Touch (Jerrie Fanfiction)

Chapter 55

A/N: I decided to update a day earlier because you guys are so IMPATIENT lol

Please note the whole chapter is in third-person POV and it's more Jade-centered

21st September, 2004

The bell rang signaled the end for her last lesson and Jade couldn't wait to leave the school as quick as she could. She sighed in relief when her foot stepped outside the building, feeling at ease the horrible day finally came to an end. It's not like Jade doesn't like school. In fact, she loves it. She is inquisitive and eager to learn. That's why she loves reading so much, she always find something she doesn't know and the new knowledge excited her. Jade knew she is a nerd, but she doesn't mind because she does love to learn and read. But the students in school, not so much. Jade was bullied. Really Bad.

Jade didn't know anyone when she got into secondary school, all her friends went to different schools. She got picked on by the popular gang nearly everyday and they would push her around and told her she was ugly. There's one time a girl cornered her in the bathroom, shouting horrible words and threw bleach powder at her. The girl asked her mates to hold Jade down and drew a bindi on Jade's forehead, pointing and laughing at her. It's horrendous. She had never experienced racism or prejudice before and she couldn't understand why people could be so mean. She was just 11 years old.

Today is no difference. The same gang picked on her during lunch period again and this time the leader poured cold water on her, leaving her squirming and shaking in her soaking uniform. Jade spent the whole period drying her uniform using the hand dryer in bathroom, receiving weird and disgusting glances from others, but she had no choice. She managed to dry the uniform enough so she could barely bear the cold for the remaining lessons. It's only Monday, meaning Jade had to go through four more days of hell until weekend.

Once she got out of the school, she walked into the bathroom in the nearby mall to get changed. It's not the first time she got poured in water, so she always carries another set of outfits to change to in case it happens again, unfortunately today is one of those day. Jade told her mam it was rain that soaked her uniform the first time, but she couldn't use the same excuse this time because it is sunny today, she had to come up with another excuse to cover up why she changed into some casual clothes when she go home.

She smiled once she pulled out the purple Princess Jasmine T-shirt from her bag. She loves it so much because purple is her favorite color and Princess Jasmine is her favorite Disney character. She put on the shirt and a pair of blue jeans, feeling refreshing as she finally had some dry clothes on. She left the mall and was going to head home, but then she realized, she couldn't, yet. Her lunch box was still full and she couldn't let her mam know she hasn't eaten.

So she went to a park near the mall instead. She sat down on a bench and pulled out her lunch box, which was packed with sandwiches her mam prepared for her this morning. Jade was hungry, she hasn't eaten anything in school because she spent all the time drying her uniform, but she doesn't feel like eating right now. You are ugly. The terrible words kept repeating in Jade's head. Putting on any more weight definitely doesn't help at all. Her negative thought stopped her from taking the sandwiches out of the box and put them into her mouth. She thought of throwing the food away then her mam wouldn't know she hadn't eaten at all, but she couldn't because she knew her mam woke up early just to prepare these sandwiches for her and it would be very ungrateful to do that. So Jade just stared at her food, didn't know what to do.

"Why don't you eat? They look delicious to me"

A sweet voice caught Jade's attention and she turned her head to the side and saw a blonde girl around her age sitting on the bench next to her, she seems so happy and bubbly unlike Jade. The flower crown on her head caught Jade's attention as it looked like a halo on an angel, and Jade wished she is one that flies down to save her