You're My Forever

Physical | 21

The Next Day... 

I got out of my bed and went to my closet. I got dressed in I black cropped t-shirt with some army printed ripped jeans. I put my half up half down, brushed my teeth, then drove to school. 

Lunch... 

I went to my locker again after class ended to switch out my binders. While I was there, my locker door was suddenly slammed shut, literally right on my wrist. I gasped in pain as I held my wrist in my other hand. My wrist turned dark red, almost a bit purple, instantly. 

I looked to my left, still very much in pain and saw Ema staring at me, looking furious with her arms crossed. "What the fuck is wrong with you?!" I shouted. My wrist began throbbing in pain. "I should be asking you that!" She shouted back, just as loudly. "What the hell did I do?!" I asked her. 

"YOU ARE THE REASON WHY JACK BROKE UP WITH ME!" She shouted even loudly, her face turning red from anger. What? Jack and Ema broke up? Since when? And how the fuck was it because of me? "What are you talking about? How is that my fault at all?" I asked her, very confused. 

"Ask him yourself! I literally just brought you up and how me and the girls despised you and then he blew up at me!" She explained vaguely. "That's not my freaking fault! Nobody told you to talk ab--" 

Suddenly I was cut off when I felt this girl literally slap me across the face. My hand held my cheek out of reflex but my jaw dropped. "You deserve that and the bruised wrist." She said to me before walking off, not letting me say anything else.

I was left there COMPLETELY shocked. She really just slapped me... FOR NO FUCKING VALID REASON! 

I was freaking pissed... She bruised my wrist then slapped me.

After processing what just happened, I decided to started heading to the cafeteria, my good mood now completely gone. As I was walking, I was looking down at the bruise on my wrist. That resulted in me bumping into someone.

I looked up at the person and immediately recognized him. He was one of Jack's friends. He had tanned skin, black hair that swooped back and was short on the sides and bright hazel eyes. He seemed like he'd be about as tall as Jack.  

"Oh uh.. Y-You're Jackson's friend, huh?" I asked him kind of awkwardly with a small smile. "Yeah. I'm Elijah. Do I know you?" He said with a friendly smile. "Right.. I suppose not. I'm Veronica, I used to be friends with Jack.." I told him quietly. 

"Wait.. Veronica, as in.. Roni?" Elijah asked, his eyebrows furrowing a bit. "Yeah.. How'd you know?" I asked him. "Jack has mentioned you many times." He told me. "Really? But that was a while ago, huh.." I sighed. "I guess. He tries to avoid talking about you now, I can tell." He shrugged. "But why--" He cut me off. 

"Whoa, what happened to your arm?" He asked, his eyes widening as he looked down, seeing my bruised wrist. "Ema..." I sighed, getting mad all over again. "Ema? Why'd she do that?" He furrowed his eyebrows. "She slammed my locker door on my wrist and slapped me all because I 'broke her and jack up'." I rolled my eyes. 

"What the fuck?" He chuckled. "Even I know the reason why Jack broke up with her and it barely had anything to do with you." He told me. He said 'barely'... "Barely? How did it have anything to do with me?" I asked him. "Jack told me that Ema really changed from when he first fell for her. As in she became really rude and possessive. He'd been thinking of breaking up with her for a while but yesterday, when she started talking shit about you, that was what really set it off for him." Elijah explained. My eyes widened when I heard what he said. I mean, Ema did tell me she was talking about me when it happened but I didn't know this is what she meant...

Does that mean he still cared about me?

I was about to say something until he spoke up again. "Anyway, I actually gotta go now so maybe I'll see you around. Hope your wrist feels better soon." He gave me a friendly smile and wave before walking away. Well that was very unexpected.. At least his guy friends seemed nice though.

Anyway, after processing what just happened, I started heading to the cafeteria. 

Jackson's P.O.V... 

Elijah showed up like five minutes late. 

"Dude, where were you?" I asked him with a small chuckle as he sat down next to the rest of us. "I bumped into your friend." He told me. "What friend?" I asked him, my eyebrows furrowing. "You know, Veronica." He smirked as he said her name. My eyes widened. "Bro, it's like off limits for us to even talk to her." My other friend, Calum told him while chuckling. All four of the guys chuckled. 

"Eli, why the hell would you talk to her, what the fuck did you say?!" I shouted, standing up. "Well she recognized me to be your friend. And she told me that Ema bruised her hand and slapped her because it's supposedly 'her fault' that you broke up with her." He explained. "Are you serious? She hit Roni?! God dammit..." I felt the anger building up in me. 

"What are you going to do?"  Another friend, Dean asked. "Ema's a girl," I sighed, sitting back down. "I can't do anything.." I put my head in my hand. 

That Evening...(Veronica's P.O.V)

Mrs. Meyer and my mom really helped me cope with losing Jack and even still, Mrs. Meyer and I reserve one evening per week to just catch up. And today was that evening.

So at around 7 pm, I headed over to Jack's house. Mrs. Meyer made sure that Jack wasn't home before I came over which I was really thankful for.

Once I got there, I rang the doorbell and she opened it. "Hi honey." She said with a smile as we hugged each other. "Hi Mrs. Meyer." I smiled as well. So after greeting each other, we headed inside and she told me to go to the backyard.

I went to the backyard and sat on the swinging bench. The place I was sitting at had the perfect view of the sunset. Mrs. Meyer came outside about five minutes later with a tray holding two small cups of tea. She put the tray down on the small table in front of us then sat beside me. 

"So tell me, how was school today?" She asked me with a smile while handing me a cup of tea then grabbing hers. "Definitely could've been better.." I sighed before taking a small sip. "Oh, what happened?" She asked me. 

I held out my bruised wrist. It was now very purple. Her eyes widened when she saw it. "Oh my god, how'd that happen?!" She asked me, sounding worried. "Ema did it. And she also slapped me. She said it was my fault that Jack broke up with her." I explained to her. 

"Seriously? Roni, you should tell a teacher or something. She was literally physical with you." Mrs. Meyer told me firmly. "It's fine.. I'll let her get away with it but I definitely wont let it happen again." I told her. "Are you sure you want to do that? She definitely deserves to get in trouble." She asked again. "Yeah, it's fine.. I mean, she's dated Jack so she can't even be that bad of a person." I shrugged.

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