Alex's Story

Chapter 12

I woke up with my wrists and thighs hurting. I unwrapped the gauze I had on them and changed it. I looked at the scars before and they were bad. I mean I'm not proud of it, but I don't regret it. It made me feel better knowing this was the pain I was focusing on rather than the hurt made by Christian and Brandon.

I put new gauze on them and wrapped them tight. I grabbed some boot cut jeans and a black tank with a gray cardigan on that covered my scars, thankfully. I slipped on my gray vans. I trudged to the bathroom and put on little make up. Mascara and Eyeliner. No need to look pretty anyways. I'm just gonna get hated on. I jogged down the stairs to see my mom making breakfast.

"Hey honey."She said smiling. I gave a weak smile and sighed out a 'hi'.

"Whats wrong?" She asked. I shook my head and smiled telling her nothing was wrong. BUT EVERYTHING'S WRONG! Can she not see in my eyes. She returned to making Bacon and I sat down at a chair by the island.

She handed me a plate of waffles and bacon. I can't eat it.. I just cant. "Thanks mom, but I'm not hungry. I'll eat at school." I lied.

"Okay." She breathed out. I nodded and got off the chair.

"I'm gonna head to school, bye." I said getting my bag and walking to the front door.

"Bye!" Mom shouted after me. I walked out the door and jogged to my car. I started it up and headed to school.
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I reached school in like 20 minutes. I parked my car in my original spot. I took the keys out and stepped out. I heard a lot of whispering and people were staring at me, giggling with their friends.

I rushed inside and immediately spotted Andrea and Alice. They both gave me dirty looks and I sighed. I looked around to try and spot Amy and quickly found her, but she didn't notice me until one of her cheer friends pointed at me and laughed. She rushed over to me and embraced me in a huge hug. She's the only one here for me. I sighed in her shoulder and she let go.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" She asked wiping away a tear I didn't even know was there. I shook my head 'no''and she sighed. "I need to tell you something." She smiled weakly. I nodded my hand a made a hand gesture saying 'go on'. She got the hint and sighed.

"Brandon has been acting different since last night. He's been more quiet and I noticed stuff." She said looking at the ground as we started to head towards my locker.

"What kind of things?" I asked suspiciously.

"He never wears long sleeves. He wore long sleeves last night and today... I caught a glimpse of his wrists. He cut Alex.."