My head snapped to look at Lane. "I didn't do anything," I snapped, slightly annoyed at me getting the blame. "Just because this is his first relationship doesn't mean he can just do whatever he wants then say, "Oh my bad, I'm new at this, and get away with it."
Lane puts his hand up to stop me from saying anything else. "And I'm sure he hurt you too. Both of you just need talk to each other. This silent treatment, immature bullshit isn't going to do anything but make it worse. Silence is deadly in a relationship."
"Obviously, we don't have a relationship. I've tried to talk to him but he ignores all my phone calls," I grunted, leaning back in my chair and crossing my arms.
"Give him time," he shot back, his thin lips creating a small smile.
I shook my head. "Nu uh. I'm not going to give him time to hook up with all of his groupies and wait for him to decide he's ready to be serious about our relationship. I might not be able to save this relationship but I'm at least going to save my pride."
"Stay strong, girl," Gabby said, beside me, patting my head and looking across the table to Lane. "And when did you become some relationship guru, Dr. Phil?"
Lane's smile grew, spreading from ear to ear. "I'm a fucking genius on every level. I know how to treat the ladies." He grabbed Cora's head and kissed her cheek.
Cora rolled her eyes and the bell rang, causing everyone to start filing out of the lunchroom. Sliding out of my chair, I dreaded what was coming. My muscles were practically jumping out of my skin as I headed to my next class - with Keegan.
He hadn't shown up for school the next two days after our fight. When he finally did, he acted like I was invisible. Sitting down in my usual seat, I spotted him heading towards the opposite side of the room from me. "Heya, Daisy," Dirk greeted, throwing himself into the chair next to mine and tossing his books on the desk.
"Hey," I answered, but kept my eyes on the back of Keegan's head while he talked to the girl next to him.
"So I was wondering if you wanted to get together this weekend? We could go to dinner and see a movie?"
Before I could even muster up a lame excuse to tell Dirk, the loud boom of a book falling on the floor brought my attention back to Keegan. He whipped around in his chair and his eyes were glaring daggers at the guy next to me. "Dirk, I don't give a fuck if Daisy is with me or not. If you ever touch her, I promise you will never touch anything again because I will break every finger on that scrawny hand of yours."
Dirk chuckled. "Ah come on, Keegan, you never care if anyone has your leftovers. What's the deal?"
My body flushed in embarrassment, coloring my features of Dirk announcing to the entire room that I was his leftovers. Keegan surged out of his seat, causing the chair to slide against the floor. "What did you just say?" He screamed, stalking his way to us and I noticed his firm knuckles clenched into fists.
Oh shit.
I hopped out of my chair and made it in front of Dirk's desk before him to block him from Keegan. The sad part was that Dirk actually let me.
"Move Daisy," Keegan barked, his eyes blazing fire at Dirk. If looks could kill, Dirk would have been annihilated instantly.
I crossed my arms over my chest. "No, because you will do something stupid and get expelled."
He bit out a laugh. "You think I give a damn about getting in trouble? This is none of your business."
"I'm pretty sure it is considering this entire argument is about what he said to me."
"Dude, I'm sorry. You know I didn't mean it like that," Dirk choked out from behind me. As much as I wanted Dirk to suffer for his stupid remark, it wasn't worth Keegan getting in trouble.
"See, he just apologized," I informed Keegan, in case he didn't hear, and gestured to the jackass.
"And?"
"So this is over," I demanded.
"The fuck it is. Dirk, get your ass up," he commanded, trying to move through me.
"Is there a problem here?" I jumped at the sound of Miss Douglas's voice behind me.
"Nope, no problem," Keegan answered, not even bother to turn around or move away from Dirk's desk.
"Then why don't you take your seat, Keegan," Miss Douglas demanded.
"Dirk is in my seat," he spat, reaching behind me and pulling Dirk by the front of his shirt. He tossed him to the side; letting go and Dirk fell to the floor on his hands and knees. Unsure what was coming next, I stepped in front of Dirk again and finally noticed the entire classroom's attention on us.
"Get back in your seat, Daisy. I'm not going to do anything," Keegan sneered over at me.
Dirk rose to his feet slowly and wiped the front of his jeans down with his hands. "Oh wow, you talked the monster down. Impressive," he said, under his breath.
"I would keep walking before I change my mind," Keegan snapped back, lunging for him again but Dirk grabbed his books and scurried away. I shook my head as he took the long way by walking around all of the desks, back to the front of the classroom to avoid passing by us before sitting in the chair Keegan had been sitting in.