jennifers body

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The next day it was like none of it ever happened. I sat in class the next morning still raw in stunned numb silence even though I could hear those bitches around me complaining and talking about me I didn't care. I was too preoccupied with trying to figure out what the hell had happened the night before that was till Jennifer walked in.

Smiling brightly as if nothing had happened Jennifer greeted Needy, "Happy Friday D-Bag!"

"You! You're—you're all right!" Needy replied shocked.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Jennifer asked taking her seat looking at Needy like she'd lost her mind. Needy stared right back eyes wide stammering. "Last night, at my house, you were hurt covered in blood you puke that black stuff up!"

"Needy you're delusional. I got a little banged up when you made me go out that window, but I'm fine." Jennifer interrupted giving Needy that "look". Dumbfounded Needy shot back, "We had to go out that window. The bar was like engulfed in flames!"

"You do have a tendency to overreact. Remember at Girl Scout camp when you thought there was an earthquake and it was really just two guys with a ghetto blaster."

"A lot of people died Jennifer. It all over the news, the national news!"

"Anyone we knew?" Jennifer asked looked bored and uninterested which only stunned Needy even more. "We know everyone!"

"Sucks to be them I guess." Jennifer replied going into her purse.

"What's wrong with you?" Needy asked watching Jennifer put lip gloss on smacking her lips.

Jennifer could always be cold but never like this, not to this degree. This was something new and disturbing.

"What's wrong with you? I mean besides the serious surface flaws." Jennifer bitchily shot back but refused to really look Needy in the eyes knowing her cold stare would only work for so long.

Needy rubbed her eyes looking down at her nails which were stained black, she thought back to before dawn and the hour and a half of intense sobbing and scrubbing it took to get the black bile and blood off the floor and walls. Needy knew she didn't imagine it her black stained nails proved it. "There's no way I dreamed it no way…shoot."

"Don't talk to yourself. It's one of your more freakish Needy behaviors and it makes us both look like total gaylords."

Needy raised her hands showing Jennifer her black nails, Jennifer glanced at them. "Ew, you need a mani bad. You'd better find a Chinese chick to buff your situation."

Needy kept staring at Jennifer who tried to ignore her as their teacher walked in and Jennifer commented smirking, "Here comes handi –snack."

Their teacher began discussing the tragedies with the class in a state of shock, near tears, full on sobs and Jennifer smirking and making inappropriate comments the entire time. Needy didn't know who Jennifer was trying to be Needy was really confused by everything. Jennifer could be mean but she was never that uncaring to that degree Needy was certain something really bad had happened and Jennifer was hiding it from her.

However just as Needy was getting use to this new idea lunch came around; Needy unable to wait to privately talk to Jennifer any longer pulled her best friend into an empty class room far away from prying eyes.

"Little aggressive today Needy?" Jennifer commented allowing herself to be shoved into the empty room. Eyes wide, brows furrowed Needy pushed Jennifer back into the teacher's desk.