Suspended

Art

The teacher calls everyone around the table, and pulls out this blank piece of fabric, she folds it us, telling us in very vivid detail what she is doing.

"So then your going to twist the fabric as tight as you can...." She says obviously doing as she says. Behind me, I could hear the girls giggling and talking about me, they were saying awful both about me and others. I try to tune out what they are saying, but the words burry into my head.

"Apparently she just dated that guy to use him" One says. At the time I didn't think that they were talking about me but later on someone informed me that they were saying horrible things about me.

"Yeah, I heard that, she is such a s!ut" Another said.

I feel a lump form at the back of my thought, and my eyes prick with tear's. 'don't cry, don't cry' I say in my head over and over again, that was when I realized that they were talking about me. The corners of my vision started to go black and I felt drawn towards the floor as is something above me was pushing down.

"Hey, Sienna" I hear Martha say, "Let's go or we aren't going to get a good spot"

My legs seem to carry me in the direction her voice came from, as if I was being pulled by an invisible string.

Outside in the clearing was a giant table covered in cloth and many tie dye bottles for everyone to use, I place my piece of fabric down next to Martha's along with the rubber bands.

"Hey Martha, people are saying that I am bullying this girl online, you don't believe that I would do that right?" I ask trying to keep my hands busy so that they don't start shaking.

"Well I mean," She starts.

"Yeah I think that's something that you would do" I hear Milly say looking over and giggling with the new girl

"Sienna, I have to agree with Milly," Martha continues, "I mean, you did show me that Insta account yesterday remember"

"Yes and I was trying to tell you that it wasn't me, and I was being forced" I say feeling the tears return.

"Well it's pretty simple to say no" Heidi says swirling her piece of fabric into a tight circle.

"But you weren't in my situation" I say quietly to my self.

"Hmm, what was that?" Martha asks looking at me.

"Oh nothing" I quickly stutter then scurrying away to 'get more elastics'.

I entered the class room again to try and find the box that they were kept in, and when my eyes scanned the room, in the back corner was Amelia, Ava and Bella. They were all muttering and giggling amongst themselves, I heard many names thrown into the conversation, mine one of them.

"Oh look its the slut" Bella says causing the girls to laugh at me, they thought that I couldn't hear them.

"We know what you did Sienna" Amelia yells over to me, "And we are going to make you pay for it. 

They stand up from their chairs and start to walk over towards me, I try to walk backwards, to get away form them. I trip over one of the stools from the front table, causing Ava to laugh at me, but they continue to get closer none the less. Once I was stuck into the corner of the room, and before I could think about the words that were coming out of my mouth, they were just blurted out.

"IT WASN'T ME IT WAS MAISIE" I yell crouching down and putting my hands over my head, tears pooling at the edge of my eyes

"Ha it couldn't have been Maisie, because we already asked her and she told us that it was you" Amelia says placing her hands on her hips.

Once again my mouth betrayed me digging a deeper hole for my self, "I swear it wasn't me, it was Maisie."

"Well I mean it does make sense, Maisie blames someone else to get her self in the clear" Ava says backing up as the others follow suit.

I take the opportunity to quickly escape and back to tie dye.