a grand army story
it all started with a little art history
after everything joey went through at her old high school she tried to stay as invisible as one can be in a situation so complicated but she fails, after getting paired up with malakai ev...
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when i enter the school i take my hoodie off and stuff it into my dark backpack
i hear the first bell ring letting me know my first class starts after about ten minutes
michelle's not felling too well so she texted me last night telling me she won't come to school so im already trying to find joey
it's been a few weeks and the three of us have gotten quite close. oh and if your wondering the presentation that caused all of us to start hanging out went great.
i look through the crowds of teenagers at their lockers trying to find joey with my eyes. i bring the brown coffee cup up to my mouth taking a little sip and sighing, satisfied at the taste of the black coffee i ordered earlier to warm up my body and it surely was working
in my other hand im holding the cup i got for joey. apparently she's a usual customer at the small coffee shop near the school so the barista already knew her order
with about six minutes to my next class i spot joey next to her locker, leaning her head on the metal door with her eyes closed and her eyebrows furrowed a bit
my smile drops to a frown. you could almost feel the nervousness she was experiencing
i walk up to her slowly and place my hand on her shoulder, lightly rubbing it
"hey joey, everything okay?" that seems to snap her out of where ever she was mentally and she just turns to me quickly putting on a soft smile
"oh yeah totally" she says sounding a bit unsure
"you sure about that? you know im always here for you right?" i ask again, just to make sure
she nods a bit, noticing the brown cup in my left hand and changing the subject
"oh you actually got me the coffee, thank you so much" she says her eyes brightening as i give her the warm cup
i roll my eyes playfully at her previous statement "of course i got you the coffee" she just rolls her eyes back at me
"alright alright let's get going or where gonna miss our classes" she says before motioning to the hallways with her head i just follow her til it's time for us to part our way to our separate classes she starts waking to her and i call out a quite loud see you later
i haven't seen joey since then. now it's about lunch time and it's usually like this but sometimes id catch her in the hallways on her phone or walking to her next class. and with the way she was this morning im a bit worried
i walk into the cafeteria expecting to see her at our usual table but when i can't find her i take a sharp turn out of the big room filled with loud teens and head to one of the bigger girl bathrooms on the top floor of school. it's at the far corner of the 5th floor so no one usually goes there. well no one except us i guess. it's become kind of like a safe place for us
michelle showed it to me when she was giving me her "official student tour" with that i mean she was showing me all the spots teens would go to and hide from the teachers and hall motinors
i open the wooden door that has a small window and walk into the bathroom that's much bigger then the rest of the bathrooms in the school
a few what years ago when the school had a renovation this bathroom was never changed because most of the classrooms on this floor weren't being used so the green floor and wall tile stick out from the usually white bathroom tiles
but near the window, sitting on the dirty green tiles i see the girl who has grown on me faster then anyone else in the little time i've known her
and it breaks my heart seeing her like that, with her head in her hands and her left leg fidgeting. seeing as she hasn't lifted her head of stopped her movement i assume she hasn't heard me walk in yet. so i slowly make my way to her and slide down next to her
she lifted her head up slightly and i see the worried expression on her face and i see her bringing her hang up to her mouth and starting to bite her nails
i softly take her hand away and intertwine our hands. she snaps her head to me and i see her eyes fill with tears
"come here" i whisper softly, while opening my arms, telling joey to come in for a hug. she quickly takes me up on my offer and a few seconds later i feel my school uniform shirt getting wet with her tears
we sit in silence for a few minutes. with joey just hugging me tighter once in a while and me massaging her scalp. after a few minutes i feel her pull back slightly so i back up and take her hand in mine again
"do you want to talk about it?" i ask, not wanting to make her uncomfortable. she sighs quietly and nods her heard a bit
"yeah i guess" she sniffles a bit but continues "it's a hard topic i guess but telling someone would help" she finished and i squeeze her hand a bit trying to comfort her a bit
"im here listen okay? please know that im always here for you" she looks to the ground but starts telling me everything, from the beginning
after she told me everything i was feeling a lot of emotions. sadness, anger, the want to protect and comfort her forever, guilt for not knowing how much she's been through and too many other ones to even recognize them. all i wanted to do was comfort her and make all of her so called friends pay for what they did. and hearing that she can't press charges hurt even more because those fucker won't pay for the pain and trauma they caused.
after a while of silence she speaks up again and what she says throws me a bit off guard
"i asked to meet them again" she says quietly and i quickly snap my eyes to hers
"a part of me just wants to see them suffer, see them go through what they put me through. that part just want's to make those mother fuckers pay for what they did to me but then there's a part of me who just wants them to apologise and understand what they did. you know? like i want them to say how fucking sorry they are" she rants, i get what she means. wanting for them to suffer is what anyone would want but hearing the apology would make coping easier in a way
"if that's what brings you closure then we should definitely go"
"we?" she questions
"well you don't actually expect me to let you go alone do you? you can talk to them but im coming just in case i need to put them in their place"
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an
sorry this took so long i just have absolutely no motivation. at first i wanted to make this chapter longer as as an apology but that was taking too long so hopefully ill finish the next part soon enough
