Stars ||| ADOPTED BY SHANE DAWSON BOOK 2

Cut a bitch

Shane:

Raven, no Melanie, I've never seen her so sad and broken. She's always been the tough one, and to see her like this is such a suprise. What worried me even more was the sight of her ready to kill herself.

I held her in my arms as she lets her cries out, not even worrying about letting her guard down. The knife falls to the floor, but is quickly forgotten.

Melanie's cries get softer and softer, until she's not crying anymore. She immediately tenses up and pulls away from the hug.

"D-dont tell chris about this." She regains her attitude, but her voice is hoarse from crying so much. "She can't know that I'm not doing so well."

"I won't." I whisper. "I can't let you just walk away from this. I care about you, we all do." Mel stays silent, looking out the kitchen window. "Do you have a therapist?"

"Yeah, but she's a piece of shit. She's my mom's friend, the same women who diagnosed my mother with schizophrenia."

"Okay. So we'll contact her and have you scheduled for sessions."

To my suprise, she doesn't argue to this. Most teenagers falling into depression, would have a fit about going to therapy, claiming that they didn't need it. I think now, she's certain that she needs help.

I wish chris wasn't as stubborn and was like her..

"I'm really sorry you had to see that. I don't normally act like such a pussy in front of people."

"Don't apologies for your emotions, you're a loud to feel things."She smiles, and gives me another hug.

"You sound just like my dad." Her voice cracks, but she clears her throat to hide it.

"I'm sure he was a good man."

"He was." She says over her shoulder on her way back up the stairs. I watch her climb the stairs until she's out of my eye sight.

I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight after all that.

Raven:

Shane forced me to go to school today with chris. He said that I've been out of school too much, and needed to go back. Gosh, I hated this place with a passion, and my freak out last night didn't help me motivated either.

Since I've been out,  it turns out Taylor is back to her usual self, bullying my girlfriend again like it's 2017 again. It's almost as if she never had a crush on her in the first place.

Whatever, I could expose her if I really wanted too.

A group of students stop me from my pathway to my next class. I roll my eyes, hating how people like this will just stand in the hallways and not give a shit about the moving traffic.

They laugh, surrounded by some small girl. I turn my head and see who it really is- Taylor, Sarah, some junior boys, and chris.

"Oh my god, just on time. Look who it is." Taylor laughs. "Raven? I thought you killed yourself, what a shame."

"That's not my name." 

"Whatever. Look, she's trans now, changing her name and everything. I should've known you had a dick."

The group laughs. I glare at Taylor and I could see a glint of fear passing in her eyes, before she drops her gaze. She's still scared of me.

"Ew, I don't know what's worse, fags or emos."Sara adds on.

Chris stays silent, her eyes just staring at her shoes. I hold her arm and push her away from the group, there's no reason for us to stay with these toxic, ignorant, people.

"Im sorry your brother died, he was kind of hot." I freeze at Taylor's comment. Chris gasps.

Rage rises in me, I've never felt so mad in my life. I looked at Taylor, and all I wanted to do was kill her right then and there. She deserved to die for disrespecting my brother like that.

The group laughs, but slowly disperses since the late bell rang. It was just me, chris, and Taylor.

My brother gave me a pocket knife for Christmas last year in case I needed to cut a bitch up- his exact words. And I think this, is exactly what he was referencing to.

"Dont fucking say shit like that again or I will slit your throat open." I say through gritted teeth, already on edge.

"Melanie, stop it..let's just go." Chris mumbles, tugging at my arm.

"Yeah, do what your girlfriend says. You never know when I'll steal her from you again-"

She winks. At that point, I already have my knife out, aiming for her throat. She screams in conplete terror, tears falling so fast down her eyes.

Someone pulls me back, its Chris. She has a hold onto my wrist, and I instantly release it.  I turn to chris and see complete fear in her eyes.

"I-I'm..calling dad...you're scaring me..." she runs off, completely terrified of me.

I turn back to the worthless piece of shit on the floor. She's shaking. "You don't know how to fucking shut  your mouth."

"I'm...sorry." She mumbles. Her red hair covers her face. I can't even believe my ears, Taylor is saying sorry? "I'm sorry for ruing you and Chris's life...I-I just..I guess I was jealous of you too?"

I don't say anything. My trembling hands make way to my face, and I'm crying. Why am I crying?

"A-and I'm sorry..about your brother. Y'all seemed really close."

"I-it's okay." I put the pocket knife back into my pocket.

"I won't tell anyone about what happened...I don't blame you for doing what you did. I know I'm a bitch. I've been called that all my life."

"Thanks...I um...yeah, you are quite a bitch." She smirks, and wipes her tears very quickly. My phone buzzes, it's Shane calling. I wave the ginger goodbye and prepare myself for the hell I was going to get once I'm in the car. Chris was such a snitch sometimes.

There's cameras in this school..

Shit. I didn't think about that.