Cherry

Fights (then)

"Cherry!! Come on you've been studying for hours!"

"Ten more minutes Tess.." She mumbles under the mountain of books I'm pretty sure weighs much more than her.

"Cherry you said that an hour ago" I say in a annoyed voice and put my hand on my hip trying to be stern. When she doesn't say anything back to me I do for her "Fine. If you wont have fun, I'll make you!" I take her note book away from her and it takes her a minute to get out of her groggy state of glazed eyes and math. "Tessa give it back now." "Nope" I say devilishly, then I get serious "Cher.. We only have a year left together. Who knows who we will meet when we both go to different collages, you could get a new bestfriend and a boyfriend and you'll forget about me.. I want this year to be OUR year. The year of the best friends. The best summer ever."

When I finish my speech I feel emotional, whenever I think of not being able to see Cherry every day I cry or almost do at least. We talk every day, sure we could text but it isn't the same. The years of BC are what I call the Before Cherry years. They were dark and had close to no laughter in them, I was depressed and was going through a bad time. My Mom remarried because my real Dad was a total asshole. She drew the line when he threatened to hurt me, I remember that night clear as a summer day. They were yelling at each other like always and I heard my mom scream and a glass shatter. My sobs became harder and closer together. I walked downstairs full of terror and tears gushing from my eyes. I was only nine. When I walked into the kitchen my Dad had my mom against the wall and I saw her face tears streaming down and his had a evil grin spread across it his hands clenching her throat. I grabbed the house phone and hid in the closet and called 911. I told the woman my adress and her heard my crying. I hid the phone before he saw it, he screamed words at me calling me a worthless child not worth anything I had. That I was ugly and annoying and called me every name out there. He reached down for me and I screamed, He grabbed my arm and yanked me up and slapped me right as the police got there. He was arrested on the spot, no court. I never had to see that man again.

Cherry must have noticed me spacing into the BC world because before I even noticed she was next to me her arms were around me in a hug. I turned to her and didn't even realize I was crying. I hugged her back sobbing on her shoulder. "Cherry please don't leave me, I need you." I say between crys "I will never leave you Tessa"

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WOOO CHAPTER!

So If you haven't read the 1st chapter over again since I changed it, GO DO THAT! :)

The hell I had with this chapter is unreal. First it deleted 90% of all my work, then it was just GONE

Hope it was worth it!

-Indy