SET FIRE TO MY HEART

Hazel

Elizabeth POV:

Life is beautiful and adventurous. That's probably the life of most teenagers, mine wasn't close to even being interesting. I had a routine that I would repeat everyday, I call it the "boring schedule." Hi my name is Elizabeth Hazel, but my friends call me Beth, not that I have many of those. I live with my mom and my elder sister, I'm not as close with my sister as I would like to be. We were pretty close, actually, before our dad kinda walked out on us, it should of brought us closer together, you know the "sister code" shit. But it only grew us apart, my mom, well I love her and she loves us but sometimes i feel like something's missing, not that she didn't support me every step of the way in my life but, she kinda lost herself after dad left. She hasn't dated anyone since either, so it's just been us three. We weren't always here in America, we lived in London, but after my dad left, mom moved here because he was practically the "breadwinner" of the house over there. Mom moved here when I was 10, and now I'm 17, so I practically lived here my entire life. Once we moved here mom became more independent and got a job, so we could live, if not perfect atleast comfortable. When i first came here it was weird, seeing I knew no one but our neighbors were practically the sweetest, they made us feel at home immediately. Upon spending time with them, their daughter became my best friend, Macy riley, the prettiest and the kindest of all, I love her so much, we've been friends for as long I could remember. Shit..........I lost track of time, I forgot I even had school and today is Monday, what a shocker. I hate school but whatever, without wasting anytime, I just took a shower, put on a jeans, a tank top and a jacket to cover my bare skin. I just added a sneakers to finish the look, my hair, well its always fuzzy and really thick so I just put it into a messy bun, no one would notice anyway............not the friendly type, remember. I ran down stairs and saw my mom "good morning hunny" she said "morning mom" I answerd back. As I was about to rush out the door, she stopped me "no breakfast this morning?" "I can't mom, I'm running late, but I love you, so so much" I grinned and before she could say anything else, I was ready out the door. I didn't even have to look twice to know that macy was already sitting in her car waiting for me, she's the sweetest. She waits for me every day knowing that I don't have a car, because life with mom isn't hard but it definently isn't the rich kid type of living, with tons of pretty clothes and on your sixteenth birthday, they hand you a keys to your new car. Macy on the other hand has it really good, her parents are loaded, when I say this, I mean it, they aren't around as much as they used to when we were kids, they are always on business trips so her aunt's been looking after her, another sweetheart. I opened the car door and she greeted me with a smile that made heart melt. "Hey" she said "hey" I smiled. She started the car and we drove to school, with macy its always comfortable and we talked about literally every and anything. The school isn't far away from our houses, so we were there in no time, macy parked in the parking lot and we walked to the entrance of the school. When we were inside the school I went to my locker and packed my stuff, we don't have the same classes so we usually say goodbye here and meet up at lunch. I was about to walk off before she stopped me "Jake's coming back tomorrow" I stood there in shock, yes it kinda shocked me alright. Did I forget to mention Jake, Jake mf Riley? Probably did.......jk, I just didn't really wanna bring him up, unfortunately he's Macy's brother, but they were two completely different people. If she didn't say he was her brother, you would've never guessed, she's so sweet and kind and loving but he..........he's a complete idiotic, out of control asshole. Too much? Sorry, he just really makes me angry, I became friends with macy and also tried coming friends with him but he would always be mean to me. So mean that if I didn't know the meaning of pain at an early age, he would make cry, he hated me and I hated him. The first time I came to this school, I was really bullied mostly because of my color, now I know it's what they call being "racist," everytime someone would say something mean to me, the asshole would come to my rescue. It just made it hard for me to hate him, around everyone, he would protect me and alone.......its back to the the insults, he really confused me so everytime he saved me from insults I just pushed him away. He got in trouble regularly, people called him the "mischievous boy." One day a boy pushed me to the floor and I bursted my lips, Jake saw and practically beat the boy to a pulp, where he almost died. And yes I'm talking about a 13 year old Jake........anger issues it is. After that he went away to juvie, I felt really guilty because he obviously went away because of me. I begged my mom to let me go see him, after alot of persuasions, she finally agreed. But when I reached there the asshole said and may I quote "I don't wanna see her, she's makes me angry" I was so hurt and that was the last time I went there. I eventually got over my guilt and my hate for him just grew. He's coming back? Jake the asshole is coming back? Macy snapped me out my thoughts since she pinched me "ouch, what's that for?" I winced. "I've been talking to you for the past minute and it's like your body was there but you mind wasn't" she replied, "I'm sorry, what were you saying" I apologized. "Come over tonight and let's have a sleepover because after tonight it won't be as peaceful" she laughed. She's right, after jake comes back, I don't think I'm gonna be over there as often, he just really pisses me off. Did I mention that? "Ok" I said snapping out of my thoughts for the umpteenth time, this morning. I headed to my class before it was over since I was already late. Classes were quite boring as usual and I slept through most of it.