No one really knows her....

Chapter 4: She's bullied

Third person POV

   Iris has been clean for almost 4 and a half months but she has been getting bullied lately. She hasn't been bullied since middle school when she wore her hair in pigtails and wore nerd glasses but over summer before high-school she completely changed her appearance. She thought it would make people notice her but it didn't, sadly.
So she had been walking to her 2nd period and she noticed a lot of people were staring at her like more than usual. So Iris went up to Rebecca and asked her
"Hey do you know why everyone is staring at me?"
Rebecca just stared at Iris with eyes that looked so sad and she pulled out her phone and went on Instagram. She went to go show Iris a picture and it displayed a picture of a girl with cuts all over her arm and it said in the caption
"Hope you have fun slitting your wrists IRIS."
It was all over Instagram. Iris couldn't believe what she just saw. She snatched Rebecca's phone and fell to the floor crying. Reading the picture over and over again. As Iris was crying she looked up at Rebecca and asked
"Who did this Rebecca, why would someone do this, the only person that knew was you and....ELIZABETH!!!"
Iris couldn't believe that Elizabeth would do something like this. She ran to the bathroom and checked to see if anyone was in there. No one was. She ran to a stall, closed the door. Then locked it and just started screaming and crying. She screamed until she couldn't scream anymore. Then she heard someone start to walk into the bathroom and she shut up and didn't even breathe. Whoever it was started talking. Then Iris realized who it was. It was Elizabeth. Iris listened in on their conversation. She said
"That little hoe Iris is gonna pay now, I wasn't gonna tell anyone about her 'habit' but when she started dating Travis, I had to get payback." Iris gasped at the fact that she did this because of Travis. She had no idea that Elizabeth liked him. But now that she thought more and more she did notice that Elizabeth flirted with him a lot before they started going out. Iris had heard Elizabeth and her friend or whoever was with her walking out of the bathroom. She decided to suck it up. Her mascara was all under her eyes. "Crap why didn't I wear my waterproof mascara today" she was thinking. She brought out some mascara from her bag and eyeliner. They were both waterproof. "Thank gosh" she thought to herself. She grabbed a paper towel and poured water over it. She started to clean herself up and she applied the eyeliner then the mascara. She looked a whole lot better. She plastered a fake smile and walked out of the bathroom. She went to 2nd period and the day flew by so fast until she got to 8th period. She didn't even know what Travis was going to say to her. She walked really fast to her seat and sat down. Travis wasn't there yet thank god. Iris had started unpacking everything when Travis walked in. He went up behind her and told her to stand up. Iris stood up and the first thing Travis did was give her a huge hug. Iris was so confused at that point. She had no idea why he was doing this. She pulled him away and looked up at him
"Why are you giving me a hug?"
"Because I can, your my girlfriend right?"
Iris said "Yes but didn't you see the thing Elizabeth posted all over Instagram, aren't you gonna break up with me?"
"Why would I break up with you because of that, then I would just hurt you more and I don't want to do that because I love you Iris."
It was the first time Travis had said I love you to Iris. She was so surprised, she could barely speak
"I...I love you too Travis."
She then wrapped her arms around him and held on for what seemed like forever.
"I just want to know why you do it, why didn't you come and talk to me?"
"I...I couldn't have talked to you, I thought you would've broken up with me. I didn't even tell Elizabeth, I have no idea how she found out."
"Well I'm here for you baby girl, I'll try and always be here for you."
"Thanks Travis"
Iris kissed him one last time before the bell rang and everyone had to get in there seats.

Two hours later at home...

"MOM WHAT ARE WE HAVING FOR DINNER?" Iris had yelled from her room
"I WAS GOING TO THROW SOME PIZZAS IN THE OVEN, IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU?"
"YES MAM THATS FINE"
Iris was sitting on her bed going through Instagram scrolling through a bunch of pictures. When she saw the same one that made her break down crying this morning. She couldn't handle the bullying anymore. She went in her bathroom. Opened the draw and was shuffling through everything trying to find her razor. She finally found it and she closed her bathroom door. She leaned over the sink and started to slowly cut her arm. Side to side slowly so she could feel the pain. Now her arm was covered with cuts. She fell to the bathroom floor and started crying. She curled up in a ball just lay there crying. She heard her mom yell
"Come get your pizza, it's ready."
"Oh crap." Iris thought to herself. She wiped off her face and the blood on hers arm. She grabbed her jacket and put it on before she yelled back
"Yes mam, I'll be there in a minute."
"Okay" her mom yelled back. She glanced at herself one more time in the mirror and could see bags forming under her eyes from not getting enough sleep and crying so much. She just shrugged it off and went to go get her pizza because she was starving.
She was walking down the hallway and could smell the pizza. It smelled so good. When she finally got to the kitchen, she grabbed the plate with her pizza on it and sat at the bar. Her mom was staring at her and her jacket. Iris noticed and said
"What, what's wrong, is there something on me?"
"No I'm just trying to figure out why you are wearing a jacket inside."
"Oh, well um, I got cold and put a jacket on, is that okay with you?"
"Yes sweetie it's fine, I was just confused."
They both looked at each other and bust out laughing. Iris ate the rest of her pizza and headed back to her room. She put on her PJ's and went to bed.