Bad Reputation
Word count: 1197
No warnings. Just fluff.
It's a late night and I'm currently hanging out with Jackson Fields captain of the football team. I'm a sophomore and he's a senior and I want to gain my social status so I've been trying to get cool with my upper classmates. "You want a beer?" He asks as he turns his head towards me. I nod even though I hate beer but I'd figured it wouldn't hurt. He leaves and comes back with a 6 pack before giving one to me. I opened my and take a sip cringing at the taste. I try to get over it as we watched the movie. An hour later I'm on my third beer and being to feel really tipsy. I'm not drunk yet but one more beer and I'll be there.
"You want to do something fun?" He smirks.
"Mm sure, like what?" I ask kind of nervous.
"I got this new camera and I've been dying to test it out. You wanna be my model." I sigh in relief that it wasn't anything sexual.
"Okay, why not?" He grabs his camera and takes a few pictures of me while I pose.
"You look great, but I think these could be sexier? Take your dress off for me?" He smiles and I didn't think it was a good idea but the liquor in my system disagreed. I take off my dress leaving me in my lace bra and thong
"No one is going to see these right?"
"No of course not."
"Promise?" I ask for reassurance.
"Promise," He says and I hope I can trust him. He takes more and after a few minutes, he puts his camera away while I put my dress back on.
"You're gorgeous babe. Such a shame no one else knows but me," He grins. I smile at his compliment feeling like I finally won him over and hopefully will gain my status. He walks me home since I don't live far from him and I go straight to bed.
a few days later...
I wake up and check my Twitter. I see my notifications are through the roof. There are multiple people mentioning me and calling me a slut. What is going on? I look more into it and I'm paralyzed when I see the pictures of me in my underwear. He told me that he wouldn't share them with anyone let alone the whole world. I fall down to the ground and cry because I feel completely stupid for trusting him and for letting him manipulate me like that. This is what I get for wanting to be popular. I weep for hours and don't move from my spot on the ground. My parents left for work before I woke up so they won't know I didn't go to school today until they come home. I couldn't attend school after this, I can't even imagine what they'll say to my face considering nothing positive has been said so far. I finally cry myself out and go back to bed. The next day, I tell my mother I'm sick so I don't have to attend school again, I want to avoid this for as long as I can.
Sadly the third day, she made me go because she didn't want me to have too many absences. I reported the pictures when I first saw them but it doesn't matter because so many saw them probably even saved them. This can't simply be erased from everyone's mind. I sigh, pulling on a black hoodie and leggings not really in the mood to doll up. I want to try to stay under the radar. I get to school early so I can get to class without really anyone noticing me since a lot of people like to talk in the mornings. A few people give me looks and point at me while the gossip but I try my best to ignore them. I'm the first one in my health class and I sit in the back since we don't have assigned seats. A few minutes later I noticed a tall guy, Shawn sit next to me. He doesn't give me any dirty looks or teases me like some people were in the hallways.
"Hey, you're Y/N right?" He smiles and I nod. "I'm Shawn." I give him a quiet hey back. Does he know about the pictures and is being nice out of pity or does he genuinely not know. I mean he has to right? Practically the whole school does and if they don't it's still spreading.
The class fills up and I can feel people give quick looks back at me while the teacher spoke. I almost wanted to yell "stop staring at me" but that would only draw more attention to me. After 3 more classes, it was lunch and I decided to eat near the parking lot to avoid the constant bullying. I eat my sandwich and I didn't even notice I was crying until he pointed it out.
"Why are you crying beautiful?" He says sitting next to me and wipes my tear.
"People keep calling me things I'm not because of one stupid mistake," I sniff.
"What Jackson did was wrong. He told me and some of the guys that after you drank a little you went crazy and wanted to take some nudes with his professional camera. I knew it was absolute bullshit. You were drunk and he manipulated you. I'm sorry about that."
"Why are you apologizing, he's the dick. I just wish I never talked to him in the first place," I sighed.
"Why were you hanging out with me anyways, a beautiful girl like you should waste your time with assholes like him."
"I wanted to gain some popularity but that seems so stupid now that I think about it."
"It is stupid you don't need to get guys like his attention to be popular. A girl like you can be a star in a dump like this if you just be yourself."
"Easy for you to say 'captain of soccer team and star of the school choir'. I'm just average and wanted to be noticed for once," I tell him.
"Well, I noticed you even before all this went down. Just too scared to talk to you."
"What? Why?" I say shocked.
"Because a pretty girl like you makes me nervous." I was about to say something but the bell rings meaning lunch has ended. "Anyways I just wanted to say, don't let these idiots get to you, they can't see the amazing person you are. They only wish to look as great as you do with just a hoodie and no makeup," He says with a grin before getting up. Why haven't I talked to this amazing and extremely handsome guy before? Shawn was about to walk away but I stop him.
"Uh, Shawn?" I call him and he turns around.
"Hm?"
"Thank you," I say and smile for the first time in days.
"No problem beautiful, see ya later," he winks before going back inside.
I feel much better now knowing I still had one friend in this school.
















