My Joy, My Love

Chapter 4

  I woke up feeling especially groggy. Much more than usual. I stayed on my bed for ten more minutes before quickly getting up and attempting to get ready for the day. The first thing I did was go to the bathroom and what I saw in the bathroom mirror wasn't pretty... My nose turning more and more purple and dark in some places. Though it was still too swollen to look natural. I sighed and slowly got in the shower. The steam making my nose hurt. I got out and dried myself. I looked in the mirror and tried to add makeup to my nose. It kind of hurt but less than yesterday. I got dressed and went to go make breakfast. I stared in the fridge for what felt like hours and in the end decided to eat cereal.  I turned on the TV feeling a little uncomfortable with the silence. I didn't normally watch TV so I just watched the news. It always seemed to talk about the bad things. I gently touched my nose and winced at the pain. I mentally planned to go to the doctors later today. I finished my cereal washed my bowl and got my bag ready for school. I carried it with me and went out the door turning the T.V. off on my way out.

I started walking a little lost in my own thoughts till from the corner of my eyes I saw Hinata again. He was walking in front of me which I had to admit was I was kind of surprised that he knew his way around till I realized he was walking with someone. It was the girl from yesterday, Chiaki Nanami. I slowed down a little not really wanting them to notice me. I listen to their conversation I could hear faintly. ".....glad I saw you Nanami! I would be lost without you!" Hinata said. She looked up from the game that she was playing. "Yeah, of course, no problem." She said then looked back down at the game. They continued to talk. They seemed to be talking about a game and I started to get disinterested. I focused on the ground and attempted to make a game out of not stepping on a crack in the sidewalk. I continued to play till I got to school.

I went to my seat setting my bag down by it. Both Hinata and Nanami seemed to be in my class. They talked to each other seeming to have changed the topic to something else that I wasn't too interested in. But I continued to watch them anyway mostly because I had nothing better to do till the teacher came. They seem to be very friendly for people who only met a few days ago. Though I guess It wouldn't take someone like Hinata to long to make friends, would it? I sighed, looking away from them and played with a pencil on my desk. Then Ms. Yukizomie walked in and started her lesson.

The lunch bell rang and most of the students ran out of the classroom and Ms. Yukizom tried her hardest to get her last words out before sighing and giving up. She began to erase the board behind her. I looked towards Hinata and Nanami who were slowly getting their things together to leave the classroom. I didn't really plan on going to Hinata so I looked in my backpack for my once forgotten bowl of rice only to remember that I ate it for dinner last night. I sighed and got up to head to the cafeteria. I looked in my wallet only having a few dollars in it. I got out a dollar and got a basic ham and cheese sandwich. I looked around the cafeteria but couldn't find an empty table. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Hinata and Nanami seating at a table with a few others, they seem to be talking, laughing, and having fun. I had no were to sit and they seemed to have room at their table... I shook my head. that was a horrible idea, Hinata doesn't need me any more. He has actually friends. I looked away from their table and started to move towards the door to eat lunch outside till Nanami seemed to whisper to Hinata. I wouldn't have paid her any mind if she hadn't pointed at me. I started to feel nervous as she started to move towards me. I walked a little faster looking away from her. When I was just by the door Nanami grabbed my sleeve and I flinched and turned around. She looked at me with a slight smile on her face. "Hey, Komaeda right?" She said. I nodded not really wanting to talk to her. Was she going to be like them and embarrass/hurt me? She interrupted my thoughts."I saw you looking for a table so I was wondering if you wanted to sit with us?" She asked looked down at her system but not unpausing the game she was playing. I just nodded not wanting to be rude. She smiled and turned around and started walking which I could only assume I was supposed to follow her, which I did. I slowly walked behind her feeling nervous and a little excited. Maybe they were just trying to be nice to me... but why? What would they get out of that? I tried to look on the bright side for once and looked ahead at where we were heading. I saw Hinata looking over towards us and wave his hand at us and pat the empty seat next to him. A blond girl in front of him and next to her was a male student with dark hair and a white skunk like the stripe in his hair. Plus there was a pink haired boy sitting by Hinata at the end of the table closest to us. They both turned around on the bench like seats the table had. Once we were closer Hinata started to talk. "Hey, Komaeda! You can sit by me if you want," Hinata said smiling and patting the seat by him. Nanami was still in front of me, she kept walking to sit by the blond haired girl as I walked to the seat by Hinata. I smiled a little feeling relieved that this probably wasn't just some prank till I noticed much too late that Hinata and the pink haired boy's legs were out. I didn't have time to walk over them and fell over them only to land face first into a puddle of what I think was white milk. Actually, I should say nose first into a puddle of milk. My hand automatically reached for my nose screeching in pain mostly because it felt like my nose was rebroken. Blood started to fill my hand I attempted to get up but only turned over on my back. My vision becoming much blurrier as tears flew down my cheeks. The people from other tables looking at me because of the loud scream and Hinata was standing over me. I couldn't see his expression because of the blood and tears but I felt like he was smirking at me. I could faintly hear talking but over that, I heard snickering. I felt the tears burn my eyes as someone pulled my hand away from my face most likely wanting to see what they've done to me. I was too scared to fight back as they looked at my nose. Then they tugged me up and attempted to move me somewhere. I didn't want to open my eyes to see the horror they did to me I just cried a little harder as someone held my arm putting in around their shoulder and helped me walk like the other person was doing. I weakly moved my feet though I'm pretty sure they were just going to take me outside and beat me more. I didn't care what happened to me at this point, I just wanted it all to end. After a little bit of walking I faintly heard talking over the snickers of some students, I heard someone knock on a door and a door open. I heard a loud gasp and I was put on to a bed that was kind of hard. I slowly attempted to open my eyes and see but there were tears flowing down my cheeks. I could tell I was most likely in the nurse's office. I tried to calm down and eventually fell asleep not wanting to deal with the intense pain.