Once A Stranger, Now A Savior | Life Is Strange / LIS

4.

SEVERAL HOURS LATER.

"What the-" I stuttered, looking at the snowflakes raining down on us. I pushed myself off of the bench, glancing up at the golden sky. I held my hand out, expecting the snow to be some sort of optical illusion, but the cold that made contact with the skin on my hand told me otherwise. "Yo, why the fuck is it snowing?" I called out, asking the other people surrounding me.

Caleb and Sam were too captivated by the snow to notice, seeing that they were staring up at the sky as much as everyone else.

In that moment, I couldn't help but wonder about what Kate was doing at that very moment.

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LIS EPISODE 2.

Leaving the showers the next day wasn't a pleasant sight, seeing that the baboons in the boys dorms were hooting and hollering as always. One thing I noticed about all of them; they were all staring down at their phones.

Mixed expressions were on each of them; Warren looked like a traumatized kid who'd never caught a glimpse of explicit content before, Justin and Trevor almost uncomfortable with what they saw on their screens. I grimaced, remembering what Nathan had told me the day before.

Kate..

"Yo, Theo!" I snapped out of the daze, looking towards Evan. A grim expression fixated his facial features, fixing his glasses as he walked towards me. "Have you seen the.." Evan cleared his throat, not really sure how else to put it, "..you know." I sighed, chewing on the inside of my cheek.

Who else knew about my crush on Kate?

"I don't wanna see it, Evan," I told him, a surprisingly cold tone in my voice. "She doesn't deserve this. What the hell did she do to hurt us? Any of us?"

Evan clenched his jaw, sweeping away any strands of hair which fell out of place. "Ask the people who filmed it."

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SEVERAL HOURS LATER.

The sky was dark, and I had a feeling that it would be pouring down on us at any minute.

"Bro," Sam started, clucking his tongue as he kept staring at his phone, "Kate's porno is pretty fucking hot; I can't stop watching it, but what a fuckin' skank," he added with a cruel laugh. "I mean, just look at how many guys she kissed! I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up with herpes by now!"

I squeezed my sandwich, having trouble swallowing the food that was in my mouth. "And you're telling me this why exactly, Samuel?" I snapped at him, my gaze burning into his flesh when he looked over at me, almost as if he was surprised by how angry I was at him.

Caleb looked over at Sam, who gave him a 'shut the fuck up, he's gonna kick both of our asses at this rate' look. Caleb glanced over at me, unfazed by my temper and the fact that I called these fools my friends. "If you like Kate so much," Caleb started, his voice serious as he continued, "why haven't you found any ways to get people to stop spreading it?"

"Viral videos can't just be stopped," I snapped at him, "I caught Warren watching it for the second time, and I already told him not to do it."

Caleb raised his hands in surrender, sarcastically saying, "Whoa there, Mr. Kewl Kid; trying to act like the sheriff of Blackwell just to get Kate's attention." Sam snickered, causing me to clench my jaw angrily.

"I don't understand why I'm even friends with you idiots," I hissed at them, "What did Kate ever do to you?"

Sam raised his eyebrows at me, shaking his head as he answered, "Don't you get it, Theo? She hasn't necessarily done anything, it's free entertainment, and we're willing to watch."

"By laughing at someone else's expense?" I snapped, the mayo in my sandwich oozing all over my fingers. I shook it in a pathetic attempt of getting rid of it.

Caleb scoffed, replying with, "Kate seemed to be having a lot of fun from what we could see; I mean, look at her go!"

I made sure my eyes remained fixated on Sam and Caleb; though my heart was strong, my mind was weak. My mind let my eyes wander, and they landed on the video playing on Caleb's phone. My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach when I saw Kate in the video. "Oh, Kate.." I whispered, horrified by what I saw on the screen. Kate jumped from person to person, grabbing them and kissing them full on the mouth. My heart clenched with each person she kissed, but.. something was up. "This doesn't make any sense." I mumbled, baffled by what I'd just witnessed.

Sam snorted, grabbing Caleb's phone and bringing it closer to his face, "What could you possibly say to get her out of this? Bro, look at her go!"

I shook my head, my head still spinning because of the confusion and the blood boiling in my body, "She was the one that set up the abstinence campaign, so it wouldn't make sense for her to be.." I stopped talking, feeling dizzy because of the confusion.

"What exactly do you see in her, man?" Sam leaned over and said to me in disgust. "She's a such a slut. You know about the porno being spread across the school, and you saw for yourself!

Caleb shook his head in disappointment, telling me, "Kate Marsh is fucking disgusting."

"She's a fucking skank."

"Slut."

"Whore."

Their words echoed in my head, but none of it meant a thing to me.

"She's beautiful," I said to them, the words slipping out the way a professional ice skater gracefully danced across an ice rink.

Caleb and Sam looked at me in confusion, appalled by the fact that I was defending the girl I loved. "You're calling a hoe beautiful?" Caleb spat at me.

"There are so many other girls here in Blackwell," Sam started, "much hotter girls at that, and you pick Kate fucking Marsh? You could've picked Rachel Amber for all we cared, and she she isn't even here anymore!"

Their words were merely muffled and cloudy in my ears, my heart clenching

And then, I saw her.

Walking out of the school's main building, hugging herself as she walked in careful and calculated steps.

She looked around in paranoia, looking my way for a split second. I could see the bags under her eyes because of the stress and rumors being thrown around about her.

Kate knew she was being watched.

I just wish she knew that not everyone was against her, that there was someone who loved her for who she was, that they'd be there for her till the end.

Unfortunately, she didn't know I even existed, so that defeated the purpose altogether.

I took a look at my watch and cursed, realizing that I'd end up late to class.

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A/N: Oh shit here we go here we go here we go !!

-LGGH AKA Atticus