Closer than ever before

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I grab my stuff and walk out of the bathroom nonchalantly. I actually have time to get to class, so I walk to class instead of run. Out of nowhere Andy comes up behind me grabbing my wrist and pulling towards math class. "Ouch" I hiss in pain pulling my wrist back as fast as I can. "What's wrong Alice? Did you get hurt? Are you okay?" I just nodded and he knew something was really wrong. He looked at the clock noticing we still have time for an Alice intervention. He pulls me across the hall and lifts up my sleeve. "Oh my fucking gosh Alice why didn't you tell me? You know I am always there for you! Come on we are skipping let's go!" I walk out the school side door with Andy and we walk to my car. I hand him my keys and I get in the passengers side. The whole drive to my house was quiet. When we got to my house I pulled out my key because my parents weren't home. We walk in and he sits me on the couch and talks to me for an hour. He said he feels bad and he was hurt he did not know, but most of all he was angry. Not at me but the people who caused me enough emotional pain to harm myself. After we cleared things up he took all of my blades and threw them in the trash one by one. He made me promise to never do it again. I promised knowing I would never break a promise to Andy. My parents ended up having to stay in a hotel do too constant meetings so I just told Andy to stay the night. We got dressed for bed and went to sleep I snuggled my head onto his chest and he wrapped his arm around me. We slept like this the entire night. I woke up with only one thing on my mind, Andy and I have come closer than ever before.

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