Blue Eyes (Asa Butterfield)

Chapter 17

My first counseling group thing. Instead of doing a one-on-one thing the doctor is making me go to a support group like in The Fault In Our Stars and Hazel Grace has to go to a cancer support group where she meets Augustus Waters and sorry...

I walk into the building in the hospital where you sit down in a circle formed by chairs and everyone's looks depressed as hell. They should go to school to get the same feeling. I sit down away from everyone and let the pain begin. Oh great! At least this is a week, if I pass to see the therapist at the end of the week to see if I'm done with this.

The support group teacher is a woman with long blonde hair and bright green eyes. "Class," She started, "we have a new pupil! Hello, I'm Rebecca."

I look around at about nine other kids and say, "I'm Jess, I'm in here because I was depressed." Everyone got up to say who they are and how they got in here. Some said suicide, bullying, abuse, neglect, failure, and froster kids. Man, ten kids including me and they have these problems and the sad things is that this goes from ages TEN-EIGHTEEN! It's sad to see a ten year old having one of these problems. It really sucks that I got better after a day, but they have been suffering the pain for who knows how long!?

Rebecca talks about how to stop bullying and ignore them then I thought of how I didn't care about old Christy for bullying me because I knew Asa, Iris, and Rider are always by my side! I felt so bad for these kids because they think no ones there for them.

When I was exiting the building one of the girls, Riley, caught up to me.

Riley: Boring as hell!

Me: I can't wait for it to be over.

Riley: Lie, you can never run away from pain by leaving this place. You'll see. You go to MCAA?

Me: Ya. What about you?

Riley: I do, too, but I'm in the engineering division and you're in the performing division. Now I got to go! See you tomorrow.

Me: Bye!

When I get back to campus I talk to Asa about how these kids live and that one of them comes here and I didn't even notice!

Asa: Jess, you can't stop hatred in the world.

Jess: BUT ASA...Asa I don't want to go there, but now I need to go there to change things! Please.

Asa: Alright. Now what did you need me to do?

I whisper him my plan and he hurries away to get a good nights sleep for planning, but before that we go to the music room to do our homework! Feels good to be back!

We mess around with the instruments and Asa tries to show me guitar even though he doesn't know I've been playing since I was eleven I let him teach me.

"Now trying playing C major." Asa said getting my fingers in place.

I strum C major and play a song from Gabriela and Rodrigo! They're the best guitarist ever! When I was done Asa looked amazed and said, "We'll you're a fast learner!"

I laugh and say, "I've been playing since I was eleven."

Asa laughs and says, "Well is there an instrument you don't know how to play?"

I think very, VERY hard and reply, "Bagpipes."

Asa's eyes shoot out and heads to the bagpipes nervously and tries to play, but miserable fails to succeed. I laugh and a couple students come to see if someone was getting murdered or something! Then they'd look at Asa disappointed and leave!

I kiss him for being so cute for trying and we carry on wit our homework before it gets too late and it's obvious that we're screwed. Dammit. We work extra hard not fool to around take a break every five seconds! Finally, at ten o'clock we finally finished our homework that took forever! Who the bloody hell gives a person that much homework!?

Asa says bye to me and I hurry back to my room to meet up with Iris. I walk with the light breeze flowing through the April wind and the stars shying brighter than sun! I look at the full moon and imagine a wolf howling into the night then....BANG! The girl dies! Hey,. doesn't that happen in every horror movie? See! Now I continue my walk back to my dorm with my giant backpack dragging me down to the ground. I try to hurry my pace before I get detention for being late for curfew and I'm not spending extra hours in a classroom full of kids that created history, but are stupid to get caught doing it.

Iris is at her desk typing and painting a couple things that I'm too busy to worry about. I jump into my pajamas and try to squeeze in some reading before I dose off to sleep and I got nothing I wanted to do done so I have to do it all last minute. When Iris was done I quickly explain the plan that I told Asa and she was all hands on deck with it. Then she explained that she was bullied and she had to talk to some of her relatives about it and her uncle went up to them and look them straight in the eye and said, 'If you keep bullying Iris, I wouldn't want to be you." He got in trouble, but when he explained why he did it the principal understood completely.

I read and I pop up realizing the play is tomorrow!

Me: Sherk tomorrow! Plus Ms. Jameson is coming back!

Iris: I know because I'm head set painter. Now wake up early to get ready for the play and then hurry to support group to finish things up there! I can't wait!