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Trusting 9 - Podge Kelly

Trusting 9 - Podge Kelly

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When Podge was told that no one ever went behind the PE building at his new school, all he could think was that he couldn't wait to show his friends their new smoke spot. What he wasn't expecting, however, was to find the spot already occupied by a little girl. She looked young, too young to be in secondary school, but she had a cigarette on her mouth so maybe she wasn't as young as he thought. She eyes them warily, as if silently willing them to go away. They didn't. They did, however, offer her some of the weed they managed to get their hands on. The group spent the rest of their break getting high and joking around. The next day, she was there again. And the next day. And the day after. Every day they smoked together behind the PE building, until eventually Ellie became a part of their little circle. Podge couldn't help but be enamored by her, but for the life of him he could not figure her out. He knew her family was loaded. So why go to BCS instead of Tommen? She had a good and stable upbringing. Why get involved with drugs and Shane Holland? She was nice. Why the hell did she act like she had no friends? He had so many questions and he wanted answers. He was determine to find out who she really was. READ TRIGGER WARNINGS PLEASE
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Brendan Clearly. He was the lad I liked since I was barely out of pigtails, the one who never slagged me off when the rest of the boys thought it was gas. He was different. Always smiling, always asking me if I'd eaten, like some little mammy trapped in a seventeen-year-old fella's body. It sounds stupid, but those tiny things kept me going. And then I went and wrecked it. Not just with him-no, I managed to shatter it with all of them. My friends, the ones who made the halls feel less lonely, the ones who kept me tethered here when the world felt too heavy. Gone. Because of me. Just a mistake, that's all it was, but a mistake that cost me everything. And now when I see him across the yard, laughing with the others, it's like a knife. He doesn't even look my way. And I deserve that, don't I? *** Caoimhe Kavanagh. Once upon a time she was my best mate. The kind of girl you'd sit on a wall with for hours, talking about nothing and everything. She was soft, kind, never the type to go looking for trouble. But now? I hardly recognise her. She's gone cold, sharp, always hanging 'round with that crowd-the type of people you know are only bad news. Ciggies tucked in their sleeves, mouths full of poison. And she's right there in the middle of it, like she belongs to them now. Part of me wants to write her off, tell myself she's not the Caoimhe I knew. That girl's dead and gone. But... I can't. I remember too much. The way she used to laugh, the way she'd defend you even when you were being a gobshite, the way she cared more than she ever let on. That's still inside her, I swear it is. I don't care how hard she tries to hide behind the mask she's wearing now-I know my friend is in there somewhere. And I'll drag her back if I have to. Because she's worth it.

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