Breaking Bedlam (Beautiful Bedlam Book 2) (18 page)

“No, silly, the fact that he is so obviously still in love with you. Didn’t you see the way he was looking at you? The entire class could see it. Hell, I bet old Collins could even sense the sexual tension in the air.” She said eagerly wondering how she could be so blind to the truth.

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Sienna snapped frowning. Even with medication her moods still altered and flipped on a dime in the blink of an eye. One second she was laughing and smiling, then you blink and her face has dropped and she’s giving you her best Heisenberg glare. Sienna stopped in her tracks abruptly as a thought suddenly occurred to her.

“Were you there in the hallway when Bethany and the other plastic spastics threatened to kick my ass?” she asked.

“Yes.” She replied meekly perhaps because she felt guilty that she hadn’t intervened. “But you were with Logan with morning. He was there watching too?” Sienna supposed. “Yeah.” Candice replied tentatively. “And he didn’t do anything.” Sienna mumbled to herself.
Why would he? It’s not his problem. You’re not his problem. You don’t need him anyway.
She quickly slipped in to the chemistry lab. The lab technicians were setting out the clamp stands and Bunsen burners. Sienna quickly took a seat. Candice wasn’t in her chemistry class so she silently wandered off to her class after dropping of her crazy relative. The class was soon filled with students. Mr. Blake quickly entered his eyes fixed on his wristwatch as he fiddled with it. He looked up at her for a second and looked back at his watch. Then his head snapped back up his eyes filled with happiness as he realized whom it was. She gave him her dazzling smile.

“Sienna, how are you?” he asked with those amazing piercing ocean blue eyes staring in to eyes as if he were looking deep in to her soul.

“Better.” She replied and tucked the loose strand of hair behind her ear.

“I heard about what happened. I’m so sorry Sienna.” He whispered as students bustled in behind him.

“Why are you sorry?” she asked bewildered.

“I was there with you that night. I should have taken you straight to the hospital when I first saw you in that grave.” He said clearly frustrated with himself.

“It’s not your fault. You’re probably the only one who actually helped me. You didn’t judge me either. And you’re probably the only person in all of Haven Falls that doesn’t hate me.” She sighed, grateful for al of his kindness. He gulped and took a step back away from her big entrancing adoring eyes.

“Who could hate that face, huh?” he
said charmingly and retreated to behind his desk. “Well, it is such a
pretty
face.” Logan drawled out sardonically as he sat on the stool next to her causing her to jump. Even on crutches he was silent and deadly as the night.

“What are you doing? You can’t sit here.” Sienna hissed and looked around.

“Look there’s a seat over there next to Noah. You can sit there.” She urged. She dug her nails in to her arm. “If you like that seat so much why don’t you go sit there? Oh, I forgot. You’re avoiding him.” He smirked cockily.

“I’m not avoiding him. I’m trying to avoid you. Why won’t you just leave me alone?” she whispered. The last thing she needed was for the rest of the class to suddenly tune in. She was desperately trying to get over him. That was next to impossible with Logan sitting only inches away from her every lesson of every single day! He simply ignored her and looked ahead and began tapping his fingers against the tabletop, a habit he had acquired whenever he was deep in thought.
Blake was busy looking through various worksheets unaware of the scrutiny he was under.

“Now today we’re going to do your practical assessments so I hope you all have your lab coats and safety goggles on.” Blake said as he noticed who was sitting next to Sienna. “Okay, so now we’re going to switch everybody around.” He declared. Sienna could have hugged have him if it weren’t deemed so wrong and inappropriate.

“What? But sir we’ve already got lab partners.” Said Justin Hawthorne confusedly.

“Yes, you’re right. Well, Mr. Jackson you can go and work with Mr. O Connell, seeing as you are both in need of a partner.” Blake told him with a strong level of authority in his tone.

“I’m fine with the partner I already have.” He responded smoothly as he glared at
Blake unfalteringly.

“He’s not my partner. We’re not partners.” Sienna quickly replied as she looked at Logan’s stubborn face.

“Move.” Blake stated again clearly asserting his authority. For a second there Sienna thought Logan might have done something stupid but he just smiled and complied, burying his anger. For the rest of the class, Sienna was acutely aware of how everyone paid distinct attention to every move she made. She was already known as the town nutcase and after this mornings showdown with Bethany she knew everyone was just itching for her to snap and go all Hitchcockian on their asses.

“Woman up!” she hissed to herself. She could already feel her breath hitch.  Her heart began to palpitate faster. Her hands became clammy with that familiar cold sweat. As she walked down the hallways she could feel the eyes of every unsuspecting pupil staring at her like a mad scientist to a lab rat, their eyes glazed and hungry for a reaction of some sort physical or otherwise.

‘
You’re going to lunch, not war
.
Get a grip
.
It’s all in your head
’ She thought to herself firmly. So she did. She kept her head high and her shoulders square giving off the perfect illusion that she was fine with being scrutinized by the masses and had nothing to hide. As she entered the high school cafeteria she felt heads turn and the usual hubbub of chatter and noise dulled down to a smatter of murmurs and hushed whispers.

‘It’s just in your head.” She whispered to herself as she kept her head down and joined the lunch queue. The noise in the cafeteria eventually leapt back up to its usual standard volume. She could feel the holes being burnt in to her back by the sheer force of the glares she was receiving from Bethany who sat on a table surrounded by her usual ridiculously good-looking yet thought provokingly stupid cohorts. Sienna couldn’t help but take a quick glimpse over her shoulder. Bethany had a small white plaster taped to her broken nose. She also had an icepack in her hand and glared at Sienna vituperatively as she spoke with Becca inaudibly.

