I stepped out of the cold shower and grabbed a towel to dry my body. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I looked horrible. I Felt Horrible.Tired. Worn Out. I looked pale, my head was pounding and I had bags under my eyes that were so defined my own reflection began to scare me.
I pulled my hair up to get it out of the way wondering how I would dry my hair without waking anybody. They were all still here. All of them. I reluctantly decided to let it air dry. When I turned back to the mirror I nearly screamed. Right in the middle of my forehead was a very large black and blue scar. It was only then that pain began to emerge from that very spot. I winced slightly when I touched it. How the hell was I going to fix this? I only had 20 minutes before I had to leave for school and I needed to think. fast.
I opened the mirror compartment and grabbed my mother's Concealer. I quickly opened it up and began to dab my forehead with it. I didn't know a thing about makeup. I hated makeup. It was a complete waste of time and a very unnecessary part of life. I would assume people would like to meet who you really are. Not an alternate.
Unfortunately my mother's skin tone was darker than mine so the makeup not only did not match my skin tone but it made the wound look worse. I almost began to cry out of frustration. I washed my face clean again and began to panick when I thought about what would happen if they woke up. My mother was still in there but I hadn't heard anything so far. I stared hard at my reflection contemplating what to do to fix this. I couldn't walk out of the house like this without attracting attention but I couldn't stay home. I wasn't going to stay home...
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"No its not bad! It's just...different... in a way..."
I almost laughed at how bad of a liar Joziah was. We were standing at the lunch line and this being the first time we'd seen each other all day he'd been very surprise at the new... er...look.
It was more like a disaster. I proceeded to cut myself bangs in order to cover up the wound on my head. People stared from the minute I walked out of the door. Our nosy neighbor Ms. Olsen and her daughter Hailey (who managed to take after her character) just stared at me as if I had a pet rat sitting on the top of my head. Ms. Olsen's expression quickly changed to repulsion. similar to the looks I'd been getting all day. Even though it was better not to have people question me about the scar...it was starting to sound way better than what I'd chosen to do.
We got out food and began walking to our spot.
"so where did you guys go yesterday?" I asked Joziah. He left me yesterday. I deserved an explanation.
"Oh my God it was the best day ever me and Sophia walked into the tattoo place at the mall, you know the one next to Anne's Boutique? Yea We went in there just to look, and We left the store with matching tattoos!! Isnt that crazy?"
I looked over to him in shock. I couldn't believe he would do something so dumb. matching tattoos? seriously?
"Are you serious? Matching Tattoos?"
"Hell yeah! And guess where it is." he looked at me happily waiting for me to guess.
"I don't know Joe where did you get it?"
He stoped walking and started to undo his belt. I almost reached over to pull it back, but thought twice about it.
"what the fuck are you doing Joziah? we're in the lunchroom!!" I tried so hard to whisper.
"relax I'm not taking anything off... unless you want me to" he winked at me.
"you're disgusting."
he turned halfway and pulled his pants down a bit. I almost slapped him. There on the top of his right butt-cheek was a heart.
"you have to be kidding..." I said, out of disgust and annoyance and I continued walking to our table. How could one be so stupid, honestly.
That's when I saw him. Adonis. Sitting at our spot eating a home made Baloney sandwich. I froze and turned around. I could not let him see me like this.
"Hey where are you going Gen?" Joziah grabbed my arm.
"Um... there's somebody at our seat We should go eat somewhere else. You know what let's go get something to eat outside. Schoolie is nasty anyway."
I threw my lunch tray out the garbage in order to convince him further.
"why? wait whose at our seat?" Joziah pulled me towards our spot and I began to panick.
before I could pull myself away and run out of the lunchroom Joziah was introducing himself.
"Hey I'm Joe and this is Gen" Joziah was smiling so hard I almost laughed.
"Nice to meet you and Gen and I have already met. Nice to see you again by the way" He smiled.
He smiled at me!
"Hey-"
"Oh don't mind Gen" Joziah laughed and pushed my head. "She's special"
I stumbled and looked at Joziah like he had lost his mind because apparently he had. What gave him the right to push me around? Especially in front of Adonis.
Adonis frowned. He looked uncomfortable.
"um...yeah well I actually wanted to...you know what, I have to be at the library anyway. I'll see you later Gen. Nice to meet you Joziah." He picked up his books and walked out of the packed lunchroom.
I was furious. Why the hell would Joziah do such a thing?
That's when I noticed Joziah watching him leave...and smiling.
