You and I

1: Little, Pale Hand

**Kassidy's POV**

Waking up every day is hell. There's no point. I get beat by my dad at least twice everyday and I have more people that hate me and abuse me at school! It's upset and it's just tiring. I woke up and slowly got dressed into a white tank top that says, "go hard." I put a black jacket over that, wore black skinny jeans and then got white flip flops to match. I went to the bathroom and put makeup on my bruises. I rubbed foundation all over my face and looked down. I can't stand looking at myself. I looked pathetic. I walked out, grabbed my phone and my book bag. I walked down the stairs slowly and as silent as I could. I didn't want dad to hear or even see me. I got to the bottom of the stairs and nothing so far. I breathed in relief. Then I fell to the ground hard. I rubbed my head and looked up slowly. It was my dad. "D-dad... Stop... P-please..." He shook his head in disbelief. "Why do you always have something to say?!" He kicked me in my ribs and I let a tear go down my cheeks. Shit... I thought. "Oh... Not strong I see." He picked me up and pushed me up against a wall. He dry humped me and he smirked big at me. I didn't look at him and tried to push him off. He let me go and punched me in the face. "See ya later Babe." He said touching himself. I walked out of my house slowly. I went to my car and slowly drove to school. I sighed and I stayed in the car until a couple minutes before school. I got out and people were roaming everywhere. I hate this school. It's horrible. I don't learn anything, get bullied and no one even cares about people getting bullied. They say, "they don't tolerate bullying" but that's complete bullshit. They don't care if anyone is getting beat up in front of their eyes... They really don't. I walked in and went to home room. I can stand home room. 1st period is where hell begins. The teacher took attendance and then everyone started talking to their friends. I put headphones in and left home room for 1st period. I looked down the whole way there until someone yanked out my headphones. I looked up and sighed. It was him. It was Justin.

"Well well well... You look awfully beatable today." He laughed and he kicked me behind my knees. I fell to the ground hard and held my rib. It was hurting earlier from where my dad kicked me. "P-please... J-Justin don't h-h-hurt me..." I looked up at him and he laughed. He kicked me in the same place dad did and I cried out loud. People were gathering around us and laughing at me. "J-j-Justin..." He walked away high-fiving his friends and others. I struggled to get up and I picked up my books slowly. My side hurts so bad. I cried silently and walked in late to pre-calc. "Miss Adams... Why are you late?" I looked at him and he nodded. "Please take your seat." I walked to my seat and Justin was laughing. I felt him stare at me the whole class. I looked at him and he flicked me off. Not that that bothered me, but it's just idiotic. I'm used to him doing stupid things like that. I flicked him off back and the bell rang. "Kassidy! Get back here now!" Justin said. I kept walking and something hit the back of my head. I fell face-first and started to cry. "Leave me alone!" I yelled. "What did you just say?" Justin asked surprised. "I said leave me alone!" I got up and held my side. "You don't know the hell you and my dad put me through! You think it's all fun and games but it's really not! I hate you and I know nothing will ever change your mind about me and hurting people but it hurts on top of what my horrible excuse of a dad does to me. You don't know 40 % of what I go through..." I yelled and backed up scared of Justin's reaction. "Why don't you just go and kill yourself." Someone in the crowd yelled. "You would be better off." Someone else yelled. I let what they said sink in. I looked at Justin and he stared at me. I ran away crying. I looked down and drove home. I cried the whole time and slammed the door open. "Just hurt me already." I yelled out to my dad, who wasn't here. I ran up to the bathroom and started running the bath water. Time to do this.

I got out my depression pills and put all of them in my mouth. I turned off the water and just walked out to my room. I laid down in the middle of my bedroom floor and closed my eyes. I waited for the pills to slowly poison me and take my life away. I started breathing weird and then barely breathing at all. I got scared and someone came running towards me. Everything was blurry so I couldn't point out who it was. They picked me up and I felt my head falling more and more. I started to see black take up my sight and then nothing after that.

