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“Hey, dude.” Oscar comes up to me at the end of first period.
I’ve done a good job of ignoring him the entire class, hoping to just keep him out of my mind. I haven’t heard anything from Izzy, and I know she might still be upset, but I’m focused on telling her today.
“I just want to make sure we’re cool,” he says as we walk out of the room.
“Cool?”
“Yeah.” He raises an eyebrow. “I wasn’t gonna do anything, because I thought you and that Izzy girl were, like, hooking up or something.”
I jerk to a stop. “That Izzy girl?”
“Uh, yeah?”
“Dude, her name’s Isabel. Or Izzy. Not, ‘that Izzy girl’.”
He lets out a condescending chuckle. “Well, yeah, I know that. See, this is why I wasn’t going to say anything. You’re all, like, overprotective or something. Like you guys are going on out.”
“Well, we’re not,” I spit out, annoyed more at myself for not manning up already.
“Cool, that’s what I was trying to say. So, I hope you’re cool with it.”
“Cool with what?”
“Me going to prom with her.”
I blink, trying to wrap my head around so many things. Were they definitely going to prom now? If so, why’d she yes? But more importantly, why did he even ask her? I know he thinks of her as just a nerd and Oscar likes to come off as a player.
“Hold up.” I wave a hand. “Didn’t you call her a nerd freak?”
“Hey, Matt,” Carter calls out, walking over to me with Lucas. I motion to them as I stay focused on Oscar.
“Yeah, she is a nerd freak.” Oscar chuckles and looks like it’s common knowledge. “But you know what? She’s got a bangin’ body. So, I thought I’d keep her as an option.”
Everything he says just builds up a rage inside. “An option?”
“Yeah. I asked Yvette’s friend, Tammy, earlier this week and she’s acting all hard to get but I know she’s DTF. But just in case she tries to pull some shit, I thought I’d see what a couple other girls were doing. You know, the ones that are cute, but probably don’t have a date.”
Carter and Lucas are standing next to me. I squeeze my eyes shut as I shake my head at his entire scumbag plan. “Are you fucking kidding me?”
“Matt.” Carter pulls my arm, but I yank it away.
“What?” Oscar looks at me like I just slapped him in the face, and that’s exactly what I want to do.
“Dude, if you want to go to prom with her, that’s up to her. But don’t pull some shit move, asking her just in hopes of trying to hook up.”
“It’s not a shit move, bro.” He grins. “Who knows, if I act like I’m into all that nerd shit, I might even get a BJ out of it.”
“Motherf—” My fist is swinging before I finish the word and it connects right on his chin, sending him stumbling back.
“Matt!” Carter yells, grabbing my arm and pulling me back.
“I’m fine! I’m fine!” I yell, shaking my fist in pain, as I look at the knuckles seeing if I broke anything.
“You asshole!”
I look back up, and Oscar is swinging, connecting his right hand across my mouth. Lucas jumps in, wrapping his arm around Oscar’s chest, pushing him back. A crowd starts to form as I wipe a trickle of blood from my mouth.
