Alone

Chapter 6

TW* some cussing

I heard someone say something as I groaned and rolled over to the other side of the bed. "Come on, get up!" I heard my mom yell as she pulled the blanket off of me. I sat up, " hey give it back" I groaned as I laid back down. "No you need to get up, Alex is downstairs waiting for you!" My mom said and she sounded annoyed. "What?" I quickly sat up. "Why's she here?" I asked as I got out of bed an took my blanket from my mom. "To take you to school,now hurry up and get dressed." My mom walked out and shut the door.

School, I didn't wanna go back. But Alex was here maybe she could help. If I just stay away from Nate and Amelia maybe I could make it through the day without a confrontation. Even if they did do something it couldn't be as bad as yesterday. I threw the blanket on my bed went over to my closet. I looked through my clothes and found a dark blue t shirt and some black ripped jeans. I took them off of the hanger and threw the hangers in the closet floor. I changed into the day clothes and went across the hall to the bathroom. I closed the door and began to style my messy hair as I looked in the mirror. My hand touched the cut and I felt that a scab had formed over it. That was good it meant it was healing.

I styled my hair so that it was all poofy and covered up the scab then smiled at myself in the mirror. "Lily!" I jumped as I heard someone calling my name from downstairs. "I'm coming, I'm coming!" I yelled as I ran out of the bathroom and grabbed my bookbag from my room. I swung it onto my back and ran down the stairs. I saw Alex stand up from where she sat on the couch as I got to the bottom of the stairs. She was wearing a black zip up hoodie and a pair of blue skinny jeans. She looked good. "Hey" she said as she walked up to me and held out her hand for me to hold. I flinched as she moved her hands toward me, thinking that for some reason she was gonna hit me. But no she just waited until I grabbed her hand and smiled at her. We walked over to the door and she let go of my hand to open it for me. "Thanks" I mumbled. "Oh and bye mom!" I yelled as I shut the door.

I climbed into Alex's car as she went around to the drivers side and started it. I strapped in and she pulled out of the driveway. "So when did you leave yesterday?" I wanted to know. "Well my dad wanted me to babysit my little brother about a half hour after you fell asleep but I had fell asleep too so I left around like eight" She told me. Oh wow she was at my house for a while, not that I had a problem with it. I liked her a lot but I wasn't sure if she liked me.

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I climbed out of the car and grabbed my bookbag from under the seat. I had accidentally kicked it under there but I didn't feel like getting it before we got to my school. Alex walked around the car and I heard it lock as we walked towards the school. I heard Alex mumbled something under her breath that sounds something like I'm gonna beat that homophobic piece of,well you know. But I didn't say anything about it. She must have been talking about nate. "Hey so I was wondering if you could pick me up later and then we could go see a movie or something?" I said as we got to the door. " Yes that'd be nice." she smiled at me and opened the door and walked in with me. "I'll see you later" she said then leaned over and kissed my cheek before she left. I blushed and headed down the hall towards my locker. I smiled to myself as I unlocked it, ignoring all the stares. She kissed me,well it wasn't a real kiss but it meant something. I grabbed my stuff out of my locker then shut it, only to see nate towering over me. He looked angry, but why? I didn't do anything to him. He stepped toward me and I flinched. "Please don't, it just stopped bleeding!" I cried. He stopped and his eyes widened and he looked surprised for a split second before regaining his angry facial expression. "What are you talking about?" He demanded as he leaned towards me. I stepped away from him, "y-yesterday when y-you shoved me against the locker it cut my head and made me b-bleed a lot" I stuttered. His eyes widened again and he looked scared. I heard him mumble  "dang it you fucking idiot" under his breath before he looked at me angrily. His eyes looked sad but he tried to look angry. He stared at me for a second the turned around and walked off. Huh that was a little weird. I guess he didn't know that he really hurt me. I sighed, I was just happy he didn't do anything.
I kept thinking about Alex as I walked to class and why nate looked so angry, he's probably going through some stuff. Even if he was though that didn't give him the right to bully people.