What About Love

Scared

I woke up to my alarm again. I got up and looked in the mirror. I could see the bruise color trying to form but I just put some makeup over it. I got my Areopostile shirt that was long sleeve and my Forever 21 pants. I put on my vans and grabbed my hoodie. I put my hair in a messy bun and walked downstairs. my brother was still asleep thank god. who knows what he would've done. I grabbed my binders and walked out of the house. I started walking like I was scared of anything and everything. I held my binders close to my chest and walked. I guess Harley and Austin saw me and ran up to me. They scared the shit out of me making me jump out of my skin and drop my books. they just laughed. "Shut up. Can't you see you scared me. damn." I said starting to cry. I sat down on the ground and covered my face. Harley came running up to me sitting beside me putting her arm around me and Austin came and sat beside me too giving me my binders. "Mariah are you okay. you're not acting right." "You okay shawty?" I wiped my tears away and started talking. "Um. yeah. I uh...I just got a little scared I guess." "No you didn't just get scared. something's wrong." Harley said as she took her hand off my arm that had a bruise. "Ouch." "what?" "Nothing." "Mariah tell me now. something's up." "Please talk to us." "okay but you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone." they shook their head and I told them. once I was done they sat there quite not saying or moving anything. until Harley got up. "Mariah this is serious. He doesn't need to hit you. he's. not in control of you. that's really serious and you need to tell someone before it gets bad." "No you can't tell. you promised." "we didn't promise nothing." "Bullshit. Harley I can't tell. I can't tell because 3 reasons. if I tell I'm gonna get hurt more, people won't believe me, and my brothers gonna go to jail for abuse." "Mariah this promise is a promise I'm gonna break. you can't hide this." "Watch me." I said and walked away. that was the first big fight when me and Harley were like that. maybe she was right. I can't hide this. I stopped and decided to walk back to them. I hugged Harley and she hugged me back. I cried into her shoulder. "I'm sorry." "There's nothing to be sorry for. but why dont you say something." "I don't know. I don't want to cause anything." "Yeah. well let's get going." we walked to the school and went to our lockers. someone walked up behind me and pit their hands on my hip. I turned around and saw it was Jason. the guy who's always hitting on girls. "Hey beautiful." he said and licked his lips. I rolled my eyes and pushed him away. "What do you want Jason?" "You baby." "Not even in your dreams." Jason's cute but he cheats and hits on every girl. "Come on beautiful let's go out. it'll be an experience you'll never forget." "why dont you just-" Then Austin jumped in front of me. "Leave her the hell alone." "And if I don't?" Austin went to punch him but someone got in front of him. The guy and Jason walked away and Austin turned around hugging me. I hugged back. "Thank you." "Your welcome." we smiled and he put his arm around my shoulder and we walked to class.  We sat down at our desks and and the teacher took role. we watched the morning show and someone knocked on the door. Our principal Mrs. Jackson, walked in with a girl. "Class this is our new student Dima. Dima take your seat right behind Mariah. Mariah raise your hand." I raised my hand and smiled. she walked behind me and sat down. I turned around and said hi. "Hi" "You're names Dima?" "Yeah. what's yours?" "Mariah. nice to meet you by the way." "Nice to meet you to." "Can I see your schedule?" "Yeah." she handed me her schedule and we had every class together. "We have every class together." "really!! can you show me how to get to pe then!!" "yes. follow me and Harley after this class."  "Okay thanks." I smiled and turned back around. After class was over I showed her how to get to p.e. with Harley. We got dressed and walked to the gym. Me and Harley walked and dima sat on the bleachers. I looked over and saw Jason walking towards her. "oh shit." "what?" I pointed to Jason and dima. "I'll be right back." I ran up to the bleachers and I stood in front of Dima and grabbed her hand. I pulled her to me and Harley. "What the heck." "Dima don't mess with Jason. he's not the guy trust me. He'll hit on any girl cause he don't know you. He cheats and this morning he hit on me." "Mariah he knows me." "What?" "Yeah he's my cousin. He was talking to me about this school and stuff." "oh. well I didn't know. I was just-" "Trying to help? Protect me? Yeah I understand I know my cousin. I try to talk him out of doing that stuff but he never listens." "Oh okay well I'm going to go walk  again." "Okay!" we laughed and I got out my phone. I put on Justin Bieber. Never Let You Go came on. I love that song.

~Skip to After school~

School finally ended and I dreaded going home. I went home anyways. No cars were home so I started thinking I was getting lucky to no brother at home. I walked upstairs and looked through his door. He was asleep on his bed. Shit. I closed the door and walked to my room. I took out my binder and did my homework. After 10 minutes I finished and watched some tv. My brother walked in my room. "What are you doing?" "I just finished my homework." "Let me see." I handed him my paper and he looked at it. "Well?" I said and he ripped my paper up."Whoops." my mouth dropped. He left my room and I slammed the door and locked it. I hate him. I looked all my answers up again. My mom got home and cooked dinner. She knocked on my door and I got it. "Spaghetti is ready." "Okay but uh I think I'll skip dinner tonight." she looked at me puzzled. "you sure its spaghetti you love spaghetti." "I ate already." I lied. if its something messy like spaghetti I can't eat in my room. "Okay." My mom left but Jacob walked in. "Mariah why aren't you going to eat?" "Cause I.....I can't eat around Blake." "Why?" I started to tear up and Jacob gave me the biggest hug ever. "Its okay. What's wrong?" "You won't believe me." "Riah, I will too. What's wrong?" "Okay well yesterday um. Blake he hit and kicked me." He sat there and he looked shocked. "What?" "Yes and he ripped my homework up. See." He shook his head a little. "Mariah that's not right." "oh really." I got up and took off my makeup and pulled my shirt up and showed him the bruises. "Now is it right?" his mouthed dropped a little and he stared at me. He got up and I grabbed his arm. "Jacob no. Don't tell anyone." "Why?" "Because he'll hurt me more and he'll go to jail." "who?" I looked at him mad and confused." Blake. the reason I showed you these was cause him." "I don't believe you." "Exactly. you never would." he walked out. "I thought you cared about me." I slammed the door and walked to my bed and fell asleep.