Broken Within

CHAPTER 18~•~

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✪✪✪♡✪✪•CHILDHOOD FRIENDS(2)•✪✪♡✪✪✪

                       ☯╬☯ARIANA'S POV☯╬☯

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Do pick a nice song to read this chapter. Infact nice songs alleviate one's mood while reading stories.

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My hair covered my face as I was bent forward. I raised my head up to the view of Selena. Selena broke my fall. She was at it again, she was such a pretender. Someone who had shoved me harshly to the ground countless times without a care in the world.

"Ari."Cole placed his hands on my shoulder." Are you okay?"

"Yeah."I smiled at him, maybe the fall was worth it. He spoke to me first.

"Selena, thank you." He held her hand. "You know I was about to break your fall but Selena was so fast. I can see why she's on the school's running team."

He was praising her again. It was true that she was a super fast runner I mean for a girl who's 5'9 tall with long legs it's expected that she'd be able to run that fast, and she was surprisingly strong for a girl.

"Oh! It was nothing Cole, I couldn't let her fall when I could have stopped it. After all she's our dear Ari. Ari, are you okay?" She held my hand and tightened her grip, scratching my skin with her nails in a way only I could see and feel.

"Of course." He smiled at her before going to talk a dude on our soccer team.

"Stay away from Cole you whimp." She whispered through a fake smile showing her white spotless teeth.

"We'll definitely talk soon okay. I've really missed your dad's baking." He gently stroked my hair, hugging me for a while before going to meet the boys on the soccer team as they took him away. I could still smell him, the magical scent of vanilla.

Selena went to hug Nicole who was still busy with the cheerleaders. " The boys are having a match soon with Hayfield college." A cheerleader said.

"Nicole!" Selena skipped to hug her.

"Oh my love. I've missed you soooooo much." Nicole loved Selena. A friend of Selena is obviously an enemy of mine. I was happy Nicole didn't say anything to me. I looked around to see that Melanie left. I didn't see her after Selena broke my fall. I turned to leave when I heard what caused my fall.

"I didn't expect you to break her fall Selena." Brianna rolled her eyes.

"Well I couldn't let you hurt dear Ari, and let Cole's whole attention drift to her. He wouldn't leave her if she got badly hurt."

"You should have let her fall. You can't be a sucker for Cole all the time." Palome deadpanned.

"Now, now Palome, Selena breaking her fall was smart. Imagine Cole having to stay with her in the nurse's office cause she hit her ugly face on the floor. We all can't have that happen, right?"Nicole cooed with glee.

"Totally." The said simultaneously bursting into laughter the other cheerleaders joined them to spite me. They said it out loud just to upset me, but I wasn't going to give them that pleasure.

I walked away, but faintly heard. " You had to see how terrible she looked when I pushed her into the pool at the party. She kept acting like a chicken whose feathers had been plucked off. She looked like she was going to die." Nicole laughed. "Low-key I wished she did die."

A tear slipped from my eye, I didn't understand why Nicole hated me so much, so much that she'd want me dead. I didn't want to think about the party. Cole's seventeenth birthday party. I didn't want to remember it. It was a terrible cold night. Cole returning to school was so much different than I imagined. I thought it would be better than that. I was so silly. He left for soccer, I didn't blame him though.