Elastic Heart

Chapter 6 || Let's Go Frog Hunting

I let out an exhausted sigh as I sat on my bed. The time on my phone said five-thirty.

I mean it's not normal to wake up by that time on a Saturday is it?

I've been having these nightmares once in a blue moon since I came to Hazleton.

I mean it's perfectly normal to be envisioning your bully maltreating you in your dreams right?

I knew I won't be able to fall asleep again so I just picked up my phone from the bedside stool and went online.

I didn't really fancy all these social networks not because I didn't want to fancy them but because of Carolyn.

She created a group on Facebook for my haters. I mean I had alot (I'm that poplular, I know) so I didn't bother opening my account that much because I didn't want to see what they had to say about.

I need to stop running, I need to face my problems head on.

I successfully logged in to the account with ease to see 5 New Notifications. As I said before, so popular.

I went to the notification icon and clicked in it. There was a chat going on in my group. Well the group made by Carolyn for people that didn't have a job to come and bad mouth me so same thing.

It was the expected. Carolyn titled the subject matter as: Bitch Has Departed.

I can't believe she actually left the school.

I bet she ran off with some boy with the promise of a happy ending, pathetic.

She'll still be miserable anywhere she goes because no matter where she goes, she's still the same slut, an attention seeker.

The last one was from Carolyn, no surprise there. I don't why it brought these stupid tears to my eyes. It was stupid that I even bothered to read this.

I knew what I was going to see but actually seeing it is just painful. The worst part is that I think she's right.

I guess I'll stop running some other day.

After I showered I just put on a black short with an alien emoji and blue shorts. I let my hair go naturally and didn't bother to apply make up except my cream.

I listened to some calming music to help me forget about... nope, didn't work, and then went to the kitchen.

As I approached the kitchen I saw Joanne making breakfast while Aaron was sitting down on the revolving chair near the counter reading a newspaper and drinking coffee probably.

"Hey there. How was your night" Joanne said to me with a smile on her face.

"It was alright, yours?" I  asked politely and then I came over to her and asked if she needed any help. She shooed me away from the stove and told me to go sit in one of the revolving chairs.

"Thanks dear. Atleast I now have someone that can actually offer to help me instead of sitting in the chair from morning till day break" Joanne said making fun at her husband.

He just looked at both of us with a bewildered expression, shocked that we would even insinuate that. We all laughed after.

It was just like a real family, not an over kind couple who saved a broken child from teenage condemnation.

I responded with a fine and then greeted Aaron. He took notice of my precense and then gave me a one sided hug and asked me how the first week of school went for me. I just told them the truth.