Ballet Princess (#Wattys2017)

Chapter 17

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain  

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"Are you alright?" Matthew asked me.

He followed me to my dorm after Alba kind of attacked me. It was so nice of him.

"Yeah I think so, could you bring me some ice form the fridge?" My chin was hurting so much. You know Alba slapped me right in the face. He just nodded and did what I said. After a few seconds he came back with a small bag of ice. I lied it on my chin.

"Maybe you should see a doctor." He said. I could see that he was really concerned about me.

"No. It's just a slap mark, it's nothing more." I answered him back.

He looked carefully at my face. "Half of your face is almost purple. Luna you should go and check it." Then someone knocked on my door.

"Can you open it?" I asked him and he went to the door and slowly opened it. Yuki and Lucas stormed into my dorm. 

"Are you okay?" Yuki asked with a very scared voice.

"Yes, guys." I said with a annoyed voice. Because it was just how I felt, annoyed. Haven't they got slapped by someone? Oh yeah I forgot they are rich heirs of something, no one would ever hit them. "Could you please stop asking. I know you're concerned about me. I really am grateful for that, but you really don't need to."

"Okay Luna, we'll no ask you more questions." Lucas said and I smiled towards them. If they only knew how my school life was in America. They wouldn't believe in my story.

4 years ago...

"Oh my god, it's weirdo Luna." This stupid blonde girl pointed at me and everyone begun to laugh. Why? I'm not funny, and I'm also not a weirdo. I could say that I'm a gray cloud. A very sad and disrespected gray cloud.

"Hello weirdo!" That girl came right in front of me. I didn't look at her. "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" She shouted and her hand hit me right in my face. That slap was so hard that I fell to the ground. Her friends begun to laugh and give her a applause. What did she do? Nothing was great about her. Why did people like her?

"See that's why you should look at me when I talk to you." She said and turned around to her friends.

I couldn't tolerate her more, I needed to do something. I felt that my head was like lava. I was angry. "Thalia you should sometimes look in your stupid mirror. Oh I forgot every mirror you look in to has so many cracks like you. Your mirrors understand how many people you have hurt. Now go look in to your mirrors until you understand that you're a weirdo." Her mouth opened she didn't know what to say. I must admit I said some strong words, but I couldn't hold them inside me anymore.

"How dare you." She couldn't finish her sentence because a teacher came here.

"What's going on here? Luna?" She looked at me and then at Thalia. 

"Nothing." Thalia lied, as always. The teacher looked at her with a very weird look. "Come on nothing happened."

"Really? I saw everything Thalia, let's go to the principal." The teacher took Thalia's hand and just dragged her to the principal's office.

Today

Lucas and Yuki left after 30 minutes but Matthew still stayed with me. "How can you not worry about that slap? It's unacceptable that someone is slapping you." He said, I knew he wouldn't understand me. No one would. I lie to everyone about me. Maybe I should try to open myself. Tell my story to someone.

"Matt, it's just so hard." I had always tears when I reminded myself about my past. This time I had also tears.

"What is so hard?" He asked me and I just begun to cry. "Shh don't cry." He hugged me. 

"It's just that in New York I was constantly bullied by many people. I changed so many schools. Because of all the lies and all the gossips people heard about me. After then I just decided to be home schooled. My uncle was a teacher so after he finished his classes he taught me in my house." I cried more. "I just couldn't, I really hoped that here in England it would be different, but then came Alba and you. I was really thinking to go back to New York."

He stared at me. I could sense it that he felt sorry for what he did to me. "I'm so sorry Lu. I didn't think you had so bad in New York. I know I acted like a jerk in the beginning. But hey you have friends here, they care about you and I think you should tell exactly the same story you told me. Please don't leave London."

I smiled, his words were so beautiful. He really was sorry. I'm glad that he apologized. "I won't. I must finish Hengiton, and then try to get to a musical academy or a ballet academy."

"That's the Luna I like." He replied and then looked at his watch. He had a smart watch "Crap, my brother wants to meet me" Why did he say crap, I would be happy if a sibling wanted to meet with me. 

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"He found out that I ran away from the hospital." He said and smiled.

"After two weeks he found out that you're not in France!?" That was a quite weird situation.

"My family doesn't care about me at all. They locked me in that hospital, they were always too busy to visit me. Therefore I didn't tell them about the cancer." I didn't know about it. I couldn't see me in his position. His family really didn't care so much about him. "They always decide for me. My brother George is the heir of my father's company. I thought that then I could go and study something I really like. But no father thinks that I will help George."

"Matthew I didn't know, I thought that I have problems, but you have more problems than me." I said. "How could I be so selfish?"

"You're not selfish Luna. You're a good person." I smiled when he said that sentence.

A/N
Okay, so now we know that Matthew's family doesn't care about him. Maybe therefore he acts so weird. Luna was bullied in New York. Do you think she'll give up in Hengiton?

I chose write in this chapter about bullying because it's a important theme, that people are sometimes scared to talk about.

Song of the chapter:
Human by Rag'n Bone Man