I Saved Her

The confession

Juliet POV

I was walking down the hallway of our school when I was grabbed around the waist and a hand was kept over my mouth. I was dragged into a nearby janitors closet and saw 4 familiar faces. Jeremy. Andy. Alex. Derek. I wondered what was so important.

"So," began Alex,"we see you have scars."

"Oh that's nothing," I quickly replied.

Jeremy argued and said," Juliet what are you not telling us? We want to help."

"Please." begged Derek.

Andy put his arm around me and I had grown fond of him over the weekend. So I told them. "My whole life I have been stereotyped as weird. Just because I wore glasses, a ponytail, and always got A's. I was classified as the useless nerd and that plus the problems with my family was almost too much to bare."

"What family problems?" Andy interrupted.

"My mom and dad died. And I blamed myself for it. I was 3 years old and we were on the freeway. I asked my mom to change the song on the radio and when she reached for the knob, she didn't see the drunk driver driving on the wrong side of the road. My dad was sleeping so he couldn't help. We hit head on 65 miles per hour. When I was 16 the problems got worse and I started to suffer from depression. I started to cut my arms thinking I needed to feel more pain to make it up to them." I ended. I hadn't realized I started crying. I quickly stopped and saw Andy had let go of my shoulder and let his hand hang. I grabbed it before I knew what I was doing. Then I saw a small grin form on his face. When the other boys left it was just me and Andy.

"I know I don't know you that well, but I was wondering if you wanted to go to prom with me." Andy asked.

I was amazed that somebody would ask me to prom so I responded gratefully. "Yes, I would love to."

I had already gotten the perfect outfit when I went shopping yesterday, so all I needed to worry about was my hair. And seeing how prom was this Saturday and it was Thursday, I needed some help from Google.

After searching for hours I finally found a YouTube video that explained how to do an easy side bun and how to leave your bangs out, curled.

It was 9:00 p.m. so I took a shower and got in bed. I can't believe I didn't tell the guys about my nightmares. They were terrible. Every night, every night. I fell asleep and the nightmare began on cue.

I was at school. The school's popular girl Kadence Matthews was walking towards me with her minions April and Lexi. Kadence pushed me into a locker and I cut my wrist. She didn't seem to care due to the fact she started talking. "Your worthless and pathetic. Don't think you will ever have a boyfriend or any friends your too stupid. Nobody is ever going to want you. Even your parents should be ashamed. Oh wait, you don't have any, right? You are the reason your parents died. Just leave Earth." I had started crying because this had actually happened.

I woke up in a cold sweat and saw that it was 6 a.m. I got out of bed and walked to the shelf that held my glasses. The all too familiar feeling of tears started to run down my face. I picked up my glasses and stepped on them. Enough of this. I've had enough pain.

I had never skipped a day of school in my life, but today was different. I threw on a pair of denim short shorts and light pink crop top. I grabbed my purse after I did my make up, and went to the mall. My light pink bug (my car) was parked in the shade so it didn't get to hot. I went into the mall and made a beeline for Hair World, a salon.

2 hours later I walked out of the salon my hair wavy with light pink streaks. I guess you have noticed I absolutely adore light pink. When I got back home, I saw a black Jeep parked in my driveway. Andy.He was sitting on the bench by the door and got up when he saw me.

"Hey." he said.

"What are you doing here?" I asked coming off rude.

"Oh I decided if you weren't going to school something must be up. Nice hair." He opened my door and I cursed as I realized that I forgot to lock the door.

We put on Jurassic World but didn't really pay attention. "Andy," I began but he cut me off.

"Julez this has to stop don't hurt yourself anymore. I care about you too much to see you get hurt. And before you say anything I have something I need to say. I have liked you ever since you came to our school 2 years ago. I was too stupid to say anything though, and I wish I could go back. I wish I could go back and protect you from all the pain you have felt. Do you even realize what would have happened to you if we hadn't stopped you? You would have been dead and I would be miserable. Promise me you will never self harm again, and if you get the urge you will call me."

"I promise." I said it was all I could manage. Without saying anything I went to my room and brought back a small jar of red paint and a paint brush. I went outside and Andy followed me. "Come on, we're going to paint." I went into the small shed where I kept my art supplies and I brought out several more brushes and jars. I led Andy to the wall of my house and we started painting, well I did.

"I don't know how to paint." he said astonished.

"It's easy all you do is think of something to paint, get the colors, and begin." I replied in the middle of painting a red heart on the wall.

"Ok," was all he said. " I think I'll be right back." He came back with a pencil and paper and started drawing. 5 hours later I had finished painting a beach and sunset, and Andy had finally finished his picture. I went over to look at it and I gasped. It was me painting a red heart. It was beautiful.

"I love you Juliet."Andy said.

"I love you too." and that was an ending to a perfect day.