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Chapter 2.

Alida's P.O.V.

I ran to the nearest bathroom with tears in my eyes. Why did she grab me like that? I looked down and my wrist and looked at the bruise that my dad gave me last night, it still hurts considering it's new but it doesn't compare to the other bruises I have on my body.

I washed my face and then headed to class. No one notices me in school, I never had any friends since I started high school but it's ok, I don't really like meeting new people especially in this school. Besides, I don't need anyone knowing about my life outside of school. I live with my dad, mom died shortly after I was born. My dad was also so nice and loving to me but on my 12th birthday that changed. He started blaming me for my moms death and he would just yell at me at first. But two years later he started getting physical and it has gotten worse now that I'm older. I can't do anything about it though because he's my only biological family that I know about but as soon as I turn 18 in two months, I will be leaving him and the town to start a new life.

While in my thoughts I bump into someone.

"Shit I'm sorry." I hear the person say. The voice sounds familiar. I looked up and see Alexandria. Great. Just the person I want to see.

"It's alright" I groan as I get up. Alexandria tried to help me up but I get up myself.

"We keep getting off on the wrong foot, I'm Alexandria but everyone calls me Alex. Sorry about earlier too I didn't mean to scare you." She says rubbing the back of her neck. I stare at her for a second, she has curly brown hair and hazel eyes.

"It's ok, just don't grab me like that again. I'm Alida." I say holding out my hand. She looks at it for a second before realizing I wanted to shake her hand.

"So what class do you have now?" She asks.

"Chemistry" I simply say.

"Well it looks like you are going to be stuck with me for a while cause that's where I'm heading." She looks down and smiles at me and then starts walking motioning me to follow her.

We get into class and I go to the back of the room and she follows sitting down right next to me. Jeez is she going to leave me alone? She looks at me and smiles as if she could hear my thoughts.

"So when are you free?" She says. I look at her confused.

"For the project" She blurts out.

I form an 'o' shape with my mouth and then think. My dad wouldn't care or notice if I came home late today.

"We can go somewhere after school if you would like." I say.

"Cool. Meet me in the parking lot." She says and then turns to look at the teacher since class is going to start.
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When the final bell rings I make my way to the parking lot, when I get there I search around for Alex but I don't see her. I then feel I light tap on my shoulder, I turn around and look up to see Alex smiling at me. I give her a small smile and then look behind her to see a girl with silver hair staring at her and she looked annoyed.

"Alex stop staring and let's go, I need to go home and you're slowing me down." The girl says impatiently.

"Oh uh right. Let's go." Alex says shaking her head and walking off.The girl laughs and then turns to me.

"Hi I'm Ashley, but you can call me Ash." Ash says holding her hand out. I gently take it.

"I'm Alida." I say back smiling.

We make our way to the car  and Ash hops in the drivers side and Alex sits in the passenger leaving me to sit in the back. The ride was quite and I was in a daze until I felt the car stop. I look around and I see Alex turn around and smile.

"We're here." She says and then gets out the car saying bye to Ash. I say a quick bye and thank you and then follow Alex into the house which was huge, at least bigger than my house.

"Mom I'm home!" Alex yells but there was no answer.

"I guess she's not here." She turns to look at me and then smiles.

"Well then let's go to my room and talk about this project"

I follow her up the stairs and into her room which is bigger than my room and kitchen combined. I look around in amazement and then see her smiling at me.

"You like?" She asks.

I just simply nod and sit down on her bed. She follows and then we talk about some of the things we could do for that project mainly her talking because I'm not a social person. I tuned her out after a while until I heard her call my name.

"What do you think about that?" She asks.

I felt bad for not listening so I just said yes.

"Great well then we will start tomorrow."

I looked at her and just nodding not knowing what she was talking about. I look at the time a realize how late it was.

"Hey you think you can give me a ride home, I need to get going." I say.

"Yeah let's go." She gives me a small smile and the heads out her room into the garage where a nice blue Jeep Wrangler was just sitting there looking pretty. She ask me for my address and then puts it into her phone. On the way to my house we had small talk. Once we pulled up I thanked her and then started to get out the car.

"Wait." I hear her say. I turn around and looked at her waiting for her to continue.

"Can I have your number? So I can text you where we are meeting tomorrow." She says.

I nodded and gave her my number then went inside. My dad was sleeping on the couch and it looked like he had a few beers. I walked over to clean up and then I felt him grab my hand. When I looked up he looked furious.

Shit.
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