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31.

At this point you can already imagine my happiness turning into complete shit. I tucked in my crop top to stop exposing my body, and I took the long way home so I could clear my head. Why does my life fall apart? As I continue to walk I'm starting to recognize this route. When I look up I see the bridge where I tried to kill myself that night. But Grayson saved me. I grasped the railing and leaned forward and closed my eyes. He should've let me die. I could feel the cold tear run down my cheek fast and I let it fall on my jacket.

I slid down the railing and sat against it and just cried. My weeping was interrupted by laughter and someone kicking rocks. I wipe the tears from my eyes to get a clear focus of who is was. It was Aaron. I jump up and run towards him, Aaron is the only one who hadn't broken me yet. "Aaron!" I holler. He turned to see me and he waved he was walking with an unfamiliar friend who was holding a bat but I chose to ignore him. "What are you doing here T?" He smiles. I smile back. "I- um I was going for a walk and then I saw you so.." I nodded. I put my hands in my pockets and walked with them.

"Well nice if you to join us. Oh! This is Lucas, he's my knockoff version of Grayson." Aaron laughs, "he's my go to when Grayson isn't around." They both laugh and Lucas creeps in front to wave at me. I wave back, nauseated at the thought of Grayson but I wanted to talk about him. "speaking of Grayson.. where is he-?" I ask pretending as if I didn't already know the answer. "Um he left earlier and he said there was something he needed to do.." Aaron confesses. I roll my eyes, he needed to "do" a pretty chick? What a horn dog..
I shook my head then quickly change the subject. "Where you guys headed to?" I ask lightly. Aaron looked at me "We are go- hey, were you crying?" He grabs my chin to lift up my face and he could probably see the puffiness of my eyes and cheeks. I rip my face from his hand and wipe my face as if that would've helped.

I wanted to lie, but shit was too obvious. "Yeah- rough morning." I confess. Aaron pouted his lip, "I hate days like that. It'll get better though." He says trying to reassure me. I shrugged. "Me and Lucas were gonna find Jake, and kick his ass." Aaron giggles. I look back at the bat Lucas was holding, oh. "Nice, he deserves it." I mumble with gritted teeth. Aaron laughs and lightly pushes me. I laugh back at him. "Do you even know where Jake is?" I ask looking around. "He's in 1 of 2 places, the skatepa- GRAYSON!!" He interrupted himself and runs towards Grayson who was with what looked like ANOTHER girl. who seemed to be high. I would say my heart is broken but you can't break what was already broken. I tried not to look in his eyes but I felt his eyes on my as I stood behind Aaron. I stared at the girls shoes. They were a deep blue and dusty, probably a couple years old I could tell by the way they were worn down.

"You made it just in time! You wanna come with Me and Luke to go and get some revenge." Aaron laughs maniacally. Grayson chuckles back. "Nah I'm.. I'm good. I've got some things to do."
I scoff and roll my eyes at his perverted remark. I think he heard me, "Taya." He says soft. I know I said I wouldn't, but I made eye contact with him. "It's not even what you think." He says firmly reaching for my hand, which I reject. "I'm not thinking of anything." I lie through my teeth. I signal Aaron to keep walking and he catches my hint and we begin to walk out of the awkward situation. As we walk past, I could smell the smoke and dirt from the girls clothes. I gagged. Grayson has really let himself go. We walked towards the skatepark that was relatively close to my house. As we got closer Aaron and Lucas scanned the skatepark through the fence to see any movement of any kind, but there was none. Aaron sighed and leaned against the fence. "That means he's at The High Hub." Once Aaron said those words Lucas groaned. "Fuck! I hate going there." Aaron nodded. "Me too bro, but if we're gonna do this we gotta go." Aaron spits out. I raised an eyebrow. "Um.. what's the High Hub?" I ask. Aaron opens his mouth to speak but his words were muted but the loud sirens of 4 police cars racing down the street. "Whoa what the fuck?" Lucas yells. I check to see where they were going and sure enough, They were heading to my house. I gasp loud and sprint home.