Free Love and Hate by Chelsea Ballinger

hazel eyed ex staring at me with his sad puppy dog face. I hate that
face. He always uses it when he is being a dick. His eyes are still dreamy
though. Jade is behind him, giving him the green eyed monster stare. I love
her. She always has my back.
    He walks toward me in his North
face winter coat, khaki pants, and brown boots. I think I got him those boots
for his birthday?
    “Can we talk?” He asks.
    “Eric, I really have to get to my
first period class.” 
    “It’s the first day of the new
semester.” He says as he moves closer towards me. “Besides, I really think we
should talk, Claud.”
    “Look, I have some things to do
so maybe later.” I hurry off, before he continues to bother me.
    That was close. I swear I can
feel his eyes on me as I’m walking away.
    “Hey.” I stop once I hear Jade.
She runs up beside me. “So, what did he say?”
                            “Nothing,
he wants to talk.”
                “Really? Basically he wants to waste
your time trying to make excuses for himself.”
                            “Yeah,
I’m just gonna head to first period now”
    “Wait.” She grabs my arm so I can
stop speed walking. “Don’t you want to see him?”
    “See who?”
                “Roman Pierce’s other son?” I almost
forgot another Pierce was coming to make my life a living hell.
    “No way.” I snap. “I’ll see you
after class”
                No way. I don’t have time to waste on
the Pierce family. All I want to do is go to first period. My teacher is Mr.
Dugan. He’s a drunk. A smart drunk. I already know he’s going to come in with
his coffee mug that has more than coffee in it, and give us a pop quiz. No
matter what, he always has a pop quiz on Mondays. Therefore, I’m going to get a
seat in the back of the room and lay my head down so I can mentally prepare
myself.
     
     Donovan
     
    Already they’re staring at me. I
haven’t even gotten out the car yet.
    My morning has been fine so far.
My mother surprised me with the keys to Christian’s car. She said dad and the
guys fixed it up while I was gone. It was kind of therapy for my father. I was
hesitant to accept at first, but then my mom said Christian would have wanted
me to have it. So, I figure I might as well look after his prize possession.
Once I entered the mustang all the memories came back. I was hesitant to turn
on the ignition until Ella placed her hand on mine turning it for me. It’s
funny. I use to be so annoyed by Ella, thinking she was my stupid and
superficial little sister. Hey, maybe she was, but ever since Christian died,
she’s changed … we all changed.
    Now it sucks because of all these
people. Well, Donovan, you might as well get out the car now. I step out and
throw on my black winter coat. I grab my book bag, and begin looking around.
    “Don’t worry you’ll get use to
it.” Ella says.
    I’m surprised I’m not use to it
already.
    We start heading towards the
steps where a group of kids are standing. There are a group of hot girls staring
at me like they want to jump me and guys glaring at me with disapproval.
    “Hey, Donovan.”  Dina comes out
of nowhere and pulls me into a hug.
                            “Hey,
Dina.”
    Dina looks different. She got
hotter. She has short black hair and wow! Her boobs got bigger.
                            “You
didn’t call me back last night.” She whines to Ella.
    “I was busy. Hello, my brother
just got back.”
    “True, but Once Upon A Time was
on and I needed to call and rant about it.” I think Dina is talking about a TV
show. “So, Donovan, did you know your sister is Queen B around here?”
    “I’m not shocked by any of this.”
 I’m really not. Ella has always been the girl at school who was not to be
messed with.
    Ella punches me in the shoulder.
It kind of hurts too. When did she get so strong?
    “So, are you