Jump || N.H. AU ||

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Sage's P.O.V.

"Give it back!" I scream, reaching my arms out to grab my precious book.

"Nah, I think I'm enjoying this." Leo dodges my move as he rips the cover off and drops it on the hallway floor.

I hate him so much. I don't even know why he and his friends like to torture me this way.

"Leo, it's for a fucking project, so please just give it back!" I'm almost to tears at this point.

Finally, I hear the class bell ring and the book hits my face as he sprints to his next class.

I'm late. again.

I pick up the remnants of To Kill A Mockingbird and hang my head as I walk to Chemistry.

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"Sage?" a voice calls my name.

Once I'm coherent, I notice that the voice is a nurse.

"What happened?" I ask as I sit up.

Where am I? All I remember is walking down the hallway after the incident with Leo, and then darkness enveloping me.

"You were found lying on the ground after fourth period. Someone picked you up and brought you in here. I think he said his name was Neil? Wait, that wasn't it. His name was Niall." My eyes widen.

Niall? The popular guy? He couldn't have. Niall's one of Leo's friends.

"Oh," I reply. I glance over to a chair, where my bag sits. Then I notice that my book is laying beside it, the cover taped to it perfectly. I frown. Could Niall have repaired my book too? Why is he being so nice to me?

The nurse gets up and grabs a bottle of water from a fridge nearby.

"Here," she hands it to me, "You've been out for quite a while, so you're gonna need that."

"Do you happen to know why I fainted?" I ask. This has never happened to me before in my life.

"Well, there are a number of causes, but yours would most likely be fear or emotional trauma." she answers.

Leo. He's been doing stuff to me for a while now and it's been driving me crazy lately. I guess you could call it bullying, but that stuff normally doesn't happen when you're a senior in high school.

"Look, it's about time for school to let out, so I'm just gonna let you leave early." the nurse says.

"Okay, thanks for the help." I smile as I slowly swing my legs over the edge of the bed and stand up. Grabbing my things, I walk out the door and into the hallway.

Since my parents died, everything has been really hard for me. I have to live alone because i'm eighteen, and that also means paying the bills and handling all of the legal things that parents normally have to do. Then there's the teenage stuff I have to deal with. Sometimes, I feel like it's too much for me to go through. I wish I didn't go to that party. I wish I didn't call my parents to come and get me. It's my fault that my family's dead.

All my fault.

While I'm driving back home, I stop at a Starbucks for a coffee.

"Yea, that'll cheer me up," I say to myself.

When I walk inside the door, all I see are a dozen pairs of eyes locked onto me.

Yep, it was all over the news too. Party Girl's Parents Drive Off Cliff headlined all of the local newspapers. As if I didn't have enough going on in my life then. School became so unbearable that I had to leave for a month to homeschool myself. When I came back, everything changed. I wasn't the popular party animal that I was before. My name wasn't sage anymore. People started calling me "killer" and "Selfish Bitch". Little did they know, I hang onto things like that, no matter how mean and terrible they seem. Eventually, I had to move schools, which brings me to where I am now.

I roll my eyes and trudge up to the counter, where I order my usual black coffee. The staring doesn't stop, so I walk out of the store to "enjoy" my coffee alone in my car.

Everything that's happened in the past six months has made my life a living hell.

It starts to rain and thunder. I worry about Zoë. She hates storms. Quickly, I start my car and speed home to my terrified cat.

A/N

Hey guys! Omg i'm so sorry i just keep abandoning stories and it's really annoying, but i'm just trying to find the right one. I really hope you like this one though!

xoxo

-A