Nightingale (Haleb)

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Hanna-
I head outside. I take out another one of my lighters and a cigarette. I start to smoke. I close my eyes and feel myself relax a bit. I finish the cigarette and then I head back inside. I take a couple drinks from my flask. I keep it in my purse all the time.

I walk to my English class. I walk in. "Miss Marin. Nice of you to join us." Mr. Fitz says. "Whatever." I say and sit down in the back. 

I see someone staring at me. I look over at him and see that it's the guy from yesterday. He goes here? I never knew. He smiles at me. I just look away.

The bell rings.

"Miss Marin, can you stay behind? I need to talk to you." He says. I roll my eyes and walk over there. "What?" I ask. "You really need to pull your grades up in order to graduate Hanna. Your failing my class with a 34." "Yeah. But I bet Aria is passing it, isn't she? I mean sleeping with the teacher really pays off. Does she have like 100 here?" I ask.

"Aria puts effort towards this class Hanna. That's why she has good grades." He says. "Yeah Whatever. I'm out of here." I say and leave.

In the hallway, I bump into someone. I look at them. "I'm sorry, I'm trying to find my way to math." He says. I snap out of my trance. "With who?" I ask. "Mrs. Sommers" he says. "It's down the hall to your right." I say. "Thanks." He says. He smiles and keeps looking at me.

I turn and start to walk away. "Wait! Can I at least know your name?" He asks. I slightly turn around,"Hanna." I say. "I'm Caleb. Caleb Rivers." He says. I just wink at him and leave. I walk to my next class which just so happens to be the same class as Caleb.

"Miss Marin. Glad your here." I just walk to the back of the class and sit in the corner.

Alison looks back at me and smirks but I just give her the finger and mentally cuss her out.

"Mr. Rivers, right?" The teacher asks Caleb. "Yes ma'am." Caleb says. "Well there's only one empty seat left next to miss Marin." She says. "Miss Marin raise your hand please." She says. I just look at her like she's a fucking idiot. I don't want to raise my hand. I'm not a little kid anymore ma'am. I say to myself. I raise my hand and roll my eyes at the teacher.

He sits next to me.

He looks at me for a while and then start to listen to the teacher. I just take out my drawing book and start to draw in my book. I draw a girl. She was sitting, but she had a picture in front of her face. It's was somewhat like a mask. I am so into my drawing that I don't hear Caleb talking to me. He waves his hand in front of my face. "Huh?" The bell rang like 10 minutes ago.

"Oh." I say. I get up from my seat and put my book away. "Your quite the artist miss Marin." He says and smirks. I roll my eyes. "Whatever." I say.

I head to my next class.

I sit in my usual seat and continue to draw. It's lunch time now. I walk out of the building. I go to the back and light up a cigarette. I start to smoke.

I exhale and I see the smoke go out. I smile. "What are you doing out here?" I hear someone ask. I look over and see that it's Caleb. "What does it look like I'm doing dumbass?" I ask. "You want a smoke?" I ask him holding out my pack of cigars. "No thanks." He says.

"What are you doing here?" I ask. "I saw you walk out so I though I would ask you if you wanted to eat with me." "I don't eat school food." I say. "I barely eat food in general." I say.

I finish my cigarette. "Hanna?" I hear someone call my name. "Emily how many damn times do I have to fucking tell you to stop! I'm not going to keep this shit up any longer!" I yell at her. I walk away. Why doesn't she just take a break from this? I ask myself.

Caleb-
"You know her?" I ask. "Yeah. Me and Hanna used to be best friends up until a couple months ago." The girl says. She was tall and had tan skin. She had long dark hair and almond shaped brown eyes. "What happened?"

"Her and our other friend, Aria, got into a fight, she expected us to back her up but we didn't. That was the last time she ever spoke to us again. I have tried to apologize many times, but she doesn't listen. She just cussed me out, gives me the finger and leaves." She says. "Oh."

"Yeah. She used to be different, before everything that happened. She lost her mom two years ago. After that, she started to isolate herself away from everyone. I helped her get back on her feet, but then the fight with Aria happened 4 or so months back and she left school for like 2 months. When she came back, she had black streaks in her hair, she started dressing differently. She stopped hanging out with us. She started smoking, and doing other stuff." She says.

She sounded sad. "I'm Emily by the way." She says. "Caleb." I reply. "Nice meeting you, I should go know. The girls are waiting for me." She says and leaves.

I watch her walk away. I wonder what Hanna was like before. How did her mom die?

I need to find out more about her. If it's the last thing I do.