4. Chapter 4 (1/2)

chapter

four

two can keep a secret,

if one doesn't tell

glitch walked outside with his bag and saw rachel standing on the sidewalk with three bags next to her. one of them was hers, but glitch didn't know where the other bags came from; although they looked familiar. he noticed that she was talking to lil' t about something while waiting for her sister.

taye pulled up in her car, and lil' t got inside after saying goodbye to rachel for the day. rachel waved as they drove off.

glitch walked over to rachel and stood with her.

"hey?" glitch greeted her with a smile.

rachel turned around to see him standing on her left hand side.

"hey?" rachel responded back with a smile.

"are you okay?" glitch asked her.

"yeah, i'm fine." rachel knew that glitch was asking that after what happened in class earlier. "and thanks for standing up to the glitterati twins for me. lil' t told me all about what you did when i left the room."

"no problem, that's what friends are for." glitch responded back with a smile.

rachel smiled. "so you're waiting on mo?" she asked him.

"nah, my sister's giving me a raid home." glitch was referring to dare.

dare wasn't really his sister, she was adopted two years before his parents

ought him into this world.

jaryn and kerith pulled up in jaryn's car. jaryn stopped when she saw rachel and unlocked the door for her. rachel opened the car to put their bags in the back seat of their car. she was about to get inside of jaryn stopped her.

"rachel, just because you're living with us doesn't mean we have to let you in our cars; you can walk." jaryn said to her.

kerith closed the door to the back seat, and jaryn drove off.

"she's lucky no one decides to flatten the tires on her

oom when she's nowhere near it." glitch commented.

rachel smiled a little bit. "it's a good thing i didn't put my bag in her car in order to avoid that." she took that as a good thing just in case they tried to do something to her stuff when she wasn't looking.

"so what was all that about with the glitterati twins anyway?" glitch asked her.

rachel took a deep

eathe before she spoke. "i've been living with them over the pass few days." she began.

"why?" glitch thought that was weird.

"my parents and maccoy passed away that night of the talent show he had a while ago over the summer; it was a car accident." rachel

iefly filled him in. "they got hit as they were

inging the car around to pick me up. i was suppose to stay with patricia, but i got taken to their house; and it's not exactly what i would call a functional environment."

"oh, i'm sorry to hear that." glitch felt bad for her.

"don't worry about it, patricia's working on a way to fix it so i can get out and go live with her." rachel explained.

glitch wished there was a way he could help rachel deal with the situation so she could get out of there fast. he secretly promised not to tell anyone about it just in case the situation was something rachel wanted to keep to herself for a while since it's still a little fresh and new to her.

dare pulled up in her white four door escalade in front of the building. there was a lady gaga song playing on the radio in the car. dare was a big fan of lady gaga.

"am i interrupting something?" dare asked with a smirk. she always made a joke like that when she saw glitch hanging out with one of the girls.

"no, rachel and i were just talking and-" glitch began to explain.

"need a raid, rachel?" dare asked her.

"oh, no, that's alright; i have to stop somewhere before i get home." rachel said.

"don't worry, it's on the way." dare assured her.

"yeah, we'll even go with you." glitch hoped that would convince rachel to take them up on their offer.

"um….i guess that's okay if you two don't mind." rachel decided to get a raid so she wouldn't have to walk home.

rachel and glitch got in the backseat of the car and closed the car door. dare took off after making sure they were seat belted.

"so how have you been, rachel?" dare asked her.

"i've been good, for the most part." rachel wasn't sure if she should tell dare any of what was going on.

glitch didn't say anything about it just to be safe.

dare kept her eyes on the road as rachel gave her directions as to where to go and when to turn.

when they got to a stop light they saw the glitterati twins in the car on their right hand side. rachel ducked down so they wouldn't see her in the car with dare and glitch. it was the last thing she wanted to happen at this rate along with everything else that was happening within a short period of time. she only sled down in her seat in order to keep it from causing any sort of attention from glitch or dare. but glitch noticed because he was sitting right next to her.

glitch's intentions were set to make sure she was okay.

the glitterati twins were also blasting a lady gaga song from their car radio, and jaryn was singing along to it while kerith sat there in the passenger looking at his phone and drinking a soda. dare looked to her left and saw them sitting there; she wasn't phased by either of them.

they could hear their conversation from their car over the music.

"i wonder if she even got home yet." kerith said.

rachel knew they were talking about her when he said those words.

"i'm sure she did, if she didn't decide to stop somewhere to hang out with a friend of hers." jaryn responded back. "i wouldn't be surprised if she was hanging out with little glitch. leave it to him and lil' t to hang out with a nobody like rachel."

glitch heard them say that too, and he thought it was kind of rude.

"i would say to call her, but it would embarrass her." kerith suggested. "we don't want her to lose the only two people willing to be her friends."

"i think that's a good idea." jaryn was for that.

glitch and rachel looked at each other.

"i got an idea; hand me your phone." glitch said to rachel.