Monsters Within

Chapter 10

As Cole puts his hand up under his chin, I see his sleeve fall down, and what it was covering. The cuts on his wrist are shallow and small, but noticeable. I suddenly feel awful as I realize I was probably the cause. My head spins as I turn to Nadia.

"You see them too right?" I ask.

"What?" She replies.

"Cole's wrists." I say simply. She looks over and her eyes widen a bit.

"What happened, I thought you two were doing well?"

I then begin to explain about not wanting him hurt. And, by the end I am quietly crying. It's weird for me to worry about someone because, with Nadia, sure she's my friend but she is a little shy, so she never really could do anything about the people who bullied me. This means that she was never in harms way, like Cole, so it was easy for me to stay friends with her.

My tears make my eyes hurt and as we go to our last class, Nadia gives me a hug and says she hopes I feel better. Then, we walk away toward our classes. And, that's when I start to think. I realize that if I cut, just a bit, Cole will stop, knowing why I did it, because he doesn't want to see me hurt.

I am still crying, although it has stopped a bit when Gale comes over, interrupting my train of thought. He seems a bit apprehensive to come talk to me, maybe he's sorry for what he did a while ago. When I look up again he is standing beside my desk.

"What's wrong Kay?" He asks, and I think he is actually worried. But, I don't answer. "Look, if your still mad about me trying to kiss you, I'm really sorry, I don't know what I was doing. I just really like you." I can tell he is truly sorry, and he seems to mean what he says. Still crying my mind is fuzzy, like the tears I have made have clogged up my senses. And when I see him bent down to look at my face I break.

I look into his green eyes and practically attack him with a hug. He embraces me in his warm arms while I start to sob. I can imagine all the stares I am getting but I don't care. Every now and then a person comes to see what's wrong and Gale shoos them away. (She's just not feeling good. Or, She just needs some time.) And, I can't express how thankful I am for that.

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Gale walked me home and I held onto his arm like my life depended on it. I had stopped crying a while ago, and now tell him to just go because if my parents see him I'll be in trouble. He obeys, and quietly leaves me saying only goodbye, although his eyes say he just hopes I feel better.