I'm still hurting - Sally Face (agere)

-5-

Lisa goes silent and her smile drops too.

 "Here, give this to Sal," I say handing her his phone. I go to turn around but she puts her hand on my shoulder. I can tell by the sympathetic look on her face she wants to ask questions but she just hands me the phone back and lets me into the apartment. 

"You'll be able to tell what room is Larry's because of the loud music" she tries to laugh but it just sounds awkward. I ignore it and walk to Larry's door and don't even knock I just go in.

I see Larry and Sal bobbing their heads to void by Sanity's fall. They stop and look at me, 

"Here," I say and throw Sal's phone at him. Thinking about my mom was already making me pissed so I didn't want to even remind Larry of who I am. I turn around.

"Wait" Sal speaks up. "what's wrong?"

"Can't stay long I have important plans." I say

"who's this sexy mama?" Larry speaks up. what.

"aw, Lar-bear you've always been a flirt" I reply. 

"huh?" he questions. 

"Astrid," I say and reach my hand out to shake his. He grabs my hand and pulls me in for a hug.

"oh my god Ridddy, it's been so long since I've seen you" he takes a step back and looks me up and down ."You've changed so much" he winks and then laughs

"oh, Larry I definitely haven't missed your personality," I say rudely and his face falls.

"come on, stay for a bit," Larry says, I shake my head, "I got bud,"

 "Fine," I say. 

"wow you really have changed," He says and I just sit on his bed. The only thing that is different is my hair, and the makeup, and the piercings and wow I guess everything.

 "Are you going to go to Nockfell High?" he asks. 

 "yeah," I say plainly, reaching my hand up to my face, it's warm.

Larry comes back over with two joints, 

"Sal want some?" sal shakes his head, and I reach my hand out to take one.

"What happened to you baby?" Larry asks. I scowl at the old nickname and respond,

"I grew up Larry"

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- Sal Fishers POV -

 As she and Larry smoked I just swayed my body to the music. She is beautiful, she has 3 piercings, 1 on each side of her nose and a little ring in the middle. I've only seen her smile once when we were laying in Todd's bed. She only displaces a cocky smile and smirks in front of other people. It seemed fake, she was hurting, and you could see it in her eyes. Or maybe only I could.

She's really confusing, she puts on a fake cocky exterior. She acts like she doesn't like anybody. Something about her attracts me to her. Maybe it's her attractive body, my face heats up at the thought. or maybe it's her hidden personality that I love.

Her phone rings and she looks down at it. The comfortable look on her face drops, she looks nervous. She answers the phone and slowly brings it up to her ear. I immediately hear slight yelling from her phone. She flinches and responds.

 "that whore made me come here, I didn't want this." More yelling happens and her eyes water up. Larry isn't paying attention to any of this. He continues to paint a bit and sway. The call drops and she turns away from me and moves her hands up to her face. I get closer to her and try to turn her around, I comfort people that what I do but She flinches again, she does that a lot. She wipes her eyes again and tries to put on a cocky smile that quickly falls.

"What's wrong?" I ask. 

"My friend is just really upset that I got a new placement." She lied. I ignored the fact that I knew that she lied. I want to cheer her up and I think I know a way. 

"Hey, would you maybe want to go back to my place with me," I ask in an unsure tone. 

"nope"