Bullied // a.i.

Chapter Two

"Next time, give me the answers." He spat. The force of the shove made me hit the lockers and fall to the ground. People tried avoiding me in the crowded hallway. They didn't try hard enough, though, because I was stepped on a couple of times.

"Hey, Zoe!" I hear someone yell. I turn and see Luke pushing through people to get to me. He held out his hand towards me to help me up, but I got up on my own. "I.. Erm.. I'm sorry about Ashton." He said.

"Thanks.. I guess." I reply. And with that he walked away. I sighed and walked to the direction of my next class. I didn't have that class with anyone from the group so therefore it's one of my favorite classes.

Sadly, this class ends too quickly. My next one I have with just Ashton. My seat is right infront of his. Somehow, he always manages to be right by me in all of my classes we share.

Ashton is already there by the time I got there. I've already had it with his shit today and it hasn't even been lunch yet. But lunch is next, so it's close enough.

Surprisingly, when I sit down, Ashton doesn't say anything. He doesn't until there's five minutes left, that is.

"Why didn't you give me the answers?" He asks. I don't reply. "Answer me." I still don't. "I swear to fucking god, Zoe. If you don't answer me.." He threatens, but the bell cut him off. (a/n I guess you could say she was.. Saved by the bell)

When I walked out, Ashton walked right next to me. Everyone was staring at us because everyone knows he hates me. Now this is starting to scare me.

My mouth felt dry. "W-why are you following me?"

"Shut up." He snapped. I felt like my heart was in my throat. I start to turn down to go to the lunch room but Ashton grips my elbow, tightly, and pulls me back to him.

"Ash-" I started.

"What about shut up don't you understand?" He groaned. After that he lead me to the back of the school. I've only been here once and that was when Ashton beat me.

"No," I gasped. "Y-you can't! Not again!" I screamed and started backing up.

He grabbed my wrists before I could get away. "Calm down. I'm not going to hurt you. Unless you keep up your attitude."

"My attitude? How about your attitude for the past five years!"

"You're a little bitch." He spat.

"Oh, go fuck yourself." It looked like fire ignited in his eyes. Even I haven't seen him this angry before. He brought up one of his hands and slapped me across the face. Hard. My cheek stings where his hand made contact moments before. After that he pushed me down to the ground and kicked my stomach multiple times. After what seemed like hours but was just minutes, Ashton stormed off.

I take my time getting up. My stomach is in unbelievable pain. I manage to stand up but I almost fell right back down. I limp my way to the bathroom. I must've rolled my ankle when I was pushed down. Just another thing to add to the list of things to hide from my family.

When I enter the bathroom, I'm thankful no one is in there. I carefully put down my bag and go to the mirrors. My cheek was starting to purple at the edges. I lift up my sweater to look at my stomach. It's bruised already. I choke back the tears and reach for my bag and grab my small makeup bag inside it. I quickly reapply my makeup and leave the bathroom. My ankle hurts the more I walk. I just have to sit through three more hours until the school day is over.

I avoid the lunch room. I know Ashton will be in there. I go to my next class and just wait until lunch is over. I have this class with Calum. He ignored me during class, thankfully.

Now its fifth period. The class I share with Kendall. He waited for my by the door. I do my best to hide the limp but he notices. "Why are you limping?"

"It's nothing." I avoided his eyes.

"Hey, look at me." When I didn't, he grabbed my chin gently and turned my face towards his. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong." I lied.

"Zoe, I know something's wrong. Just tell me."

"Nothing's wrong. Just let it go." I say and go into the class. This class is a guitar intro. The teacher lets us sit wherever we want. I sit in the back with Kendall.

"I'm not going to let it go. Just tell me, please."

"Maybe tonight."

"Maybe now." I shot a glare at him. "Okay, maybe tonight.." The rest of the class was just playing old rock songs that the teacher likes.

Sixth period goes by fast. Kendall's sixth period class is near mine we we walk with each other to the parking lot. When we get to Ty's car, he was already there.

"I'll talk to you tonight, okay?" Kendall said.

"Okay."

"Perhaps okay will be our always." Kendall quoted The Fault in Our Stars.

"You're such an idiot!" I laugh. He laughed to and bent down to hug me. He hugged me tighter than usual and I had to try hard not to cry out in pain.

I got into Ty's car and he was smiling widely at me. "What?"

"I ship it."

"Can you not," I laugh and hit his arm.

The drive home was quick. We don't live too far away from the school. Just a couple of blocks. We walk into the house and hear crying. I look at Ty and he was as confused as I was. The crying sounded like it was coming from my mom.

"Mom?" I call out. Ty and I followed where the sound was coming from. We finally found the room she was in. "Mom, are you okay?" She shook her head. "What happened?"

"H-h-he left."

"Who left?" Ty asked.

"Your father."