It's A Teen Thing

Heather Adams

Heather Adams

"Heather it's time to go to school!" screamed Veronica from the living room couch. Heather grabbed her purse and placed her books she'll need for the day neatly into place. She slowly jogged down the stairs and straighten her skirt and walked to greet her mother, who was lazily lying on the couch sipping her morning beer. "Hey ma, how was your morning?" Veronica looked at her with disgust and continued to sip her beer and grunted "It was going well until you walked in and ruined my morning. Don't you got school to go to? Get out my face Heather". Heather smiled slightly and waved to her mother and that's when her stepfather, Henry barged in and slammed the door behind him. "What are you wearing little slut!" he said while looking at Heather's knees and slightly looking at her ass. "I...I'm wearing my new skirt Amanda bought me..." she stuttered while moving away facing her back to the wall. He grabs her by her arm and turns her around and sucks his teeth and pushes her to the wall. Heather was always treated horrible by her mother's boyfriend, even her past boyfriends. "I..I got to go school, Amanda is waiting outside.." Heather stuttered while walking slight quickly to the front door. "Get to school you stupid whore, and don't be late again" Veronica screamed while going to the kitchen grabbing another beer.
Heather ran to the red shiny convertible and quickly and opened the door and threw her stuff in the back and sat down next to her best friend , Amanda. Amanda instantly knew what had happened due to Heather's heavy breathing and big eyes that were slowly filling with water. Amanda looked at Heather and pushed back her hair behind her ear and hugged her. "What happened H? Did they hurt you again?" Amanda sighed as she held Heather who was staring blank at the car floor. "Just start the car, i don't wanna be late for school.." Heather mumbled and sat up and took out her phone and started to scroll down her Facebook. As Amanda started the car Heather stopped scrolling and stared at a picture of her mother and herself when Heather was first brought home. The picture was posted by Heather's Grandmother. Heather was looking at the picture for longer than someone usually would. Amanda kept driving and put her hand on Heather's lap tapping in a comforting way. Heather locked her phone and put in the cup holder and digs in her bag and pulls out a book and gets some gum. She tries to focus on her book but her thoughts are a distraction.
The girls pull up in the school parking lot. Zach and Jacob were leaning against their cars. Amanda parked her car and quickly went to Zach. "Something happened this morning and she won't talk about it" Amanda quickly whispered in his ear. Zach's hands instantly clenched up in fists, he was so protective over Heather so even hearing someone looked at her a certain way gets him heated. Heather is precious to him and so tiny and fragile. Heather ran into Zach's arms and he held her tightly. Her eyes filled with tears and she wiped her tears with the sleeves of her sweater that was rolled over her hands. She hugged Zach tightly. "Why doesn't my family love me? I want to be loved! Is that so hard to fucking ask" she screamed and threw her bag on the floor. People started to crowd around them and record. "I'm fucking tired, i'm so tired of this, this school, i'm tired of my bitch of a mother and everything! Why can't she just love me? Why can't she notice that her life is shit and maybe she should do something other than be a fucking drunk!" Heather screamed and was walking back and forth pulling her own hair. Heather looked around and noticed the crowd and all the cellphones recording her meltdown. Her eyes filled with tears and she grabbed her bag and ran away. She didn't know where to go but she knew she had to get away.

Heather ran for what felt like miles. She wanted to get away she wanted peace. She ran into Brianna causing both of them to drop their bags and fall over. "yo what the fuck is wrong with you bitch?" screamed Brianna while she got up and fixed her skirt.
Brianna was a thick black girl , she had a long weave in. She has a 2 year old son named Brandon. Heather looked up , her eyes bloodshot red and didn't know how to respond to her remark. She got up and fixed her skirt and looked at the ground looking to see if her books have fell out. Zach , Amanda and Jacob came running down the courtyard. Screaming Heather's name. "oh fuck" says Amanda while she running faster noticing that Brianna is in front of Heather. Heather looks at Brianna and tries to say she's sorry but Brianna pushes her causing her to fall to the ground. "when I ask a question you answer bitch"
Heather lost her cool this time, she grabs Brianna's leg causing her to fall on the ground as well. Brianna hits Heather in the head and Heather then throws punches to her face, hitting her nose and decking her right eye. Brianna pulls Heather's hair and flips on top of her and gets up holding a chuck of her hair and getting up to stand. Heather pulls her by her shirt and decks her in the head while she falls back down. Amanda tries to pull Heather away from Brianna while they are both going at it still. Heather keeps throwing hits towards Brianna's head. "I'm tired of you stupid ass fucking bitches thinking you can do whatever you fucking want and not get hit" Heather screams while Zach pulls her off and hold her waist lifting her up while she's kicking. Brianna throws a textbook at Heather's head. Heather jumps down from Zach's arms and pulls out one of Brianna's extensions . She swings at her head a couple times and scratches her face multiple times. Vincent , who was watching from the gym comes out the school building and laughs and runs to go grab Brianna. Heather gets pulled back and screams louder "Fuck with me again bitch , i'll make sure you can't see when i'm done with your ass" Brianna flips her hair and points to Zach "you still mad that your nigga wants me? You must be mad? you got lucky this time white bitch" Heather flings a plastic bottle at her head "at least I don't got a kid at 16 whore! you ever find the baby daddy? he pay for that new sew in sis? Oh looks baby daddy option 4 is right there y'all going out for a test now?" Heather points at Vincent who is approaching Brianna from the back. "Honey you just mad that niggas don't wanna pull out when I throw it back" Brianna says while throwing her ass back towards Zach and them Jacob. Amanda runs up to Brianna and throws a punch to her head causing Brianna to fall and pull Amanda down. Amanda punches her lip , her eye , pulls on her hair and stand up and pulls her by her hair. Brianna punches Amanda in the face and head.
A teacher comes running to the fight along with two buff security guards. "Stop right now girls , this behavior is not mature at all! Come to my office right now!!!" screams the teacher while the two guards break up the fight. One of the guards knew Amanda and Heather pretty well. "what happened now Amanda and Heather?" said Joseph the security guard. Zach puts his arms around Heather and kisses her forehead softly and whispers "you didn't do anything wrong you defended yourself , I'm extremely proud of you baby". Heather throws her head into his chest and said "Then why does everyone think I did something wrong?".

"Cause everyone only sees the one getting the most "damaged", they don't wanna hear the full story they only take the parts they wanna hear" Zach picked up her head as he spoke.

Heather sprung from Zach's arm and pushed him away. Heather slammed a book from the front desk and screamed "The DAMAGED one?No one in this fucking place knows a damn thing about being damaged! I cry every night, the noises in my head are MY LULLABY. I've been through so much in my life , and it doesn't get better, God forbid I ever get some happiness cause trust me someone will take it , may that be this school, relationship or even friends! Shit even my family can't stand to see me smile." Heather turned around and stormed into her guidance office and looks around for her counselor.
Heather spots her counselor and storms to her who seemed to be already be waiting for her.

"Let me tell you all something, no one here knows ANYTHING about being damaged. Yes i swinged first but she pushed me and made EVERY DAY hell for me! All this office does is pretend to care about you. None of you care about us. NO A SINGLE ONE!" Heather said while her eyes start watering.

Zach storms in and tries to calm her down. She pushes him off once again.

"I'm fucking done acting like everything is okay , this school is bullshit!" Heather grabs her purse and storms out the office.