Chapter 2

Valentinas pov

It's been a week of torture at school with Heaven bothering me, but thankfully Gina has been by my side defending me through the whole thing.

Even though I just met Gina, I feel super connected to her. She's so nice and funny, and turns out she likes girls! I've never really thought about my sexuality before, but after having flings with multiple women and men before, I like both. Typically, it's odd for me to even think about these things but I finally came to terms with it.

School has been great, teachers are nice, and some students are okay.

Right now I'm currently sitting in my 5th period class, which I kinda hate because it's one of the most boring classes I have. It's government and don't get me wrong, I should know this, but the class is just boring and everything is too easy for me. Maybe because I'm a nerd... ah, who cares? I believe that no one in this world is stupid, everyone is smart in there own way whether it's academically or not.

The bell finally rings after a whole forty-five minutes of boredom. I quickly packed my things and walked out of the class to go to my locker to meet up with Gina.

As I walk to my locker, I felt a presence staring at me. It's not any ordinary stare, it's a stare that's been watching me since I've been walking.

I stop in front of my locker and turn around looking to see if I can see the person... and to my surprise there she was. Heaven. I have no problem with her, but she has a problem with me! What is wrong with her? I've done nothing.

I stare intensely at her and roll my eyes as she walks up to me with her little friends or should I say, minions.

"What do you want?" I say in a annoyed tone, she smirks looking at me up and down.

I was wearing a black leather crop top shirt, with a light pink tennis skirt that was pretty short on me.

Heaven just stands there looking at me not saying anything as I wait for a response from her, but she doesn't say anything.

"Valentina!" Gina shouts, fast walking towards me and going to my side.

"Bitch, leave her alone. Why is it that you're always bothering her?" Gina questions. Heaven removes her stare from me and keeps her trance on Gina.

"I'm not even doing anything but just standing here. Seems to me that you're the one bothering her." Heaven shrugs.

Before Gina can even reply, a tall black-haired boy walks towards Heaven, giving her a kiss on the cheek and giving Gina and I a confused look.

He stares at me up and down as well and widens his eyes when he realized I caught him staring.

"We're leaving. Heaven, please leave Valentina alone. She has does nothing to you, so fuck off." Gina rolls his eyes, and grabs my hand pulling me away from Heaven.

"Are you good? Did she say anything to you?" Gina asks concerned and I shake my head walking inside the cafeteria.

She nods and we take a seat in our usual booth.

She sits in front of me opening her lunch box and giving me half of her sandwich.

"Why do you always give me half of your sandwich?" I asked curiously, holding the sandwich on the palm of my hand.

"Well for one, I know you're starving because you refuse to eat the school food, secondly because you're my friend, therefore I like to share, and lastly because my mom has taught me to do that." She says smiling at me.

That's so sweet of her.

"I appreciate it, thank you." I say cheekily, as I finish the sandwich and drinking water.

"So, I wanted to ask you a question, and you can say no so don't feel obligated to say yes. It's your decision." She says closing her lunchbox.

"Yea?" I question, curious as to what she wanted to ask me.

"There's a party tonight and I don't want to be alone. Will you go with me? I just don't have any other friends to go with, but I got invited by a classmate of mine." She asks, pleadfully hoping I would say yes.

I love parties! I'm a lightweight, but I can control myself.

"Of course I'll go with you. Major problem though, my mom won't be able to drop me off, since she works." I say frowning a bit.

My mom is such a hard worker. Of course my mom inherited my dads money after his death, but she hasn't wasted any of it, except the house we're currently living in.

"No need to worry about that, I'll go pick you up. Just send me your address and be ready by 7." She smiles, as the bell rang signaling lunch was over.

I nod getting up from the booth, waiting for Gina, and heading to my class.

Students scrabbling everywhere is giving me so much anxiety. Then the students walk so slow, like please walk faster before I push you.

Gina hugs me goodbye as she walks me to my class: Biology. God I love science, but it's so complicated for no reason.

Oh and did I mention that I have Heaven for this class? Well I do, and it's annoying that she's constantly being annoying.

I walk inside the class, Mrs. Verlander, greeting me as I take my spot in the lab table.

Nobody sits next to me, thank god for that.

On cue, Heaven walks in. Please don't sit next to me. Please don't sit next to me.

Oh thank god she didn't sit next to me, I would've had a heart attack.

