Sadly In Love

Author's Note :

        Horribly sorry if this is a terrrible first chapter. Things will just start to flow once we get into the story! :)

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Chapter One :

        I wake to the ringing sound of my phone's alarm clock going off. Groaning, I lean over to hit the snooze button to get a few more minutes of precious sleep before I have to go to hell. Otherwise known as school for me. Minutes later, my phone goes off again. This time I press the button to actually stop the alarm so I can get up and ready for school.

        "Get up you idiot!" my dad yells through the thin walls of our condo. I sigh as I turn on the lights to my room so I can actually see. I get up from my warm and comforting bed and walk to my closet. It's late fall, so I automatically grab for black ripped skinny jeans, a flowy white racerback tank-top, a black leather jacket, and black combat boots. As you can tell, I obviously like the color black. As soon as I get dressed, there's banging on my door.

        "Acacia, do I have to break this door down and hurt you to wake you up?!" my father, who is obviously drunk yells outside my door.

        "I'm up," I say very quietly but loud enough for my father to hear me. As I hear him grunt and walk away from my door, I sigh in relief. He is a very scary and dangerous man when he is drunk. After my brief encounter with my dad, I walk to my bathroom, which is located in my somewhat big room for an condo. When I walk in there, I fix my bleach blonde bangs so they sit right on my face. I also grab my makeup and start to work on my eye makeup, which is all I really even wear. After doing these little things, I do what every other person on this planet does. Brush their teeth, put on deoderant, etcetera.

        "Acacia, get the fuck out of your goddamn room and wait for whoever is coming to pick you up!" My dad is obviously annoyed by something and is taking his anger out on me.

        "Alright dad.. I'll be down in a minute I swear," I call down nervously. I'm am actually very afraid of going down there. There's no telling of what my father will do.

        "Just man up Acacia.. You can do this," I mumble to myself. After gathering enough courage go downstairs into our living room, I step out of my room and close the door quietly. I start to rush down the steps.. that is until I'm pushed down by my father. I stare in shock at him when I reach the bottom of the rather hard steps. When I see that he is coming down the steps, I try to get up and run for my backpack and then the front door, but that obviously wasn't going to happen. I was stopped in my tracks as I was being picked up from my underarms, and then slammed against the wall.

        "Where do you think you're going?" my father asks in such a tone that I feel like I could shit my pants from it.

        "I-I'm going to get my backpack and wait for my friend to pick me up so we can go to school," I manage to stutter out.

        "Well, you are not leaving just yet," my father growled. As I was about to plead for him to not do anything, he slams me against the wall again and slaps me with such force that he could've knocked me out. I feel the tears brewing in my eyes, but I force myself not to cry.

        You are made of stone Acacia. You've handled this before.

        My father coldly drops me to the ground and tells me to get out. I do as I'm told and run to my backpack and the front door to get away from the monster that is my father. When I get outside, my best friend, Delilah, is waiting for me in her Jeep.

        "Hey Acacia! What took you so-" She stops mid-sentence to see a bright red mark on my face.

        "Please don't tell me he did it again..." At that point my eyes were so glossy, everything was blurry in my sight.

        "Acacia, you've got to call Child Protection Services," Delilah explains. "You're father is getting even worse.."

        "I know," I cry out to my best friend. "I'm just waiting for him to end my life already, because I don't want to be in this world."

        "Don't say that.. please. I need you."

        I sigh wearily. As I do this small action that shows im depressed, Delilah looks down at my outfit. Her eyes automatically widened when she saw the pants I was wearing.

        "Acacia, you can see your scars through your jeans!" Delilah exclaims. I look down through the rips in the jeans only to see my scar filled thighs.

        "Shit.. I really wasn't thinking with my outfit today," I grumbled.

        "It's okay. It's not noticable unless you really look," Delilah explains frantically trying to cheer me up.

        I giggle at her little fit of rushing her words out. "It's okay Delilah. I'll be alright for a day," I smile. She laughs at my response, her nose piercing wiggling in the process.

        "Alright whatever you say!" She laughs. "Shit, I gotta speed to get to school on time now."

        "Then drive woman,drive!" I laugh histarically as Delilah steps on the gas and frantically drives to school.

*10 Minutes Later*

        After getting to school in a record time,I run as fast as I can to my locker to grab my supplies for math. Just as I closed my locker, the warning bell rung. Sugnaling students that they had less than five minutes to get to class.

        Hurry up Acacia! You don't want to become late again and have a lunch detention!

        After running through the halls to get to my class, I'm almost there, but of course, I get stopped by someone. And what I mean for getting stopped by someone is, I accidentally run into them and fall to the ground. And to my amazing luck, it just so happens to be the most popular guy in our school. His name is Jake Cunningham. He is a jerk, pervert, dickhead, etcetera. Of course, as one of the most popular guys in our highschool, he was downright sexy and hot. I mean, no girl could resist him. He had the perfect wavy light brown hair, along with chocolate eyes to match his perfect hair. So you can see why no girl resisted him?

        "Ouch," I mumbled quietly after a few moments of falling.

        "What the heck? Who are you, and why did you run into me?" Jake asked very rudely.

        I scoffed at how rude he was. "I'm sorry. You don't have to be a dick about me accidentally running into you," I spit at him. He looked up at me, shocked at how I replied to him. I can see why, because everyone treats Jake like a fucking king around here and always sucks up to him, trying to become friends with him. I picked up my supplies, got up, and started running to my class hoping I wasn't going to be late after my very brief encounter with Jake.

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Olivia