Flowers || [T.K.]

Chapter 18

Brandon's POV

I spent my night staring at the wall, alone with only my thoughts- which was quite scary. I was incredibly bored. At one point, I was so bored, that I felt like I was going insane, which is what drove me to go into my sisters' room.

They were in the living room, so I was free to snoop around for a short amount of time. I found myself going through their makeup.

Like I said, I was going insane.

It wasn't like I was going to put on lipstick and eyeshadow, then take one of their dresses or something. I was just looking for one particular tool.

It was the pencil. Eyeliner, to be precise. One of their friends had put it on me when I was still in middle school, I thought I was so cool, but when my dad saw me, well, I thought he'd have a heart attack- I haven't worn it since.

I was curious of how I would look in it now, so I grabbed that pencil I was looking for, quickly put everything else back and rushed back into my room.

I exhaled sharply and closed and locked my door. I slowly walked in front of my mirror and stood there. I tried my best to refrain from looking at myself in the mirror as much as possible, but there I was, staring at my ugly self.

I huffed and raised the pencil to my eye.

30 minutes of at least 15 "ow, fuck"s later, I had applied eyeliner. I looked pretty badass- like someone Abby would actually date. Oh, I bet Abby would love the eyeliner.

I looked at myself for awhile, feeling like I was staring at someone completely different- just because I drew on my eyes.

I smiled to myself (ugh, my stupid-ass-flat-smile). I was going to wear it to school, and I was going to be Abby's hardcore boyfriend.

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I avoid my siblings and parents as much as I could before heading off to school, because I was scared that one of them would point out the eyeliner, and my dad would throw a fit.

Nobody really noticed it on the bus, then again, nobody ever noticed me on the bus. I was anxious and trembling as I stepped off the bus and on school grounds. I saw Abby, Dave, Ronnie and Mark casually chatting to each other, and I thought that I'd throw up. Dave and Ronnie were going to make fun of me, I just knew it- and Mark would just lie to my face along with Abby.

I was shaking so much that I could barely walk over to them.

"H-hey," I blurted as I stood within two feet of them.

They paused for a second upon looking at me. Ronnie suddenly grabbed my face, "duuude, what happened to your face, there's something different- did you pluck your eyebrows or something?" He pulled my face closer to his, and for a second I was afraid he was going to kiss me. His eyebrows suddenly flew up. "You're wearing eyeliner!"

"No fucking way!" Dave practically shouted, throwing Ronnie to the side. He too grabbed and observed my face, "holy shit! He is, Flowers is wearing eyeliner!"

"Let me see, let me see," Mark said and pushed Dave out of the way. He stared at me with an eyebrow raised. "Well I'll be damned."

Abby stood beside Mark and observed me, not saying a single word.

I looked down from them, "I knew you guys wouldn't like it, this was a stupid idea."

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Dave roared, throwing an arm around me, "you look awesome!"

I sniffled a little, "really?"

"Hell yeah! It blocks out your wimpy personality!"

"Um- thanks?"