Bullied By Scott Hoying

Chapter 19

It was Saturday, my favourite day of the week. Scott and I had slept in, eaten a huge late breakfast consisting of pancakes, bacon, toast, eggs and waffles, and were now cuddled on the couch watching Netflix.

Yesterday evening, we had gone shopping, just Kirstie and I. she was still acting exceedingly peculiar, though I didn't question it, as we were having a lovely time and I was not about to spoil the mood.

However, today I thought it would be the perfect time to do so, so I picked up my phone from beside me and clicked on her contact.

As it rang, I started to go through, in my head, what I was going to say to her, going through all the different scenarios and all possible outcomes of the conversation I was about to have.

Just as I was beginning to think it wasn't such a good idea after all, she picked up, and her cheerful voice rang through the phone.

"Hi, Mitchie!" She squealed, giggling slightly.

"Hi, Kit-Kat!" I laughed, adding equally as much enthusiasm into my short sentence.

I almost snorted when Scott gave me an extremely funny look, probably wondering what I was doing talking to Kirstie at 7:00pm when I was with him, but I managed to contain myself.

"Listen, I want to talk to you about something. I'm at Scotts. Any chance you could come over?" I asked hopefully, mentally crossing my fingers, praying she would say yes without randomly flipping out like she had been doing these past few days. It was like she was getting triggered by certain words that came out of my mouth.

For instance, yesterday, when we went shopping, she picked out a shirt she really liked the look of. She tried it on and came out of the dressing room to ask for my opinion. The shirt showed way too much cleavage, and I told her that maybe it wouldn't be appropriate for school.

She completely flipped out, accusing me of calling her a slut.

I was brought out of my thoughts by Kirstie's mumbled response.

"What?" I asked.

"I just said sure," She said.

"Can you be over here in, like, ten minutes?" I asked.

"Okay, meet you at Scotts." She said, and hung up.

"Kirstie's coming over," I told Scott.

"Why?" He asked, pausing the random show we were watching and turning to look at me.

"I really need to talk to her. She has been acting really weird lately."

Scott looked thoughtful for a moment, before he asked, "Can you pinpoint the start of her strange behaviour?"

I thought back, it wasn't when we were bullied by Avi, although she had been acting more sorrowful since, no... it was when I called her after her date with Kevin.

"She went on a date with my cousin!" I exclaimed, "And then when it was over, I called her... that's when she started acting weird."

"Do you think your cousin did something?" Scott asked, concern clearly audible in his tone.

"I don't think I can imagine Kevin ever doing something like that. Whenever I am with him, he is, like, the nicest person ever."

"Sometimes you just never know..." Scott said, frowning slightly.

At that exact moment, the doorbell rang and I jumped up to get it.

I looked out the window to see Kirstie standing at the door looking down at her feet.

I opened the door and gave her a bone crushing hug. Pulling away, I looked her up and down before saying, "We need to talk."

Kirstie nodded, before following me inside and standing awkwardly in Scott's living room.

"Hey, Kirstie," Scott said, giving her a small wave.

"Kirstie awkwardly waved back as I sat down next to Scott, patting the place next to me, indicating that Kirstie should follow suit.

Kirstie obliged, and I took a deep breath before beginning to talk.

"Kirstie, I have noticed you have been acting odd this past week and I really want to know why. It is perfectly fine if you don't want Scott here to listen, but I am your best friend and I deserve to know because, frankly, I am worried about you." I finished, sighing, glad to know it was in the open.

Kirstie bowed her head down before whispering, "It would actually be helpful if Scott was not here."

I nodded in understanding before looking up at Scott. He quickly got up and walked out of the room and into the kitchen, shutting the sliding door behind him.

I looked at Kirstie, hopefully.

She let out a long breath. "I am having strange feelings." She said.

I expected her to go on, but when she didn't I nodded encouragingly. "Go on."

" I went on the date with Kevin, he was extremely nice, a real gentleman. But at the end of the date..."

"He didn't do anything did he? I will literally skin him alive if he did!" I said, seriously.

Kirstie laughed, "No, let me finish. So, all night, something was nagging at the back of my mind, and when he leaned in for a kiss it finally hit me. I wasn't thinking about being with Kevin or anything about Kevin at all, I was thinking about Avi!"

Kirstie paused as I gasped, "Go on!" I squealed "This is like a fan fiction!"

Kirstie giggled, but continued anyway. "For a couple of days, I was completely confused, and I had no idea what was happening and why I was thinking about it so much. Then I started to realise that I had developed a crush on him. I thought it was okay, as he had not bullied you nor me for a very long time. But then that day in the cafeteria, he asked us to meet him in the back, and I actually thought he was going to tell me that he liked me. God, how stupid and naïve I was. Then he beat you up and called me a slut, that basically broke my heat beyond repair, and I have been really sad lately, I have stopped eating and I am showing signs of depression." Kirstie finished, sadly.

I had nothing to say, I sat there for about two minutes just thinking of what I could possibly say to her. Nothing came to mind, so I simply leaned over and gave her an enormous hug as she cried into my shoulder.

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Yeah yeah I am a horrible person who didn't update in a month. Please don't hate me I love youuuu!!!! It's just that I have lost most of my motivation to write stuff and I have been super busy! But I know that isn't an excuse so, since here we are having a weeks holiday off of school, I will update like two or three times more this week. I dunno when but sometime this week. Love you guys! Also sorry for the long A/N xD