Meet Luciana (Lucie) , full name Luciana May Mendez, born into a pretty broken family, all her parents wanted to do was drink booze and do drugs, having a kid was a burden to them both. The little girl didn't speak a word, she was always made to fee...
Trigger warning, contains scenes about self harm, skip this chapter if this is too much for you, I don't want to be the cause of anyone relapsing. One more thing before I begin, if nobody has told you today, your beautiful and loved, keep your head held high.
Luciana was now 13 years old and is starting 8th grade today, she isn't looking forward to it, she had been getting bullied again, ever since she went back. She had already endured 2 and a 1/5 years worth of bullying, she hadn't told her mom and tried to act like everything was alright. But it was far from alright, the bullying wasn't just verbal or mental anymore, it was physical and had been since she first went back to school after the fire and loosing her best friend.
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Lucie had gotten into a bad way, a way she never wanted her mom to know, she had been self harming using a sharpener blade. She didn't want to make her mom upset or cause anymore problems for her, as far as Lucie was concerned, Hailey had enough to deal with, she had a hard job and cases needing to be cracked, she couldnt afford to worry about her all the time.
"Oh, look if it isn't the loner" one of the bullies said to her minions as they walked towards Lucie who was by her locker, "please just leave me alone Becky" Lucie pleaded, Becky and her two friends Poppy and Tiffany laughed. Becky then shoved Lucie towards the locker, causing Luciana to hurt her back slightly, then the spiteful bully punched her in the stomach as she insulted her "why are you even here, just kill yourself already, nobody loves you".
Lucie looked up slightly and snapped back "that's not true, my mom loves me, and loads more people at 21",the bitchy trio all start laughing. Becky pins her victim to the locker and whispers in her ear "she don't love you, she can't wait till you die, your just a burden, she just puts up with you for her reputation, nobody at that stupid district care about you, your just unloved and always will be".
Before the bully and her two 'sheep' follow Becky makes sure to punch Lucie one more time in the ribs, and extra hard. The young girl had a moment to herself before she finally got the courage to go to her class, she had the same subjects as the bullies so she was never able to escape them. What made it worse, is because they were popular, everyone in the school joined in or laughed with them because they didn't want to be the ones getting bullied.
At the end of the day, Lucie was fed up and couldn't wait to go home, and get away from these horrible teens. She didn't waste anytime in running home, Hailey didn't pick her up anymore, she was trusted to either go home or go the district after school, she just had to text or call her mom where she was going to be or where she already was.
On the way there though, she happened to bump into Becky yet again, Becky snickered when she saw Lucie in a rush to get home "I hope that's you rushing to get back so you can kill yourself, I'll even give you a rope". Lucie tried to walk past and ignore her but Becky grabbed her arm and pulled her into a alley way, where her minions were waiting.
The bully then looked at the girl in a evil way as she said "we gotta give you your beating, after all, it's what you deserve, oh and before I forget, one way or another you are gonna die, you do it, or we will, simple as that", Becky then punched and kicked her as her two friends held Lucie back. She was practically falling to the ground of it wasn't for the two girls keeping her up. Every impact the fist of foot made, felt like murder.
When the trio were pleased with the result they then left, leaving Lucie laying in the alleyway, bruised and bloody, tears streaming down her face. She couldnt take it anymore, she just wanted it to stop, but she knew that wasn't going to happen, she pushed herself to get up of the ground. And she limped all the way home, when she arrived she went straight to her bedroom.
She went to her pen pot picked it up and grabbed the blade that was underneath it, well taped to the bottom anyway. She then sat on her bed, she took of her jacket which revealed all her other scars and cuts on her arms. She didn't waste anytime in placing the jaggered edge of the blade on her skin and cutting, they were deeper than normal. The young girl lay back on her bed, closed her eyes as she cried and let her arms bleed.
The next thing she knew she found herself waking up in the hospital, she panicked as she woke up and looked around the room and instantly started to cry. But she then found herself in her mom's arms, "sshh, sshh its alright sweetheart, I've got you, its okay" Hailey said as she comforted her daughter. Lucie then looked at her mom and sobbed "sorry mom, I'm sorry", Hailey nodded her head and kissed her crying girl on the forehead.
After about half an hour Hailey then looked at her daughter and asked with concern "what happened pumpkin? Please talk to me, I want to help", Lucie looked down and hesitated but sobbed back "promise you won't be angry". Hailey then felt her heart breaking as she reassured the girl "sweetheart, no why would I be angry, your in hospital".
Then the girl found herself opening up to her mom, how she had been bullied since she went back, how it was physical, how she was threatened, how they told her she was unloved and needed to die, she told her everything,even about her self harming ."Oh kitten, why didn't you tell me?", Lucie sighed and answered "your busy, you have a job to do, you can't be worrying about me".
Hailey shook her head and began to reassure her "no, I'm your mom, and it doesn't matter that I work in intelligence, you will always come first, you hear me, your my world, I will always be here for you, you hear me, always. Don't you ever think you can't talk to me, because you can, about anything, anything at all. I'm not here to judge you or leave you to suffer, I'm here to help you and love you, your always going to be my baby girl, I'm never gonna stop wanting to protect you, and as for everyone else at 21,they love you just as much me. Heck you even make Voight smile, now that's unheard of ".
You smile at your mom's words and also let out a little chuckle to the last part, she held you close and the two of you just hugged and kept each other warm, Hailey stroked your hair as you found yourself dozing off, into a peaceful sleep. When you were completely out for the count, Hailey left the room and went to the waiting room where Jay was, he handed her a coffee and then Hailey started to explain to him what had been going on.
