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The next morning I wake and stretch. Oh god!

I have school...

Oh for fucks sake!!!

I groan in annoyance. "Schools not that bad" I hear Rebecca whisper. "I don't know how you chose to come back. Like you actually chose to return to this shithole!" I groan, my hands rubbing over my face.

I throw my hands down by my side then turn to the beautiful face beside me. "Do you think he's okay?" I whisper, placing my hand gently on her cheek.

"I think he's okay, he'll take aspirin, water and he'll be just fine." She states smiling. I nod.

"Come on now, get up" she announces removing the covers from her and jumping out of bed. "I actually have to be there, you're just coming because I'm making you and you have to learn!" She chuckles. "Blah blah blah" I roll my eyes.

"Come on darling" she says pulling my arm. "No!!! Sleep!!" I cry jokingly. "You had enough! Don't make me get Cal" she warns. I roll my eyes at her again then groan annoyed.

I get out of bed however stood too quick.

I see the stars!!!

I hear Bec chuckling to herself. "I'm fine" I say. "Go change" she states opening our joint closet.  "Here" she throws me an outfit, but I'm too tired to catch so it just hits me in the face, dropping to the floor.

"I'm going to be on the floor like that" I yawn, picking up the clothes. She rolls her eyes, "change come on, it's already 7:15, I let you sleep long enough" she casually states.

"What?! It's 7:15?! We have to be there in 45 minutes and I'm going to be another 20" I panic. "This is why we chop chop!" She claps her hand as she says 'chop chop'.

I change into my outfit, good choose Rebecca.

I brush my hair and my teeth before making my way into the kitchen. "What you want?" Calum asks while cooking his breakfast. Rebecca munches on a slice of toast."To know how you are" I say looking at him. He turns around and walks over to me.

"Honey, I'm fine. Yesterday, it... it was a one time thing. I felt myself spiralling, I just needed a distraction. That's all" he explains. I nod. "I understand, no hang over?"

"Oh yes! I just woke up to you two last night" he smirks. "Have fun" he puts his elbows on the counter and his chin on his palms. "Oh fuck off" I chuckle.

"I did!" Rebecca states lifting her hand not taking her eyes off her phone. Cal and I laugh. "Really good" I state. 'Wow' I mouth while looking at Cal. "Okay! I regret asking! But when I heard you I took a couple aspirin tablets and decided to clear my system then went back to bed" he explains. I nod.

"Now my original question was what do you want?" He asks again. "Uhh? Just pass me a couple cereal bars. I don't do breakfast" I say. He rolls his eyes and passes me a few cereal bars.

Making my way back to my room, I pack my bag, double checking I have everything I need. "Chris? You done? We're leaving!" Calum announces getting my attention.

"Yeah but do you know where my anxiety ring is?" I ask. I've been told by the doctor to think about getting one and I agreed because I need at calm down in school. "Rebecca's nightstand, in the drawer." Calum answers. Relief fills me as I don't want to panic on the first day back.

Well it's not the first day, it's just everyone's been off school for the past week. So it's weird.

I sit on the bed as I slide the ring on my finger, I stare at the wall.

What can go wrong today?

Everything...

People will talk to me.

Ew.

They're replacing Ash like he was nothing, they'll give Lilas locker away like it was just a subject.

Oh god...

I put my head in my hands. I can't do this...

"Hey...it's going to be okay" Calum gently rubs my back. "Everything will be okay..."

"But what if it's not?" I ask a tear slipped my eye. "I can't promise anything, but let's just hope everything goes top score?" Cal reassures. He gently wipes my tears. Then he takes my hand and we leave the room.

I don't want to talk about the drive to school, it was just silent. My hand shook with slight fear as I stood in front of the doors into hell.

Oops sorry.

I meant school.

I got out of the car and left Cal and Rebecca because j told them I'd be fine. But I look for Tom. "Where are you?" I panic.

I'm going to give myself whiplash with how quick I turn my head. "Hey I'm here, it's okay" Tom makes his appearance. "Oh god" I throw myself into his arms. "I can't do it..." I cry. "Yes you can. You'll be okay. We'll be okay" he states pushing me off him so I look at his face.

Without saying another word, I take his hand and we walk into school. Eyes wander over us. Chattering filling the corridors as we enter. "I can't do this" I whisper to Tom. "It's okay, let's just make it to our lockers" I nod at him.

"Hey Fags!" One of the popular guys yells at us. We quickly look up at him. He holds his hand as a gun and aims it at us. My heart breaks. My stomach turns.

"Couldn't handle school so you got your daddy to shoot you?" Someone else pipes up. I try and ignore the comments and get to my locker. I see it in the distance but somethings different.

I stand at the locker and see what's been done to Lila's locker. "Oh my god..." I painfully cry.

I gently place my hand on the picture

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I gently place my hand on the picture. I sob as I look at her, I look down. I feel eyes on me. "Oh bless her" some girls say.

"I feel bad" "Lila didn't deserve that, nor did Chris"

"I don't like her but she didn't deserve to be in this position"

People chatter nice things about me and sometimes absolute bullshit. An hand placed itself on my arm and I flinch. "It's just me" Calum's voice pipes up. "It's beautiful" he says. I turn around and sob into his chest.

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