Mystery Goth Girl

Three

Time has really flown by and now the dreaded prom night is only two weeks away. My parents know I'm going, so there is no way I can back out of it now unless I'm really sick, which rarely happens. I get up out of bed and walk to the bathroom to do my morning routine and get dressed. I choose a black skirt, an aqua coloured half top, black shoes, change my earrings and jewellery to match and do my usual makeup but with a tinge of blue along my eyes. I grab my bag, put my books in it, pack a small lunch and rush to school with Nic. Somehow, I'd managed to avoid telling the girls about that guy that kept calling me Goth. Turns out this guy is in my art class and if it weren't for his friends, I believe he would try and talk to me. I'm glad he has Tyler and Shaun with him, I don't think I could handle him being all let's-get-to-know-the-goth-girl. I wave at Meily and she comes running over to me.
"Hey, can you skip until lunch with me?" Her eyes are glassy, she wants to cry.
"Sure, come on. Let's go, why only until lunch?" I ask, knowing she will tell me her reasoning soon but I want her to be more comfortable and we are still in school.
"Because we have photography and music after lunch." Of course, I nod my head and smile at her. She is the only one who really sees me smile all the time.
"Why are you upset?" I ask her as we arrive at a small park surrounded by bush, a bike track and a small creek. Beautiful and simple, I love places like this.
"Jesse broke up with me. She said she didn't see me in that way anymore and that she liked another girl." The tears begin to fall. I know it sounds really girly but her and Jesse had been together for almost a year.
"Shh, you'll find someone better, love, trust me. She just doesn't see how amazing you are, she threw away a sapphire only to let it slip away and for someone who truly values you to come along and pick you up." I coo as I hug her, her crying into my shoulder.
"I guess but she was great," I nod.
"I know, love, but you'll find another, a forever one next time. Just one heartbreak closer to happily ever after," she smiles slightly at that, I know she loved wizards of Waverley place when she was younger.

We sit and talk, walk around the bike track when the topic of prom comes up.
"Who are you going with again?" Meily asks me, I know she wants to tease me.
"Mase, have you found anyone yet?" She smiles and nods. "Who, tell me?" I say as she opens her mouth.
"Zach, Mason's friend. The tall, black haired one."
"Ahh, the tech guy. He is so sweet," we laugh together when a high pitched voice is heard from behind us.
"As if the goth group is actually going to prom this year!" Shelby, Amy's side bitch, squeals.
"No they aren't," as Amy speaks, a rock hits Miely across the head.
"What the fuck bitch! How dare you do that?" I yell as I hit Amy, which earns me a solid punch to the jaw by one of her jock sluts. Shit, that hurt. I can taste blood in my mouth, damn, my lip must've split. I hit the guy back hard in the gut, there is no way I'm putting up with this anymore. I'm sick of it and they hit Miely. He stumbles and I notice it's Shaun, asshole, I hit him again when Meily yells at me to look to the right. Just as I do another fist hits me in my side. I trip him, Kye, and run towards Meily. I grab her hand, our bags and we run back to school, considering its lunch time anyway.

We head to the bathroom after putting our bags in our lockers and getting our books for our last two classes. I look in the mirror and I was right, my lip has split. I clean it and fix my lip gloss, before turning to Meily to check her head where the rock hit. It hit the back of her jaw and cut it a little, so I clean it and fix her makeup.
"Why did you do that London?" She sighs.
"I'm sick of the way the treat us, they hit you and they get away with it." I say softly to her, not to show my anger, which I will end up taking out tonight after work when I go to the gym. We link arms and head to photography.
"Miss Knight, Miss Herrington, what happened to you both?" Our teacher, Miss Lees says as we walk in. Tyler stands up and speaks.
"Miss, the girls were hit by Amy, Shelby, Kye and Shaun." What the hell? How did he know? The both look at me.
"I said that out loud," I sigh and wish I could run my hand through my hair but it's in a pony tail so it wouldn't work.
"They told me they saw you to leave and wanted to get you guys again."
"Well, Mr Voltan, thank you for telling me that, all of you take a seat now." As we go to walk past, the best mate of Tyler grabs my wrist.
"Hey, Goth, Goth's friend, sit with us. We have to work together for the next shoot anyway." He pulls me down next to him and Meily sits next to me.
"What?" She whispers.
"Teachers want us all to get along before prom." Tyler shrugs, "so you two doing prom?" We nod.
"Who ya going with?"
"None of your business Tyler, or Tyler's best mate." Tyler chuckles.
"Don't you know my name?"

Seth's pov
"Don't you know my name?" I ask Goth rather surprised. How could she not? She shakes her head and Tyler full on laughs at it. Damn him. We begin to work on brainstorming ideas when I realise she still doesn't know my name.
"It's Seth, by the way,"
"Oh, okay, well, anyway maybe we could do a haunted shoot?" She suggests. Her friend loves the idea. Come to think of it, why does she seem familiar? I know she hangs out with my sister, Taliesha, but I don't think that's why she seems familiar.
"Yeah, I like that. What about you Seth?" I nod and the girls instantly start chattering away about how they can make this look good.
"Dude, where do I know her?" Tyler shrugs at first then thinks harder.
"Give me your phone." I hand it to him and he looks through my pictures. He shows me one of my cousin, James, standing with Tyler while I give a girl a piggie back. The girl has dark brown hair that curls at the bottom but is wavy, her eyes are hazel but look more green. We were about , I lost contact with the girl, Donnie, I remember calling her, no one else, just me, at about the age of thirteen. We knew each other from around two as our mothers were friends, but then the incident happened and dad and I moved away. I look closely and Tyler jabs my arm. His jaw is down so he must've seen some hot chick. He gestures for me to look and I do, his eyes are on a small scar in Goth's neck, behind her ear in the shape of an 's'. The mark I gave Donnie. Wait a minute...
"Donnie?" I say it out loud before I can stop myself. Shit, now if she isn't she will ask questions.