Bullied

Chapter 6

Camilas pov

I see Lauren at her locker when it's lunch, I go over to her and put my hand on her shoulder she quickly moves away and looks at me.

"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you" I say, she nods

"It's fine" she said, I smile and nod

"Me and the others are going to get food off campus, it's shit food today" I say, she nods

"Have fun" she said, I chuckle

"Do you want to come?" I ask, Lauren looks at me to see if I was joking and I wasn't

"Why?" Lauren asked, i shrug

"I want my new friend to come for food with me" I say smiling, she frowns

"I don't drive so I can't" she said and goes back to putting stuff away in her locker

"Well I do, so I'll give you a ride there and back" I say, she looks at her book in her hand it was a new one.

"I'll just read" i frown

"Lauren, come on It'll be fun, plus we'll be back on time so you don't have to worry about that, you won't get into trouble" i say, then Dinah came over.

"Ready mila? Hey lauren" Dinah said, Lauren smiles and whispers a 'hey' and I look at her.

"Please, I don't want you to be here and just read, that's boring" I say, Lauren frowns

"I like reading" she said, I smile and take her hand

"You're coming" I say, she looks at our hands and pulls hers back

"Fine" she mumbled, I smile and we go to my car

Lauren comes in mine and I drove to a pizza place, Lauren was reading her book on the way there. When we got there i got out and opened her door, she grabs her bag putting her book in and we go into the place.

We sit at a booth big enough for us all but we all had to be cramped in Lauren didn't seem to mind us being so close together, so I didn't say anything about it.

When we got menus we had to share that's when she seemed to be uncomfortable, I look at her as she was looking down at her hands.

"I'm sorry about how close we have to be" I whisper, she nods softly

"If I wasn't here you all wouldn't be so cramped" she mumbled, I frown

"Lauren, it's fine seriously I want you here" I whisper, she frowns

"Why?" She asked, I look at her with a frown

"Because you're my new friend" I whisper

"Why do you even want me to be your friend? You're you and I'm me" she mumbled

"What's that meant to mean?" I ask, she sighed

"You know exactly what it's meant to mean, I only here because you pity me and I told you I don't want your pity" she whisper, I shook my head.

"Lauren, this isn't out of pity we have a lot in common, you're my friend" I whisper, she sighed.

"I'm just going to walk back to school" she mumbled, I pull her back down as she got up

"No, this isn't out of pity or anything Lauren, please just sit down and eat with us" I say, they all look at her and she seemed extremely uncomfortable, then I realised what I was doing.

"Do you feel forced to be here?" I ask, she looks at me and I knew she did even though she shook her head.

"I didn't mean to make you feel like you had to come, you could of said no" I say, she sighed

"I'm just going to go" she mumbled, I get up and walk after her

"Lauren" I say as we were out side, she looks at me

"Im sorry, I just...I know you're bullied and I wanted you to feel like you had a friend who you could talk too, it's not out of pity or anything I just, you were so upset and I hated it and I just I wanted to help...I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable I wanted you to feel included and have a friend" I say, she looks away.

"You didn't have too" she said, I nod

"I wanted too, Lauren" I say, she looks at me

"You're a really nice person, camila but I don't need friends" Lauren said, I nod

"I know but I wanted to help" I say, she nods

"I don't need help" she said, I nod

"I'm not saying you do, you were just so upset-" she cuts me off

"It was really nice seriously, I just don't want a friend out of pity" she said, I sigh

"I'm not a pity friend!" I say, she looks at me Away from the floor.

"I'm not, I'm trying to be a true friend Lauren, we have so much in common it's not like I'm pretending, maybe at first it was a bit of pity but it's not no more I'm trying to get to know you, have fun with you, please just let me be your friend" I say, she looks away.

"But your other friends, I don't think they like me" she said, I walk closer

"Just let them get to know you, you don't have to be so shy they're not going to be mean or anything Lauren, just come sit down have some pizza and let us all get to know you" i say, she nods softly.

"Okay" she whispers, I smile

"Great, come on" I say, we go in and order our pizza

Lauren opened up a little bit not a lot but we all got to know a bit about her, Lauren got to know the others and I a little more and it was great fun, I drove Lauren back to school and didn't see her for the rest of the day, but it was better than the last time I saw her she actually knows I want to be her friend now and I do, I'm not a pity friend.