Good Enough

Untitled Part 8

          The rest of the week end by fast and soon Friday was here, which meant out little break was over and we had to go to school. I piled on a ton of makeup to cover the damage of a few days ago, which didn't do much good because you could still tell there was bruises. I threw on some jeans and a hoodie in hopes that it would hide everything. I haven't told Jessica how disgusted I felt with myself knowing what happened, or that I sat in the shower for hours scrubbing my skin in hopes to wash away everywhere Ben touched me. I wanted nothing more than to just disappear, but I knew I couldn't. 

          "Knock knock!" I hear Jessica shout at the front door. I grab my bag and open it, to my surprise I am greeted by her face and in the driveway was Cameron's car. Nathan and Him were in the front seat talking, about who knows what with them. It was something I had gotten used to the last few days, them being around. I knew the school was going to have a ball with this sight. I lock the door behind me and look at Jessica. "You don't have to go you know, we can take a sick day," she says in a sympathetic voice. I just shake my head and walk to the car, slowly of course because my ribs still hurt. I opened the door and slide in, while Jess slid in the other side.

          "Morning sunshine," Nathan greets with a smirk. 

          "Hey Nate, Cameron," I say making him slightly nod as he pulls out of the driveway and heads for school. I watch as the houses pass by, and I lean my head on the door just watching everything. The weather was getting warmer and Summer was quickly approaching, flowers were lining the road of our town making it come to life with color. I loved Summer time, because I could be alone with my thoughts and not have to deal with school. But it also left me alone, with my thoughts and that was what was scaring me the most at the moment.

          "Earth to Allison," Jessica says next to me making me look at her. I didn't realize that we were sitting in the school parking lot. I look and Nathan and Cameron were looking at me too. 

          "Let's do this thing," Nathan says getting out the same time Jessica does. I sit there, just looking at my hands.

          "You coming?" Cameron says as he opens my door and looks at me. I look at him and his expression softens.

          "I don't think I can do this," I whisper making him smile a little.

          "You'll be fine, I'm right here and look," He says taking my phone and putting something in. "Now you have my number, so whenever you start to feel like you need a breath, text me," he says handing it back to me. I take the phone and stare at it for a moment. I smile and get out of the car, regretting it because everyone in the parking lot was looking our way.

          "What the fuck are you looking at?" Jessica says to some freshman walking past, making them walk a little faster. Nathan laughs and puts his arm around her shoulders as we start walking.

          "Cool it little lady, they are just wondering why we got you two with us today. We usually show up with the boys," Nathan says. All the stares were making me worry that they could see the bruises and my anxiety started to go up. Cameron must have noticed because he grabbed my hand as we walked and used his thumb to rub circles on the back of my hand. I relaxed a little as we entered the school. Some thing happened, all eyes were on us.

          "It ought to be an interesting day," Cameron says making Nathan laugh as Trevor and Nick walk up.

          "There you are, where the fuck have you guys been the last three days," Nick says looking at Jessica and me with a weird look.

          "Busy," Nate says pulling Jessica closer making her smile. Nick makes a gross face at the two of them then looks at me. 

          "Oh I know you, you're the volleyball captain," Trevor says like he's never seen me before. I knew he was just messing around because he has classes with me. I smile a little and nod. "Yup, you are the talk of the school on the daily with that win last week. I heard it was a sick game," he says making me suddenly forget the bad and get into the talk. We walked to class as I told him about the game, and he really seemed to be into it. The others just walked behind us having their own conversations except Cameron, he was just watching me the whole time.

          I managed to make it through my first three classes without a problem, just lunch and three more classes left and I can go home. I left math class, thank god for lunch because I needed to just sit down and relax for a half hour. I walked to my locker to put my books away, because no way was I about to carry them around with me. I told Jessica I would meet her in the lunch room, because I knew how much she loved her food. So here I was, alone in the hall. Well at least I thought I was.

          "What is a freak like you doing hanging out with the boys?" Amelia said from behind me as she slammed my locker closed. I closed my eyes and took a breath, I couldn't deal with this today. Turning around I am faced with not only her, but Beth as well.

          "He just gave me a ride to school," I say in a low voice. I was in no condition to start stuff today, but if she pushed the wrong buttons I wouldn't hesitate to slap her fake ass.  

          "I saw you two holding hands," she says in a pissed off tone. I roll my eyes and go to walk past her, in seconds she slams me back into my locker making me hiss in pain as my ribs have a shot of pain go through them. "He is mine!" she says in my face.

          "Get off her Amelia," Cameron's voice says from behind her. Amelia glares at me and backs away as Cameron comes to my side. I look at him with a thank you expression and he looks back at the two girls. "I suggest you leave her alone... If I find out you pulled this kind of shit again, you will have me to answer to," he says making Amelia walk away with a pout on her lip. He turns and faces me, "Are you alright," he questions as I just stand there holding my necklace. I nod and we begin walking to the lunch room. 

          "Thank you," I whisper, "for everything you've done the last few days. I owe you," I say making him stop. I stop and look at him as he has a amused smile on his face.

          "Why do you owe me? You owe me nothing," he says making me frown.

          "I owe you my life... I don't know what could've happened if you and Nathan never showed up," I choke out thinking back to that night.

          "Tell you what, how about we hang out this weekend, that's how you can repay me," he says making me smile a little. I agreed to that and we went on with out day. What was I about to get myself into?