The Dare

Chapter 27

Alex's POV 

School hasn't been the best. I mean when was it? All us Year 13s are busy prepping for our A-Levels. I have been accepted into Queens Mary, Bournemouth University, Oxford and the University of London. All those options are so widespread that I don't know where to go. I didn't get accepted in Cambridge but I got in Oxford so it was okay. 

If I want to stay close to home I have the options of Queens Mary and Univerity of London but if I want to be independent and live out I have Bournemouth and Oxford. I might stay in the city because I don't think I am ready to live by myself. 

I am hoping to get the grades and start the next part of my life after this. I want a fresh start. I sigh and get back to doing practice questions. There are exactly 10 school days left until my first A-level exam and frankly, I am shitting myself. 

Jack and I have been both busy with exam preparations that we haven't spent a lot of time with each other. Both of us know that the other person is busy so we don't have grudges but I just want to have my best friend back. We have dedicated one lunch where it is me, Jack and Axel. We meet up at Betty's and just forget our worries.

Axel and I have grown much closer since the pizza incident. Neither of us bought up the kiss which I was thanking God for. It would've been so awkward. What would I say? 

Sometimes I catch Axel staring at me and the only reasonable explanation is that he is looking out to see if I feel better.

The school has been quite the rollercoaster. Dylan has left me alone but would still stare at me wherever we are. In the hallway, in class and even when I am walking into school. However, his girlfriend hasn't stopped. She throws comments and glares at me whenever we see each other. She sometimes even gets physical but no one knows that. I have enough drama in my life, I do not need some extra shit which I can handle myself. 

Flashback - Lunch

Today was one of those lunches where I would go to the library instead of Betty's since J was busy with some teachers. The librarian trusts me so she lets me take food upstairs and help out with putting the books back. 

I was a corner away when I feel sharp nails pull my arm nearly out of its socket. The smell of cheap perfume overtakes the smell of the air and I know that it is the jealous bitch who has taken me. I let her pull me to wherever she wanted and see that she took me to the back of the school. 

Surprisingly no one was there which meant no one would watch me being humiliated. She throws me on the ground and I feel my knees scrape. Ow.

I look up and see that Sasha and her fake ass friends behind her. They were wearing barely anything and to be honest, they might as well not even wear anything. 

"Look what the cat dragged in." She says and I burst into laughter. 

"Hun, you dragged me in," I say and see her go red in embarrassment.

I sober up a few seconds later and ask, "What do you want?" I get up as I asked this. 

"I want you to kill yourself."  

The words echo in the air. As if I hadn't thought about that. I think about it every day. Maybe if I killed myself then everyone would be problem-free. My family won't have to deal with my depressed self anymore and Jack and Axel won't have to be my bodyguards everywhere. 

"What good would that do?" I ask. 

"Well, Dyl would stop obsessing about you. He never pays attention to me anymore. He either is staring at you or thinking about you. I can finally have him." She says with an annoyed look.