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Ch.10: everyones got problems

Nellys POV
Monday arrived, and I did the usual, went to my locker, etc. but today was different...what was waiting for me was Chloe and her bitches. They were infront of my locker,
"Excuse me, you're in front of my locker" I told her and Chloe didn't move.
"Hey, nerds. So I heard you went to a party with Nick, is that right? If so, why did he choose you? "  Chloe asked, as her bright blue eyes gazed at me and I felt like she wanted to look through my soul.
"Yeah I went to a party with him, nothing big. I owed him a favor, that's all" I replied to her as I tried to push her away from my locker but she slammed her hand on my locker, keeping it closed,
"Listen nerdy girl. I like Nick, and Nick likes me. I mean Im not jelly or anything but...I'm warning you, he would never look at something as ugly as you, right girls?" Chloe asked her bitches. Candice, the second hottest girl, best friends of Chloe only smiled, and twirled her hair.
"Yeah, I mean look. Ugly glasses, no personality, you slouch, no sense of style. Always pants or  sweatpants. Sometimes baggy shirts and never tight cute shirts. Always with converse or rocker boots. Never letting your hair down, yeah. Zero cute." Candice told me as she looked at me up and down. She was the one with the information on anyone at school, she had the phone in her hand at all times. Long nails, and long light brown curly hair. Next was Angela, 3rd best friend, and third hottest chick. the dumbest of the group. But guys liked her for her kisses. Seriously, she fell in love with any guy at first sight if he was hot. And her big boobs were a way of convincing whomever to side with Chloe.
"Oh, her. Isn't that the nerd girl? Oh! It is!! You're actually kinda adorable, of course in the ugly way" Angela commented with a stupid smile. Chloe smirked and looked at me, she leaned closer to my face, and her hand trailed up to hold my chin.
"Sweetie, you're nothing compared to us, don't try to go up the social status. Oh! And I suggest you stop bringing cal down with you, he's far too hot to be at your side" she said as she pushed me hard against the locker, and began walking away. I could hear their heels clicking. I hated them so much. But they were right, I was a nerd, nothing to it. I couldn't make myself better..
When Chloe left, I opened my locker, when someone was behind my locker door.
"Cal, I'm telling you there's nothing-" I began saying when I closed the locker door only to find Nick. He looked at me worried
"I saw what she did, are you okay?" He asked me
"It's none of your business. Besides, go away, your popularity will lower if your by me. Unless you're here to beat me up. In that case just don't waste your time and leave me alone" I told him and he looked at me weird.
"Bully you? I wanted to say I was sorry for not staying by your side at the part-"
"It's cool. I don't care. I had my own fun, met good people, anyways...I'll be leaving before anyone else sees I'm with you" I told him as I began walking away from him as fast as I could. Nicholas stayed by me, until my first period class. I just wanted of keep my distance, I didn't want to be a burden...more than what I was...

After school, cal left to practice, and I walked through the corridors alone. Ready to go home, but I was waiting for cal. When I found the royal bitches in the hallway, I began to turn away. When she called me...
"Nerds! Here! Now!" She yelled. Chloe was demanding. I walked towards her, and saw that she was looking at another nerd...a guy. He was on the wall, Angela's breasts on him, he was looking away as much as he could. But Angela persisted
"Make him understand that we want to see the pictures he has. And only he has" Chloe ordered.
"Leave me alone! The pictures aren't yours" the guy defended himself. He had curly red hair, and braces.. He was slender and kinda not masculine enough ya know.
"What pictures do you have?" I asked him and he looked away, keeping his mouth shut and eyes.
"He has pictures of us. At a party, we were drunk...and stuff went a little bizerk. Okay? So tell him to give them up" Chloe said as she pouted. I was disgusted.
"Give them the pictures" I told him and he shook his head.
"They deserve to be known by the world as the sluts they are, don't you agree Chloe?" He asked with a smirk.
"How the fuck were you there that night?! You shouldn't have been invited in the least!" Chloe yelled,
"Well I definitely got good pictures of your slutty ass" the guy said with another smirk, I must hand it to him, he was interesting.