**Justin's POV**

I rushed to the hospital. I needed to make sure Kassidy is okay. I can't live if she dies. If she does die... It will be because all of me... I hate myself. I didn't mean to do anything bad to her. I looked down as I parked the car. I picked up Kassidy and take her lifeless body inside of the hospital. "Please! Can someone help! Help! Please!" The nurse took her to a room and told me to wait in the waiting room. I looked down and some old man walked up to me. "Did you save my daughter?!" He got upset. "Yes I did! She told me what you do to her and it's not nice! You're a horrible father to her!" "Don't tell me how to raise my daughter! She's perfectly fine to me! I need her! Where the hell is she?" "She's getting help! She's been hurt for to long and it's time to stop this!" The nurse came out and her dad looked at her. He ran through and I yelled, "stop him! He's going to hurt Kassidy!" A police man went after him and her dad strangled Kassidy. He took all the tubes and everything out of her. The police officer stunned him and I ran over to Kassidy. The doctors pushed me back and I looked around. Kassidy started to chock on air and I screamed. They kicked me out and put me in the waiting room. I'm so scared for her but at least her dad isn't a worry anymore.

-A couple hours later-

I fell asleep until I was woken up by someone tapping my shoulder. "Hmm..." I mumbled and opened my eyes. "Yes... Sorry to bother you sir, but you can visit her if you want to see her." I nodded and looked at my phone. 3:30. I got up and yawned. I walked slowly into her room. It's her worst nightmare but I'm only here to help. I sat down in the chair next to her bed. She looked like a monster hooked up to all those machines. I grabbed her little, pale hand and held it semi-tight. I looked down and cried softly. I'm the reason she is here, in this bed, stuck in a coma. "I'm so sorry for what I did to you Kassidy. You blew up on me and I didn't know what to think and then something clicked in me and realized everything that I did to you, was on the worst level I could be on. I can never apologize enough to take away a portion of pain that I gave to you. When you wake up and get better... I'm going to let you hurt me the way I did to you. But, get better first..." I spoke all to myself and I kissed her hand softly. I stayed up for a couple days like that until I had to fall asleep. I looked around and I saw a couch on the other side of her room. I laid down and slowly fell asleep.

**Kassidy's POV**

I slowly opened my eyes and the nurse was just checking up on everything. "Kassidy?" She whispered. Why'd she whispered. I looked at her and started crying. "You're okay sweetheart... Everything is okay." The nurse said. I calmed down and looked at Justin... Justin?! What the hell is he doing here?! "Ma'am?" I whispered softly. "Yes?" She responded. "What is he doing here?" I said, referring to Justin. "Well... He brought you to the hospital and has been by your side ever since." "How long have I been in here?" "2 1/2 days. This is the first time he has slept. He's really been worried about you... He's a keeper." She said walking out. I looked at him and wanted to ask him so many questions. Why was he here? Why does he care? Where's my dad? How'd he know about me and what I did? How'd he get passed my dad? I rested my eyes and slowly fell back to my sleeping state.

--Next Day--

I woke up slowly and Justin was pacing. "J-Justin?" I blinked looking at him. "Hi Kassidy..." He walked up to me and I moved over in my bed. "What are you doing here? Why have you been here the whole time? How'd you know I was here?" I asked all those questions as calmly as I could. "I-I... I heard people tell you to kill yourself but I couldn't let you do that... You telling me what your dad did wasn't good... Plus what I do... Or did didn't help at all. I'm sorry and I realize that it's going to take a lot more than that for you to even forgive me a little bit but my time is worth waiting for your forgiveness. Kassidy... I got your dad arrested because he wanted to kill you... In the hospital. I needed to stay here so you had someone that cared a lot about you here when you woke up..." "Justin... If you "cared" about me then why did you bully and abuse me?" I cried and looked down. It's true. "Haley... She bullied me if I didn't hurt you..." He pulled up his shirt and there were huge bruises and cuts from where she hurt him. I looked down and I said, "I'm sorry... I should have let you hurt me whenever..." He sighed and reached for my hand. "Kassidy... No... I tried to stick up to Haley but she had her dad hurt me... I should have never hurt you but I did and it's crazy that I even abused you like I did... I'm so sorry and I don't think you could or will ever forgive me and I'm not asking for you too... I just wanted you to know that it wasn't me and that's not who I am..." I looked down. Should I forgive him? I don't really eve know if I BELIEVE him...