Location: Lincoln Memorial High School Cafeteria
Interacting With: Olivia Johnson via Text
@Symphoni, Jade Taylor
Not even a minute went by since Grant sent that text to Olivia and the wait for a response back felt like hours. When one ate alone without anyone to interact with, time always seemed to move a lot slower than it actually did. The fact of not knowing when a response would come to your phone was torture enough, but added to that, eagerly waiting for it was even harder. Who knew when it would come? One minute from now? Ten minutes? The wait could be almost a full hour. In truth, no one could really say what the time frame of getting a much-expected response was.
Several minutes went by and the cafeteria began to diminish in numbers. The then loud crowd of people who were filling the walls of the caf with gossip and laughter soon became dull and silent, almost eerie. Grant and a few others were the only ones who were left(well, aside from the staff, that is). Some of the students left over were still kind of talking amongst themselves.
As Grant happened to look up, he saw someone come in. It was a female. Long blonde hair and black all over, but white skin. She had a plastic cup in her hand. Grant saw her and it reminded him of someone he used to know. Inspecting her more, the female seemed to have noticed him. As if it were his second nature, Grant quickly lowered his head down to his phone, trying to avoid eye contact with her, or at the very least, hoping she wouldn’t notice him looking at her observantly. However, it was too late. She walking over to his table. Before he could do anything about it, like try to move or anything she had taken a seat.
“Hey, don’t I know you?” She asked Grant, taking off her sunglasses revealing a heavy amount of eye-shadow and mascara that seemed to be ran down her face.
Grant said nothing, but only looked at her face. He didn’t know what happened to her, but he knew that level of running eyeshadow from seeing his own mother have a similar setup after arguing with his father. This woman, who was looking at him with a curious look, had been crying. Not only that, but based on how much her eyeshadow seemed to be down her face, it was obvious to Grant that a lot of crying was done.
“What? You got a hearing problem or something?” she said, looking at Grant weird, “whatever, guess I’m out then,” she said proceeding to get up.
“Wait!” Grant said all-of-a-suddenly.
The girl stopped and looked at Grant.
“Yes?” She inquired curiously.
“I-uh, I mean..” Grant paused nervously, [color884dff]“are you alright?” He asked her, finally getting out his words.
The woman looked at him.
“What makes you think that I’m not? Do I not look alright to you?” She asked, standing up, giving Grant a clear look at her body.
Grant got all red around his cheeks.
The woman laughed and sat back down.
“You’re too cute.” She commented, but then she sighed.
“Why don’t you answer my question first?” She told him.
“Oh,” Grant said, pausing as he thought. The girl did look familiar, but he wasn’t sure if she would know him. Like, who would pay attention to Grant Wells? Aside from a choice few(such as his cousin Tess and his best friend, Olivia), he was pretty forgettable to most people.
“I don’t think so.” Grant said, looking at the girl slightly.
“No, I’m sure I do,” she said, tapping her fingers on the table, trying to remember where she saw him from.
“Oh, that’s right! You’re Tessa’s cousin, Grant something.”“Wells.”“What’s that? Some odd bread name or something?”“No. That’s my name. Grant Wells.”The girl laughed.
“Oh right.” She said, continuing to laugh a bit.
“And, um..”“What?”“What’s your name?”She looked at him, saying nothing with the straightest face of all time.
“Jade Taylor, you might have heard of me, right?” She asked, cocking a smirk.
The name Jade Taylor was a name that everyone spoke of around Verona. The town slut, they called her, but Grant remembered his parents talking about her a few times, mainly because she apparently tried to get with Thomas a few times. He heard from his parents and siblings that she was a slut and no one in the Wells family was to have anything to do with her. However, a few times, Grant would ask his cousin Tess about her and she told him a different story. Granted, she didn’t know much, but of what Grant remembered being said about Jade, he recalled that her life hasn’t been easy. Growing up without any parents for the majority of her life. The only parent she had was her Uncle Charlie, whom in which was one of Verona’s top criminals(or so people say).
To her question, Grant simply nodded timidly.
“Right, so why are you sitting here alone?” Jade asked him.
“People don’t usually see me.” Grant told her.
“Well, that’s stupid. You should get to know people more. Trust me, it’s better to at least try then not do anything at all, trust me.” Jade said, looking around the caf.
Grant listened to her words, but he didn’t really believe them.
“but what if--”“No what ifs. You won’t get anywhere in this town if you don’t speak up. Besides, you’re pretty hot — well, if anyone’s into that whole nerdy white boy thing, so you definitely can get the heart of some chick out there.” Jade, surprisingly, actually being helpful for once.
“Y-you really think so?” Grant asked, straightening his back. It seemed he was interested in her words at the moment.
“What do you mean ‘do you really think so’? Of course I do, dumbass.” Jade said honestly,
“look in a mirror and you’ll see. Unless you got some crazy self-esteem issues.” Jade said, again, brutally honest.
“That’s not true, I just-I mean, that is to say..” Grant found himself tied for words.
“What? Tell me what it is about you that you don’t seem to value? Or is it that you just don’t want to have friends?” Jade teased him.
“No, that’s not it.”“Then what?”“I don’t know!” Grant said louder than usual.
As his voice increased in its volume, he smashed his hands on the table and suddenly, something happened. Though slightly, there seemed to be some kind of pull on a plastic cup that Jade had in her hand. She felt it, but slightly. It brought her back to Alicia and when that coke can was pulled — or was it pushed? Jade doesn’t really remember. Either way, when Jade felt that slight pull on the cup in her hand, she looked at Grant.
“Whoa dude, did you see that?” Jade asked him.
“See what?” He asked her, blinking at her blankly.
“My cup dumbass. It was shaking, wanting to go to you.” She told him.
Grant blankly blinked a few more times.
“What are you talking about?” He asked her.
“You really didn’t see that.” she said,
“listen, you must be like me too.”“Like you?”“Something happened to you as well as me — and a few others.” And Jade recalled that she split out of the group due to not wanting to be with those fucktards, but Grant here wasn’t like them. Jade kind of likes him. Not in the way that she wants to fuck his brains out, but he’s someone that she doesn’t mind being around, even if like some kind of friend or whatever.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. What do you mean like you? And what others?” Grant asked.
“Grant, when you got angry..or loud, this cup in my hand was acting as if it was being pulled to you,” Jade told him,
“listen, I have this friend. She did something similar. Maybe she could--” and then Jade remembered how she completely flew off the handle on Alicia,
“fuck!”“..are you alright?” Grant asked her, raising a curious and nervous eyebrow.
“I just realized that I was a total bitch and I need to apologize to someone.” She admitted to Grant. She was right, though. She acted like a total c-u-n-t to Alicia. Fuck the rest of them(other than Scout, , but Alicia was probably her only best friend in the whole stinking town. She needed to make it right.
Grant didn’t say anything because he didn’t know what to say.
“Okay, listen. I’m going to do some shit, but let me give you my number. I want you to meet this friend of mine when I handle a few things. She’ll be able to clarify things for you. That sound good to you?” Jade told him, asking Grant.
Grant just looked at her and nodded. He gave her his phone and she put in her number, and Grant did the same to her phone.
“Alright, so just wait for my call.” Jade said getting up. As she was going to walk away, she stopped,
“oh and tell Thomas I said hello.” She winked at Grant.
Grant shook his head and looked at his phone and saw a text from Olivia came back about ten minutes ago. He smiled instantly, but his eye caught Jade leaving the caf. He shook his head and started to respond to Liv’s text.
To: Olivia
We can walk home together, if you want to, that is. I’ll meet you outside the front steps.
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