*A Week Later*
"Beth? You Up?" I hear Mat's voice behind the door as I sit on my bed, knees to chest, arms round my legs. I have a long jumper on again with a pair of shorts.
"Yeah" I mutter and the door opens. Mat steps in, looking round and he sits down beside me. I fall into his arms and I shudder as he kisses my forehead.
"Come on sis, you need to be brave, remember?" He says and he points at my wrists.
"Be Brave" He says as he reads my left wrist which has Be Brave wrote on it and a dove. I nod, wiping my eyes with my other sleeve and he looks at my right wrist, looking at the scars running up my arm and I close my eyes as he looks at the word Fighter wrote over the scars.
"See. Be Brave Fighter...You had these so you could remind yourself of these" He says, pointing at the tattoos first, then the scars they go over. I pull my hands away and I pull down my sleeves.
"I know" I say and then he hugs me again.
"Be Brave, Fighter" He says and I smile, looking away and I get up.
"I'ma get some breakfast" I say and he nods. I walk to the door and he follows. I open it and head out, down the hall and he follows. We go into the living room where I find Jerome and Mitch playing Call Of Duty Ghosts.
"You guys any good at this?" Mat says as he watchs Jerome get shot and Mitch does too.
"Yeah, we can, you just came back at the wrong moment" Jerome says and I laugh.
"You fancy joining us to dinner later?" Mitch asks and I smile, nodding.
"Sure" I smile, my cheeks flaring slightly and Mitch smiles sweetly and he looks away as his cheeks blush too.
"Hey man thats my sister!" Mat says punching his arm softly and Mitch laughs.
"Get lost! I don't even like her...in that way" Mitch says, turning towards the T.V and something inside me dies back down, something that lit up when he smiled at me.
"Anyone want a drink?" I offer and when they all say no I go and make myself a hot chocolate and I get myself a toasted S'more Pop tart and I then join the others in the living room and I sit down between Mitch and Jerome. I watch as they play and I even catch Mitch look at me a few times when I'm eating and drinking and I laugh when Jerome blows up Mitch. Mat keeps watching the screen and the three of them start talking about Jerome's girlfriend.
"Still single Mitch?" Mat laughs and Mitch rolls his eyes.
"You can't say shit, you're single too!" Mitch laughs and he puts his controller down. I grab it and I start a game with Jerome. My team wins anyway and Jerome sits, blankly staring a the T.V.
"How on Earth?" Jerome asks and I smile.
"I'm a gamer" I laugh, getting up and I take my cup into the kitchen and put it in the dish washer. I then go to my room and I sit down on my bed, looking at my Mac book. I turn it off and then I push my back against the wall and I pull my knees to my chest and I stare at my tattoos. I have another on my back which is an anchor in an Infinity sign with the words 'I Refuse To Sink' wrote on it. I have another on my lower back which is an infinity sign that says 'And In That Moment, I Swear, We Were Infinite' which is a The Perks Of Being A Wallflower quote.
I hear someone coming down towards my room, but they go into the bathroom instead. I look at my wrists, staring at the scars around my Fighter tattoo.
"Beth?" I hear behind the door and I pull my sleeves over my tattoos and I sit up properly, grabing a book off the side, opening it in the middle.
