Purity (COMPLETED)

Chapter 4

I woke up to my alarm clock screaming at me. I looked up and it said 5:30. I gave out a slight groan before pulling the bed sheets off of me.

I turned the alarm off and climbed out of bed. I got my school uniform on. It was now Monday and the end of the weekend.

I walked into the hallway and walked past mom's door quietly. I made a piece of toast for myself and walked back to her room.

 I paused for a second before I walked in. I took a deep breath in and walked in. I kissed her on her forehead as she slept.

"Bye mom." I whispered and walked out the door and into the hall.

I saw a glimmering thing on the ground beside my door. I picked it up. It was dad's tag. He always wore it around his neck. I put it around my neck and and grabbed my coat. I looked out the window.

"Snow..." I said as the glistening sheet of snow covered the ground.

The roads were already plowed but the snow just kept falling.

I wrapped my scarf around my neck and put on my coat. I walked outside and imediantly shivered.

Over the weekend I manged to lower my fever. I stepped into the snow with my black shoes. I sighed a little and kept walking. I walked down the road until I heard a motor behind me. I turned around to see Caleb riding his motorcycle down the road and stop infront of me.

"You want a ride?" He asked.

"Aren't you freezing?"

"Yes. But I don't like to walk in snow." I smiled at him.

"Alright..." I climbed on and we rode off.

Soon after we got to school the girls started to crowed around his motorcycle but wouldn't say anything. I got off the bike and disappeared from sight.

As soon as I left the noise stirred up and heard the girls laughing. I walked in the building and to my locker. I opened it and papers fell out of it. I picked some up and read them.

"Die bitch."

"Kill yourself."

"Stay away from Caleb."

I looked at the papers with shaking hands. I ripped them to shreds and threw them out the window. I watched as the girls crowded around Caleb.

"Hey." Someone said behind me. I turned around to see Grace and two other girls.

"Oh hey Gr-" she interupted me by shoving me on the floor.

"I warned you on Friday. Oh and did you open your locker yet?" She snickered.

"You got the message but if you continue it will be a lot worse for you from here on out." She then walked away and the two girls followed her.

I stood up and feeling a little betrayed. I'm not afraid of them. What are they going to do? They are just highschool girls. I thought I could stay invisible this year. I took my coat and scarf off and shoved them in my locker.

 I walked to my class and sat in my regular seat. I looked out the window. I knew Caleb walked in when I heard some of the girls in the back giggling.

"Hey Kori." I turned around.

"Hey..." I said looking at him.

"Something wrong?" I shook my head. I put on my best fake smile.

When I was younger my mother told me I was a great actress when it came to being sad. I was always bullied in the third grade because I had glasses and I would stutter a lot. People called me a freak, loser, four eyes, ect. I didn't have glasses now and I can talk perfectly fine. But nothing changed until I got to highschool, when I decided to become invisible. And it worked for a while. Until now.

I turned back around as the other girls glared at me. I kept looking out the window. I should be used to bullying... but it always follows me, the feeling that people make you feel like your nothing, like if you died, no one would even know or care.

I gripped dad's tag around my neck in my hand. But they were wrong. Aunt Carrie still does. I'm not sure about my mother anymore. And maybe even Caleb.

I looked down at my desk. I got out my book and began to read while I could feel the death stares from the girls all over the classroom.

I felt a tap on my shoulder then a note was placed on my desk. I picked it up.

Do you mind coming to the park for a photo shoot today? -Caleb.

I wrote 'I don't mind I'll bring my camera.' I passed it back and he read it. He smiled and nodded.

I smiled too and I didn't even have a reason to. I turned back to my book then saw another note passed. This time from the side.

I picked it up and unfolded the paper. I looked at the pictures on it. One showed a noose and a girls head in it. The other showed a wrist with cuts bleeding on it.

I turned back to see some of the girls laughing. I crumbled it together and stuffed it in my bag.

I closed my book and looked down. I put my arms on my desk and hid my face in them. I could feel the girls raspy grin facing towards me.

Even in all of my classes I got pictures of suicidal girls. I crumbled them up and stuffed them in my bag with the others.

After the bell rang I stayed in my seat. Morning classes were over but it was too cold for students to go outside.

Everyone left the classroom and I stayed looking out the window.  I heard laughter from the hallway and I walked out and saw someone had wrote "freak!" in red on my locker.

Everyone stared at me as I grabbed my stuff out of there and went outside. My coat and scarf wasn't in my locker. I stood on the grass and looked at the ground.

"Its happening again..." I said to myself. I walked towards the football field shivering and crossing my arms.

I didn't want to sit anywhere because of the snow. I placed my books in a place below the stands where snow wasn't and I walked out into the field. My feet were frozen and I felt my cheeks were red because of the cold. My hands were red too.

I still had my bag on and I took the drawings out and looked at them. They made the girl look like she didn't even have a chance at happiness.

With all the tears burning on my cheeks I fell on my knees in the snow. I was so cold. My face in my hands. Trying to stop the tears that kept leaking out of my eyes. I've held up a dam all day, but it broke and tears spilled through. My legs were so cold even if I was wearing leggings.

Once the first tear spills on the ground... they all come crashing down and there is no way to stop them. Unless...

"Kori?!" I looked up to see Caleb standing infront of me. He didn't have his winter clothes on either. He held my wet coat and scarf in his hands.

"I found these is the school pool and I heard about what happened after class." He looked down at the pictures that had tears all over them.

"I'm sorry..." I said looking down.

"I'm should've told you I wanted to be invisible." I wiped my tears from my cheeks then looked down again. I heard him drop my coat and scarf.

He was now on the ground infront of me. I looked at him.

"Cal-" His arms wrapped around me. I froze then slowly hugged him back. I cried on his shoulder as the snow started to fall again.

I am...warm.