Broken

Chapter 26: Someone Did Their Research

Astrid

It's been days since that incident in the lunch hall and me and Hayden have never been happier together. Yep you heard me, together. We are now officially a couple and it's the best feeling ever. Also I have got a little confidence that has kicked in through my veins I wanna make Jay pay for what he did to me. It may have been all of them but Jay is the one who needs to pay the most because he is the one who caused all of it.

I was sat on my bed doing my Film Studies assignment while Kerri was reading a book called 'The Summoning' by Kelley Armstrong which I gave her and surprisingly she is enjoying it. Trust me when I say this she isn't the type who loves to read and that is a true fact. Just like Hayden hmm. I couldn't do my assignment I couldn't concentrate all I could think about was how I could get back at Jay. "Hey you alright there?" Kerri called out to me.

My head shot up from the screen and turned to her "Um yeah I'm good thanks," she closed the book and sat on the edge of her bed. "You sure because you were staring at that screen for about 15 minutes typing nothing." Whoa it was that long I didn't even realize? I thought to myself. I closed my laptop screen shut and pulled my legs so they were handing over the edge of the bed sitting exactly like Kerri was so we were facing each other exactly.

"Okay so I wanna get back at Jay but I don't know how, all I know is that I want him to suffer just like I did and let him feel the pain that I had to face, something that will cut deep down inside him that he hides away from the world just like I have but isn't very secret anymore," her eyes widened when I said all that. It wasn't until after I said that until I realized how cruel that sounded. "Now your turning into a bad girl maybe Hayden will love you even more!" she chuckled. I did too. I will admit it did feel kinda nice to feel this way.

"Anyway you got any ideas?" I asked her. She thought for a moment and looked back at me "I have just the thing...."

<lunch hall>

I walked in and sat with the girls along with Hayden, James and Zac with a few of Hayden's other friends and it was all good. We were all happy and having a laugh until. "What makes you think you have the right to be happy and have a laugh after all that you have done eh," i turnt behind me to see Jay and Merida and all the others glaring down at us. "Oh don't worry Merida she will never be rid of the ghost of the death of her parents especially knowing it was all her fault," Jack got up in my face at the last part.

I suddenly got out of my seat, Hayden pulling me back down but I let go so I was still standing, Jay getting ready for a punch, but that wasn't what I was gonna do to him, I was gonna do something much worse this time.

"Oh yeah but what about your mother and father eh," everyone in the lunch hall stopped. One thing I know about this story I was gonna tell is that no one has ever heard about the life of Jack Frost. Except of course all of his friends, the people he cares about. "You know nothing about my mother and father," he got close up to my face again with his eyes forming a glare as deep as hell but mine were deeper.

"You had a lovely family you, your sister Emma, mother and father, the perfect family that anyone could ever ask for. But then one day your mother went with another guy, you found out but didn't want to say anything but sooner than later your dad found out and your mother said she would rather be with him than be with your father. She left and you were left alone with your father and sister. Your mother would message you in all the ways possible so she could still keep contact with you, phone calls, text, and letters. But one day it all just stopped and you wouldn't get one letter or phone call or text.

Soon your father got sick, really sick and there was no cure for what he had. A few weeks later he died and there was nothing else you could do but go and find your mother and live with her. When you got there you realized that her and this new man she was with had another child and called him Ash. Now Ash was mean to you but he loved your sister. Whenever something bad happened in the house or you were fighting he would always put the blame on you and your mother would believe him and cradled him like she didn't even care for you at all.

As you started to grow your mother got cancer, the type which could not be fixed and cured. Before she said her goodbye's she apologised to you for not being the mother she should have been to you. Tears ran from your face and she and you said goodbye. Ash blamed you for her death, saying she never got ill only until you showed up and he blamed you for everything and said her death was your entire fault. When the years were passing you stayed out of the way as much as possible. Soon you were able to go to college and that was the best part of your life because you could get away from him and all the lies which he told."

When I finished Jay had tears streaming through his eyes but he wouldn't let them fall which would show that he was weak. Which we all knew that he wasn't. "How do you know that?" his voice was cracking with anger and sadness. "Looks like someone did their research," I said when getting up in his face. Everyone was sort of speechless about what was going on others I could hear were whispering.

"You don't know what happened so don't go-," I cut him off "Blaming you, that's the difference with you and me I state the facts unlike you, you go and blame people when you don't know the whole story and I'm not blaming you because I know that it wasn't your fault," I began to walk away when he calls back "What do you want?" I turned back around to face him and said "For you to leave me alone we're equal now so let it go," he nodded at me and I walked out the hall feeling proud of myself.

I was soon joined by someone tracing their fingers through mine "Well done angel," I whispered back "Thanks," I looked up to see Hayden smiling at me.