Living A Nightmare

Chapter 3

Hate Mondays! Who doesn't? It's such a depressing day and to make it worse it raining. At least it's lunchtime! I can't keep my mind off of Friday, me and Miles talked for hours and then he soon left after that which sucked but my parents were on there way home and my parents are strict about guys even Ava brother. No guys in the house, but on the bright side me Ava Miles and Eli went out saturday and sunday and it was the best weekend I've had in a long time. I walk into the cafeteria and I sit down and take my lunch out, I wish Ava was here but she has a lunch detention.

"Erm hi, is it true that you and Miles are going out?" A girl says tapping my shoulder.
"I heard Miles went round her house on Friday" Another girl says walking up.
"Ew, why would he go to that losers house, just look at her" The first girl says.

I look away and pack my bag and I look around and everyone is looking at me. I bite my lip and walk away and as I get outside I start crying but it's raining so no one can tell the difference. I walk around the back of the school and see Miles with his friends under some shelter. I stop dead in my tracks and like he can sense someone looking at him, he looks up and his eyes meet mine, his smile fades and I step back and being my clumsy self I fall back into a puddle and his friends start laughing.

I stand up and Miles walks towards me and I quickly stand up and turn away from him and I walk away without looking back, wait-a-go Adrianna, make a fool of yourself why don't you.

"Adrianna, wait up!" Miles calls after me.

I ignore him and carry on walking but Miles walks in front of me and I stop walking and I look up at him.

"Adrianna, are you okay?" Miles asks.
"Yeah, just went for a walk" I smile.
"In the rain? Really?" He says raising his eyebrow.
"I love the rain" I smile. 'lie'
"Your eyes are telling me different" He says tucking a bit of my hair behind my ear.

Am I really that much of an open book! Am I really that easy to read?

"See I told you they were going out!" A girl calls out.
"Ew!" A girl yells and they all start laughing.
"Miles, you could do better, she is a child" The girl laughs.
"Miles come on, lesson starts soon" A girl winks.

I look at Miles and he looks at the girls, I sigh and Miles looks at me and he looks torn, I don't blame him, I hardly know him, haven't even known him a week. I give him an encouraging smile and I turn around and walk away. A part of me wants him to chase after me but I know that won't happen, I hardly know him...I glance back and he walks with the girls with his arm around one of them. I sigh and I walk to the nurse's office.

"Auntie Lil" I quietly.
"Oh my goodness, what happened" She says rushing to my side.
"I fell into a puddle" I mumble.
"I've got some dry clothes for you..." She grabs some clothes and hands them to me. "Get changed" She smiles.

I smile and walk into the toilet and I take my shirt off and I look at the bruise on my back and I'm sure it's getting worse but it doesn't help when I constantly fall over! The bruise takes up a big part of my back and I sigh and put the dry shirt on and I take my tights off and my skirt and put a dry skirt on, I look at my knees and they look battered and bruised all because of 'Joe' and I never go with my legs on show at school even when it's boiling out but I guess I don't have a choice.

I walk out of the bathroom and my Auntie Lil walks over to me with a plastic bag and I put my wet clothes in the bag, I take my glasses off and I take my hair down and I rinse my face with some water and I look somewhat decent.

"Wanna tell me why you've been crying"

I freeze and my body tenses, I slowly turn around and My auntie Lil has her arms crossed and she is leaning on her desk and she gives me a stern look.

"Just that time of month, it hurts" I lie.
"Are you sure that's it" She says walking towards me.
"Yep" I smile. 'Lie!'
"Alright then, you're free to go" She smiles.

I know that smile, that is the smile she gives me when she knows I'm lying but I refuse to break and tell her because it is over something so stupid! I turn around and quickly leave her office and I walk with my head down and the bell rings for lesson. This day couldn't possibly get any worse could it? I go outside and run to my next lesson and I see Ava and she runs over to me and we run together.

"Where are your tights?" She asks.
"I fell into a puddle" I smile.
"You are by far the clumsiest person I know" She laughs.

We run into a different building, the same area where Miles was, and where he is going to be.

We wait outside the classroom for our teacher and Ava looks at my legs and she gives me a sad look.

"That looks like it hurts" She whispers.
"It's because it does, like a cow" I say glancing at my knees.
"He must of seriously pushed you...Considering you have trackie bottoms on at the time" She says annoyed.

I awkwardly nod and things go quiet and the door slams open and I glance back and Joe looks irritated and his eyes meet mine and fear fills my eyes and he looks at my knees and he smirks and walks over to me, I struggle to swallow a lump in my throat and a shiver goes down my spine.

"Well hello again" He taunts.
"Stay away for her" Ava says pushing him.
"Watch it!" He snaps at Ava.

I step back and he continues to walk towards me...

"I see I left my mark on you, does it hurt?" He taunts.
"Leave me alone" I try to sound tough but I sound like a fish.

Joe grabs my shirt and I walk backwards into a classroom and his glares at me.

"Run rabbit run" He threatens and pushes me back with too much force and I once again fall over. I wince in pain and a hand quickly comes out in front of me and I take it and I stand up and I look at the persons who hand I grabbed. Miles.

"Come with me" Miles says while pulling me out of the room.
"Miles, sit back down!" The teacher yells.

We walk into the corridor and Miles looks like a man on a mission, Ava looks at me and a small smile comes to her lips and I turn my head and see Joe by some lockers.

"Dude, what the hell is your problem? Why are you picking on a girl, why are you threatening her!" Miles snaps.
"Woah man, calm your tits" Joe laughs.
"You think it's funny? I'll give you something to laugh about" Miles says in a tone I've never heard before.

Miles lets go of my hand and walks over to Joe and grabs his shirt and slams him up against the lockers and I flinch, Joe body tenses up and if looks could kill Joe would be 10ft under.

"If you ever go near Adrianna again, threaten her again, hurt her...You will regret it, don't forget what I'm capable of" Mile says with venom in every word.

For a moment I saw fear in Joe's eyes but that quickly goes and it's filled with pure anger. Joe pushes Miles back and he storms off and I look away not wanting to make anything worse because Joe scares me. Once Joe is gone I look up at Miles and he gives me a small smile and walks over to me.

"Don't worry about him, are you okay?" He says looking worried.
"Yeah" I lie.

Miles sighs and gives me that look, like he knows I've lied. I shake my head no and I bite my lip and tears spring to my eyes and Miles engulfs me in a big bear hug which makes me feel warm and safe. This is the first hug I've ever had from a guy and it is one of the nicest feelings I've ever had but that soon stops when he pulls away.

"I've gotta get back to lesson, if you ever need help with anything, just find me" He smiles.
"Thank you" I say quietly.

Miles nods and walks back into lesson and Ava walks over to me and she gives me a small smile and wraps her arm around my shoulder and we walk into lesson and we sit down and the lights go out 'great power cut' and I bang my head on the table, and I thought this day couldn't get any worse!