A Reason To Love

|| Chapter 5 || Icecream Binge & The Snapback Boy

*unedited, sorry*

SARAH'S POV:

"Let's just go."

I grab onto Faith's hand and we rush out the door. I could feel Hayes' eyes staring into my back the whole time.

Once we are outside I let go of Faith's hand and cross them over my chest. Tears are now prickling into my point of view.

"Can you tell me what that was all about?!" Faith asks, cleary shocked.

My legs start to feel like jello as tears overcome me, and I fall to the curb. I'm bawling now.

Faith instantly sits down next to me and wraps me into a hug. We stay like this for a few minutes until I am calm enough to speak.

"I-I'm s-so sorry Faith," I wipe a tear off my cheek and take a deep breath, "I was just scared. I-I didn't want the bullying to start here, so I kind of- snapped I guess? When he tripped me, it brought back a lot of bad memories, and I just wanted to stand up for myself now that I'm starting over," I say through the tears. The corner of Faith's lips drop.

"It's okay Sarah, I understand," she gives me a small smile, "Why don't we just go get some icecream and eat our problems away?!" she laughs. I giggle and spring up. I haven't even known this girl one day and she already knows how to make me feel better!

***

We arrive home with two gallon sized icecream containers in our bags, one chocolate and one cookie dough. I immediately grab a scooper spoon and flop down onto my bed. Faith lays down next to me and pulls the laptop in front of us, scrolling through Netflix.

"What do you want to watch?" she says, not taking her eyes off the screen.

"Something romantic," I say dreamily, clasping my hands together over my chest and looking up at the ceiling. We both laugh at my cheesiness.

"What about... P.S. I Love You?" she asks. I nod quickly and take a big bite of icecream.

This movie turned out to be a hell of a lot sadder than I thought. I couldn't stop crying through the whole movie!

By the end of the movie, all our icecream was gone and tissues filled up my bed. Oh my gosh what's wrong with us.

Once we cleaned ourselves up, we decided to go to bed, since the first day of classes start early in the morning.

Hopefully tomorrow will turn out better.

***

Beep. Beep. Beep.

I slap my hand to the side of my bed a few times before I actually press the snooze button. What time is it?

I rub my eyes and quickly grab my glasses from the side table. I peer over at the clock and see it's already 9:30. Oh crap.

"Faith get up!" I shriek, making her jump. Her eyes fling open and bolts out of bed and into the bathroom. "Hey!" I bang on the door, but I just hear her laughing.

"You snooze you loose!" She laughs.

After about fifteen minutes she finally exits, and I hit her arm playfully, "Jerk." She just pouts.

I quickly throw on a loose brown and white patterned romper and throw my hair into a messy bun. I have to look a little presentable. Then I apply dark mascara and eyeliner, with concealer under my eyes. It's simple but hey, who's going to be looking at me anyways? To finish off the look I put on my nice brown criss-crossed sandals. When I look in the mirror, I smile to myself. This is good first-day quality I think.

We both exit the dorm and I lock it behind us. That's when it dawned on me. Do we even have the same classes together?

"Hey Faith-?"

"I go to Earth Science. It's my major," she responds, looking down at her feet. I guess she read my mind.

"Oh," is all I say, and we walk in silence the rest of the time until I come to the building where my class is. It's going to be hard without my only friend being there.

"Cya Faith," I wave, and she waves back to me quickly then hurries away.

When I walk into class, the seats are already half full of students. Some people seem familiar here and there, but my eyes fall to the back of the class. The guys I saw yesterday at the pizza place are sitting there, but I don't see Hayes. Good.

As I'm walking through, I pick a seat in the front row and put my stuff down. While I'm waiting for class to start I read the book I brought with me from home, The Fault In Our Stars.

Someday I wish to have someone who loves me as much as Augustus loves Hazel Grace.

My daydreaming comes to a halt when I hear tapping on the chalkboard.

"Alright class! Settle down, settle down... thank you. You may already know this but I am Mr. Dawson and I will be your English teacher for the ye-" he are cut off by the sound of doors being slammed open and footsteps coming in.

"I'm sorry I'm late, I kinda overslept," he said shrugging. He is wearing Vans with a red Obey tank top and tan cardigans. Of course he is also wearing a snapback.

"Well just take a seat sir," Mr. Dawson says, clearly annoyed.

"Okay... uh where?" he asks, tilting his head to the side. Mr. Dawson huffs and pointed to the spot beside me.

"The only spot that is still open. That's what you get for coming late you know," Mr. Dawson mutters, "By the way, what's your name?" he asks, looking at the boy next to me.

"Hayes. Hayes Grier."

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