Spring Valley Academy - a not-so-normal life of the weird kids in school.

Chapter 21 - Memories.

// Matt's POV \\
Matt groaned loudly, throwing down his play station controller down in rage. He turned around, to look at his clock. It was the exact time that Sapphire would normally get up at.
There was a knock at the door, and Sapphire's face peeked in to see Matt sat in the complete darkness of his room; the only light coming from his TV screen. Matt glared over at Sapphire, his eye twitching.
"You coming to school today?" She asked, slight concern in the tone of her voice. Matt shook his head, turning back to face the TV. Sapphire sighed and closed the door.
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As soon as Matt heart sapphire's goodbyes to her parents, he crawled forwards across his blue covered bed to switch his game console off. Sapphire's parents were cool. They didn't disturb him unless they were offering food, and they didn't mind where he went without their permission. However, they were different with sapphire. They seemed paranoid about her getting hurt.
He didn't feel in the mood for anything, or anyone. The worse thing about his visit was that Matt's parents did know who he was; they just decided to pretend that they didn't... He could tell. It was obvious when his parents were telling lies.
He still felt the sharp knife that hit him in the chest at the police station when he saw his parents. It was like every time he thought about them, the knife was being twisted in a circle inside of his chest.
Shaking it off, Matt jumped off his bed and stared into a mirror. He had huge bags under his eyes, and his hair was messy and in the way of his eyes from fidgeting in his sleep.
Matt ran his fingers across the freckles on his cheeks and nose. When he was young, he used to hang out with Liana and Sapphire a lot. They would try and count how many freckles he had by poking his face, Matt giggling after every poke. Liana would make out patterns like constellations and point out what the shaped of them looked like. He wished that Liana was like that now. She seems so... Mature and secretive. Sometimes, Matt was tempted to force her to sit down and talk about their problems and secrets together. Despite Liana being the one that collects gossip out of the group... Matt trusted her, more than anyone else he would ever trust. Matt, however, wasn't the best at knowing the definition of the word 'trust'.
He exhaled through his nose, looking back at the sleep deprived boy in the mirror.
"I wonder what Donn is doing right now," he said to himself, still staring at his reflection. Looking at himself, he still didn't believe that a popular boy like Donn would actually find Matt, the person looking back at him in the mirror, to be his 'friend'. Matt found himself smiling at the thought of his friends, and to see his smile back from the mirror made him smile wider.
As he turned around, his smile quickly turned back into a frown. Matt shoved a dark blue hoodie over his blue shirt ( Matt Quite liked the colour blue...)  and pulled his messed up back up on his back. He flicked on his phone, to play 'House of Gold' by Twenty one Pilots, and then grabbed his cheap Skullcandy headphones before putting them in his ears. Music made him feel like he had company.
Matt walked down the house stairs. It felt a lot quieter without Sapphire. She was probably one of the sweetest people Matt ever knew, and yet the shyest. Many people liked Sapphire because of her long, fluffy white hair. Matt always felt that her name went well with the way she looked.
He looked back at Sapphire's parents, who were sat together in the living room, before waving and shutting the door behind him. Matt walked along the front path of the house, skipping after a few steps every time. Looking around on the bright, welcoming summer morning, he knew that everyone would be in Maths class at the moment. Matt wasn't very good at maths. He wasn't very good at any subject, apart from art and PE. Matt continued to walk, thinking about the first things that popped into his head, the mains being his friends... Because they were like a family. Donn hadn't been with them for long,  but it felt like he had been for more than a year... Although Matt hoped that after knowing Donn for longer than a year, he would be Matt's boyfriend.
As the thought of the two of them, Matt cleared his throat as if to shoo off the thoughts from his brain. He continued to walk, until he passed his old house. Matt slowed down, but didn't look up. Other people were living there, and the house probably looked a lot better than it did.
Speeding up again,  he eventually reached his destination.
An old primary school.
Even though abandoned things were normally meant to be creepy, it was Matt, Liana and Sapphire's old school, and Matt always visited it when he didn't feel one hundred percent great.
He climbed on the small walls, jumping down to enter the school grounds. The school had shut down because of it's bad education, and that a 'Super School' was being opened locally when he was young, therefore shutting down local primary schools to join together and make the Super School.
Matt looked at the wall. It had graffiti on it, but the paintings he did with his two friends on the wall when they were young were still there. He smiled as he saw them, admiring the art the three of them and their class had made when they were seven years old. Liana had painted Matt, with a blue love heart next to it. Matt had painted Sapphire, with a white love heart next to it, and Sapphire had painted Liana, with a pink love heart next to the illustration. It was adorable.
Feeling a sudden chill from the wind, Matt entered the school and sat at the reception with his knees up to his chest. He pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, inhaling it before pulling it away and exhaling a puff of smoke.
Every time he smoked, it reminded him of his parents.
Sudden anger bubbling up inside of him, he threw the cigarette on the floor and crushed it with his trainers, hitting a wall with his elbow in frustration. Stupidly Matt realised it was his funny bone, and curled up into a ball, grunting and holding his arm like a wimp as the weirdly painful sensation shot through his veins.
He punched his own leg.
"You're stupid, Matt." He told himself through gritted teeth, trying to hold back tears. He sniffed, calming himself down and leaning against the wall, looking at the children's drawings.
Matt noticed him and his friend's drawings, smiling and getting up before ripping them off the wall and putting them into his bag. He seemed to settle into the school as he looked at the rest of the drawings, imagining all his classmates laughing in joy while scribbling across each piece of paper in colourful crayon.
Matt wiped his eyes with his sleeve and exhaled through his nose, looking at his phone to check the time.

1:30pm

Suddenly, he received a message from Liana asking why he missed two days off school. Matt wanted to reply but didn't, and put his phone in his pocket, still looking around.
While at the school, the memories of his parents were wiped away.
Alright, time to go home.