“Helloooo?” she heard a voice say from behind her. She looked down and saw a short dark haired boy behind her looking at her expectantly.

“What?” she asked confusedly then quickly realized she was holding up the queue and moved on to take a sandwich, an apple and a pot of Jell-O. She took her tray and paused momentarily as she tried to figure out where to sit. She could see Rose sitting with the rest of the cheerleaders. She knew she definitely wasn’t welcome their after she had just deformed their captain’s face although Sienna knew some of the girls were very pleased that she had done so. Her brows furrowed as she noticed Candice sitting alongside them. She was clearly pretending not to have noticed her.
Thanks cuz
.

She thankfully found an empty table; unfortunately it was only a couple of tables behind Bethany’s table. She was in full earshot of their gripping conversation about her.

“You know I heard from Melanie that she was completely mute for at least a month after she had found out what she had done to Logan.” she heard Becca yap incessantly as she bit in to her blood red poison worthy apple. Sienna tried to ignore them and keep a straight face but it was hard. The things that they were coming out with were more and more ludicrous and they weren’t the only ones sprouting the infectious rumors. She could hear a couple of sophomores whom she didn’t even existed whispering about her.

“I heard that Sienna and Logan even did it in the auditorium last year whilst we were right in the middle of the play. I told you! They were at it whilst she was still with Noah!” she exclaimed and then stared at Sienna wide-eyed and red-faced before looking down immediately. Sienna couldn’t help but smirk and raise her water bottle at her before taking a sip.
Idiot
.

“I heard they made a suicide pact but when Logan wanted to back out she grabbed him and pulled him towards the train with her.” She heard the excitable redhead behind her whisper.
Okay that one hurt
. Did people really think that about her?

“Are you okay Beth?” Becca asked nervously as she squeezed her best friend’s hand.

“I’m fine. It’s that green-eyed devil that everyone should be worried about.” She hissed back loud enough for half the school to hear. Sienna merely smirked and continued to stare out of the window. She could see Mr.
Blake walking outside, just walking, and not talking to anyone. He looked completely serene and at peace. She wondered how that felt. She thought back to how he saved her that day in the graveyard. She thought back to what he had said about his wife. She wondered how she had died. She marveled at how calm and together Blake was after losing his wife, his love, and how she had collapsed and literally mentally broken down after her father’s death. She wished she had even an ounce of his strength. If she did then maybe she would believe the lies she told herself everyday that everything would work out just fine.

Her thoughts were interrupted as she saw Logan enter the hall. I was as if she sensed his presence before she even looked up. She could recognize the sound of those confident long strides anywhere. Such a strange sentiment but it was true. Sienna knew she could find him even in the midst of a storm. That’s how well she knew him and how much he stood out from the crowd to her.

He wore his varsity jacket and was confidently making his way towards Bethany’s table with his crutches under his arm until Noah came up from behind him and forcefully bumped against his shoulder and sat in Logan’s seat at the popular table. ‘
Uh oh’
Sienna thought wearily. She knew how fierce Logan’s temper could be especially if he was being provoked
.
Blake had already given him a hard time earlier. In fact Sienna had acted pretty hostile to him before.

“Come here.” Logan said in a deep low voice. The entire school was watching now.

“You talking to me?” Noah smirked cockily trying hard to give off an air of superiority and confidence. Sienna realized he was trying to emulate Logan who appeared to have come to the same conclusion as he noted the red varsity jacket Noah was donning. After Logan’s injury he was left unable to play so a spot opened up on the football team. Noah must
have somehow filled the spot.

“Yeah DeNiro, I’m talking to you.
Come here
.” Logan ordered in a rough tone that reminded her of a young Bruce Wayne. His dark eyes looked stormy, his hands were clenched in to fists and his jaw was set. Sienna’s mind started to wander again but she bought herself back to the situation at hand. Noah smiled and looked around at his fellow football teammates warily. He was not going to get any back up from any of them. They were all loyal to their former quarterback. Instead Trent and the other guys looked ahead at Logan. What the hell was this? Why were guys so damn primal? And no one was going to stop this? Noah slowly stood up, squared his shoulders and paced his way up to Logan. She could see people exchanging looks with each other and slowly taking their smartphones out from their pockets ready to upload any action on to YouTube. Sienna rolled her eyes.

“Guys, what are you doing? You’ve known each other since we were kids. You used to be friends! This is just stupid.” Sienna blurted out and stood up. Now everyone turned to look at her.
Crap
. She could feel everyone’s eyes on her. Suddenly she had forgotten what she was about to say.

“Sit down Sienna, this has nothing to do with you.” Logan said without removing his eyes from Noah.

“Oh but we both know better. It has everything to do with her.” Noah hissed staring straight in to her Logan’s brooding eyes and took a step closer to him.

“You’d better listen Sienna. I mean isn’t that what you do? Listen to what he says, he says jump and you say how high? Oh! Too soon?” He sneered facing Sienna’s shocked hurt face. She sat down.

“I mean, come on. We’re all just dying to know. You left me for
him
? And after just
one month
with him, he drove you to
suicide
. You made a great choice.” Noah spat out angrily his chest heaving with emotion. The entire cafeteria was stunned silent. They had all been thinking it but no one had outright said it. Not even Bethany was cruel enough to bring her suicide up, at least not to her face. His eyes softened as he saw the tears of hurt on her pretty face. Despite all the pain she had caused him she still had the audacity to act like the damn victim. And she played the role of the victim so well especially with those big sad green eyes. He had loved her once. Part of him still loved her and that angered him even more.

“Apologize.” Logan hissed. His eyes burned black like ashes.