Rebecca’s Life Part 11

Rebecca’s POV-

My alarm woke me up that morning. I could already feel how sore my side was and I had barely moved yet. But it was finally Friday and tonight I was going to stay at Lexie’s house. Now that thought alone put a smile on my face.

As I got up slowly i walked over to my mirror to have a look. Thankful my face was no longer stinging and there was not mark left, but my stomach was another matter. It was already darker than the night before and definitely still hurt.

With that I took a shower, the water actually seemed to help with the pain a bit. After that I dried and brushed my hair out deciding to just leave it down. I wasn’t bothered about putting any make up on either as it was the end of the week and after a few minutes of looking I also just decided on a simple green hoodie with black joggers.

After that I packed some spare clothes and a toothbrush into my bag for tonight and made my way downstairs.

As I expected my dad wasn’t there, odds are he would have gotten home late last night from the pub, so he was probably still in bed. Not wanting to be late though, I just grabbed a banana and left.

***

The start of the school day went pretty fast as before I knew it was lunchtime and I was sat at my usual table with my usual friends.

“I’m so sorry you got into trouble because of me.” Mike said as he hugged me from the side.

“I’ll go tell the principal it was all my idea if you want?” He said looking at me with a serious expression.

“No, don’t worry about it. There’s really no point in us both getting into trouble.” I said reassuring him.

“What I don’t understand is how he got evidence linking it to you.” Noah added.

“Well, it actually turns out that Teds older brother is some computer wiz at MIT.” Mike admitted with a frown.

“You have got to be joking me. How did you not know that your ex’s brother went to MIT?” Lexie said now confronting Mike.

“Well we were only really dating for 2 months before he cheated on me and during that time we didn’t exactly spend most of our time together talking.” Mike replies with a shrug.

“Ewww dude. Let’s keep lunch PG, please.” Noah said.

“So I guess that explains it.” I said as everyone offered me a sympathetic look.

Soon enough lunch was over, so me and Lexie made our way over to our lockers to get our Sports kits. This was actually my first gym class and to be honest I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it, plus the pain in my side didn’t exactly help either. I just had to hope that we were going to have an easy lesson today.

After we got our kits we made our way over to the changing rooms by the gym. But that’s  when I realised that I actually had to get changed, in front of everyone.

I couldn’t let anyone see my bruise. They’d ask too many questions.

As if Lexie felt my hesitation she turned to face me.

“There are some changing cubicles at the back over there if you’re uncomfortable.” She said pointing to some cubicles at the back of the changing room.

“Thanks.” Was all I said before making my way over there and locking one of the cubicles behind me before getting changed. It wasn’t that I was uncomfortable, but I guess it’s probably better that Lexie thinks that instead of knowing the truth.

When I was finished I stepped out of the cubicle only to find a topless Sam talking to a fully changed Lexie. Of course she has abs, I thought as I rolled my eyes.

With that I made my way over to the both of them putting my clothes down next to Lexie’s stuff.

“It’s Rebecca, right?” Sam said offering my a smile.

“Yeah it is. I’m sorry, but I seem to have forgotten yours.” I said returning the smile.

Of course I remembered her name, but she didn’t need to know that. I wasn’t jealous, I just didn’t like her.

“Oh no, it’s fine. My names Sam. So, how’s you’re first week been?” She asked almost sincerely.

“It’s been good, Lexie’s been so nice to me. I don’t know how I would have survived without her.” I said giving Lexie a smile as I pulled her in to a side hug, placing my hand on her hip.

“Yeah, well Lexie really is a sweetheart.” She said looking at were my hand rested on Lexie’s hip.

I knew it, she likes Lexie. I bet she does.

“Aww you two are both so sweet. Now let’s get going before we’re marked late.” Lexie added as she pulled away from me and started walking to the gym.

The lesson started off easy with a slow jog and a few stretches which I had to be careful with, but as I stayed at the back with Lexie no one seemed to really notice, if anything they probably just assumed I was being lazy. Which wasn’t exactly false.

After that the teacher put us into three teams of 7. She also split all the friendship groups up, so it worked out that all three of us; Lexie, Sam and I were on different teams. The game of chose was Basketball, how convenient.

Firstly it was Lexie’s team VS Sam’s team, so I just had to sit off and watch. Lexie was actually pretty good, but Sam was definitely the best player. She was taller and faster than most of the girls so she scored most of the points.

After 10 minutes the teacher blew the whistle and swooped Sam’s team out for mine. I was pretty good at Basketball, I even used to play for my old school, so I wasn’t too worried. But I decided to take it easy not wanting to hurt my side even more. My team ended up winning though with 5,2. Two of them points being from me.

Then it was my team VS Sam’s team. My side wasn’t actually hurting that bad so I decided to give Sa… I mean their team a bit of completion. Both teams played really good. But with two minutes left though we were tied 6,6 with both me and Sam being our teams top scorers.

As it was my teams ball one of my team mates got it close to the hoop, but as she took a shot Sam hit it out of play. Now it came down to the final minute, so I took the throw in from the side of the court.

Straight away I throw the ball to one of my team mates how dribble the ball down to the hoop where she throw it to me to take the shot, but as soon as I caught the ball I was knocked down to the floor.

As I hit the floor with a loud thud i shouted out in pain as my side made contact with the ground. Straight away the teacher ran over to see what happened.

“Sam, what was that?” The teacher shouted at her.

That’s when I looked up and saw Sam standing over me with a look of guilt written across her face.

“I’m sorry. It was an accident.” Was all she said as she looked at me laying on the floor.

“Are you okay?” The teacher asked me as she got closer.

“Yeah I’m fine.” I said sitting up trying not to make the amount of pain in my side so visibly obvious.

With that Lexie appeared next to me to see if I was okay.

“Where are you hurt?” Lexie asked as she knelt down next to me.

“No where, I’m fine.” I said gritting my teeth as I stood up.

“Mrs, I think I should take her to the nurse.” Lexie stated to the teacher. But before the teacher could agree with her I interrupted.

“I’m fine.” Was all I said before I left the gym and made my way to the changing room.

I heard the teacher call after me but I didn’t care. If my side didn’t hurt so much I would have been embarrassed and angry about what Sam did. No way in hell was that an accident.

Not even a minute after I entered the changing room Lexie entered behind me.

“Are you okay?” She asked as I sat down on the bench.

“I’m fine.” I said as Lexie took a seat next to me.

“I don’t know why Sam did that to you. I knew she was competitive, but that was too far.” She said shaking her head.

“Isn’t it obvious?” I asked her now looking at her face. But she just shuck her head.

“She likes you and she jealous.” I said now looking away.

“Sam? Jealous?” She shook her head in disbelief. I could see her thoughts racing around her head.

“OMG! I’m so sorry.” She said.

“Why are you sorry? You didn’t knock me to the ground in front of our whole class.”

“No, but she did it because of me. Because she could see that I liked you.”

“Wait… you like me?” I asked shocked that she had actually said it.

“Of course I do. What’s there not to like?”

If only she knew.

“Well, I like you too.” I admitted.

With that the school bell rang marking the end of the day.