Pretty for a Dark Girl

6

Helloooooo! Happy New Year!!!
Enjoy!

Iasia

I looked into the mirror and winced as I touched my eye. I had a blue and purple bruise on my face the size of a large rock and it hurt like hell. I attempted to cover up the bruising using a little makeup but it hurt too much to touch it so I gave up.

I finished getting dressed in a pair of black leggings, a black hoodie that had a red rose in the left corner and I threw on my red Presto sneakers. I left my hair out, hoping it'd wouldn't draw any attention to my face. Just to be sure, I put on a pair of dark sunglasses.

"See you later, mom." I spoke quickly. I didn't want her to ask me any questions so I left the house.

The entire ride to school I had to think of a reason I'd give for keeping on my sunglasses throughout the day. I knew someone would try to tell me to take them off so I had to be prepared.

After I parked, I texted Naomi to see where she was. I wanted to avoid her at all costs; I didn't really need the "I told you so" speech right now.

I knew sometimes Ryan could be a complete asshole but never in a million years had I thought he'd hit me. I wanted to make an excuse for this one and say that he didn't really mean it but I wasn't sure if I could. The look in his eyes was something I had never seen before and he acted like it didn't happen afterwards.

Naomi responded a few minutes later and told me she wasn't in school because she wasn't feeling well. I silently thanked God but also texted her back and told her I hoped she felt better.

I walked to the library to sign up for the tutoring thing my teacher had recommended. I figured it'd help me get my mind off of some things.

"So how does this work?" I asked after writing my name down.

"Well, everyone that needs help has gotten it already and since you're new, your name won't be put on our list of tutors until tomorrow. By tomorrow morning, you'll have your student that you will tutor for the rest of the year, when they need it of course." the librarian explained to me.

"Okay, thank you." I smiled and walked to an empty table in the corner. I was glad that no one needed help today. I wasn't really feeling up to it.

I plugged my headphones in and the first song that played was U by H.E.R. I turned it up and listened to her soothing voice.

Right now my head is a mess

Thinking 'bout you got me stressed

But you could probably care less

You're just so hard to impress

I could relate in so many ways to the first part of the song. My head really was a mess right now. Everything was starting to become too much and I desperately needed to get away from it all.

I was about to put my head down to take a quick nap until I noticed Ryan walking towards my table. My heart started beating a mile a minute and my palms started to get sweaty. Images of the last time I'd seen him started flashing through my mind and tears instantly formed in my eyes but I blinked them away. I wasn't going to let him see me cry again. I turned my head towards the window to avoid eye contact.

"Let me talk to you for a minute." I heard him say. I kept my focus on the window and pretended I didn't hear him.

"I know you hear me, Iasia. Nothing is playing in your ears." I looked down at my phone and noticed the song had gone off and nothing played after it.

"Damn." I silently cursed to myself.

"Please." he begged, with a sincere look in his eyes. I rolled my eyes and stood to follow him outside.