Another Reason [Daniel Skye]

3- new neighbours

The sun shines bright in my eyes and I open them to see I'm still in the same place where I fell unconscious. Except it's now lunch time people are walking around dodging me. I can't see the guys anywhere so I slowly sit up holding my head. A few girls stare at me and I push myself up. I walk straight to the bathroom. When I get there, no one is in there so I look in the mirror. My cheek is all bruised. I try to cover it with makeup I had in my bag but that didn't work, so I just put my hair over that side of my face.

I walk out and look down so nobody sees my bruise. I walk straight to my locker when I hear familiar voices.
"Well look who it is" I hear Carter say. I unlock my locker and Carter, Jack J, Jack G, Skate and Sam (Potorff) stand around me. "Do you have any food? I'm starving" I ask while shutting my locker. "Yeah, inches of it" Gilinsky says chewing on his gum. "Ew. Don't you have anything better to do?" I ask trying to push past them. They don't let me.
"Awww did Daniel punch you poor ugly face?" Johnson says with a baby voice. "She has a face!?" Sam laughs pretending to be dumb.

I stand there pressed up against my locker with the guys surrounding me. I look down at my feet. "Look. She's terrified" Skate chuckles. Daniel walks past us. "Yo Daniel!" Carter yells out. "Over here!" Daniel walks over and he chuckles when he sees me. "What should we do with her?" Sam asks. "Chuck that crap in the garbage!" Daniel says gesturing to me. They pick my up and I try to get out of their hands But I can barely move. We walk to the corner of the school where all the garbage cans are. They open one then chuck me in and walk off.

I probably deserve to be here, I am just a piece of trash anyway. I wait till they are out of sight then start running. I'm about to leave school grounds when someone grabs my arm. I turn around to see Shawn, Connor, Ethan (Dolan), Taylor (caniff) and Trey. Shawn is gripping onto my forearm really tight and I try to push his hand away. "You're so weak" Shawn laughs. The others chuckle.

"Can you please let go, that really hurts" I wince. Daniel and my brother Johnny walk over. "I thought we put you in the garbage where you belong?" Daniel smirks. I ignore him and they start walking, Shawn dragging me along. We stop in the middle of the carpark. Shawn stands next to me and grips onto my left forearm and Trey grips onto my Right forearm. Both really hurt.

Daniel walks up in front of me. "You're a stupid ass bi**h. Your an ugly whore who has no life or friends. Nobody cares for you ba cause you're nothing. You little slut, you ruin our lives everyday just by existing and you would do us all a great favour by killing yourself." He says. Now he is right in my face and we breath the same air almost. I can't move no matter how much I would love to run away right now.

Then Daniels fist collides with my stomach three times. I collapse but the guys still hold me up. Daniel then puts his finger under my chin and moves my head so I look at him an with his other hand he slaps me across the face. The guys let go and I fall to the ground. Before they leave Daniel kicks me really hard in the stomach. They all walk off laughing.

***after school***

I walk through the front door. Johnny is already home and he is in his room playing some really loud beats. I'm allowed to eat tonight. I walk through the kitchen again and mom is there. I now have a black eye and bruised cheek. "You deserved whatever happened to you" she says not looking up from her phone.
"Take these to your new neighbours. They moved in today and I don't want them thinking we are a drug family" she says handing me a plate of cookies. As I'm about to grab it she purposely drops the plate making all the cookies spill.
"Clean them up!" She says pointing.

I bend down. "But we are a druggo family" I accidentally mumble. "Excuse me!?" Mom raises her voice. I pick up the cookies and stand up. Mom slaps me across the face right where the bruise on my cheek is. I grab the cookie plate and walk outside covering the bruised side of my face with my hair as best I can. I walk over to the house next door. I hope they are nice. But then again, why would anyone be nice to me?"
I knock on the door 3 times and someone answers. He looks about the same age as my dad except a lot taller.

"Hello, I love next door" I chirp hoping to sound like I'm perfectly fine. "I just wanted to welcome you to Arizona with these cookies my mom made" I smile. "Why thank you!" He smiles back taking the palate out of my hands. "You look around about the same age as my daughter, would you like to meet her?" He says. No, not really. "Yes please" I smile. Darn it, darn it, darn it.
"Georgia!" He yells out. "Come meet someone" I hear footsteps in the house before a girl my height pops up at the door. She has long blonde hair in a messy bun and basic makeup on. I have to admit, she is really pretty.

"Hi, I'm Georgia" she smiles. "Katie" I reply. Her dad walks off. "Are you ok?" She asks. I frown not knowing what she is talking about but then I realise. She must have seen my face. I nod. "Can I see?" She asks. I push my hair out of my face behind my ear and she gasps. "Would you like to come in? I have some really good cream for that" she gestures inside. I smile and follow her inside. "Have a seat, I'll be back" she says walking out of the lounge room. I sit on their unbelievably comfortable couch.

After 5 minutes, she comes back with a tube. "Here" she has handing to me. She sits on the couch next to me and I take the tube. "Thank you" I smile. "So how old are you?" She asks. "Umm, I'm 16 turning 17" I mumble looking at my shoes. "Omg! Same here!" She smiles. "Are you ok? Who did that to you?" She asks. I shake my head. "No. it's ok"
"It's not ok! Tell me now. I want to help. Please." She holds my hand and I stare at it.