In Your Dreams

Chapter 8

**Flashback**

Her dark brown eyes shot my way, piercing holes in my own eyes. They were filled with a wickedness that you could not imagine. A wickedness that was only meant for me.

I turned my head to the floor and prayed that Jessica wouldn't say anything to me, prayed that she would just walk by and leave me alone for once. But as usual my prayer was not answered.

"Morning Becks," she snarled at me. I kept my head turned towards the ground and tried to walk past her, but she grabbed my hair and pulled me back. I cried out in pain, which only made a satisfied grin creep up onto her lips. "Trying to run away, are we?"

I looked everywhere but at her. I was too scared to look into those dark, cold eyes that made me want to hide in a hole for the rest of my life. "Look at you," she says pointing to me. "You're such a weakling. You can't even look at me."

My hands started to shake violently, but I put them in my pockets before Jessica could notice. My mind was screaming at me to run as fast as I could away from this girl, but I knew that she was faster tha me. She was on the running team. She could easily catch up to me before anyone could help me.

"What do you want?" I whispered, tears springing to my eyes, but I stopped them from spilling over.

"I just wanted some amusement, really." That was the part that made my stomach churn. She wasn't doing this to me for any other reason other than a laugh. I was just a way to make her feel better, but at the same time she was making me feel like a piece of dirt on her shoe, or even worse.

"You're worthless," she whispered coldly in my ear. Then before I even saw it coming, her hand connected with my face. She let out a loud laugh before turning to leave. When she disappeared I let the tears roll freely down my cheeks. I lifted my shaking hands out of my pocket to feel the cheek that Jessica had slapped. It stung. I wiped the tears away and walked back in the direction I had just come- back home.

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I woke up with a start. That memory forever haunted my dreams. No matter what I did, I just couldn't get it to leave my head. For weeks, I've had that same memory enter my peaceful dreams and turn them into nightmares.

The day Jessica slapped me was the day that I walked back home before I even reached school. I had told my mum I was unwell and didn't return to school for a whole week. I was petrified of what she would do to me next. First it was only smart remarks, then it went to comments on facebook and twitter and then it turned into full blown bullying, but I was too scared to talk to anyone about it. But never had Jessica slapped me before. That's when I realised just how cruel she could be.

Of course this started to affect my school work, which led to my mum and dad losing patience with me. They didn't have a clue what was going on, just thought I wasn't paying attention in class. It also started to cause problems with my friends. I started to feel like they were slipping away, and they thought the same about me. But of course my best friend Eilidh could tell that things went deeper than me just not caring anymore. She was the only one that bothered to find out the truth. The only one that cared enough to help me. If it wasn't for her, I would never have gotten through everything and who knows what could have happened. Lucky my grades are back to normal and so is my relationship with my parents and friends.

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Just thought I would give you a little background on Rebecca other than the fact that she's a directioner. Just felt like in previous chapters, Jessica didn't really seem like that much of a bully or a bully to be afraid of, but now you can see why Rebecca is so scared.

Eilidh id my real life best friend too, and I don't know what I'd do without her xx