"So why do you make yourself look so different for school?" Mike asked. I was being thoroughly interrogated, and to be frank I found it amusing.
"Expectations, Mike. Lots of them."
"So why choose now to change?"
I looked at Johnny in desperation, and he looked at me. I think we both knew we couldn't tell the rest of the guys what had really happened. I wasn't looking forward to conjuring an answer for this one.
"I-uh. When I was round Johnny's one of my contact lenses fell out so I-uh... I ended up just taking the other out and yeah. I decided I didn't give one anymore and here we are now?"
I make myself sick, I'm so bad at lying. I'm good at little white lies like whether or not I ate breakfast. But with something as big as this, it was hard to lie.
To be fair, it wasn't that much of a lie. One of my contact lenses did fall out, and I did decide I didn't care what people thought of me anymore. So technically, I wasn't lying. I just wasn't giving them the whole story.
"Well I'm glad you did, because I far prefer this you." Danny smiled at me.
"Thanks. But shouldn't you be worrying about your girlfriend right now?"
"Nah, she'll come around."
"Why do you stay with her?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"Fair point."
Lisa emerged from the bathroom, a sickly sweet smile plastered on her face.
"Kassy, can you come in please?"
"Why?"
"Annie wants to see you."
I looked at Danny, Johnny, Mike, and Will who looked at me with the same expression I was giving them: worry.
"Sure."
I don't know what propelled me to go and see her, but I guess curiosity go the better of me.
I walked in, and the other girls were standing, hands on hips, looking furious.
"What are you doing?" Annie spat.
"What do you mean?"
"Why are you so different? You look horrible."
Now that, hurt.
"I don't think I do."
"I thought we had finally made you fit in. We made you normal and actually pretty, and then you go and pull a stunt like this." Riley tutted.
"Well excuse me for looking nice." I really don't know where I was getting this newfound courage, but I was so done with this.
"Don't talk to me like that!" She squealed, and slapped me round the face. I barely reacted to be honest, because I was so used to it.
"Was the other night not enough for you, huh?" Karla smirked, moving closer.
"Oh, and I heard about your night with Johnny."
"WHAT?!" Lisa screeched. I heard footsteps and loud banging started on the locked door. Lisa looked disgusted, and I could tell what was going to happen next.
"Yeah. She slept over at his."
"YOU COW!" Lisa howled, and kicked me to the floor. I let out a yelp as the beating began. I received multiple kicks and punches to the face and stomach, but luckily they stayed away from my ankle.
They beat me relentlessly until I was a sobbing, bleeding mess on the floor. The banging on the door never ceased, and the girls ran out. They slammed the door but didn't lock it, so all the boys came flooding in and were instantly by my side.
"Oh my god, Kassy!"
"Are you okay?"
"Of course she's not okay, knobhead!"
"Should we take her to the hospital?"
"Do we tell her parents?"
"Yeah, Danny will you go get her parents?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. Kassy can you hear me?"
"Stay with us Kassy."
"Kassy?"
"Kassy!"
"KASSY!"
And then nothing.
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Teen FictionKassy Lynn Tyla. When society killed the girl, now you know who they were on about. She's forced to stay part of an abusive relationship with a boy she's hated from the start. The only people who will take her in are the school's 'populars', a...