Broken

Chapter 3

I hear people whispering and snickering as Niall and I walk by. "You may not care, but I do," I say trying to hide my gauzed up arms.

"You look beautiful when you sleep. You were holding onto me the whole night," Niall says.

I start blushing, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I did that with..." I trail off at the thought of him.

"No, no, no, it's okay," He says frowning and fiddling with his thumbs. "I figured that you were used to doing that."

We start walking in silence until we got up to Starbucks. "What do you want?" Niall asks me when we get up to the cashier.

"Mango Refresher, please!" I say happily. He nods and orders the same and pays. Once we got our drinks we sat down at the same table from yesterday outside. "I'll pay you back."

Niall shakes his head, "No need to."

"I'm gonna go home. I'll see you later," I say getting up. "Thank you for the drink."

The sun shines brightly in my eyes as I walk down the sidewalk toward my house.

I slam the front door once I got inside, heading straight to the kitchen for the blades. Hidden under the kitchen sink, I grab them and head straight to my bathroom. I rip my gauze off of my arms, and dig one into my arm. I scream under my breath. Blood started gushing out of my arms covering the floor around me. I rip back into my skin, "Why did you leave me!"

I hear my bedroom door swing open, "Breeze! Where are you!"

I get enough strength to pull my leg up and kick the door to my bathroom shut. High heels click at a quick pattern to the door. "Sweetie, I heard you screaming, are you okay!" I don't answer, I lay silently on the cold tile floor, thinking about him. Asking myself the same questions over and over, that I can never seem to find an answer for. I hear my moms 2 fists banging at the door severals time, I can't tune it out. I slowly lean up and groan, "I'm fine. Leave me alone."

I end up cleaning my new cuts and wrapping them back up in gauze. I walk to my bed and calmly sink into my mattress. I hear a tiny knock at my door, "Breeze?"

"Yeah," I sigh softly. My mom quickly tiptoes toward me, "Are you okay? What happened?"

I shake my head telling her it's not important but she kept going, "I noticed the bag was not under the sink anymore, why is that?"

I shrug, "Don't ask me." She knows I'm lying, we are the only people living in this house, since my dad left when I was 4. My mom gets up and goes to my bathroom and gasps, "Breeze! You promised me that you, ugh!" She throws her hands up and starts picking up the scattered blades and throwing them into the plastic bag. "These are getting thrown away!" She storms down the stairs.

I'm too weak to chase after them, so I curl up and fall asleep.

"What the hell were you thinking!" Harry screams at me through the phone.

I start to cry, "Harry.. It wasn't like that. Niall was just there because I didn't let go of him when we hugged so he dragged me up to my room and stayee because, well I don't really know why he stayed. It doesn't matter anyways because you left me here to rot and at least he's here for me!" I hang up on him. I sit on my bed crying until I hear a loud knock at my door, I wipe the tears from my face and open the door. Harry barges into my room making me fall back, he looks me in the eyes and says, "I want him away from you. Stay away from him," and leaves slamming my door.

I wake up at 9am and think about what Harry said, "I want him away from you. Stay away from him." He doesn't have any right to tell me what to do, he left me. I forget about him and walk downstairs to eat breakfast. "Hi, honey," My mom says happily.

"Hi?" I reply.

She turns around with a plate full of food; pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash brows, and biscuits with gravy. She handed me the plate and says, "You, Breeze Gertrude Hall, are starting high school tomorrow and I wanted you to have a great day before you start!"

"Oh yeah, high school, tomorrow, freshman, woohoo, I can't wait," I growl, nibbling on bacon. I finished eating after a couple of bites of everything, I go upstairs and get dressed; dark Dittos Kiss & Tell shorts, a three quarter plaid shirt, and my black converse. I put on a little makeup and I take off my gauze and I put makeup over the cuts to draw less attention to them, touching them makes me wince.

"Are you ready for high school!" Anna shouts at Niall and I as we walk down Main St. Niall nods and I see him out of the corner of my eye, looking at me. Anna grabs my forearm and I jerk my arm back. They both look at me weird, "What?" I say throwing my arms up. "My arms are still sore!"

I look at Forever 21's window and I see they have a sale, I make a quick turn into my favorite store. As I look for a shirt in my size I look over to Anna, who ran in after me, holding up a cute crop t-shirt up to Niall and asking him what he thinks, he nods in agreement and it brings a chill down my spine. I eventually try on a few outfits and I get them, and Anna gets the crop shirt Niall liked so much.

My phone has been buzzing off and on for the past minute so I check whats all the gossip about, it's a text from my mom:

*Sweetie, come home as soon as possible. There's somebody I'd like for you to meet!*

"Hey guys, I gotta go. My mom wants me to me somebody," I say and I only get a nod and a wave. I start walking home in the quenching heat. Once I got to my house a tall, broad shouldered man was sitting at my kitchen table holding my moms hand from across the table. The man turns around and gives me a small smile, "Hello." I return the smile and also say hello.

"Breeze this is David Klawz, my boyfriend," my mom says with a cheeky smile.

"Mom, um, why exactly am I here? Do you need my approval?" She starts blushing, "Well, gosh no, sweetheart, I thought we could all go out to dinner!"

"Not hungry." I hurrying up to my messy room. I look for something just something to release my stress, when I finally find something a heavy knock comes to my door. I roll my eyes and say, "Come in."

That was a mistake.