Battered and Bruised.

January: entry 3

I calmly walked my way up Hana and Liz's door, knocked our secret knock, and she invited me in. Hana and Liz live alone, they moved out this year, and have been doing pretty good. "Hey, J.J." Hana said, her blue eyes sparkling. "Hey hanhan!" I replied, we always did that, made up nicknames off of pure jibberish. Cate was sitting on the leather couch, laughing with Liz about a joke she must have just made. "Oh my god, J, you should have SEEN how Chase was looking at you today in math!" Cate gushed. "He was soooo head over heels for you!" she squeaked. Cate is basically your stereotypical teenage girl, squeaking and squealing, giggling and shopping. "why is it that every time there's a cute guy, he like, gravitates to you?!" she asked. "I don't know, ask Jesus." I said, the girls laughed, I started giggling. "Did you hear? Alice is still talking smack about you!" I rolled my eyes at Liz's statement. "When will she ever realize she doesn't have a life?" I asked, annoyed. "I know right. All she ever does is gossip. I mean, last year it was Janis Murphy, now it's you. It was so tragic, how it all ended." Hana said. I cringed, I remembered seeing the news...

~flash back~

"A tragedy hit us today, the life of Janis Murphy was lost, taken by herself." I heard the reporter say, standing in front of a cliff. "It was taken right here, in front of Jesserburgh ridge canyon." he said, plastering a fake smile. Tears slipped through my eyes. "Parents say she was bullied to no end, no names were released of the bully, but she posted things on FaceBook and Instagram, even had friends make a hate page about her on both social networking sites. More details later tonight at eight, back to you, Margret." he said. I lost it that night, she didn't deserve that, it broke my heart.

~end flash back~

"Yeah..." I said. "Hey J, can you grab me my soda, its right next to you on the end table." I looked to my left and grabbed the Pepsi. "Thanks!" Cate said. "Hey, remember how Chase wanted to look at your arm? wasn't that like, really scary? He was all intimidating and stuff..." Cate trailed off, it really was scary though. "But he IS really cute!" she gushed, I hit her arm. "No he isn't! he's a d-bag!" I said, remembering the nicknames "sweet cheeks" and on one account he called me "babe." ugh, guys are such jerks sometimes. "Well too bad! he'll be here any minute!" Liz said, it was true, as if on target, the doorbell rang. "Hey, Chase!" Hana said as she opened the door, I slowly facepalmed. ughhh. "Hey Beautiful." he said to me as he sat right next to me. great. "Hi." I said bitterly. "So you gonna show me that arm or not?" he said, smirking. "No." I said shortly. "Why?" he asked. "I don't want to." I stayed short. "C'mon, do you like, cut or something?" he said laughing. that was no laughing matter. I got mad. "Some people actually DO cut, you dumb!" I almost shouted it, I remembered Janis, she cut, she only trusted me, I tried stopping her, it failed. "Well, little miss feisty." he said. I looked at him, if looks would kill, he'd be dead sprawled across the floor in seconds. "So, what were we all talking about?" He asked, smiling again. "We WERE talking about a girl we knew." Hana and Liz said at the same time, almost the exact same time and voice. "Woah, do you have like, twinokonesis?" he asked. I grinned at his stupidity. The two have done that since they were little. "Hey look, I made the rotten queen smile!" Chase said. Wow. Just wow. "So, let's start talking." we told him about Janis, he soon understood why I freaked out about cutting. A tear slipped, it didn't go unnoticed by the others. "Why are you crying? its not like she was your best friend on earth." Cate replied bitterly, she's so over-owning with friends. Janis was a good friend, she came camping with me one year. we laughed by the fire and told stories about ourselves. That was the last year I saw her. I felt big arms wrap around me, Chase. I pushed him off, annoyed with him. "Can't you just quit shutting me out?" Chase asked. I couldn't stand guys, especially the ones that were full of themselves "Mr.badass, hotshot, Mr.I own everything". "No." I stated. shoving a bit of my thick brown hair out of my face. "Come on J, he's just trying to be nice." Hana said. Wow, she's only known the guy for a day and she's already taking his side.