Tears well in my eyes, as I ran home, covering up my even more tattered face except my eye so I could see. Why can't I have a normal Monday like everyone else? Why do people like Travis do this to me?

My hearts still pounding. I can hear my friends still begging me to come back.

"Sal! Wait up!" A familiar voice said. It was Ashley.

I ignored it and kept running but twice as fast.

"SAL!" Ash screamed.

I finally made it and ran inside and to the elevator and pressed button three, while my other hand was on my face still. Once the elevator was on third floor, I made a mad dash towards my apartment, praying to god no one's home.

I ran into the apartment and straight in the bathroom and locked the door. The air that was clogging my throat had become unstuck and a sob broke past my quivering lips. I looked in the mirror and saw my scarred face, that was now also bruised and covered in blood, sweat and tears. My glass eye was cracked and peices of it are stuck on different parts in my face. My other eye was black and blue, and my lip was busted back open.

I heard a knock at the door.

"Sal, I know you're in there. "It was Ash."Please open the door."

"No! I-I'm hideous!!" I covered my face."Go away! Please!"

"I'm sorry, Sal but you know I'm not going to do that." Ash said.

"Please... I-I just want to be a-alone..."

"Sal, let me clean you up. I promise, I won't look any different of you."

"Ashle-"

"Please?"

I sigh.

"A-Alright... C-Can I have a m-minute?"

"Take your time."

I rinsed off some of the blood off my face which proved to have no point, because my face started to bleed again. I took off my sweater. I stare at my chest. Bruises and cuts are all over me, not just my face. A big bruise was on almost all over my torso. I undo my pigtails, and cover my face with my hair.

I go to the door and unlock it. I start to cry again.

Ash stepped inside and gets a wash rag and some hydrogen peroxide. She turned on the water faucet in the tub.

I look at her.

"Can you get changed in your swimming trunks?" Ash asked awkwardly.

"Y-Yeah..."

Nobody's POV:

Sal left to get changed while Ash put a bit of soap in the tub. Ash rolled up her sleeves and pulled her messy brown hair into a high bun, to keep it out of the way. Ash pulled out her phone to call Larry. It rang out, meaning he didn't have his phone on him.
"Hey Its Ash, letting you know that me and Sal are in his apartment, meet us there A.S.A.P. Sal isn't doing to well, call me back when you're out.

"You d-don't have to d-do this, y-you know that, right?"

"Sal, your my friend, I care for you, and right now, you really need one."

Sal gets into the tub and hisses when the soapy water touched his cuts. He looks at Ashley, signaling that he's ready for her to start cleaning his wounds. Ash gets the rag and puts some peroxide on it. She puts her hand on his chin and started to clean his face. He whines while the peroxide bubbles on his wounds.

"I'm sorry about your mask, Sal..."

Sal started to cry again.

"Everyone saw my hideous face... Everyone laughed while I was getting beaten up for not doing anything. I tried to fight back. But I couldn't even see."

"You're not ugly Sal!"

"Our classmates seem to think otherwise." Sal said." Are you almost done?"

"No, just... Hang on."

Ash continued to clean Sal's face or what was left of it.

"One of you're scars reopened...what do you want me to-"

There was a knock at the front door.

"Who is it?"Sal yelled.

"It's Larry."

Sal could hear the anger in his shaking voice.

"C-Come in..."

"I can't. It's locked."

"Ash can you-"

"Yeah."

Ash gets up and gets the door. In her mind, she was wondering on what Sal did to make Travis that angry, if he did anything.

But there is one possibility but isn't Sal's fault...no.... just thinking about that horrible reason makes her blood go cold... She heard a rumor that Travis had a crush on Sal, and ever since that rumor got out, He's been picking on us and some other students. The usual stuff he calls us. Faggot, freak, that stuff, but he has never gone that far. For the longest time, She believed the rumors. Maybe Sal spread the rumor? No Sal would never do that, even if Travis is a big douchebag.

Ash opened the door to see Larry and his mom. Larry had blood dripping from his nose, a black eye and small cuts across his face. He looked like he was furious, but on the verge of tears too.

Lisa looked at Ash.

"I'm so confused.... So... what happened at the cafeteria?"

"Sal, is it alright if my mom comes in and fix you up."

"Umm..." Tears started to fall down his bloody cheeks.

"Sal, at this point, I have no idea what I'm doing... To be honest."

"Okay..." Sal steps out of the bathtub and puts sweatpants on over his shorts, because Ashley was in there.

Lisa looked around and tried to see if there's any first aid kit or something to patch up Sal.

"Larry, I need you to run and get the first aid kit. It's in the pantry on the bottom shelf."

"Sure thing, Mom."

Larry ran as quickly as he could down the hallway and to the elevator. He finally was in the elevator and pushed floor B which leads to Larry's apartment.

Catching his breath while the elevator went to his floor, he thought about how is he going to protect Sal from Travis?

It was at his floor so he got out, but didn't stop thinking about it. He ran through the front door of the apartment and grabbed the kit and ran back to Sal's apartment.

Larry barged in the door.

"I got it!"

"Thank you Lar-bear." Lisa smiles. "You ready Sal?"

" Yeah, Lets go to my room. There's more space. "

"Okay. Larry, do you want me to fix you up too?"

"Yeah, but do Sal first."

"You such a sweet boy."

"A sweet boy that got suspended for breaking a kid's nose." Ash added." I dont think I've ever seen you. Stick up for someone to that extreme!"

"I get that way all the time."

"I'm still very confused."

Sal stepped out of the bathroom with Ash right behind him.

Lisa looked at Sal's face, making her even more confused.

"So you got in trouble for getting in a fight, Sal is all bruised up. DID YOU BOYS HAVE A FIGHT AT SCHOOL?!"

"Lisa, I-I... That's not what happened...."

"Okay. I'll get you and Larry cleaned up and you'll tell me everything. Ash sweetie, you can go home."

"Okay..."

Ash headed home and Lisa opened the kit and pulled out some tweasers she was going to take out Sal's broken glass eye piece by piece.

"Larry, honey, you're really queasy when it comes to this grizzly stuff, I need you to go in the living room."

"You can watch TV. If you want..."

"Okay..."

Knowing that his mother is right, Larry went into the living room, while Lisa started to clean him up.