I Kissed Her Scars

Chapter 3

I Kissed Her Scars

Chapter 3

When I got home, I immediately crashed onto my bed with my phone. I opened up my YouTube app. I searched up the song Emma was listening to so I could listen again and see the deeper meaning within the lyrics.

The lyrics were deep. They had great meaning. Sure it wasn't exactly my type of music, but the lyrics and the message was powerful.

I then searches up some more songs by that band and listened to them.

It resulted in a Pierce the Veil obsession. I was really starting to like the band. I just kept searching for their songs and reading the lyrics and the messages they held.

I understood Emma now. I understood why she listened to this 'weird screamo' music. It helped her in her hardest times. The lyrics. The songs. Everything.

The next day at school I saw her at lunch again. As usual. Listening to music. Not eating anything. Still had cuts on her arms... Along with fresh new ones.

I smiled at her softly, she looked at me and did a tiny wave back. She didn't smile, but a wave was better than nothing.

"Hey man," said Rylan happily as he came up to me.

"Hey..." I said to him less energetically.

"Whoa man, you seem down."

"It's... It's nothing."

"Is it cuz I ditched you yesterday after school?"

"Actually... That is in fact one reason why I'm down."

"Awww c'mon man... I didn't wanna get caught. So I did what I had to do."

"Whatever happened to always having your best buds back?" I replied coldly.

"Oh c'mon man... Lighten up!!! Stop being so depressing or you're gonna end up like emo Emma over there."

"Rylan... That's not very nice."

"What???"

"It's not nice to call emo people emo. They are simply depressed people who are trying to recover."

"Haha, you're funny man."

"You have no idea what they go through."

"Connor... Look at her. She's not like us. She's different. Don't go all sympathetic on her because she's not one of us."

I looked back at her. Still listening to her music. I knew more of who she really was than Rylan did. If he knew... Would he think differently?

"Hey guys," Alice said, walking up to us.

"Hey Alice," I said to her, but not as energetically as I usually would.

"Are you... Staring at emo Emma???"

"What???" I said, breaking me out of my trance.

"Hah. Whatever. Not like I hafta worry about HER stealing you away from me," she said in a flirty way.

I replied by laughing a bit uncomfortably.

"So... In how much trouble were you after the spray paint incident????" she asked curiously.

"What??? How did you know that I got in trouble??"

"Please, the whole school knows."

"Well... I was just put in detention."

"Detention??? That's it??? I'm surprised he hasn't.... I dunno... EXPELLED YOU YET!!!"

"Why would you say that?"