Battle Scars

Author's note

Ok I know I write notes at the end of almost all of the chapters, and I'm sorry if you thought this was an update, but I have to tell you guys this!

Ok so, this past week has been really hard on me and my friends, we all kind of got in a fight and it was terrible! Well me and one of my friends went to our old history teacher, Mrs. Hoover, for help. She told us to have us and our two other friends come in at the start of 4th hour on Thursday to talk everything out. (Sorry I'm not mentioning my friends names, but this gets kind of personal.)

Anyway, Thursday morning, I got a text from one of my friends (lets call her friend #1 so I don't tell the world her problems haha) saying that she's fat and ugly and the fight was making everything worse. She said in the text that if it continues, she was going to do it again.

I had no idea what she was talking about so I asked her what she was going to do. She responded by saying she was going to try to kill herself. At this point I was sitting in school freaking out (I came early as always so I was sitting in the cafeteria where we are supposed to go if we get to school early.)

Right after I got the text, she walked into the cafeteria and sat across from me, where she always does. I dragged her into the girls bathroom so we could talk privately. She told me she used to cut and if the fight continued she would kill herself (she explained why she used to cut but it's really personal so I won't mention it.)

So Thursday, at the begining of 4th hour, me and my friends went to Mrs. Hoover's room to talk everything out. Friend #1 (the one who threatened herself) ended up storming out of the room mid-conversation because she was frusterated.

I spoke up first! I told Mrs. Hoover that she was going to hurt herself first, even though one of my other friends (who was in the room as well) knew too! I told Mrs. Hoover everything and she took us down to the counsling office to report it.

Now my friend is getting help and she will be ok! I saved her and if I wasn't there, she would probably be dead by now. Yesterday was her birthday and she told me that she would've commited suicide yesterday if I hadn't reported it! I saved her! The point of this is, if someone - anyone - tells you something like that, you HAVE to report it as soon as they tell you! If I hadn't spoke up, I never would've seen my best friend again! Bottom line is, you can save a life by simply SPEAKING UP AND STANDING UP FOR PEOPLE! I don't know what I would do if she ended up commiting suicide and I could've done something to save her. But I did speak up, and again, if I didn't, she would have already been gone.

I really just wanted to tell you guys this story - sorry if it was a little confusing because I didn't mention my friends names. I want you to know that you can save a life! And it feels great knowing that I saved someone!  Thank you so much for reading this! I just wanted you guys to know that no matter how hard it seems to speak up, you have to! I'm sooo glad I did! Don't keep it in, even if it seems like it's the easiest thing to do! Speak up and help someone out! It feels so amazing to know I saved my best friend! And I gatentee you that if you find out someone's going to hurt themslef and you keep it in, and they end up dieing, you will feel terrible! Don't hide it!!!