Life with TFIL

Highschool

[This chapter gets little darker than any of my other ones. If you suffer from depression or are easily disturbed I would like to advise you to skip to the next chapter.]

*Vanessa's P.O.V.*

I woke up the morning after the party getting ready to leave when surprisingly Colby walked in like a zombie as if he needed sleep but refused to get any.

"Hey Vanessa do you have a minute?" He asked me.

"Well first of all, it depends. But also, what the fuck happened to you?"

"I couldn't sleep last night and I had to catch you before you left today."

"Why?"

"I wanted to ask you something... involving Carly."

"Okay... shoot."

"You knew her in h'high school right?"

"Well hell we've know each other for as far back as I can remember. We weren't as close friends as we are now until junior year."

"So what exactly was she like in school?"

I hesitated. "What do you mean?"

"She told me that no guys ever liked her in school and with her now I wondered why that could be."

I stopped. There was no way I couldn't tell him that she was bullied by the entire school. Me included. He caught onto my hesitation too quick.

"Is something wrong?" He asked me.

"No. Well actually yes. A little. Not really important but um... Oh look at that I'm going to miss my plane. See ya!"

"No no no no no. You're not getting out of this that easy!" He blocked the door. "What's going on?"

"She was bullied okay! She was bullied by the entire school. She even...'

"She what? Vanessa what happened?"

"She tried to kill herself at the end of 10th grade."

*Carly's*

I decided try and have a binging day to make up for the time I couldn't before my birthday. Just as I was getting comfortable, Colby barged in, unplugged the TV, and sat down on the bed next to me. 

"Dude, what the fuck?"

"Vanessa told me."

"Told you what?"

"What you did in high school."

"You mean.."

"Yea."

I pulled my knees to my chest and sat on the head of my bed.

"So it's true? She wasn't just making shit up?"

"Of course its true. Who the hell would make this up?"

"I don't know! Just knowing you I couldn't believe that you would do anything like that!"

"Knowing me? Seriously Colby? You don't know the beginning of who I am. You have known me for less than half of a week."

"That doesn't matter!"

"Why not?"

"Because I love you!"

We both freeze. I don't think he realized what he said until after he said it.

"What did you just say?"

Colby looked up and stared at me for a second. Then, with no warning, he leaned in and kissed me as if it were the first, and the last time.