"Give them back!" She yelled at him. Angela's hands began trailing down to his crotch, and his cheeks turned red.
"Leave me alone! I'm not giving them up, besides they're not with me" he managed to say, although it was clear he was almost being sexually harassed, okay he was being sexually harassed. I began to back away, ready to just leave, turn a blind eye...but something over came me. I had the urge to defend him, he was like me after all...in some way
"Leave him alone, Chloe! It's his pictures, even if they have you in it. Besides you should, learn to take care of your public life whatever it is" I told her and she looked furious, before I knew it she had slapped me. Hard across the face. Her long nails scratching my cheeks.
"You bitch! How fucking dare you interfere! He has something I need, and want! I get what I want! For example, if I want you hurt. I'll make it happen, if I want cal, I'll make it happen. If I want Nick. I'll make it happen, understood sweetie? Or does your big brain not understand words anymore? Have you gotten too smart to understand simple things?" Chloe told me in her most hateful voice...I held my cheek, it did hurt.
"I understand, but those pictures are his, not yours! So leave him al-" I began saying when Chloe slapped me once more, and harder. Her slap was harder, causing me fall to the ground. Who knew she was actually strong. I stood up and slapped her back. Candice smiled, and had her phone out, ready to record a fight but she stopped before pressing the button.
"Chloe, let's go, leave the nerds to their romance, we will get the pictures some other way" Candice said as Chloe was already grabbing me by my hair, and I did the same. Both of us, ready to just fight.
"No!" Chloe yelled as she and I fell to the ground, she was on top of me, trying her best to, I think...break my head but I toppled her off in a matter of seconds. Beginning to fight her, but before I could properly punch her I  was pulled off of her.
"Nelly! Leave her alone!" Cal's voice began saying, and I began squirming, throwing punches and trying to hurt someone. When Chloe began fake crying.
"She just attacked me!! I just wanted to talk to her- and she-" Chloe broke out in a sob, goddamn bitch, I forgot she was in theatre class. The bitch. Cal looked at me in disbelief,
"Nelly! How could you?" Cal told me, and I felt my anger rise up. He had let me go, but I ran back to Chloe, grabbing her by her hair, and throwing her against the lockers, I was done with her bullshit
"Bitch! Fucking liar!" I yelled out as I had thrown her against the locker. Chloe cried even harder, as she clung to Candice.
"She's so violent! Cal do something!" Chloe cried out.
I saw that Angela and the nerd guy were out of sight.
"Nelly! Calm down! Stop!" Cal yelled at me, when he grabbed me roughly by my wrists and looked straight into my eyes, I saw a huge rage mixed with disappointment in his eyes,
"Go ahead and believe that low life bitch over me, your best friend. Believe them, the people with a higher social status over me, after all you're just like them, aren't you?" I yelled at him with anger. He looked hurt for second and then it changed to anger.
"So what if I'm like them! It's not like you would understand right? You would never understand this world over your stupid fictional worlds!" He yelled back at me, and I was hurt. He knew he hit the soft spot in my heart.. I nodded in understandment.
"I see...so that's how things are huh? I guess...it's fair.." I mumbled as I began to walk past him but he grabbed my hand and I shook it off.
"Nelly I didn't-"
"Get off! Get the fuck away from me, these were your true feelings! I get it! Fuck off then. Actually I'll do that right now" I told him as I began leaving,not turning back. Leaving him. I felt the biggest urge to cry, but I wasn't going to let that be.

Nicks POV
I didn't have practice at all, and as I played the piano alone in my home, my heart began aching so badly. The pain was unbearable. It made me want to cry out in desperation and cry about it like a child. I stopped playing piano, and placed a hand to my heart, desperately wanting it to go away. When the pain started reducing, and I felt like I could hear someone crying. I looked sound the room to find no one, no one was at home today except me, and maybe a maid or two but...there was no one. Before I knew it, he was sitting on my couch.