A boy walks into class, he's slightly tall, dark brown hair with his hair parted in the middle. His green eyes piercing through mine.

"Hi. Do you mind if I sit here?" He asks, and I shake my head.

"I'm fine with it." I reply with a smile.

He's cute.

"Thanks." He replies, and I give him a nod and focus on the teacher.

"Okay guys, I want you and your partner to work together on the worksheet. It's only 3 questions, and there's no right or wrong answer. Just answer it the best you can." Mrs. Verlander says, writing something on the board.

Everyone immediately starts talking and I just sit awkwardly not knowing how to start the conversation.

"My name is Jay, sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier." He laughs slightly, extending his hand for me to shake.

"No worries, I'm Valentina." I say, shaking my hand with his.

"Are you new here? I've never seen you around before." He asks, writing his name on the paper.

"Yes I'm new, I just arrived here a week ago." I retort, answering the question on the paper in front of me, while he writes my name since we're sharing papers.

"Cool, do you like it here? Also, what is your last name?" He asks, looking at me twirling the pencil in his hand.

"It's alright, better than my old school. My last name is Gomez." I reply, and he nods writing my last name.

As I felt someone staring at me, there she is. Heaven. She's always staring at me, for what? I literally don't do anything to her.

She gives Jay from beside me a disgusting look and turns back around facing the front.

What the heck is her problem?

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Time passed in this period and eventually it was time to go home. Thank god. I just want to sleep and lay down on my bed.

I was waiting in the front for my mom to pick me up when I felt someone bumped I to my shoulder from behind me.

Want to guess who it is? Heaven. It's always her.

"Oh sorry, I didn't see you there." She says sarcastically while laughing.

This bitch.

"Sure you didn't." I roll my eyes. Her boyfriend from beside me looks at me longing his gaze on mine. After what felt like an eternity, he turned back his gaze on Heaven and walks away with his arm wrapped around her shoulder.

I saw my moms car pull up and I fast walk towards her car wanting to get out of this hell hole.

"Hola mami." I greet kissing her cheek. She greets me back and asks how school was.

The car ride was filled with my mom and I jamming out to Selena. She literally almost crashed from dancing in the car.

Eventually we made it to our house without dying.

I open the door my room and lay down on my bed. I need a nap. I grab my phone and scrolled to where the clock app is at to put an alarm for 5:30.

I haven't told my mom about the party, but I'm sure she would let me go anyways. I got up to take off my makeup and wash my face, then laid back down to sleep.

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I woke up with the roaring sound of the alarm. I groaned rubbing my eyes and get up to brush my teeth.

I always brush my teeth before and after I sleep.

After I brush my teeth, I moisturize my face and curly my hair.

Since my hair is straight, it takes me about an hour or less to curl my hair, but I'm going to try to go as fast as I can.

"Vale?" I heard my moms voice through the bathroom.

"Estoy en el baño." (I'm in the restroom) I reply, hearing her footsteps coming into the door.

"Dónde vas?" (Where are you going?) She asks, as I look at her through the mirror to look at her. I'm too focused on curling my hair that k can barely even concentrate.

"Oh I forgot to ask you if I can go to a party?" I ask hopefully, and fast. I already know she's going to bombard me with so many questions.

Perks of having a Mexican mom.

"Con quien? Quien te lleva? Y a qué hora vas a venir pa tras?" (With who, who's taking you, and what time are you coming back?)

I knew she was going to ask me so many questions.

"My friend Gina is picking me up, I'm only going with her, and I'll come back around 12 or 11." I respond, putting my hair curler down to remove one of my clips on my hair.

"Fine. Just be careful. I'm heading to work, so text me when you get home." She says and kisses my cheek.

After I finished curling my hair I redid my makeup which took me about an hour to do, and I look at the time on my phone: 6:45.

Shit! I quickly finish my touches on my makeup by setting some setting spray on my face. I had my outfit ready which was a light pink body con dress with my black heels.

If you can't tell, I'm obsessed with pink. Not the hot pink, but light pink. It's so cute.

Plus it reminds me of my sister, who's my brother now since he's transgender. My dad disowned him when he came out as trans and kicked him out. He's still in Mexico, but he said he was planning on moving here next month.

I'm ready! I didn't even have time to eat, still it's okay because I'm not really that hungry anyways.

