They Bully Me

Chapter 15 ~Exposed~

Emma's PoV

As I looked through my few contacts to find Dani's number, I found... Perrie's.

How long has it been since we last saw each other? Around a month.

It's been another torturous few weeks ever since we made Mia stay away. And yes, she did stay away, I haven't seen her. But school is pretty bad.

I have to deal with five lads who hate me and everyone else. Niall... he's okay, but always suddenly escapes as soon as school finishes, not to be seen until next school day. It was sort of weird, as if he had suddenly changed. But I shouldn't really be thinking that, I've only known him for about a month, so maybe him doing that was normal.

My finger rested on the green phone button. Should I really call her or not? It's only 7 in the evening, she wouldn't be busy.

But did I even want to talk to her? Last time I met her, she flipped out about my "cuts", which still hadn't faded away. They were like a mark, to show the world how weak I was. But now, honestly I'm not as weak as before. It's only a little, but still.

I pushed down on the button, and then held my phone up to my ear. It buzzed for a while, until Perrie picked up.

"Um, who is this?" she asked, sounding like she had been working out or something.

"It's me... Emma," I said.

"Really? I thought you never would call, what's up now?"

"Nothing, I just found you in my contacts. And look, those cuts weren't made by me, they were made by someone else, " I told her nervously.

"Oh, um okay, who did?"

"Someone by the name of Louis, I doubt you'd know him."

"I don't, what does he look like?"

"Oh he's got brown hair and blue eyes, that's all I can really say." I heard some talking in the background.

"I have to go, call me back?" she asked.

"I don't even know if I will," I said, but she already hung up. Probably my last time ever calling her. I didn't need her in my life. She wasn't even helpful. All she did was make me warm again, but that's it. Dani has done so many things to help, I can't even say all of them.

But I tried to forget about calling Perrie, and called Dani. I needed to know where she was. Our mum had gone shopping and Dani had just left, without saying anything to me.

After a few buzzes, she finally picked up.

"Dani? Where in the world are you?" I asked, almost screaming into the phone. I couldn't stand being home alone, I always got a suspicion something was going to happen.

"Emma, I'm almost home, but I just overheard the boys talking and guess who else was there?" she asked.

"Look, don't try to ruin my weeken by talking about the la-"

"No, I think you should really know who was there."

"My dad? Or no wait, Mia."

"No. Worse. It was Niall."

"What?! Why?"

"He was talking to them. And he was talking about us."

"I almost trusted him! Why does everyone keep hurting me?" I whined.

"I'm not hurting you. Neither is my mom."

"I, I know. And I'm thankful. But everyone else... what's up with it? Is is a trend or what?"

"Emma, they just grew up with the wrong family. If a parent does something, their kid is bound to do it eventually too. I don't think it's exactly their fault, and I'm not giving them an excuse, but it's how they grew up, Emma."

"No, it isn't. They started just one day, two years ago. And now everyone is following their lead."

"Not everyone, Emma. Not everyone." And with that she hung up.

I was so frustrated, everything was going the wrong way. I do something good, it backfires. And anything bad happens gets worse.

I fell backwards onto the bed as thoughts and memories rushed throught my mind.

I was adopted, was something that kept repeating. I didn't know my real parents, and I'll never know. But why would I even want to know them anyways? They're equally as bad as my second parents. Only Dani's mum really knows how to treat me right. She is the only one, and Dani, who actually cares about me, loves me and well... helps me.

Niall, why, Niall. Why? Never judge a book by it's cover, that's everyone here. Everyone seems friendly, but get closer and they'll completely destroy you and backstab you, everything. They'll do everything they can to break you, even thought you've done absolutely nothing wrong.

Have I ever done something wrong to Niall? No. So what made him join the lads? It doesn't make sense. We were friends for about a month, but then I find out he's been faking it for that long. Why, even? He had been faking from the start and that was something that was bothering me. Did he just go up to them and say "okay, let me be a fake friend to Emma and Danielle and tell you everything about them"?

I keep wanting to ask why he did it, he didn't know the real me. he only saw the outer me and thought I was pathetic awnd just walked on over to them. The world is just so cruel.

I'm starting to question why they even bully me. If I don't know anything I did wrong, then did they do it for fun? No, it couldn't be. We used to be friends.

I thought back to what my dad had written.

"Make sure I get at least one of them to ruin her to make her kill herself. Then they won't blame me.

-M"

I think I know who "them" is.

It's the lads.

It was my dad's plan all along. He tricked them into bullying me. How? I may never know, but I need my revenge. I've trashed his house. Okay. But I need something even worse.

Liam's PoV

 The guilt just eats me straight through. Forget the lads, I'm helping them.

I don't care if they want me to die, I'm helping them. They don't deserve what they're getting.

"Hey, Liam, what are you writing?" Louis asked as I heard him walk closer to me.

He came over just now?!