He cleared his throat. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have even mentioned it. That’s not why I came over. I was thinking,” he said and leaned in even closer. “Maybe we could go…”
“Matthew,” Isabella said, cutting him off. She put her hand on his arm. I watched as her fingernails dug into the fabric of his blazer. “We need to have a word.”
“I’m in the middle of something, Wizzy.” He shrugged her off.
The expression on her face made it look like she was going to slap him. I wasn’t sure if it was because he’d called her Wizzy or that he had shrugged her off. Probably both. But I was way more curious about why that was her nickname.
She didn’t slap him, but she didn’t back down either. “Now. It’s about thatextracurricularwe talked about the other day. You know the one. I wanted to see if we should tell our friends all about it.” I was pretty sure she tried to smile sweetly at him, but it looked like she was about to bite his neck and suck his blood.
Matt lowered his eyebrows. “Yeah. No.” He shook his head and turned back to me. “I’ll see you in class, okay, Brooklyn?”
Isabella pulled him away before I had a chance to respond.
The ticking I always heard in my head stopped.Boom.No wonder Isabella hated me.Extracurriculars my ass.I swallowed hard. Were they dating?
“You got asked out twice in one day,” Kennedy said without looking up at me. “I think that’s a new record.” She pushed around her sweet potato fries with a fork.
What was up with her? “Felix asked us both to come. And Matt didn’t get to finish his sentence. But I don’t think he was asking me out.”He ran off with Isabella the second he got a chance.
“Of course he was. Stupid Isabella just cut him off.”
“Maybe.” But I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. “I guess I’ll find out in class.”
Kennedy continued to absentmindedly push her food around her plate.
“Do you want to talk about what happened with Felix?” I asked.
The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch.
“Saved by the bell,” she mumbled and got up so fast I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye. But she hadn’t said goodbye either.
I sat there for a moment longer. My new friend Felix was a drug dealer. Kennedy was mad at me. And Matt was probably dating Isabella. Could this day get any worse?
Untouchable - Chapter 7
Monday
It was finally time for my last class of the day. Entrepreneurial studies. Better known to me as my class with Matt, because I was much better at studying him than the assignments. I sat down in my usual seat, which was always directly behind Matt. It was the only time I could stare shamelessly at him. And even though my stomach was twisted in knots from my shitty day, I was still excited to see him. Talk to him. That would be a first in this room. But I wasn’t going to pretend that nothing happened at lunch like I was pretending I hadn’t seen anything this morning. I needed to know if he was seeing Isabella. The thought made my stomach churn even more.
Matt and Rob came in right before the bell rang.
I smiled up at Matt and he…didn’t even glance in my direction as he sat down in front of me.
I opened my mouth and then closed it. That was harsh. Was he seriously going to act like Friday night hadn’t happened? Like he hadn’t just sat with me at lunch? What the hell?
I pressed my lips together. He was probably just focused on getting to his seat in time.Right?
Mr. Hill was writing something on the board.
I took his moment of distraction to lean forward. “Matt?” I whispered.
He didn’t turn around. He didn’t move at all. It was like he hadn’t even heard me. I touched my throat, like maybe there was something defective in my vocal cords.
The girl that sat to my left snickered. I recognized her from Isabella’s posse. I was pretty sure her name was Charlotte.
“In your poor girl dreams,” Charlotte said with a laugh. She didn’t even bother to whisper. A few other students laughed too.
Matt didn’t laugh. But he also didn’t come to my rescue like he had on Friday night. He just…didn’t acknowledge that anything had happened at all. For some reason, that stung even more.
