Second Chances ~ l.h.

Chapter 26

***Katharine’s POV***

I continued talking to Luke until Christine showed up. Christine rushed over and sat next to me.

“Kat what’s wrong, are you ok?” she asked me

“No”

“Why?”

“I got high . . . I didn’t want too and I was really, really stupid and I’m ashamed. . . . I hit rock bottom Christine.” I told her.

“Awe Kat it’s going to be ok.” She tried to comfort me.

“How can I ever look myself in the mirror? I feel everyone is going to judge me now. I let my sadness get the best of me, and I can’t take it back.” I practically whispered. Christine wrapped an arm around me.

“Kat no one is going to judge you.” She said confidently. “You have friends and family here to support you and care about you. We all know you’ve been going through a hard time and we understand. You just have to remain positive and think of something that makes you happy. We’re here for you.”

“Thanks Christine” I smiled and gave her a big hug. Christine has always been there for me and always knows the right thing to say.

“And you were right about Maggie and Val, they shouldn’t be trusted, I’m sorry I should have listened to you.”

“It’s ok. Come on lets go.” She said, helping me up and we headed back to our dorm.

***

Most of the students left to go home for spring break, most of the teachers and professors went home as well, but some of them stayed to work on lesson plans. Christine went back home to visit her family, I stayed because I didn’t want to go back home, plus I was starting softball practice in a few days, now that the season was dying down and they actually had time to teach me, like they said they would.

I sat in the empty art studio, painting on my canvas while my music was ringing through my ears. In my art class, we were doing a study of people; our assignment was to paint a person(s) displaying emotion. I was painting a picture I had that Katey took of me and Luke when I came home from the hospital. I was wrapped in Luke’s arms with my face berried in his neck, while Luke was hugging me so I was hovering above the ground and kissed the top of my head. I added another study we learned and made it monochromatic using black and white.  I was going to title it, Love & Shelter because I felt that it displayed and gave the impression that the girl (i.e. me) was loved, sheltered and protected by the boy (i.e. Luke).

I checked the time seeing that it was close to 5 I decided to start cleaning up my oil paint. My art teacher, Veronica, opened the studio for me yesterday and for the rest of the week so I could work on my project. I have been in the art studio for the past two days, since I couldn’t use it Saturday. I didn’t mind though, I was in bed all day Saturday trying to get over my hangover from the night before.