My Hero

Chapter 20

 I lifted my self off the floor and walked over to his bedside and sat in the chair on his right, looking at my best friend.

He had cuts all over him. His left leg was in a full cast. His left arm was in a full cast and his head had a bandage wrapped around it. He had scratches and gashes and bruises all over him. I took his right hand in mine and started to cry on it. I lay there on his hand, crying for about ten minutes until I don't think I can cry any longer.

"Please. Please don't leave me." I looked at my black and blue friend. "I need you. I- I can't. You can't leave me. If you do, I don't know if I can go on. Please Austin. You can't." I sat with my head on his hand and cried.

Hoe.

Fag.

Ugly.

Freak.

I walked down the halls of my middle school with my head hung low as everyone spit names at me. It's been going on like this for years now. I made it to my locker without incident, then saw Austin, the school's popular boy, leaning against my locker, laughing. Oh how I wished that he were mine. I would give anything to have him as my boyfriend or heck! Even my friend! I walked up to him and said excuse me. He looked down at me and held my gaze for a few seconds longer then needed. I blushed as he gladly shuffled slightly to the left.

"Thank you." I said, softly.

"Do NOT talk to him you toad!" Marissa, the head cheerleader and Austin's girlfriend at the time, shrieked at me.

"Rissa." Austin hissed, warning her to stop.

"Why should I? No one cares do they?" She looked around with her hands out in the air. "No! They don't! She would be better off going and killing herself. You know what? You minus well toad." She has been calling me toad for four years now. She thinks I have the skin of one even though she hasn't gotten anywhere near close to knowing.

"Marissa!" Austin bellowed, allowing the sound to travel down the halls, making everyone go silent and watch us.

"That's enough!" My mom just died a week ago. Marissa knew my soft spot and Austin knew she was about to go there and hit it.

"No wait baby." Marissa set a well manicured hand on Austin's chest and pushed him aside, walking closer to me.

"I think. You should swallow a couple pills or hang your self or just jump off a bridge. Join your mom why don't you? I'm sure you'd be better off with her then roating and taking up breathing space down here." Everyone stopped talking and stared. They knew she had hit the hard spot. They knew Marissa shouldn't have gone there.

The weight of her words hit me like a fist in the gut. They knocked the wind out of me and caused the water works to start up immediately. I slammed my locker shut and ran down the hall out of the building. No one bothered to say a mean word or laugh because they knew Marissa should not have said that.

I heard the second I ran out of the building, Marissa cracked up laughing and Austin broke up with her there on the spot because he was done wit her being a witch to everyone.

I ran home and into my room, in the bathroom where everything was set up. My dad was at work. I stepped up on the stool and slipped my head through the noose.

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Just as I was about to kick the stool from underneath me, my bathroom door flew open and Austin ran in, looking terrified.