words do hurt

Chapter 14

I was typing madly on Maria's phone when my foot had suddenly ran into a pole outside the school office.
"OW!" I exclaimed, bending down, taking off my right boot to reveal a throbbing big toe.
"That's what you get for being on your phone without looking!" Maria joked.
It wasn't even 7 in the morning yet, so nobody would be arriving to school for another half hour or so.
I gritted my teeth in pain, rubbing my toe softly.
"By the way, can I have my phone back? I'm pretty sure you've broken a record draining a phone's battery in less than an hour." she said impatiently, since she's overprotective of her phone.
"Can I borrow it until lunch, please?" I pleaded, sucking it up and putting my boot back on, standing up with a slight limp, because it still hurt.
"Why? Don't make up some stupid excuse again." she warned.
"I just need it." I whined, specifically doing what she said not to do, and I thought it was kind of funny.
"It's my phone, so you have to tell me." she hissed, getting all snarky like Tiffany.
"Okay, do you remember that Carter guy that added me as a friend a couple of days ago?" I mumbled quietly, kicking some snow out of my path.
"Yeah.. oh my gosh! Have you been talking to him the entire time!" Maria started off as confused, but then was as hyper as a kid that just ate all their Halloween candy.
"Yeah I have, and he's a really sweet guy! I don't know why, but I told him about my dad being in the military, and he just made me feel better about it." I sighed, and I couldn't help but smile.
"You guys should totally go out!" Maria gushed, scrolling onto her phone and reading our Facebook conversations from the past couple of days.
"We haven't even met each other in real life!" I said lowly.
"So? Didn't you hear about that love story where two people fell in love online? They finally met and got married and they haven't been separated ever since!" Maria giggled, clapping her hands like a retarded seal that just ate expired fish.
"No? What kind of story is that?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh whatever, you guys are like totally meant to be! Hasn't he been hinting that he wants to go on a date with you?" Maria questioned, grinning like an idiot.
"Well, he has been calling me gorgeous, and he did say that any guy would be lucky to have me.." I whispered, blushing majorly.
"See? He wants to hit you up." she winked.
"And you know what the weirdest part about this is?" I mumbled, a bit shy to say it.
"What?"
"I think I'm falling for him."

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*Based on the movie, Cyberbully*
I'd thought I'd put that up, because it's going to sound very familiar to the movie from here towards the end of the story, just in case you seem like you've read or heard this before (: