This chapter has some of Adam's life in it and Shelby! Time for the story!
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~Chapter 3~
"Good things come from bad places"
~Adam's POV~
After eating breakfast with my so-called mom's I walk back upstairs and pull out my knife from a pocket in my back pants. I pull up my sweatshirt and put the knife to my arm.

-⚠️WARNING: BLOOD AND VIOLENCE UP AHEAD!⚠️-

I push the knife deeper and deeper into my left arm until my skin finally rips and tears away as the knife sinks into my skin, letting the blood flow freely down my arm and onto the marble bathroom floor. As I cut my arm I count the cuts and the reasons for them.

One for being bi

One for not being a perfect child

One for being annoying to my family

One for the sake of cutting

And last, one for living.

I watched as the blood flowed loosely down my arms, making its way to the floor. By now the floor was practically covered in the dark red liquid. I ran over and grabbed a towel and threw it on the floor to clean up any blood. I then didn't bother to clean my arms and just pulled up the sleeves to my sweatshirt and unlocked the bathroom door. I quickly looked at the time.

7:15, perfect! I'll still be on time to school! I thought as I packed my bag quickly, making sure to grab my phone. Suddenly my mom yelled for me to get downstairs. Me, being the clueless person I am forgot that Nick was coming over today. I quickly ran over to my bag, slung it over my shoulder and ran down the stairs. I almost fell but I quickly caught myself and opened the door. I looked over to see Nick and a young boy next to him, I've never seen the boy around so I just stuck my hand out for him to shake it.

"Hey Nick it's awesome to see you!" I quickly turned over to the boy as he looked at my hand and studied it. I looked down and saw blood seeping out of my sweatshirt arm. As the young boy came to shook my hand I quickly pulled my arm in and held it.

"Name's Adam, it's great to meet you!..." I trailed off waiting for him to finish my sentence. He quickly caught on and finished with-

"Cory. It's also nice to meet you Adam." After a little bit of talking we headed to school. I could see Cory staring at me through the corner of my eye, but I decided to ignore it.

-Cory's POV-

I was wondering what was wrong with Adam's because there was something dripping out of it. I quickly pulled on the back of his hoodie making him turn around and face me

"Why did you do that Cory?!" He asked, his tone was slightly pissed but I could tell he was trying to make a good first impression still.

"What's wrong with your arms?" I asked accidentally blurting out my thoughts. He looked at me for a while, his green eyes filled with many different emotions, hate, anger, sadness, happiness, and a little confusion. Finally after what felt like forever, he stuttered out an answer.

"N-nothing. Not that you would care anyways, camera face." Now I was pissed, he knew my name, even though we just met, I said my name to him. He should be able remember it, it's only been fifteen minutes since we first met. I know his name, he should know mine. I didn't make a comment after what he said. I noticed Nick far ahead of us, so I ran up behind him. Right after I caught up to Nick I noticed we finally made it to school.

(FINALLY! XD)

The school was huge! Each will was packed with lockers lined up next to one another. There was some people throwing stuff in their lockers, others already chatting to their friends about how their summer went. But as we were walking I bumped into a girl.
"Sorry! My name is Shelby, what's yours?"
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YEEE FINALLY! This chapter is short because I'm lazy and didn't want to write anymore :)