Everlasting #Wattys2018

It's black

The popular boys are nice to me now, its relieving when I have trouble at home and both Jaime and Dariel absent. Without Evelyn and Mars I sit with them in lunch.

My mind traveled to a forbidden area and I felt a sudden urge to cry. Yesterday after school my aunt came over. She seemed nice and cheery at first, until she took out a newborn baby form a bag and asked miss  to cook it. I wasn't allowed to go. I watched the whole thing.

"Ani? Are you OK?" Dante asked, elbowing me to get my attention.

"Don't do that," Andi said.

"Never again," I replied. I didn't tell Andi anything, I didn't tell anybody. I sneaked downstairs into the basement and cried to Evelyn, unbelievably traumatised. She soothed me until I could put a big enough act to go back to our room and sleep. "I'm going to get my stuff and wait by the door,"

I did as I said, staring out into space. When I heard Lorraine's hard voice I looked up at her and finally dared to give her a death glare.

"Don't you dare look at me like that," She said.

So I punched her in the face. "There, now you won't have to see,"

"Do you know what?"

"What is it this time? I should just jump off a flipping cliff,"

"Why'd you do that?" Lorraine asked, looking confused. "What do you mean flipping? How do you flip a cliff?"

"Honestly you're dumb, spend a couple years in a boarding school will ya?"

This is why I don't spend a lot of time with Andi's friends.

"Ani!"

Yay, let me guess, detention?

"Again! Bad behaviour again!" My teacher said scoldingly. "What's wrong with you?"

I wanted to break my record of twenty detention slips in a week.

"Go to the principals office! You'll be lucky to not get suspended,"

"You'll be lucky to not get killed," I muttered dryly, walking off to the principals office.

"Again?" The principal asked.

"The regular," I slumped, sitting on the couch.

"I'll have to-"

"Suspend me? Expel me?"

"What happened? You used to be such a good student,"

You don't want to know.

"Just liked you used to be pretty?"

She looked like she wanted to smack me.

"Ani, listen-"

"I'm very sorry," I said sarcastically. "I'm deaf, I can't listen,"

"Did something happen at home?" The principal sighed. "A student reported sighted bruising on your body,"

"I'm a kid," I replied dully. "I'm allowed to play outside,"

"This isn't any normal bruising-"

"You're not a very normal human,"

"Will you stop interrupting me!"

She smacked me right across the face. A look of disbelief and dread clouded and she let out a shriek.

"I'm so sorry! I'm so so sorry!" She cried.

I rubbed my cheek. "It's nothing compared to what's happened to me from your students,"