Forever and Always

seven

I spent the entire weekend and Monday and Tuesday sitting in my very comfortable bed, sleeping off my concussion. No idea if you can even do that but I am doing that.

Atlas hasn't really talked to me since I made the comment about Cammie. I felt slightly bad but not really.

Lilah called and we talked all about what happened during last week. Including my drunk night out.

"Look, she's back from the dead!" Raygan yells to me from our seat together in AP Calc. She and Elena had come to my room everyday to update me on my homework. I really appreciated it.

"I didn't die you idiot," I slapped her on the head with my notebook.

"You were basically dead." She said in a flat tone.

The teacher smiled at me as a welcome back sign and I smiled back lightly. Luckily, I was good at math so I didn't exactly need a ton of help during my days off.

I struggled a lot with Spanish, but Raygan called her sister to help me with my homework since her sisters husband speaks fluent Spanish. Thank the gods for them honestly.

"How're you feeling?" Raygan turned to me after we both finished the assignment of the day, packing up our things ready to leave.

"My head hurts worse than any hangover but Atlas forces me to take pain meds every night."

I had stupid Spanish 4 after this class and we had a quiz. Of course the day I come back we have a quiz. So here I was in math class cramming for the last quiz before I ultimately kill myself.

Rylans husband did help a lot actually, he was super nice when i didn't know things bad explained why things were what they were. Apparently he had taken Spanish in high school even though he was already fluent.

Raygan and I left the class right when the bell rang, if there was something I hated more than Spanish, it was staying in math any longer than necessary.

"Hey girlies!" Cammie came skipping up to us as we made our way to the electives building. "How's your head, Elli?"

"Getting shittier by the minute," I recall my conversation with Charlie where I said the exact same thing. We had texted a few times since I saw him but I was too scared to ask for a date and he never did.

"Well, hope you feel better, Atlas hates that you stay in the room all day. It means no time for me," she says in a weirdly soft voice. I hated every word of those sentences.

Earth, I know I'm not the nicest and I'm a horrible person, but please do me the favor of ending my life.

Cammie skipped off, probably to go find Atlas or her little minions friends. If possible, they were worse than her.

"Raygan, please tell me that school here gets easier as the year goes on,"

"We're week 2, Elliot, it's not hard yet," she laughs at my dramatic tone.

"Week 2 is supposed to be easy?!" I'm a tad over dramatic. But Raygan will have to live with it if we were going to stay friends.

Bo came running up next to us, slinging his arm around me in a comforting way. "Hello to two of the three most beautiful people at this school. The third is Elena,"

"Hey Bo, Elliot here just came back to school," Raygan talked about me like I wasn't there. I was there. Not spiritually. But physically.

"Atlas was getting sick of you just laying in your bed all day without pants on, so I bet he's glad you're back," Bo says with a laugh.