Rumor Has It

Chapter 6

Ty's POV

"It's about you." I say as I read some more. Dane looks at me with a hug amount of curiosity.
"What is that?" He asks going to take it from me. I send him daggers and he holds his hands up in defense.
"Seriously Ty. What is it and why am I in it?" He asks looking at the book as if it were a map to a hidden treasure.

"It's Ez's diary thing." I say closing it but keeping my finger in it so I don't lose the page. He looks at me with wide eyes and his jaw slightly open.
"Why do you have it?" He asks his voice going higher. I put my hand over his mouth and he takes it off.
"Ty why do you have her diary?" He asks again but quieter.

"We bumped into each other in the hall and she dropped her books and ran off without taking it. And I'm reading it because it could tell us what actually happened to start all the rumors about her." I say opening it back up. He nods understandingly and gets up, walks around to the other side of my bed, and grabs a pillow and a blanket before laying down on the ground.

I give a light laugh and start my reading again.

"Today has been shit! I don't know what I did to deserve this but someone and I think I may know who started this terrible rumor! Basically what happened today was my boyfriend, well ex boyfriend now, broke up with me because someone started a rumor about how I cheated on Dane when I didn't! I would never do that! And especially to Dane! First off, that's Ty's best friend, and second off, I'm not a whore! What the rumor was is that I cheated on Dane with 3 guys from our rival school, Lockdale High. First off, I'm like, the shyest person on the planet and I would never date anyone from that school! Besides I'm prude and Dane should know that."

I finish up reading the page and let it sink in. Yeah Ez is very prude. Yeah Ez is super shy. Yeah Ez would never date anyone from Lockdale High. They are all to clingy and their hormones are out of control. I slowly and carefully push myself up till
I'm I'm on my hands and knees. I slowly raise off my hands and the ice pack slides off of my back and onto my legs. I groan and slowly turn around, putting the diary under my pillow.

I look over at Dane who is sound asleep and start to think. Why would he ever dump Ez if he knew those things about her. He knew she was prude and shy, so why would he break up with. I rub my temples after those thoughts because they started to give me a headache.

I gently go back onto my stomach after Ruben gets re adjusted on my bed. I lay my head on the pillow and close my eyes, letting my brain and body relax and I fall into a deep, dreamless, sleep.

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I wake up to slobber on my face. I use my hand to push away whatever monstrosity is doing this to me. I open on eye only to be met with a wet slobbery tongue.
"Ah, ew! Come on Ruben." I say in a joking manner making him wag his tail.

I place my hands on the bed and carefully get up making sure to not irritate my back anymore than it is. Once I'm on my knees I look over my shoulder and see that Dane is gone. That's weird, he usually stays with me till I'm able to walk. I internally shrug and stand up.

I carefully make my way to standing straight up. Once I'm on my feet I slowly start to move across the floor, dragging my feet all the way to the bathroom. I open the door and make my way in. I stop in front of the mirror and take a deep breath before lifting my shirt over my head.

I look at all the scars that are on my body and sigh. My Abbs have scars on them, so do my hips and my chest. I turn around and see how bad my back is. I cringe at the sight of purple and blue lines across my back and the cuts that opened up during the hits.

I bawl my fists as I look at the blue and purple mess on my back. It covers up previous scars and I shake my head. This isn't anything new to me. I've gotten used to the beatings. I'm basically numb to it. Since the 8th grade I've gone through this. I protected my mother so nothing would happen to her. She took my little brother and left. She left with my only hope of getting away.