I Will Wait [Jessie J]

Chapter 83 - Assembly

*Emma's pov*

After the meal, I had the you're-dating-my-little-sister-you-better-not-hurt-her-or-the-whole-family-will-be-after-you speech from Rachel and Hannah and then a similar one from Holly. I took it seriously, of course. Jess has a massive family, and none of my family would be willing to protect me. But I didn't want to hurt Jess anyway. I truly love Jess. I couldn't hurt her. Not intentionally.

Jess spoke to Mr Pratt almost as soon as we got home, and to my surprise, he allowed Jess to do her assembly. Ever since he gave Jess the all clear, the two of us have been working on a song about being a lesbian. Let the haters hate for all I care. It's who I am. I'm not gonna let them change me.

Jess was giving assembly to every year in the school, but because our assembly hall isn't that big we normally go singly by year, but you can just about fit two years in. However Jess was awkward and wanted my year, year ten, on their own. Our running order was this:

Lesson one: years seven and eight.

Lesson two: year nine

Lesson three: year eleven and twelve

Lesson four: year thirteen

Lesson five: year ten

Jess chose running order and put year thirteen on their own because that's the year the Cornish Pasties would be in. Year thirteen would've easily fit in with year eleven and twelve because that's the last year of sixth form so the year is only small and not everyone in sixth form goes to assembly. She also wanted to put my year last because I'm the one being bullied.

However, with the assembly taking up the whole day means I miss five lessons, including chemistry and music, which kind of stressed me out a little as our chemistry exam was in just over a month and my music teacher wanted our music compositions in soon. Jess assured me it would be fine and I'd be able to catch up because I'm smart. I wouldn't miss this for the world though. Especially today, the sixth of December, my "dads"'s birthday. I needed to do the assembly to take my mind off him and blonde bitch and everything that had happened because of him... Apart from Jess moving down here. That was because of him, but that's a good thing.

So at quarter to nine I met my form tutor and told her where I'd be and what I was doing for the the day and then almost ran, because of the cold and rain, across to the other side of the school to where Jess was setting up with Lewie. I didn't know he was coming... It's good to see him again though. Jess' band are so loyal and trust worthy, it's great.

Jess and I rehearsed our little song together and then Jess rehearsed a few songs that she was gonna sing, Who You Are, Thunder, Do It Like A Dude, Conquer The World mashed up with Wonderwall by Oasis and of course, Price Tag. They're all acoustic. If anyone knows me they know how much I love an acoustic gig. I was totally fangirling. Bad, I know.

"Hey guys! I'm Jessie J and I wanted to come in today to talk about LGBT." Jess introduced herself. "I know schools aren't supposed to teach you about being gay because of different religions but bullying someone because they're gay or transgender HAS to stop. Before I get into details I'm going to sing my newest single for you. Thunder." Jess nodded to Lewie and sang Thunder. Sitting back stage, waiting for my queue to go on, I could see everything that was going on. How Jess kept slyly looking back to me, the ignorant people who thought it was okay to chat whilst Jess was singing. I know a lot of people don't like her music but it doesn't mean they have to talk through her singing.

Jess finished singing and gave a small bow whilst the room erupted in cheers and clapping. I caught a glimpse of Lucy and Rachel standing at the back of the hall. Rach is 'getting used to the school' because she's filling in a maths teacher whilst they're on maternity leave after Christmas. "So being an open gay in the public eye is definitely NOT easy. Everyday there are hundreds of nasty tweets based on my sexuality, especially since I told everyone I was straight and then I remembered I was indeed gay." Jess paused before continuing. "I said a lot of things I regret saying then. People don't chose to be gay. They don't chose to be a different gender. It's part of who they are. I have a friend who's bi and what she wants is a man, a husband to start a family with, but she keeps falling for women. She doesn't want that so she forces herself to love men, but just gets hurt and depressed. LGBT people have the the highest suicide rates you know? If they're bullied they're more likely to self harm than others. If you've driven someone to self harm or worst case scenario actually kill themselves, isn't that the same thing as murder?