My Muted Music Love

Chapter Seven

Chapter 7

Elizabeth

"I've been waiting a long time for this." They said before putting their lips on mine.

I stood frozen in shock, my eyes wide open whilst their rough lips moved on mine. I saw a bright light that made my eyes shut and heard a click. That had brought me back to my senses as I pushed whoever this person was away from me. They stole my first kiss! And I don't know who it is. Not wanting to stay in the dark room any longer, I quickly felt my way to the door and fumbled a bit with the door knob before opening the door and running out of the school.

I can't believe someone would just kiss me like that. I don't even know who it was. I shake the thoughts out of my head. I need to stop thinking about it. Even though they took a moment that should be special and used it to make me feel used and dirty. When I got to the orphanage I ran up into my room, dropped my stuff, and fell on my bed.

As soon as my face hit the pillow I started crying. The tears flowing down my face like a waterfall. I hate school, I absolutely hate it! I have no friends, no one likes me, all of my teachers look down on me with pity, and I can't stand up for myself because of my lack of voice. I don't understand. What did I do to deserve this? Why do I have to be such a freak? What would my parents think of how badly I turned out? They are probably disappointed in me. I mean, why wouldn't they be? I continue to cry until I tire myself out and cry myself to sleep.

I wake up in the middle of the night with a silent scream. I had another nightmare. I wipe the sweat off my brows and check the time. I see that it's four-thirty so I decide to play my guitar. I grab it and after tuning it a bit, start strumming it. It surprisingly doesn't make me feel any better or calmer about anything. Playing it just made me feel a bit irritated so I just stopped after a few minutes of playing. I look at the time to see that it's a quarter to five and decide to get ready for school early.

I wear the jeans I wore a couple days ago, a plain tee-shirt and my thin jacket. I tie up my hair into a ponytail and slip on my shoes. I make breakfast for everybody and check the time when I'm finished. It's only ten after six so I decide to take a walk around the town before going to school.

I walk out of the orphanage and pull my jacket tighter around me to keep me warmer. I just aimlessly walk around places that I've never seen before for a long time, just enjoying everything surrounding me. The colorful leaves falling off of the trees, the light blue sky with a few clouds floating about, the sun shining on everything below it, and the wind passing through the air. I felt so calm and at peace. That is until I realised that I have to get to school.

I sigh and head towards where I assume the school is. When I finally reach the building, I duck my head down and try to make sure no one notices me. When I reach my locker, I am shocked to see what is taped on it. On my locker is a picture of me in the closet kissing some guy I've never seen in my life. My eyes fill with tears, but I blink them back and rip the photo off of my locker.

I stuff my things into my locker and rush to my first class. I get to class right when the bell rings and sit in my seat. Instead of paying attention to what the teacher is saying, I get lost in my own thoughts. Who is that guy in the picture? Who took the picture? How many people actually saw the picture? Why does all of this have to happen to me?

"Hey, so I saw the picture of you kissing Jake." I'm snapped out of my thoughts by Nick. I look at him and tilt my head to the side. So that's the guy's name.

"So, you would kiss him, but you won't go on a date with me?" He questions with an irritated expression on his face. I shake my head repeatedly.

"It doesn't matter, I don't care about you anymore. But just as a warning, he has an overly-jealous girlfriend you need to look out for." My eyes widen at this and Nick gets a smug look on his face before turning back toward the teacher. This is not good. Not good at all.

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I seemed to get through most of the day without any problems. That is, until lunch. I head to the library like I usually do during this period when I get stopped by a girl. She has long blonde hair that goes down her back, with a pink mini skirt and a tight shirt that shows off her cleavage. She seems to have a light amount of makeup on as she doesn't need to wear much because of how naturally pretty she is. There were two girls who looked similar to her except one of them has short brown hair and the other has medium-length red hair. All of them were glaring daggers at me.

"So, you're the slut that forced herself on my boyfriend." The blonde one said. Uh-Oh.

"Aren't you the girl that tried to get with Nick?" The girl with the red hair asked with a look of disgust on her face.

"First Nick, now Jake. Who's gonna be next?" The one with the brown hair said.

"Well let's teach her not to try and steal another girl's guy." The blonde one said before they all pounced on me.

They kicked, punched, scratched, slapped, and even spat on me repeatedly. I decided not to fight back because it would be a lost cause. They would probably injure me even more if I did fight back. Whilst hitting me, they kept calling me names and telling me that this is what I deserved. I held my tears back, I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing me cry. When they got bored of me, they stepped back to look at the damage they've caused. The laughed at me as I curled myself into a ball and walked away.

That's when I couldn't hold it in. I cried. My silent sobs shaking my entire body, making me wince. Why? What have I done? I never thought of myself as a bad person, but apparently I am. Why else would all of this be happening to me? I tried to get up, many times. But it hurt too much to move. So I just laid there on the ground. Pathetic, right? I started to hear someone's footsteps, but stayed exactly where I was.

"Elizabeth? Oh my gosh, Elizabeth!" I heard someone say before looking up to see Niall bending down in front of me, a worried expression on his face.

"What happened?" I tried to move the slightest bit, but it hurt too much to do so I stopped. Niall must have noticed that I couldn't move as he gently picked me up.

"C'mon, we're not staying here." He said as he moved towards the exit of the school.

That's the last thing I heard before I blacked out.