Make it Stop

As she sits on her bed crying, she starts thinking about her ex. "I miss her so much, I can't believe that she left me for someone else." she says to herself.

A few hours later her mother gets home and sees her crying in her room on her way to the basement. "What's wrong with you" she asked not actually caring why. Susan quickly thought of a lie. "I just fell down the stairs and hurt my arm is all." she said. "Well suck it up and quit crying you baby!" her mom says as she walks away to start cooking dinner.

"Come and eat Susan!" Her mom yells at her from the kitchen. "Okay, I'll be right there!" Susan yells back from her room. As they eat her mother goes on about how she shouldn't skip school. "I know it's just." Susan tried to say but her mother cut her off. "It's just what? No don't tell me, it's just school and it doesn't matter because y'know fuck education and I'll just live my life listening to music in my mother's basement!" Her mom yells at her from across the table. "It's not like that and if all your going to do is yell at me for being WHO I AM then you can just get the hell away from me!" Susan yelled back. "How dare you talk to your mother like this?!" Her mother screams at her. "How dare I!? I'm not the one who doesn't fucking understand my daughter and who thinks they do nothing and go through life without a single problem!" Susan yells. "Well lucky you, I'll be going away for work in a couple days so you can have all the alone time you want then." her mother says a little more calmly. "Good." Susan says as she gets up and goes to bed.

Susan wakes up to the sound of her alarm and hits the snooze button and gets up to get ready. "Just another day of hell." she says to herself as she gets dressed. When she walks into the kitchen she finds a note on the counter from her mother. "Had to fly out a couple days earlier than expected, be good and don't do anything stupid - Mom" she crumpled the paper and three it out. "finally, I can just relax after school today." she says to herself as she walks out the door to go to school.

When she gets to school she realizes that there's stickers on her locker saying, "dyke, lesbo, fag." She starts taking them off when her friend Natalie comes up behind and starts conversation. "What's with all the stickers?" she asked. "I don't know? I guess just people trying to make me feel bad." She says pretending not to care but actually felt like crying. "Well I'll help you get them at lunch, I would help now but we need to get to class." she says. Susan gets her binder and goes to class.

During lunch Natalie helps take off the stickers. "Jesus, why do you put up with this shit?" she asks Susan. "It's actually easier than you think." She lied. She hadn't told Natalie about the self-harm or the suicidal thoughts.

"Well I think you should tell the principal or something before this gets out of hand." She says to Susan. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" Susan says. "Do you want to just ditch the rest of class today?" Natalie asks. "Sure." she said. So the two walk out the doors of Westwood Highschool and start walking towards Natalie's house.