remember me

{ chapter 1} ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴀ ᴡᴏʀsᴛ

𝐾𝐴𝑇𝐼𝐸 voice narrates: "This is the story of how I lost myself completely." Let's begin on August 21, 2021, the second week of school.

mily takes the pancakes from the pan and arranges it onto four plates, as her husband Arthur kisses her cheek, "good morning sweetheart" she replies, "good morning..." she smiles lightly embracing the kiss then sits down to eat at the table, when her daughter-katie walks downstairs and excitedly chimes in, "hey mom" she replies, "hey sweetheart" Katie couldn't help but realize how delicious everything smelt, "mm pancakes.. did you cook" mily states, "unfortunately no i just heated up some pre-cooked pancakes" Arthur almost chokes on his coffee in a small laughs, as he loved his wife but she defintely couldn't cook, Katie sighs in relief, "thank God" Mily gets offended and says, "what? Come on its not that bad right?" she looks at Katie, who gives her a stare which basically means no, and when she looks to Arthur, he gives her comfort pat on the shoulder, and walks away with his coffee. Katie says, "love you, mom, sorry" she kisses her cheek and grabs her backpack and starts walking towards the door, mily yells which makes katie stops walking, "love you too... Wait aren't you gonna eat"

Katie states, "no me and ria are gonna meet up for breakfast, don't you remember we go every Thursday before school?" Mily couldn't believe she forgot, but she felt a little sad, katie was getting older, katie was her only daughter but she knew katie was gonna be safe, so she replies, "oh yeah have fun" she looks to the stairs, and then yells up, "CODY YOUR SISTER IS LEAVING."

"he's already gone." arthur said.
Mily flashes in anger, she gets up to empty the two extra plates she fixed, and says, "this is the fifth time he's been out all night, when he comes back he's gonna take out the trash, and do the dishes for rest of the his life." Katie knew cody struggles in his daily life, so she quickly chimes in, "no he left early I saw him." mily felt silly for yelling now, she wasn't used to cody having good behavior, she sighs and sit down, "why didn't you tell me?"
"just forgot to mention it. " katie grabs her keys, and before she leave and says, "bye mom and dad"

[ At school]
cody prepares to walks in the school, hoping for a new start, he left early cause he couldn't handle another day of mily's lectures, he walks into the school, and immediately all eyes goes to him, he knew why.. it's because of last year, sam yells, 'look everyone it's crying Cody, or should I say coke Cody." he grabs his backpack, and shakes it,
"what do you have drugs in here." Everyone proceeds to laugh at cody, cody looks to sam with out a fear in his eye, but trying to have a good week, he says 'it's my second week back bro, just give me my bag." he tries to grab it, but sam pulls it further away. Anna whispers to Peter "what's the deal with everyone, and this Cody guy."
Peter states, 'last year freshman, who had a drug addiction, no one ever knew why he was crying or smoking, and doing drugs all the time, they gave him these nicknames from him crying to a suspended student because they didn't sell him drugs." anna looks down and say, "that's sad."

Sam emptys Cody's backpack; Cody picks up his belongings and tries to grab them, but Sam throws them across the hallway, saying, "no, I'm just making sure you're a clean man." Cody screams, "Stop!" Sam waves some of his friends over to Cody and says, "His backpack is clear; let's check his pockets." The boys start checking Cody's pockets and shirt. As everyone else laughs, Cody clenches his fist and says, "I'm warning you to stop." Sam stands next to him as the boys stop checking him, and one says, "He's clean." Sam cuts them off, replying to the remark Cody made, "That's funny, 'cause we all know you can't do anything without big sister Katie to save the day.

Cody throws a punch to Sam's face, causing him to fall to the floor, but Cody doesn't stop punching him. Sam's girlfriend, Lily, comes rushing to him and yells, "Stop it!" Cody still continues punching Sam. As Sam gasps for air, the principal comes out and everyone steps aside. She sees Cody punching Sam and says, "I knew it wouldn't be long before something like this happens." Cody stops and looks to the principal. Anna walks towards Cody and chimes in, "Wait! "He didn't do anything." Peter snatches Anna back and whispers, "What are you doing?" The principal states, "Ms. Green, lying isn't great." She grabbed Cody's arm, pulling him off into the office. Everyone runs to Sam, asking him if he's okay. Sam replies, "I'm fine. I just didn't want to hurt him." Lily rubs his face with tissues. "the ambulance is almost here, babe"