"You know, you two are connected, so you get her emotions...she's quite reckless isn't she? She's beautiful in her own dark way.." Cupid said to me with a smirk as he held a rose in his hands. He was gazing at the Rose, with curiosity, yet mischief in his eyes.
"What the hell are you talking about?" I asked him
"You know, nerd girl, the cute one of course...well she is the only one" Cupid told me...it took me a while to understand what he was saying
"She's hurt? Where is she-"
"Find her yourself, anyways, I just passed by to say that" he told me as he snapped his fingers and was gone. Damn him. Damn him I hated him, and I hated myself for not knowing nelly enough. I took my phone out and began calling her... She picked up on the first call.
"Nick?" She asked, her voice was broken, and she was sniffling.
"Where are you?" I asked her, going to the garage, picking out a new car. A Ferrari.
"The park...just needed some alone time" she managed to say despite her broken voice
"I'll be there in a few minutes, okay?" I told her as I headed out in my car to find her.

I got to the park, and walked around, until I found her behind a tree, sitting on the ground. Her eyes were puffy from crying, and she clung to herself. Alone, she looked so fragile and still beautiful.. She looked up at me and put on a smile, despite her tears. I could see she was broken.
"Hey" she managed to say with a laugh as it turned to a sob. I sat at her side, on the ground.
"What happened?" I asked, as I put an arm around her, to comfort her, and she cried.
"Cal...got mad....and" sniffle "I fought Chloe...the bitch-" sniffle "cal got mad at me for fighting her, eventhough he didn't let me explain and accused me of being too violent and-and" sniffle "I called him mean things and then-" sniffle "he hurt me-" and sob.
I couldn't help it, she was still beautiful despite the crying, I used my Jacket to clean her face, I didn't care about getting it dirty to be honest.
"Hey, it's all right, you and cal will figure it out, you 2 have been best friends since...well...I think since forever right? I met you guys in freshman year so i don't know" I managed to say and she wiped her tears.
"He's a fucking idiot, I know he belongs to your world. Maybe not the rich one, but the popular one. He's always chosen them over me, he's always said it was a way to drive attention from me...and I believed him...but I realized...he is part of their world...he's popular, attractive, kind, gentle, athletic...smart....and look at me...I'm a nerd, glasses on, ponytail high, sweatpants and baggy shirts. Converse. Pants and never caring for how I look...I'm smart and that's about it" she told me, as he tears still strolled down her face. When she let out s sigh and looked up, gazing at the trees branches. "You know....I used to want to be pretty...I used to want to be like Chloe...but when I realized they were as fake as paper promises...I couldn't deal with it. I never tried, I mean yeah...they called me ugly, they called me idiot, they called me smart ass, they called me a whore, a bitch and so much more despite I hadn't even done anything...then you came.... The guy who would see me, and almost always hurt me every time he could. The guy who shoved me against the lockers, punching me straight in the face or stomach, kicking me down. Telling me I was nothing...and I didn't know what I had done to you...when I slowly realized I beat you at school and you hated that...it hurts ya know? I have hated myself, I have put a blade to my skin yet I couldnt pull it and let the blood run....I couldn't end my life because iM a coward and I love life....To know all these feelings have been welled up inside me and I haven't let them go for almost 3years..." Nelly said as she sipped her own tears and sighed in relief, beginning to smile up at the sky. "But its okay...I learned to not show as much emotion anymore, even to cal..despite the fact I always felt lonely when he wasn't there"
"Im sorry.." Was all I managed to say when she laughed
"Sorry? You're sorry after so long? Now you decide to treat me as a human, it's cool man. I guess I would've hated myself as well...not that I haven't. But...eh...im strong, haven't cut, haven't tried to suicide, haven't done drugs, I'm glad to be alive...that's all" she said with a proud smile.
"Im...really sorry" I told her again, and I felt my heart heavy, she smiled at me, and placed a hand gently on my cheek.
"I said it's alright, besides...I can see you're actually human too, you have your own problems right?" She asked me, and I nodded....ready to tell her my life story..