𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 { 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 | 𝟏 }

Chapter 33:Rhinestone lies

Your love's like Rhinestones falling from the sky

With future pixels in factories far away

-Gorillaz (Rhinestone eyes)

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Kora pov

Even the most shadiest of sunglasses couldn't hide how fucked I felt. I really didn't want to be here today, not after last night. More so, I didn't want to see Thatch, or deal with any of the rumours about me. With every person staring at me as a shouldered through the student filled hallways, it just gave me more of a reason to want to scream at people to fuck off. But seeing as it's first thing in the morning, I did not have the energy to do so.

"Hey Kora!" Ace greeted. "Oh, hey." I answered. Ace must've immediately noticed my change in tone, because he had given me a worried look, "Is everything okay?" He asked. I really didn't want to be snappy, not at Ace anyway. Ace is the last person I wanna be snappy towards. "Nope." I answered simply. "Hey, I know we're not exactly close and all...but still you can talk to me." Ace offered. "It's stupid, you'll laugh at me." I sighed. "Trust me, I won't." He assured.

I look at the freckled wad, and meandered towards my locker. "It starts off like this," I start as a I unlock my locker, "Thatch came over last night. We hung out for a while, and then I mentioned how I've had enough of the rumours." I scratched my head as I was trying to find a way to hide my slowly dying crush on Shanks, "But with everything that's going on, it's made me annoyed at Shanks and Valkiria, because she's taken my best friend away from me. Thatch got all defensive, and tried to explain Valkiria's actions cause of how he likes her, and then I exploded on him, and then he said I was jealous and it was just..." I sigh, "I've pissed off Thatch."

Ace looked thoughtful, "Really? After all that? That doesn't sound like Thatch..." Ace pouted. "Well...that's what happened." I lied, before shutting my locker with all the stuff I needed in my arms. "Do you want me to talk to him?" He asked. "As much as I'd love that, I think I'll be fine thanks." Ace gave me an unsure look, "Ya sure?" He asked. I shook my head, "I'll be fine."

'What have we ever done to deserve your niceness, Ace?'

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I stretched as I prepared myself for the extreme running regime that I was forced to make for my report. The music was pounding through my ear buds into my ear drums.

And, we dream of home, I dream of life out of here

Their dreams are small

My dreams don't know fear (I got all you)

I got my heart full of hope

I will change everything

No matter what I'm told

How impossible it seems (we got the power)

We did it before

And we'll do it again

We're indestructible

Even when we're tired

And we've been here before