Why...? ❦ ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 ❦

Chapter 2

'Finally! School is over! Oh, wait... I still have to meet up with her, maybe I could ditch her and forget about what she wanted to tell me? That would be great for me. I hate arriving home late.' Jess let out an annoyed groan as she closed her locker, throwing her empty backpack over her shoulder. 'Fuck it, I'm going, I am a little curious.' Jess smirked as she stepped out of the school entrance and stopped when she spotted her, she felt regretful, an uneasy feeling inside her chest for some reason and she knew that she didn't like this feeling in her chest. Jess was about to walk towards the parking lot, but her legs decided to go in the opposite direction of where she didn't want to go. By the time her legs carried her there, she stood beside Zoe, Jess leaned her back on the tree. It was quiet, she enjoyed the sounds of birds chirping and the rustling trees, and the gentle wind that was caressing her cheek as if to calm her anxiety. Sadly it didn't last long when Zoe opened her mouth. "I had a feeling that you would chicken out to face me, so I was waiting for you here instead, so let's get straight to the point. I know the truth, Jess." Jess felt both the world and the time had stopped, oh no. Zoe couldn't possibly know her true feelings. Jess was screaming in her head, terrified about what Zoe had to say next, she didn't want to jump to conclusions as she could be wrong, so she let her continue, she kept quiet but was still panicking. "I know your secret. Your bisexual." Jess stiffen a little more, 'shit. She knows.' Jess pushed the thought in the back of her mind when all of a sudden she felt a strong push, which caused her to stumble down onto the ground, 'fuck me and my weakness.' Jess kept quiet, not wanting to move. 'Great, I'll be having double the bruises from both her and him...' Jess felt Zoe pulling her collar shirt, she looked into her dark brown eyes, Jess didn't need to know how Zoe felt: she was disgusted, by her. Jess didn't show any emotion, "you sicken me, Jess, I don't know why anyone would hang out with you, not to mention date you. You're useless and a freak! I was so stupidly blind when I first met you and I'm so glad that I stopped talking to you before I knew the truth!" Jess tried her best not to flinch at those words, they hurt... "Fucking talk freak!" She felt her punching her right jaw, but she didn't flinch nor speak, she kept the same emotionless expression, and she didn't look at her. 'She really hates me. She is disgusted by me. I'm disgusting...' "Talk you piece of shit!" Another punch to her left cheek. "Spea-" "enough!" Jess felt numb. 'That voice... Who is it coming from? I couldn't tell if I was staring at the voice or her, I can't feel myself, I'm numb.' "You can't tell me what to do!" "Let go of my wolf. Now." She did, but she threw her aggressively toward the voice. "I don't know why you care about that freak. She's useless. Pathetic. I wish she was never born." 'Those words hurt me like a knife stabbing me in my chest multiple times or worse.' She felt warm arms around her waist, burying her bloody and bruised face to the soft warmth of their chest, sniffing silently, it was Nicholas. He would always smell like the woods. she liked it, it would always calm her mind. "Stop with your lies and leave my wolf alone. Go home. I don't want to hurt anyone." "Whatever, I don't want to waste my time with you freaks." Jess heard the grass shuffling and then the clicks of her heels on the pavement, and after that, silence. "Hey, don't cry Jess. I'm here. I'm here. You're safe, she won't hurt you anymore." She felt his cold thumb wiping her tears gently, as he was afraid to cause her more pain than she already was, Jess couldn't help but flinch. He frowned when he saw this and without warning, he pulled her into a warm embrace, as if holding her broken pieces together. "Did she hurt you?" She only nodded as she couldn't trust her voice, "does it hurt a lot? If you want. You can stay over at my place for a couple of days, I'm sure my mom wouldn't mind." Jess nodded again, gripping the back of his shirt, she felt scared. 'I don't want to see him, not today.' Jess felt him carrying her bridal style, he was careful enough to not hurt her. 'He has always been my hero when it comes to people hurting me, I'm thankful, but I need to start defending myself, I can't always rely on others to protect me, I have to be strong, I don't want to be a burden anymore.' Jess smiled a little, hiding her face in his chest, "thanks for saving me, Nicholas." Her voice muffled, she felt him holding her a little tighter but not enough to hurt her broken body. "I'll always be your hero, Wolf..." The last words she didn't get to hear because the darkness consumed her.