I could never imagine myself being out with Vic Fuentes, It’s been my dream since I was a senior in high school, telling him this seemed so scary to me. We walked down the street in silence, holding hands. Finally he stopped and turned towards me. “Darling, tell me about high school” He says, my eyes open wide in shock. “U-uh, do I have too?” I said and looked at him. “I would like that” He says and smiles at me “Don’t worry, I never judge people” He continued. I look at him and nodded “Right, well going into 9th grade, I lost my first ever boyfriend, 9th grade, my ex boyfriend committed suicide, 10th grade, My cousin died, and I watched my other cousin commit suicide, 11th grade, I lost all of my friends. And 12th grade, my brother moved to Russia and my parents kept fighting over me.” I said with tears forming in my eyes again, I looked away to keep from crying.
He pulled my head up and looked at me. “Darling, you went through all that, it breaks my heart.” He said grabbing my arm and pulling up my sweater sleeve. I try to jerk my arms back to hide my arm. My arm was covered in bracelets, which covered my scars. He looked up at me with those pleading eyes again and I put my arm out for him to see. He took off the bracelets one by one and looked at my arm. He traced them with his finger and kept eye contact with me. “Stop this, For me.” He said.
“I-I” I stuttered and broke down into tears, “Hey, Let’s go back. I didn’t mean to make you cry” He said and wiped my tears away, “You’re beautiful with the scars” He continued and he put out his arm. I looked down at his wrist and saw long scars. “Wh-what…Wh-why” I asked slightly scared of his answer. “I was bullied nonstop in high school. I was like you, Thought there was nothing better out there for, until Mike told me he looked up to me, I stopped for him. Now I’m asking you, for me, stop, losing you to something so addicting and scary is unthinkable.” He said and we turned back around to go back to the buses. I looked over at him and smiled “Of course, I’ll stop” I said.
When we got back to the buses, we saw everyone standing outside of the tour bus, “What’s going on?” Vic asked as we walked up to them.
Mike pulled him to the side and left me there with Tony, Jaime and Esther. I watched them nervously as the other 3 tried talking to me.
“Courtney? Where’s your bracelets” Esther asked me noticing my jacket sleeve wasn’t as thick as it was. “Vic has them” I said and looked over at them; “He saw my scars” I continued and made eye contact with tony.
“Oh god, he hates seeing those on people he cares about.” Tony said and slid his arm behind his back. I noticed him do this and stepped up to him
“Don’t.” Jaime said in a hurry. I looked at him, “Why not?” I asked “Because, Tony has them.” Esther said and looked down at the asphalt. I backed away from them and looked over as Mike and Vic were coming back. “What’s happening?” I asked, they all looked at each and finally Mike spoke up. “Vic’s ex girlfriend is on the bus.” I looked over and noticed Vic walking towards the door. I directed my gaze away from him and looked at my tour bus.
“I’ll be on the bus” I said running off. I slammed the door on the bus and sat back in my regular spot. A few minutes later I heard the door shut again. I looked to see who it was and Mike and Tony were standing in front of me.
“What’s wrong?” Tony asked and moved the hair out of my face. Mike sat next to me.
“His ex girlfriend…what does she want?” I asked looking at mike; He turned his head trying to ignore the question. “We can’t share that with you that’s up to Vic” Tony said for mike and sitting down next to me. “Oh” I said and yawned.
“Here, lay your head on my lap,” tony said. I looked up at him and nodded, I placed my head on his lap and stretched my legs out on Mike, They took my zebra blanket and covered me up, Tony kept running his hand through my hair and calming me down. “We’ll let Esther sleep on our tour bus when Vic and the girl are done” Mike said and pulled out his phone to text Jaime this. I closed my eyes and I listened to mike and tony talk as I slowly drifted off to sleep.
