The Man Behind the Makeup

Chapter 7: I Promise

She froze and quickly pulled the sweatshirt down over her head, then grabbed my arm and pulled me into the bathroom. I locked the door and crossed my arms, staring at her as she looked at the ground with tears starting to build up in her eyes.

"Come here." She walked over and rested her head on my chest as I cradled her head and had my other arm around her back. She sobbed and her body shook. "What made you do this?"

"After my parents disowned me, they threw me out on the streets at sixteen and I had nothing. I felt like it was the only way for me to release my feelings." She choked out. We pulled away and I put my hands on her shoulders, looking down to her height.

"Stop crying." She sniffled and I grabbed a makeup remover cloth from my makeup bag I kept under the sink. I gave it to her and she turned to look in the mirror as she started taking off her makeup. "That is no way to release the pain and emotions you have felt. How long have you been clean?" She put the cloth in the trash and I grabbed one for myself as she sat down on the side of the bathtub.

"Since I turned nineteen, so three years." I raised my eyebrow at her and she was looking at the floor. I didn't believe her.

"Do you mind me looking at the scars?" She shook her head, taking off her sweatshirt and I turned around. My eyes widened and I covered my mouth with a gasp. Scars everywhere, two forming words. I looked harder at them. UNLOVED and WORTHLESS were the two words carved into her pale skin. I grabbed her hands and flipped over her arms, they were clean. Just as I thought she was good, I saw a slight red line poking out from under the waistband to her sweatpants. "What about those?"

"I-I'm sorry." She looked at me with disappointment in her eyes. We only knew each other for literal hours, but I had a feeling we would have a bulletproof sister-like bond between us.

"Don't say it. Show it. Give me all your blades." She nodded and put back on her sweatshirt and we climbed into her bunk. She opened the compartment pulled out her pants and purse. There were a total of six sharp blades she placed in my hands, seven after I gave her a good stare down. "Promise me you won't do this or try to find these blades ever again." She looked me in the eyes.

"I promise." We hugged and then the curtain was yanked open, a loud 'BOO' being yelled. I screamed as I flew backwards onto the person.

"Now what motherfucker do I have to slap?" I get up and looked to see that it was Ryan. Alex was just laughing her ass off and Ryan looked at me with pain and annoyance in his eyes.

"Yourself." I giggled and helped him up. "I was just gonna say that there is pizza out front, if you wanted some before it was gone." He looked up at Alex. "Well hello." She blushed and giggled.

"Hi. I'm Alexia." She hopped down and he shook her hand.

"Ryan." I smacked him in the back of the head, pushing him out the door to the front lounge. She laughed and we walked into the little kitchen to see like four large boxes of pizza. "They were making out on Alexia's bed." We gasped and looked at each other, taking opposite steps to the side.

"Dream on Seaman." He laughed and we grabbed pizza, her taking the empty seat on the couch as I sat on Oli's lap. We ate in silence until somebody knocked at the door. "I got it." I set down my plate on the counter and wiped my face with the back of my hand.

"Keeping it classy." I flipped off Ryan and opened the door, my eyes widening at the sight before me. What the fuck is she doing here? My crossed my arms in front of my chest, balancing my weight on one leg.

"Long time no see Juliet." Her smile dropped and her eyes filled with fury.

"How's it been Annabelle?" Ronnie came up behind me and had a smile on his face. Her face quickly changed into a fake smile as Ronnie let them on the bus. No, now she is going to soil the bus! And my appetite. I closed the door and walked up on the bus, finishing off my pizza and going to sit back down on Oli's lap. "Oh Anna, did you finally get yourself a man?" She said with an evil smile on your face. I looked to Oli and his face just said oh hell no.

"Why yes I did." I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed his cheek. Oli was really cute, but I don't really think of him that way. She looked at me with suspicion written all over her face.

"That's not a proper way to kiss your boyfriend." I looked at Oli with wide eyes. 'I'm sorry' I mouthed and he mouthed right back 'you fucking owe me'. I leaned in and he met me half way, holding it for a few seconds before pulling away. I smirked at Juliet, then looked at the guy next to her. "Sorry, how rude of me. I'm Annabelle." I put my hand out to the victim of Juliets and he chuckled, shaking my hand.

"I know. It's me Andy, from school? I bumped into you earlier." My heart shattered. No, no, no. That was actually Andy that I bumped into earlier? This isn't happening right now.

"Oh sorry, I didn't recognize you. Silly me." I sheepishly laughed and stood up. "Excuse me for a minute." My bum was smacked by Oli as I walked into the bunk area and closed the door. I grabbed a pillow out of my bunk and started beating the wall with it. What the fuck?! He looks so fucking happy with her! I was still angrily beating the wall, having blood tears run down my face. I love him so much I hate him. He looked amazing and happy, while I'm here upset and hurting and being forced to kiss Oli. Ugh, that was fucking weird. Not saying I hated it though.

Ronnie's POV

I watched as Anna left the room. What is her problem? Juliet is one of the nicest people I know and she is being rude. I walked into the bunk area to see her beating the wall with a pillow with tears of blood running down her face. It still freaked me out a little when she went all demon.

"Why are you acting like this?" I wrapped my arms around her as she cried into my shoulder.

"Andy and I used to be best friends until senior year of high school, Juliet took him away from me. She would bully me and smack my books down out of my hands. She was lucky I didn't kill her." I raised my eyebrows. Juliet was a bully? What kind of person would do that to someone? "He was my only friend and after they started dating, he never talked to me since, so now he has the dignity to look at me and speak like nothing ever happened hurts me. Like what the fuck?" Ouch.

"I'm sorry, kiddo. I wouldn't have invited them if I knew it would bother you." She pulled away, sniffling and wiping away her tears.

"You don't have to apologize Ron Ron. You didn't know and it was good to know where he was and how far he has come." I smiled and gave her one last hug. She patted down a few fly aways on my head and I looked at my shoulder to see not one drop of blood on it. "Demon tears don't stay behind. They disappear."

"It still freaks me out a little, but I promise I won't say anything." She giggled and crawled into her bunk. The door opened behind me and I saw that it was Alexia, I think her name was.

"Is she okay?" I nodded my head, leaving the two to talk as I walked back out to the front and sat down next to Jacky on the couch. I think those two girls are going to become the most inseparable pair of friends I have ever seen.

I still couldn't believe that Juliet was a bully in high school. I didn't even know that Anna and Andy were best friends at one point! Juliet must've been a real bitch to rip the two apart like that. I don't think I could ever look at her and Andy the same after what they did to Anna. I cared too much about her to think these people are going to be my friends, but I can't just kick them off the bus right now. That would be ruder than normal from me. I sighed and leaned back on the couch as I listened to Juliet blab her fat mouth about how "amazing and spectacular" her show was today. Like bitch shut up and stop being to conceited. I watched as Andy got up and walked to the bunk area. Oh this is not going to be good.