Hospital for Souls

Chapter 4

"Raven?" I quickly turn my head. I look at Jade. She's looking at me with a worried look. I look around the table. Everyone's giving me a worried look. "Are you alright?" I look around the room quickly, I'm at school in the cafeteria. I'm sitting at the lunch table with all my friends, all of them just like me.

"Yeah." I say in a shaky voice. I look at everyone's faces. They become less tense, relaxed, except for Jake's. He puts his head down. I can see hurt in his eyes. I look down at my tray of food and pick up the chocolate chip cookie I bought. Just as I take a bite out of the cookie, I hear voices behind me.

"God, she's such a fatass." Brittany, of course. She's the person who bullies me the most. I don't even know what I did to her, but ever since middle school she's hated me and bullied me. I look to see her boyfriend next to her. He puts his arm around her waist, pulls her close and kisses her on the cheek.

"Don't worry babe, you'll never look like that. You'll always be beautiful and wanted." I turn away fast. Tears start streaming down my face. Everyone at the table heard what they said, but most of them were just too paralyzed to move. Then, Jake slams his hands down on the table, gets up with rage, and storms over to their table. He gets right in front of Brittany and her boyfriend Snake. A wide smile comes across Brittany's face as she wraps her arms on her chest.

"You're both a bunch of assholes!" He shouts at them. The cafeteria begins to grow quiet. "Snake, how could you even lie to your girlfriend like that!? Telling her she's beautiful and wanted! We all know it was just a lie! Why would you do such a thing!?" Everyone at my table begins laughing. I wipe the tears from my eyes and chuckle as well. Brittany's jaw drops open. "Brittany, if I were you I would close your mouth so the football team doesn't think you're ready for round two." This time, the whole cafeteria heard that and everyone bursts out laughing. Her face grows extremely red. I continue to eat my cookie and Jake starts walking back to the table.

"Wow, it's a good thing he left Snake. That stench of blood on his wrists really started hurting my nose." Jake freezes. Tears start coming back onto my face. "Wait, was that your blood Jake? Or was that Ravens blood? Did your little girlfriend try to kill herself again because she's an emo pussy?" Jade storms up. She walks over to the table and grabs Brittany. She lifts her off her chair and punches her.

"YOU FILTHY LITTLE WHORE!" She screams at her. Snake stands up. He grabs Brittany out of her graps. People start standing up behind him. Girls and guys, all of them close friends of theirs.

"We better get out of here Brittany." Snake says. "If we don't all these emo pussys may just slice their wrists because they can't take a joke." All of my friends get up. I stay sitting. I feel Snakes eyes directly on me now. "Oh look. The fattest pussy of them all still remains sitting down. I would expect nothing less of her. She's the one that's going to kill herself from the group first." I can't take it anymore. I get up and run out of the cafeteria. I hear Jake screaming at Snake, but I zone him out. Tears begin streaming down my face fast, everything around me becoming a blur.

I begin running fast down the hallway. I wipe the tears and out of nowhere a teacher in front of me. My least favorite teacher, Mr. Wright. He puts his hand up and stops me dead in my tracks. "Excuse me, but no running in the hallway. Now get back in the cafeteria where you're supposed to be." I try to go around him, but he blocks me and begins gesturing for me to go back into the cafeteria. I still don't give up. "I'll write you up if you don't quit it." He pisses me off so much. I don't care what happens to me anymore.

"FUCK YOU!" I scream at him. I shove him out of my way and continue running. I hear footsteps behind me. They're heavy, someone's running. I don't bother to look back around to see who it is. Instead I run, trying to get to the gym. No one's in there, and the locker room doors lock. It's the perfect place for me to be alone, where I can calm myself down.