Making a Difference (sequel to PDA)

14B: The First Time

It was not intentional the first time it happened. It was an accident. She dropped a glass and it cut her deep and in that moment she felt someway at peace. She kept the piece of glass in the draw in her bedroom. She knew her fathers would dare to look. Twelve year old Grace Tomlinson started self-harming. She did everything to distract from her home life, from her school life. Everybody seemed to know what she was doing to herself but no one ever stopped her at all. Grace was no longer that girl who smiled and wore short sleeves but the girl who wore long sleeves. Her arms were felt with cuts and burns. Here she was sitting at her desk trying to pay attention to class but she knew she was being made fun of. She had a rubber band around her wrist and she started snapping it on her wrist. It helped take away her focus from being made fun of. The bell rang and she opened her locker door when the locker was shut quickly and there he was Brad the guy she had a crush on and Brad smiled at her. Brad and her walked into the cafeteria and that's when a bucket full of cheese fell all over her head. Grace looked around while people started posting pictures. "You think I actually liked a emo freak like you" Brad laughed at Grace and Grace ran out of the cafeteria and rushed to the bathroom and started sobbing and started picking up the nacho cheese. She opened the bathroom stall and pulled out some scissors and started sobbing but enjoying seeing red drip on the bathroom floor. It was relaxing for her. She dialed the number that she knew by heart. "Daddy can you come pick me up" Grace begged to her Louis. "What's wrong" Louis asked his daughter. "I just want to go home please" Grace continued to beg and Louis couldn't stand it so he went and picked up his daughter with no issue. Grace was quiet the whole way home and she went into her room. She checked her text messages which contained pictures. Louis didn't want to intrude on his daughter's privacy and so Louis just decided that he would make dinner and wait for Niall to come home.  Grace plopped down on the counter and Grace just sobbed out loud informing Louis all about the bullying and today was the last straw for her and how she wanted to die. 12 year old Grace was now broken and no one could fix her. Her parents weren't fighting and actually got along. Louis hugged his daughter tight and that was when Louis and Niall decided to go back to England to be closer to their friends and Grace needed her old friends. Grace was in her room with a teddy bear snuggled up to her and Louis and Niall kissed their child to bed. The door was closed and they both heard Grace snoring softly but both Louis and Niall knew that their little angel Grace wasn't okay.