It's okay to not be okay - a lego friends Mia x Stephanie fic [Discontineud]

Chapter 5: taking a walk

Trigger warning:

- bullying

Stephanie's perspective:

As I'm walking to school, I see Mia catching up. ''Hey, uhm... let's walk to school together.'' She says, a little out of breath. ''Yeah sure." I reply, sounding a bit irritated. I'm not angry, just trying to hide the blush appearing on my face.

As we arrive at school, I start to realize that this joy I felt this morning was temporary. Life isn't enjoyable and Mia doesn't like me. She doesn't want to be friends with a pathetic junkie like me. She just felt pity when she helped me. Nothing more than that...

We're standing in front of the classroom. Mia looks at me and says ''I hope she's not going to be too angry at us.'' Oh boy was she wrong. When we entered the classroom, the teacher immediately started yelling at us. She gave us detention, again. I sit down and Mia sits down next to me. I'm surprised by that. Maybe... No, surely not. It is now that I realize how I actually feel toward her. How I've always felt toward her...

Mia's perspective:

I'm sitting with Stephanie again, but it's different from yesterday. It's intentional this time. I don't know. She's been nice lately. We continue our economy lesson and don't say a lot to each other until Stephanie says: "Thank you. Thank you for helping my yesterday." It surprised me. Why'd she say that now? "I mean it, you're a great person." I'm speechless. "T- thanks-" is all I can say right now. I look back to my economy notebook to hide my face, which is probably al red by now, and study the doodles I drew there. I can't tell what they even are but it's a distraction. A distraction. From what? From Stephanie? I can't tell. I've noticed Stephanie makes me feel somewhat safe. Or have I felt that before? I don't know. I hate that I don't know, I usually know what's going on or how I feel. I'm not sure about any of that right now, and I hate it.

Our economy lesson passes normally, I don't remember a lot of it. My attention was focused on something else. The bell rings and we have a free period, an hour of nothing. Stephanie and I walk out of the classroom together. I feel less scared now that I'm with her, the feeling of safety. I follow her to a small wooden bench I never know existed and we sit down together. A lot changed in only one day, it's somewhat intimidating for me. Whenever something goes right there's always something that goes wrong. I'm stripped out of my thoughts when Stephanie says "I'm going to refill my water bottle and visit the toilets real quick." I nod my head at her and she walks away.

I hear footsteps behind me and turn around to see Andrea, Jake and Damian. Olivia isn't there. "Well, looks like you made a 'friend'" Andrea says, exclaiming the word 'friend' louder than the rest of the sentence. I stay silent. Jake pulls me up from the bench twists my arm behind my back, forcing me to bend over slightly. He could break my arm if he wanted to. I look around to look for teachers, Jake twirls my arm a bit more and I let out a small groan as I look back to the ground. Of course, something had to go wrong, I think to myself while holding back my tears.

Stephanie's perspective:

I wash my hands and walk out of the restroom. I walk back to the bench Mia and I are sitting. Wait, is that...? I see Adrea and Damian standing in front of Jake, holding Mia. He... He's hurting her! I run up to them and slap that whore, Andrea in her face. I kick Jake in his nuts, forcing him to let go of Mia and squeal in agony. I grab Mia's hand and run. I know I can't take them on all at the same time, so we run. Mia can't keep up with my pace, so I hold her hand tighter.

We run out of the school and after running for a bit we take a turn and stop. I know that they aren't very fast so we should have lost them. As I'm catching my breath Mia says ''Thanks...'' She smiles softly. ''No problem, did they hurt you?'' ''A bit, but I'm fine now.'' We stand there for a while, not really knowing what to do. I decide to break the silence: ''So, what now...?'' Mia looks at me. Her face is red, probably still from running. She speaks up: ''Actually, I know a place...'' I look at her in confusion, she grabs my hand and we start walking again.