I heard my phone ding indicating I got a message and it was from Gina saying she's outside.

I grabbed my phone and put it inside my purse, which was also pink.

I walked outside feeling the awkwardness of walking into Ginas car.

It's super awkward when you're walking outside your house and walking into someone's car. I don't know, I find it awkward though.

"Oh my goshhh, you look so pretty!" Gina compliments, and I blush from the comment.

"Thank you, but you're prettier." I smile, causing her to smile as well. She puts her car on drive and drives away to the party.

We arrived at the party 10 minutes later, hearing the music blaring through my ears.

What the fuck, is the whole school here?

Gina takes my hand guiding me to the house door, which may I add, this house is HUGE. Literally is like a whole mansion.

As we walk in, people instantly stare at us and some people didn't care and were engrossed into dancing or the conversations some were in.

"Who's house is this?" I shout over the music, Gina shrugs and pulls me towards the kitchen.

"I think this house is Heavens, but her boyfriend is hosting it." Gina says, grabbing 2 red cups pouring some alcohol on the cups.

"Is she fine with it though?" I ask concerned. What if she didn't approve of this party? Or what if she even doesn't know?

Okay that's stupid, she has know it's her house.

"I guess so, she would've already stopped the party if she wasn't fine with it." Gina says, passing me the red cup that she poured alcohol on.

I take a sip and grimace from the taste.

"Ew what is this?" I ask in disgust.

"I have no clue, but it was in the alcohol bin so. You don't have to drink it by the way, I'm not getting drunk since I have to take you home." Gina says.

I was about to reply when a sudden figure came into the kitchen.

Heaven and her boyfriend.

Heavens stares at me, her eyes shifting from my face to my body.

Is she checking me out? No way, I'm overthinking.

"What are you two losers doing here? In case you didn't know, this is a party for popular people." Heaven says, circling her hand in motion to the people around us.

"Really? So then where are they?" I ask, looking around. I hear a snicker from behind me and I then around to see.... Jay? What is he doing here??

"Whatever, just because I don't feel like dealing with you I'll let you be here just this once." Heaven replies.

I roll my eyes and leave the kitchen to make my way towards the living room.

Gina high fives me and we start bursting out laughing. We couldn't control our laughter and eventually I heard Gina snort causing me to laugh harder.

Are we drunk already? Well, Gina isn't but am I?

I don't even know to be honest. I feel a bit tipsy. That drink was so strong.

"Guys let's play truth or dare!" Some random dude said, Gina and I look at each other trying to look for some confirmation.

She nods and we walk together to the circle full of people.

From the corner of my eye I see Heaven and her boyfriend join in on the circle.

Umm... that's weird but okay.

"Are people in a relationship allowed to play this game?" Some random girl asks, gesturing towards Heaven and her boyfriend.

"It's up to them, no discrimination here." The guy shrugs placing the bottle he was drinking down on the floor beside him.

"Who wants to go first?" He asks. No one says anything. I'm going to be a risk taker today!

"I'll go." I speak up, causing everyone to look at me. Even Gina was shocked that I spoke up.

"Okay mystery girl, truth or dare?" He smirks, drinking from his bottle.

Fuck I don't want to be a chicken and pick truth, but I'm also scared to pick dare.

Why am I stupid sometimes? You know what, fuck it.

"Dare." I grin, Ginas face was priceless because she had her mouth open in shock.

"I dare you to kiss the person to your left." He smiles mischievously.

I look at the person to my left and it was.... Jay. Fuck fuck fuck!

Why? Why did god punish me with this?

"Only if she's okay with it though." Jay speaks, then whispers, "You don't have to."

I shake my head. "I'm fine with it. It's just a dare." I shrug. He looks into my eyes for consent and I nod. He slowly leans in and places his lips on mine moving it quickly, his hand on my cheek.

This kiss is so gross, but I'm tipsy as fuck so I don't care at this point.

The kiss lasted for about 10 seconds then I pulled away. I open my eyes to look at him and his cheeks are red.

Aw he has a little crush, well he's going to get over it soon because I don't feel the same way.

I look over to see Gina smirking, then to see Heaven... mad? Her face looks disgusted and I don't blame her, the kiss was gross.

She removes herself out of her trance and gets up and leaves.

Um... okay?

Why did she just run off like that?