THE FINAL STRAW || 13 Reasons Why

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CLEO STOOD BESIDE HER BROTHER, STARING AT THE DRAWING. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. THE BIGGEST LIE SHE HAD EVER HEARD, SHE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY someone would waste time for such stupidity, her thoughts got interrupted by Marcus.

"You two wanna help?" he asked

"Do we want to help?" the girl sarcastically repeated as she pushed his hand off her shoulder 

"Do you want to help?" he asked again "put up posters" he said as he showed the said poster, Cleo let out a scoff at this sight, she was in no way going be seen doing that.

"You wanna drag my reputation lower than it already is?" She asked, Marcus showed the poster to Clay.

"No thanks, Marcus" Clay said 

"Come on, school spirit" Marcus said as he put his arm on Clay's shoulder, walking away from Cleo"making a contribution" he added

Cleo stood back, disgusted by the sight of her brother with Marcus. A similar figure walked past her, she glared at the blonde haired boy.

He went to his band, taking out his guitar, but their conversation didn't seem to go well as Alex walked away from them, Cleo watched him stand nervously on his own.

Clay walked away from Marcus and walked up to him, Cleo walked towards the two boys and sat next to them.

"Alex" Clay said "can we talk about this?" he asked as he pulled out the tape.

"What is there to talk about?" Alex asked

"Did you do what she said you did?"

"Did you?"

"Alex." Cleo warned him, the boy shot her a glance as he let out a sigh, a voice interrupted their conversation.

"Alex !" The person called out "take the A train with your solo" she said, the boy got up

"I guess if i'm gonna be happy may as well be with the duke" he said as he walked away.

Cleo remembered his tape too, she couldn't judge him after seeing him like this, especially after what she had done to Hannah, she lowered her head and swallowed the lump in her throat as she got up and walked away.

When she walked into the school, she saw Mrs. Baker talk to Courtney, they were standing in front of the memorial for Hannah, the woman picked up the roses on the table. 

Cleo sighed, anyone who knew Hannah would know that she hated roses, she thought they were cliche.

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Cleo walked out of her class, she stopped when she saw Alex ripping off the posters on the wall, something she resisted to do, at this sight she started to rip them off the walls too, Alex noticed her, he stopped for a second, looking at her, the girl looked back, she showed the poster she was holding.

"Do they really think this is gonna save someone's life?" Alex asked

"These people are such hypocrites" Cleo agreed as she threw the poster in the trash, Alex stared at her.

"I can't help but be curious, why did you do that to her?" he asked as the girl ripped another poster off the wall, she lowered her eyes at the question 

"i honestly don't know Alex" she answered "i mean, i can say i was drunk or whatever but what i did was shitty, stupid and cruel, i was the last straw"

"Yeah, we all were" Alex said as he ripped another poster, Clay came running towards the teens, Cleo rolled her eyes at the sight of her brother.