So High School

this is me trying

sorry for not updating this as much, between this, school, my other story, and my TikTok story, my hands are full

also the song as the title has nothing to do with anything, i just felt like putting it tbh

Lovers POV

Recently, I've been getting closer with Midnights and Nine. After getting threatened by Rep, they've stopped bullying me. We usually talk at school, and sometimes I go with Rep to their houses.

"Where's Rep?" I ask, sitting down at the lunch table. Usually she's the first one there.

Midnights shrugs. "She texted me this morning she was coming in late. I honestly thought she was with you."

I reach into my lunch box and pull out a small bag of homemade cookies. I offer one to each of them. Midnights gladly accepts, and when 1989 turns hers down, Midnights takes hers too.

"These are like, really good." She says in between bites.

"Thanks! I made them." Midnights gives me a high five.

Someone sits next to me quietly and I turn around to see Rep. She looks tired, maybe she slept in.

"Reppy! Want a cookie?" She shakes her head and pulls out her phone. "You sure? Midnights is going to eat them all if you don't take it now!" I say with a laugh.

"I don't want a fucking cookie, god." Rep rolls her eyes. I turn around with a slight frown on my face. Usually she wasn't mean to me like that.

Nine shrugs her shoulders. "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." She gives Rep a small push on her shoulder, which Rep repeats back at her, but with about ten times the force. She falls into Midnights, who catches her chest, quickly blushing and moving her hand when she realizes she's grabbing her boob.

Rep stands up, grabbing her bag and just walks away. She just walks straight out the front door. I know she doesn't leave, because I can see her car from the window.

I stand up and start walking towards her, but Midnights calls out at me. "She just needs to blow off her anger, let her be alone."

"Well what if somethings wrong? I need to go check on her." Midnights turns her head, letting me walk without anymore complaints. 

The doors creak as I walk outside, immediately greeted by the cold wind. I shiver as I walk to a bench, where Rep is just sitting, staring at the floor.

I sit down next to her, but she just ignores me. 

"What's up? Why are you grumpy today?" I question, trying to keep my voice positive for her. I didn't want to feel upset about her attitude before I knew what was wrong.

"Just stuff." She says dismissively.

I turn to face her, and grab her hand. She jumps a little at the contact, but lets me continue. "God, your hand is freezing!"

Before I can say anything, she takes off her sweatshirt and tells me to put it on.

I just hold it in my hands. "Aren't you going to wear it?"

"But-" I trace my hands around the scars on her arms, now showing.

"I don't really care that much right now." Under her breath, I hear her add "about anything."

Her face meets mine, where she can definitely notice the concern. "Lover, why do you care so much?" I see her gaze falter to the ground for a second, but she looks back into my eyes.

"Because I love you. And I want the best for you." I grab her other hand and kiss it. 

"I love you too." She says quietly. "Can we go back inside? Its freezing." I nod, and we stand up. She raises her arms to fix her hair, and I notice the dark purple bruises all up her ribs.

"What the fuck Rep? Are you okay? That looks like it hurts!" I pull her shirt back up, looking at her. I gently touch one of the bruises, and she squeals out in pain. I quickly let go. "This looks like really bad. You could have like a broken rib!"

"I don't."

"And how do you know that?" I cross my arms, trying to look convincing.

"Because he's broken them before. It's freezing, are we going inside or not?" She turns around, walking back into the cafeteria. I follow behind, still looking distressed.

She sits down at the table next to Midnights and Nine. 

"Holy fuck Rep? What happened to your arm? Did you get in a fight with a feral cat?" Midnights picks up Reps arms and holds them up, analyzing her scars.

She puts her arms back down. "Something like that." She mutters.  I'm not sure how Midnights didn't pick up on it, but Nine sure did.

"Rep. Don't just shrug that off. I know better than to believe it was a cat." Rep looks up into Nines eyes. 

"Look, it doesn't matter, can we just eat?" Midnights still isn't understanding, so her eyebrows are crinkled, trying to figure out what they are talking about.

1989 just hugs rep tightly, but the wince of the pain shoots her back. "Shit, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just got a bruise on my rib."

Something about Rep lying set off a fire in me. "Rep you can't just keep fucking lying to all of your friends. I don't care if you don't want to talk about it, you can't just hide all of your struggles and problems. So either tell them everything you've told me, or I'll do it myself." I set my water bottle on the table harder than I planned, making it make a loud noise, making a few people look over at us.

"Yeah, well you can't dictate my life." If looks could kill, I'd be like Rep tried to be the other day at our tutoring session. Sorry that was uncalled for.

She grabs her bag and walks away without saying a word. I hear the sound of her shoes walking away until I can't see her anymore.

"Okay, what the fuck was that?" Nine turns back to face me.

"I don't want to say anything she doesn't want me to." I look down at the floor. I felt so bad for her. I could feel the tears start to bubble up in my eyes, but I blinked them away.

Midnights doesn't like my answer. "Either tell us, or I'm going to make you."

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