Tidal Waves

There Are a Few in Here Who Hurt Themselves

* Trigger Warning

The next day I saw Jack at school, I thought I would try and talk to him, he looked as if he needed a friend. I walked up to him.
"Hi I'm Ava, I'm Tom's daughter" I said with my best tone,
"I'm Jack, Mark's son" he replied with a smile.
"Do you want to sit together at lunch or something?" I asked, "Sure" he replied with another smile but you could tell this one was fake, like he was hiding something.
"Are you okay?" I asked concerned,
"I've been better I guess, but I've also been worse" he answered. "We don't have to discuss it if you aren't comfortable" I said with a reassuring tone.
"No it's okay I should be talking about it, just not here." "How about at lunch ok?"
"Ok" I replied

Lunch time

I grabbed my lunch box from my locker and made my way toward the cafeteria. I saw Jack and started toward him. I sat down across from him, he had a lunch box as well, a small black one. We both opened our lunches and began to eat.
"So what bands are you into" he asked.
"Punk rock mostly" I answered "NOFX, but my favorite is blink 182". "Adams song was amazing and got me through a lot" I said.
"Me too" he replied. "Our dads are pretty amazing people, but my dad doesn't know everything".
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Well don't tell anyone this but..." he paused before continuing. "But I have a history of self harm" he admitted.
I stared in space for a moment. How could someone so amazing do something so horrible? He rolled his sleeves up to show me some scars. There was one going up from the middle of his arm all the way to the start of his palm, Tears welted up in my eyes as I looked at it. "
Why?" I asked in tears.
"I get bullied a lot and my dad is busy a lot" he answered.
"Has anyone ever noticed?" I asked Surely something that big would be pretty noticeable especially by parents
He shook his head "No luckily my sleeves have kept it covered, I did it a couple years ago and no one has noticed. I did it again a couple days ago and haven't done it since. I was in shock and wanted to ball, "Can I hug you?" I asked.
"Please" he said, almost in as much tears as I was. I got up and so did he, we wrapped our arms around each other and balled in each other's shirts.
"I am so sorry this has happened to you" I said.
"Not your fault" he replied. "Yes it sort of is, I saw that kid hit you the other day and should of stopped it but I didn't and_"
"Ava it's okay, you didn't know what to do, you weren't the one hitting me so it isn't your fault I swear". He comforted.
"I have a history of problems too" I admitted. I've had an eating disorder for a couple of months, my parents have been noticing too, but they must never know"....

Sorry to leave you hanging like that, I didn't know where to stop it. I'm working on the next chapter now so stay tuned :)