That night was one of the worst nights of my life. Not including the one when our mum had died. Now our dad is a loving caring dad who loves and is proud of his 2 girls. It took a few weeks for him to come around but when he did things got better for all of us and now I'm facing the last year of high school and Emily is finishing primary school before moving to high school. She's growing up to be such a beautiful young lady. I'm so proud of her, she's a fighter and survivor. Today our first day back at school so I've gotten up early to get us ready. Emily still gets picked up for school out the front which is helpful but my I need to get to my bus first so if I don't have her ready she'll miss hers. She gets a little absent minded sometimes. I shower and get dressed into some new clothes I bought myself these holidays. I've been working a part time job for a year now and have saved some cash so I can go to college next year and since I've been saving hard dad said I could use some of it to buy new clothes for school. We argued about it for a while until I finally agreed and I bought me some new clothes. It made me feel good about myself and now I get to show them off. I do my hair and apply some makeup, not much as I don't want people to think I'm something I'm not and then go wake up Emily and get her ready for school. While she dresses herself. I made her lunch and some breakfast. I check in my dad's room and he's already gone. I walk over to the side table and look at the last family picture we had and smile. Taking it in my hands I can't help be gaze at my mother's features. Both us girls look like her, no wonder why our dad couldn't face us after she died. We reminded him of his one true love. The poor guy must have been so heart broken. I shake my thoughts out as tears start to form and I put down the picture and smile at my mum before getting Emily.
Once Emily has eaten and is ready sitting on her chair out the front for the bus I kiss and hug her before heading to my bus stop. I look up as the sun shines down and think to myself. This year’s going to be a good one. I can feel it! I get to my stop and roll my eyes as I see a bunch of idiots from my school skating around annoying everyone who's waiting for the bus. One of them sees me Jack I believe and he comes up and touches my hair "Hey baby" he says.
I look at him like he's some sort of alien hoping he'd get the hint to leave me alone but it doesn't work "Brook isn't it?" he says and I stop to look at him
"Yes" I answer and he smirks
"Well Brook, you have very beautiful eyes" I almost want to gag now.
Can someone get rid of this loser please?! "Oh come on Brook, you know you want me?" I scoff at him
"I don't think so Jack. No leave me alone" I push him gently away from me and he smirks
"Oh I like the rough ones" he hisses at me.
I glare at him and he moves forward "Don't tell me you don't like the attention brook. I know you're a virgin so you should be enjoying all this affection" I gasp at him and push him harder away from me, how dare he bring up my virginity "Get away JACK!" I almost scream at him but he doesn't move.
He just stands there looking at me up and down, then steps forward and grips my waist in his hand. Pulling me close to him. I feel his hot breath on my neck as he whispers "I could teach you everything you need to know?"
"No now get away from me" I beg but he doesn't budge.
We struggle for a moment and I can't help but think what the hell am I'm going to do if this guy doesn't stop when someone says "Leave her alone" it’s a husky deep voice and it came from behind us and we both spin around to see a hooded guy standing there.
His sun glasses hid his eyes and the hoodie he wore made him look mysterious. I looked him up and down as did Jack not 2 minutes ago to me yet I couldn't take me eyes off him. He has me intrigued. Jack pulls me to him and he kisses my cheek while looking at this guy "And who's gonna make me? You?" he chuckles at his joke as I try to pry his fingers off of me but only for him to grip me harder.
I watch as the hooded guy looks at us before he too smirks. I see his dimples appear and I can't help but feel like butterflies are fluttering softly in my stomach. Weird I know as this has never happened to me before and I don't even know this guy so why the feelings? I shrug it off as he takes a step forward "Let the girl go?" he says firmly and Jack laughs and says
"And if I don't?" I watch Jack as his eyes grow just as the hooded guy steps forward and swiftly punches Jack right in the nose, sending him backwards to the ground.
His hands cupping his face as the blood trickled down between his fingers. I stumble a little at the force beside me but I steady myself before I fall to the ground myself with Jack. I look at the hooded guy who's standing over Jack pointing in his face "Next time when I say get her go, you let her go - right?!" Jack looks up at him with a hurt expression on his face but nods up at him.
My mysterious friend soon goes to walks off when I grab his arm, it's firm under my fingertips but I still hold on unto it as he turns looks at me "Thanks" I almost whisper up at him as I do I look at my own reflection in his sun glasses and I look terrified but relieved "No problem. Let's hope he doesn't annoy you anytime soon" I nod
"Yeah. Thanks again" he nods again at me before walking back to where he was standing before this all started. I can't help myself but watch him for a moment as we all wait for the bus. I look over at Jack whose friends are by his side helping him up to his feet before glaring at the hooded guy behind me and then making some promise to bash his head in when he least expects it. All he did was laugh at them. I turned around and just waited for my bus - yep it's going to be a different year. I can feel it.
