PUBLISHING PAPERBACK (after writing the final draft, I wrote this 2 years ago.)
"I see through those silent lies of yours, Liv."
𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫, the girl who's known to be mute in school. No one knows why though, and she doesn't want anyo...
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Just as I thought today was going to be a long and painful day, I was proven right. In math we have a test, when all I want to do is have my head down. I'm the last to turn mine in because the pain makes it impossible to focus on anything. I also just don't understand half the questions.
The walk to art just makes everything worse, unfortunately Mrs. Scarlett notices and asks right away, "What's wrong, Olivia?" I shake my head as a way to say nothing. "Something is, you look like...you're in pain?"
I grab a paper, just a headache, I write. She's hesitant when she nods and lets me go to my desk. Since I said I have a headache she doesn't bother me like other teachers would when I have my head down all of class.
She stops me before I can walk out of class when the bell rings, though.
"Teachers aren't really allowed to do this, but I have some ibuprofen in my purse, the nurses would just tell you to rest for a few or else I'd send you there." She waits until we're the only two left in the classroom before getting the pill bottle. I let her give them to me even though I don't want her to, but I need something.
She hands me a water and I take the pills, hoping they kick in soon. We're both surprised when I give her a hug, my way to thank her because she just helped so much without even knowing it. It's new too because the only person I hug is Divine. But just like Divines hugs, she feels safe, something I'm not used to feeling.
I don't want to pull away from the hug but she has another class starting to come in.
At lunch I sit at mine and Divine's table as always, and when she gets to lunch she lays her head down just like mine, facing me.
"You okay?" I nod. "Sure...what's wrong?" I point to my head, my signal for a headache. "You always have headaches." She frowns and sits back up, opening her lunch. I always apparently have headaches because that's my lie when her or Mrs. Scarlett can tell when something is wrong. Although I'm not always lying about having a headache.
She pushes her whole sandwich towards me and I narrow my eyes. "Have you eaten today?" I shrug. "Eat, maybe it'll help." I shake my head and push it back, but then she pushes it back again, then so do I, and it continues for five whole minutes before she sighs and accepts it back. But she still makes me eat her grapes.
When the bell ring she hugs me as she always does, I wince a little this time but she doesn't notice thankfully. I walk to my locker, getting everything for my last two classes. When I sit in my seat in English I sigh in annoyance, the pills have done absolutely nothing for me so far.
I nearly fall asleep in English a few times, pain becoming unbearable. When I walk into physics I roll my eyes when Adrian is in the seat next to mine, again. I just want to sleep this class and not get woken up by a teacher, he better not talk to me.
"Not happy to see me?" I shake my head as I sit, him acting like he's offended from my bluntness, his dark brown how falling around his face. "That's quite rude, because I'm happy to see you," I give him a thumbs up. "How has your day been, Liv?" He pushes his notebook to me.
