Why is She Broken?

Chapter 7: He likes her?

Payton starts walking to the bus early in the morning. She gets on the bus and notices Alex walking a few people behind her. She goes to the very back of the bus, puts on her headphones, turn on music, and looks at the window with tear glazed eyes. The though of Austin hasn't left her mind ever since yesterday. She didn't want to talk to anybody, not even Alex. She was so sick of hurting because of Austin, she just wanted to yell at him at the top of her lungs, but she knew she couldn't since she can't even look at him without crying.
Alex sits down next to her, she just continues staring out the window. He taps her on the shoulder, she looks at him but turns her head back to the window. Alex is confused but he won't push her to tell him what was wrong or what was going on.
  A few stops later JoJo gets on the bus and sits down next to them. Payton doesn't say hi or anything to them. JoJo talks to Alex.
"What's wrong with her?"
"I have no idea, she won't talk to me."
"It's probably because of yesterday. Stupid fucking Austin."
"Woah language. We are on a bus, remember?"
"My language is English. People swear more then I do on here so chill."
"You'll get in trouble."
"One we are at the back of the bus. Two the bus driver doesn't care what we do, someone could be having sex back here and she wouldn't even care. Three I wouldn't care if I got in trouble. And four like I said people swear more
then I do here." She finishes as she points to Payton's sister Paisley.
"Woah, she looks just like Payton. The only difference is her hair and she is a little cubbier."
"Well duh. That's Payton's twin sister, Paisley. You didn't know she had a twin?"
"You realize this my first year in this school. I'm not going to know everything."
"Sorry, I forgot." JoJo chuckles.
They continue talking while Payton is trying her hardest not to cry. They don't even notice her sniffling. She turns on her and Austins song, "I Love You This Big," by Scotty McCreery. All she could do was cry, tears slowly run down her cheeks into her hands. She didn't know what to do with herself anymore.
They arrive to school and Payton still hasn't said a word to any of them. She just gets off the bus and heads to her first class which is P.E. She didn't want to talk to anybody at all that day. She was sick of telling people why she's sad when it's the exact same reason every time.
Austin.
She goes to P.E and gets her papers since it's the second day of school and they wouldn't start anything until next week. She sits in the bathroom stall and cries extremely hard.
She pulls up her sleeves and looks at her scars. She looks in her backpack and grabs a small ring box. She opens the box and she sees her blade. She grabs it and cries even more. She looks at her arm and puts the blade to her
wrist and slices. She does it more then once, twice, three times and she just continues until she is satisfied. She opens the stall just a little to make sure no one is there. She cleans her cuts and her blade. She wraps them in a wrap
she carries in her backpack for this reason and walks out like nothing happened.
She walks out of the gym and walks down to her U.S history which she has with JoJo. She gets in the classroom and sits in the back corner. JoJo comes sits right beside her. They talk a little bit.
"Payton, you like Alex right?"
"Yeah I guess. Why?"
"He likes someone else."
"Who?"
"Naomi Steele."
"Naomi Steele? Her really? Why? She's like one of the most popular girls in school."
  "I don't know! He just told me last hour. I'm guessing he doesn't know what she did to you."
  "Yeah I don't think so. I bet if he did, he wouldn't like her anymore."
      Payton shruggs and continues listening to the teacher.
The class ends and they start walking out of the classroom. Payton has Shop next so she only had to walk down the hallway. She walks into the classroom and sees that Austin is in the class. She calms her nerves and just sits in the back of the room. Austin comes and sits right besides her. He speaks.
"Hey Paaaayton."
"Hi."
"So are you and Alex dating? Huh, huh, huh?"
"No we aren't. He doesn't like me." She looks at him.
"But you like him, right?"
"That doesn't matter. Leave me the hell alone."
"You do! You really do!"
"Leave now Austin. I'm fucking done with your stupid shit."
"Fine god damn. Don't need to get rude."
"Well I hate you so leave now."
Austin gets up and walks back to his seat he sat in before.
Payton stands up and runs into the bathroom where she cries and cries over Austin for the second time today.