Missing pieces

17

As pov
I shot up out of my sleep breathing heavy and I couldn't remember what I was dreaming about. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror I scared myself a little. I stood there for a while looking at myself
" oh sorry I should've nocked "
" it's fine "
" You better get ready for school "
I turned around to face him
" I forgot we had school today "
I looked at my phone quickly
" well I guess that is what we do on Fridays "
" yeah "
He walked out and I started to put makeup over the bruises on my face

" come on A we have to go or we're going to be late "
I quickly put on my outfit and ran down the stairs
" here's breakfast princess "
" thanks and I'm not a princess "
I rolled my eyes and he smiled
" see you at school "
We got in our cars and drove to school.
We were standing outside by my car
" do you think jay will show up today "
" I hope not do you think Jack will "
" I mean he looked so bad last night "
I said and then I saw him waiting by the school and I hit Luke's arm to get him to look too and I took off running.
" god ... you're ... so ... fast "
Luke said between breaths
" sorry "
I smile and turn back to Jack
" Jack are you ok "
" yeah I'm good "
" does it hurt "
" no "
He said trying to act tough so I let it go
" you look good though no bruises "
" ok that's it it's to hot "
I was sweating and I could feel it messing up the make up
" I'll be right back "
I ran into the bathroom and washed it off and when I looked in the mirror I thought I looked batter this way than with all the makeup. I went back out to find them so we could walk to class together when I saw jay and everyone was whispering. He looked horrible he had a black eye a broken nose a busted lip and a line around his neck all connected with bruises. He looked at me and I knew he hadn't forgotten what I said so he walked past the guys and into the school right past me. All of the guys were looking at me then came in none of us spoke.

Lunch rolled around and I was walking past my first class when the teacher called me in
" so I've noticed something.... are you safe at home "
" you're kidding me right oh my god you're so I wrote an entire paper about my old home life and when I come to school with a busted face you now decided to ask if I feel safe at home I look like this because I got beat up by another student you can probably guess who for once in my life I feel safe and it's with people I met because of what has happened that I wrote about you teachers pride ourselves on the fact that you know your students better then there parents when in fact you're so blind you can't smell the weed on the kid that's right next to you so please what have you noticed that points to an unsafe home because clearly when I quite literally spell it out for you you don't believe me "
She looked at me in shock at what I said and I could see she was still on the words " you're kidding me right " then finally she said
" I'm sorry I didn't believe you ... An I also wanted to ask you if you wanted to enter a contest "
" what "
" I want to enter your paper into a young adult short writing contest A I think it would be good "
" sure ... now if you'll excuse me I'm hungry "
I turned and went to the lunchroom and I was nervous that none of them would talk to me for what happened earlier but when I walked in everything was normal.