The One (GirlxGirl) ✔️

20. The Fight

I sighed, dropping my backpack and falling face first onto the couch.

Exhaustion.

That's how I felt; I felt exhausted.

Winter break had to come to an end and I had to go back.

Why now?

"Nova? Is that you?"

I look up to see Adam Barnes wearing flannel and black jeans. His dirty blonde hair was fading and gray was taking over.

He chuckled, "What are you doing?"

"Daddy, please don't make me go to school anymore!" I begged as I crawled over to him and hugged his leg.

"You want to graduate?" He asked me with a toothy smile. I nodded, still hugging his leg as tightly as I could.

"Then get the hell off me and go do your homework," He demanded and I scoffed while pulling away from him.

It was worth trying.

"Screw you!" I spat and stomped upstairs while his laughter boomed into the whole house.

"I love you, Nov."

I answered with a groan which just had him into more fits of laughter.

When I entered my room, I took out my Calculus homework and got started on it.

Until I heard crying from downstairs.

I stopped what I was doing and rushed to the living room.

"Veen, honey, tell me what's wrong?" Dad asked.

When I finally was visible, I gasped.

My little sister was on the ground, her cheek bruised and half of her bottom lip was swollen and bloody.

The bruises on her arm had this purple color, mixed with yellow which was turning brown.

I put a hand on my mouth and walked closer until Venus's eyes met mine.

"Nova!" She cried.

Venus hugged me tightly while sobbing. Her cries echoed into the silent house.

"Who the hell did this to you?!" Dad boomed in anger. His nose was scrunched up and veins started popping up on his face.

"I got it, Dad," I informed him.

"But-" He paused and sighed as he got up from the ground with Venus's bag in hand. "Okay but if this happens again then your mother and I are going to school."

We nodded and he came up to us and kissed our foreheads. "I love you girls." With that he walked into the study room.

"What happened?" I asked right away as I softly touched her bruised cheek.

Sh winced but didn't move my hand. "It's been happening for a while now. I was being teased for not wearing what the girls wear and not being like them. Just being some nerd."

"Until today. The group of girls did the usual and I stood up for myself this time." Venus started crying softly, gripping onto my shirt.

"Then the blonde girl, who I guess is the leader. S-she punched me. Then they all beat me up. The crowd around me didn't even do anything. They stared. The girls didn't even get caught and I had to walk through the hallways for my last two periods looking like a fool," She cried.

Since Venus was a sophomore and had senior classes, our classes were very close to each other.

The thing was that I saw the crowd but I thought it was just a fight.