Just Hold Me ~ Norminah

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8th grade

Normani's POV

Dinah walked in with her head down and sat at her table with Ally. I was so envious of my friend, it was weird because I never was. This was the year I had to start acting like a bitch. To everyone, is what I was told. I didn't want too, but they told me too.

Dinah was still texting when she sat down and I leaned forward resting my head on my hands, staring. She had gotten her hair cut a few days ago and it was stunning.

The teacher walked in and she quickly put her phone away and took off her backpack.

"Today class were learning about..." I tuned out the teacher looking across the room at the younger girl. She was the youngest in our class, yet she somehow managed to be the most mature.

"...and get out your notebooks." My teacher said as I scrambled around in my backpack looking for my notebook. Today was different than the rest of the days. Today we were only with our homeroom. Luckily for me, my eight grade homeroom only had 16 people. It was very weird because more than half the people in our homeroom dropped out. It consisted of Luke, Michael, Troy, Reagan, Ally, Josh, Austin, Shawn, Tristan, James, Bea, Grace, Jay, Harry, Dinah and Me. Luckily for us it was a pretty good homeroom. We had some test today meaning we could leave the room at all and that we would be in here all day. Dinah was directly across me too.

"Before our test I'm putting you next to different people, just for today." Well she was directly across from me. "Luke sit next to Michael..." I didn't listen until I heard my name.

"Reagan sit with Normani." Well hot damn. Reagan moved next to me and passed me a water under the table. I groaned and took it before drinking it all and throwing it away. Oh how I would regret this. She also passed me a slip of paper, which I took, reluctantly.

"Alright class I know you hate scantrons, especially this class, but we do have to use them." My teacher said passing out our scantrons. We all groaned once we got them and the drugs immediately hit me making me groan too, but not in annoyance.

Halfway through the test I let out another groan and everyone stared at me, including my teacher.

"You okay Normani?" She asked walking towards me as I bent over in my seat and threw up on the floor.

"Ew." Everyone said mumbling as my ears started ringing. My vision was getting blurry, as my head got dizzy. Everything felt and sounded far away. I saw Dinah's face before I fainted.

30 seconds later, or at least thats what it felt like, I woke up in the middle of them room with the nurse and my teacher as the rest of the class was doing the test, or acting like they were.

"Hi Normani. Are you feeling better?" The nurse asked me and held me up.

"Yeah." I said sitting up.

"Alright well since you cant leave you dont have to finish the test." My teacher said and I shook my head standing up.

"No I wanna finish." I mumbled shaking my head. The stood up after me and held my shoulders to make sure I didn't fall. If I didn't finish my parens would know that something was wrong and I would have to tell them.

"Are you sure?" My teacher asked and I nodded. "Alright but the janitor is cleaning your seat so why dont you sit over there." She said pointing to Dinah. I did as I was told and made my way to Dinah. She ignored my presence, which wasn't shocking but still hurt.