All that's lost

5

Camila's Pov:

'Thank God it's Thursday'. It's lunchtime now and I'm walking to meet up with Normani, Dinah, and Sam at our lunch table. I'm about to reach the cafeteria when I feel someone shove me really hard against the lockers. "Ow, what the hell!?" I say yelling a little while turning around. 'Shit. It's Hannah.' I look up at her and see her eyes shooting daggers into mine anger shown on her face. I look to the side and see Carly standing behind her. I try to walk away but Hannah puts her arm up blocking me. "Can you please let me go?" I ask timidly still not looking her in the eye. "Um...no." She states while backing me up more so my back is pushed up onto the lockers. 'I don't like where this is going.' "So. I bet you're just a little hoe? Just like your sister. You want to know something? Something about your stupid sister?" I then look her in the eye pissed off. "Well," she continues, "your sister was the biggest slut in the school as well as the biggest bitch. She is nothing but a stupid whore!" I feel rage boiling up in my body. Every time she said something bad she would emphasize it with pure hate and narrowing her eyes. My hands are clutched into hard fists. I don't care if she talks bad about me but I love Sofi and know she isn't anything Hannah is saying. I'm trying as hard as I can to restrain myself from tackling this bitch. I can hear Carly laughing. I feel angry tears starting to form in my eyes. She gets closer to my face and whispers in my ear, "Your sister has slept with every guy in this school, she had no friends here and the only way she could get peoples attention was by sleeping with everyone...even the teachers. That's why they liked her..." She tilted her head back and started to laugh. I couldn't hold myself back anymore. Pure hate and rage was oozing out of me. I swung my fist and punched her right in the nose. She jumped back in shock holding her nose that was now bleeding. She looked at me then ran at me pushing me into the lockers again and started to punch me in the stomach and face. 'This is useless. She's so much bigger than me...' I cant give up. I quickly move out of the way and hear her punch the locker instead of my face. She turns around and I quickly start to grab her hair and punch her in the face. I started to take all my built up anger and release it with every punch and kick. I can feel her start to get weak and right when I'm about to finish her I feel someone grab my arms and hold them behind my back strongly. I look behind me and see it's Carly. As I look I see that a crowd has been here. I hear a grunt and see Hannah get up. She looks like shit and I am so happy she does. She walks over to us and starts to beat me up again. Each punch to the face and stomach along with an occasional kick I can feel myself losing my energy. Each time she hits me it feels like something is broken. I feel blood coming out of my nose and mouth. Tears of pain and humiliation are mixed with the sweat and blood on my face. My once perfectly curled hair is sticking to my face making it hard to see. 'Why aren't my friends helping me?'  She then grabs my neck strangling me. I'm about to black out when I hear a strong voice, "Hannah that's enough. Carly let her go." I feel Carly's grip let me go. I instantly fall down not having enough strength and energy to hold myself up. I have my eyes closed wanting everyone to just go away. I feel strong arms wrap around me and lift me up bridal style. I wince in pain and feel my body burning. I keep my eyes closed but can feel that this person is carrying me somewhere. I'm curious as to who saved me. I manage to open my eyes and see a strong chin, brown slightly curly hair and blue eyes...Brad. He has a look of concern mixed with anger on his face. I can't hold my eyes open anymore and I slip into sleep feeling safe in his arms.

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I hear some voices but I can't really make out what they're saying. "...okay?" I hear one voice say "Yes,...soccer..." I hear another say. Then the first voice asks something then state something that I can finally hear clearly, "Is...soccer? It wasn't her fault." I recognize that voice... It soothed me with the roundness and raspy edge to it. "We'll talk about it later." The second voice says. I try to open my eyes but they are too swollen. I then hear a door open and close. I feel someone lightly grab my hand and stroke my face lightly pushing hair off of my face. It's a warm light touch that sends light shivers and tingles along my body. The touch is familiar yet strange at the same time. "I'm sorry Camz..." With that simple statement I know who it is. She continues to caress my face lightly. After a few minutes I slowly manage to open my eyes. My brown now swollen eyes look into light green eyes that were riddled with slight relief, concern and hurt written in them. She gives me a small simple smile and I return one. "How do you feel?" Lauren asks me. She is sitting on a chair that is pulled up next to the small bed I'm laying on. She's wearing a light brown loose shirt, a black leather jacket, jeans and her hair is down with natural waves. 'So this is the nurses room...' I think to myself looking around. I notice some bloody swabs on a nearby table I start to feel a cold sensation on my stomach so I painfully lift my head up to look down and I see ice packages resting on my stomach. I look at Lauren and can still feel her hand on mine holding it in a reassuring manner. The warmth of her hand is slowly spreading through my body causing me to become tired. "I'm okay." I state, "Just a little tired". She looks at me and nods her head. 'Why's only Lauren in here? Where are my other friends? Where's Brad?' Then another question popped into my head 'Why was she sorry? Why did Lauren feel the need to apologize?' I think to myself, 'It's not her fault Hannah beat me up'. "The guy that carried you in left a few minutes after the nurse put you on the bed. Ally, Normani, Dinah, Alexa and Vero were all here at some point but since school's still going they're in class. I got here about 10 minutes after the guy left." I nod my head understanding. She answered almost all of my questions. "Why aren't you in class?" I ask in a whisper because my throat is still soar. "I couldn't have my poor Camzi   to an empty room and have millions of questions unanswered." She states dramatically at the millions of questions while throwing her hand that is not on mine up in the air. I start to laugh but then whimper in pain. Lauren quickly stops laughing and looks at me with concern. She tighten her hold on my hand and puts her other one on the side of my face caressing it with her thumb. "I'm so sorry Camz. It's my fault you go so hurt." She says in a low sad whisper hanging her head down . I look at her with concern on my face. "Why do you say that?" I ask with curiosity. "I left for lunch. If I didn't I would have been walking with you to lunch and I could have stopped Hannah form doing anything. I could have heard about it and stopped it before she hurt you to this point." she says waving her hands gesturing to my body, "But I went out to eat with Alexa and Vero. It's my fault I couldn't help you...I'm a bad friend." I look up at her and can see tears start to form in her eyes, tears of guilt. "Lolo..." I say lightly trying to sooth her. She doesn't look at me, "Lauren." I say a little more stern. She looks at me, "You're not a bad friend. It's not your fault at all! You didn't know she was going to pick a fight with me. Or the fact that we would start to physically fight." I say the last part causing us to slightly laugh. Lauren smiles, "Who would have thought that little old Cabello would get in a physical fight." she says laughing. I pout at her a little acting like I was hurt at her comment. "So what did she say that caused you guys to fight?" "Oh, she was talking shit about Sofi." I stated getting mad just thinking about it. "Oh shit! She obviously didn't know how pissed you get when people talk bad about her. I almost feel bad for her now." She says laughing. I just smile, "No one talks bad about my sister without learning their lesson." I say smiling. I yawn and stretch forgetting about my state, "Oh, shit!" I curse under my breath. "You should try to get some sleep." Lauren says while holding my hand. I nod my head and start to close my eyes.