him.

darrian basically ignored her presence as he pulled out his found and scrolled on tiktok. celeste frowned confusingly at him because normally he would talk to her but he was straight up ignoring her whole presence.

celeste pursed her lips together in losing patience before taking darrian's phone and stuffs it in her jeans pocket. darrian sucked his teeth while making eye contact with her, his eyes were low and red since he had been high since last night. 

"you look upset. what's wrong?" normally darrian would have calmed down but he wasn't thinking so he said whatever without thinking. "the fuck was that bout?" he spat back at her making the girl frown.

"what you mean?" she furrowed her eyebrows. "bro just leave me the fuck alone yo. go fucking talk to elian, you've gotten good at that." and with that darrian walked away leaving a confused celeste. 

she didn't even know what he had done wrong and she knew he didn't mean that but that didn't stop her from being a bit let down at the fact he took out his anger out on her while she was just trying to help.

now celeste didn't even wanna go to her next class since she knew darrian probably went so skip. so she got up and walked around seeing a lot of people since the bell hadn't rang yet. 

then she bumped into someone.

"my bad- cel cel!" celeste already knew from the nickname that it was notti when the person wrapped there arms around her tightly. he rocked them side to side for a bit before letting go.

celeste let out a forced smile when he put a hand around her shoulder but notti catched on. 

"wassup cel?" he asked as they walked to wherever and she shrugged in response. "you're a horrible liar, i've known you for way too long to be able to tell." notti pointed out making celeste gasp.

"i am not!"

"yes you are." celeste scoffed as she followed wherever notti was walked her to. "but c'mon tell me what's wrong." notti poked the side of her cheek making celeste scrunch her face up from how cold his fingers were.

notti noticed how celeste's expression faltered slightly making him know what's wrong. he already knew that darrian was in a bad mood and when he was in a bad mood he was rude.

"ddot actin' up ain't he?"

there was a bit of silence between the two meaning that notti was correct making him shake his head in disappointment. "what he do now?" celeste sighed rethinking the words that darrian had angrily said to her.

"he got mad for some reason and told me to talk to elian. like who the fuck is that nigga anyways?" she asked not even knowing who darrian was talking about when he said that.

notti listened to the girl and his eyes went wide when she mentioned elian. he almost felt bad because elian was crushing so hard on her and she didn't even know his name.

"nah, nah, you know that nigga with blonde dreads? he always wearing a black nike tech?" notti described the boy while celeste tried to put together the pieces then it made sense. 

"oh, the nigga with dreads." she repeated making notti deadpan her. "ain't that what i just fucking said?" notti said making her laugh sarcastically before slapping the back of his head.

notti winced and shook his head, "yo slaps hurt cel, stop."

"but why he mad at you? you ain't you his girl or sum shit?" notti mentioned. celeste just shrugged before speaking, "i thought so too." she replied playfully making notti snap his head back so fast he could've gotten a whiplash.

"wait, ma son got it like that?" he exaggerated making celeste let out a small laugh before pulling her hand up to eye view and showed the ring that darrian had gotten her a week boy before. 

"damnnn." notti dragged as he was in complete shock since ddot had never mentioned anything of him dating celeste. "wait hold on was that nigga elian talkin' to you?" he asked and celeste nodded shortly after.

notti gasped and let out a loud laugh, "a nigga was jealous!!" celeste's lips parted from notti's observations because now it made sense to her. 

"where do you think he is right now?" she asked planning on looking for the boy. "probably skipping." celeste slapped the back of notti's head but this time much softer. "skipping where nigga?"

notti rubbed the back of his head, "ion' fucking no cel, you wanna go on hunt for him?" celeste shook her head dramatically. "play too much."

the two friends eventually parted ways with notti going to look for isis and celeste looking for darrian. she knew now she was gonna be late for her next class so she dragged her feet slowly to history. 

it had completely flew over her head that darrian could have actually went to his next class so when celeste saw him with a hoodie over his head sitting in one of the back seats she found herself stupid.

"ms dawn? late for the first time aren't we?" the history teacher stopped his lesson and made it big deal that celeste was late for the first time leading to the whole class to drop stares at her. she smiled sheepishly, anxious from the amount of people looking at her at the moment. 

celeste made her way to her normal seat who was coincidentally next to elian. during the lesson elian tried to celeste multiple times and she tried to end the conversation as fast as she could but he was starting to annoy her.

"leste!" elian had whispered-shouted when the class was quiet making bunch of eyes fall on them, including darrian.  if it wasn't for elian's voice she would have mistake it was darrian calling her since he was basically the only one who called her that. 

celeste silently groaned at how loud he was being and ignored him. which only made matters worse since for the rest of the class he was touching her in any form of way to get her attention; poking, hair pulling, tickling.

celeste wanted to leave the class so bad and seemingly darrian did too since he just slammed the back door close in result of the teacher yelling his name. 

the day couldn't get much worse, until it did.

at the end of the school day celeste was ready to walk to the train station but stopped in her tracks when she saw in the corner of her eye haven was trying to talk to darrian while he ignored her as he scrolled on his phone.

celeste smiled at the view seeing that he was ignoring her whole presence until haven put a hand on his shoulder but he quickly swatted it away with a mean mug on his face.

celeste was looking so intently that she didn't even notice darrian had made eye contact with her. when she did she snapped her head back and started walking her way to the train station. she heard footsteps behind her making her sped up her pace.

 she was hoping it was anyone but elian. and of course it was him.

the boy put a arm around her shoulder which she quickly shoved off. he started blabbing about something and he didn't even notice she had pulled her wired headphones in her ears and walked away.

darrian was gonna go and talk to celeste but saw when he had put hand around his own girlfriend making him go ballistic.

god was really testing both of their patience today and he was doing too much of a good job at it.

F SPEAKS 💫

NOTE ──── bro, i aint even ready to write the next chapters , im scared by myself yo .. i apologize in advance . see ya later pooks .