Different.

Chapter 5

We walked through the school gates and I immediately saw my friends walking towards me. None of them know what happened last night with my parents or with Jake, so I knew I was going to get lectured by them about how I should of told them.

Jake noticed and stood in front of me "I will be over with my group if you need me, okay?" He said and I nodded and he then hugged me and walked off, I was now left alone with my three friends, I wasn't looking forward to that at all.

"Hey Snow..." Amanda sad but stopped herself when she noticed the bruise on my cheek. "What the hell is that?" She said and took a closer look. Out of all three of them, Amanda was the closest to me so I guess I could tell her at that point, but then the other two came over so I couldn't. "Oh it's nothing! I fell over and scratched my cheek" I said and she didn't believe me; I could tell by the way she looked at me.

"Guys look. Does this look like falling over to you?" She asked and the other two jaw's fell. "Oh my, what happened?" They both asked at the same time. I sighed. "My dad..." I said and they all got the hint. Amanda came and hugged me. "Why for?" She asked while letting go. "For apparently being home late" I said and rolled my eyes. "You kidding me?" She asked. "I wish" I said and sighed again. She rubbed my back. "Ouch. I can't believe him" Jessica said which made me smile. "Don't worry about it guys, Jake helped me" I said and Amanda immediately smirked at me.

"Give us the details!" She said and they all nodded excitedly. "Well, after my dad punched me, I messaged Jake and he took me out the house. I had to escape through my bedroom window though..." I started and they all laughed at the last part. "What happened when you got to his house?" Jessica asked. "We watched movies, pretty much" I sad and she looked shocked. "Nothing else?" She said and winked. "No?" I answered and rolled my eyes. "Look guys, there's nothing going on between me and Jake, okay? We're only best friends so will you stop asking me about him in that way? Ugh" I said and got my stuff and walked off.

I was so angry at that point that I just had to leave.

I was on my way to the bathroom when my eyes started to get teared up. I quickly ran to the bathroom and slammed the door behind me. I went into one of the toilets and closed that too.

The tears just started falling randomly. I guess all of this was too much to handle; my friends, Jake, family...sigh. How am I supposed to pass my GSCE's like this?

I stayed in the toilet for a few minutes and decided to come out while rubbing my eyes to dry them. I walked over to the mirror and looked at myself. I looked like such a damn mess. I quickly washed my face and then dried it. Better I thought and walked out.

I was walking alone when one of the teachers saw me. "Morning snow!" She said and I smiled politely. "What is that on your cheek?" She said and stopped me from walking past. My eyes widened and my voice got stuck in my throat. "Snow? Have you been crying?" She also asked me and I was numb. I couldn't answer her at all. I just shook my head in disagreement. "No miss...I just fell over and scratched my cheek" I said as confidently as I could, but she didn't look convinced. "My office now" she said and I made my way to her office.

Crap. What am I gonna do now? I thought to myself as I walked to her office. What was she going to do? Was she going to call my parents? I was wishing and hoping she wouldn't.

I walked in the office and sat down on the chair that was placed in front of the teacher's desk. "Miss Anderson, tell me, what really happened?" she asked me and I swallowed really loudly in fear. i sighed and started to explain. "I already told you, I fell over and scratched my cheek" I said while looking down at the ground, avoiding eye contact as much as I possibly could. "I'm not buying that young lady. Who punched you?" She asked me and I held onto my seat harder; nearly scratching it with my nails of nervousness

"I'm waiting for a reply" she said and I remained silent. "Miss Anderson, I am going to have to call your parents to tell them the circumstances" she said and that made me look up. "Miss no! There's honestly nothing like that going on" I said pretty much shaking with fear. She took out her phone and typed in my father's phone number. My eyes widened when she hit the call button.

After a few minutes she put the phone down and I sat there terrified. "You're free to go. Come back at the end of the day and me and you plus your parents will have a chat about this, shall we" she said and I nodded while having my head down and walked out the room.

"Snow!" I heard Jake's voice calling me. I quickly tuned around and saw him coming towards me. "Hey" I said with my shaky voice. "You okay? You look pale" he said and I nodded. "No. I'm not okay. Get me outta here" I said almost in a whisper and he nodded and put his arm around me "let's go"

We walked to the cafeteria in school and sat down alone. I ordered some hot chocolate. "So? What happened? Why were you in the office?" Jake asked and I took a sip of my chocolate. "The teacher saw me and saw my cheek. So she told me to go to her office and talk about it. I just said that I fell over and scratched my cheek, but she wasn't buying it.. so she called my god damn father! Now my mother and father are coming in at the end of the day...I'm screwed" I said nearly in tears. Jake's eyes widened and he came closer to me and rubbed my back. "Don't worry! I'm here. If it gets out of hand you can always text me and I will be right there to pick you up." He said and I looked at him smiling. I knew I can always count on him.

"Thank you Jake, that means a lot" I said and smiled at the ground. "It's alright Snow." He said and I could see he half smiled at me.

We got up and left when the bell went just in time to symbolise the next lesson. We walked out of the cafeteria and separated onto our lessons.