Hazel POV:

I walked up the stairs with Gus taking a break when we were at the top. We went inside and walked to our lockers. We grabbed out stuff and headed to Biology. 

"Good morning class. Open up to page 147.  Amy read 'thyroid' ". Oh great.

After Amy was done reading and me not listening I stand up and grab my stuff. 

"No I'll take it." Gus said. I nodded. We walked towards the door when Mr. Lester called my name.

"Ms. Lancaster. Come here." I walked over to him. "I saw that you were not paying attention. Learning about this is very important because you might know someone or there may people who have this sickness. They would want your respect." He explains. I give a little heartless laugh and roll my eyes. "What was that for?"

"Yeah. I would want the respect. But this is our world. And here we don't get a lot of respect anymore." I said angrily.

"What are you talking about?" The teacher said.

"Hazel lets go." Gus said and pulled on my arm.

"No. I need to tell him. I don't need to listen to anything about that sickness because I know everything about already and I've had enough of it!" I exclaimed. He just stared at me with a confused look. "You don't get the hint? I had thyroid cancer." I said. I turned on my heel and walked out the door.

"Woah Hazel. One of the reasons I love you! My girlfriend is savage!" He laughed. I laughed with him.

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It was lunch. We bought our lunch and sat down at a table with Sarah and Isaac.

"Why aren't you eating Hazel?" Sarah asked me. I just shrugged. I stayed quiet while Gus told the story. "Oh I'm sorry Hazel." She reaches across the table and squeezed my hand.

"Oh it's fine. I have to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back." I told them. I kissed Augustus' cheek. I got up from the table and walked towards the bathroom. When I walked in there I coughed. I looked around and saw 4 girls...
Smoking. All of them in the group except for Ryn.

"What the heck?" I said coughing. I pulled Philip towards one of the sinks.

"Oh. Hey Hazel." Layla said with disgust.

"That's disgusting!" I said. They all looked at me.

"What?" They all said.

"Smoking. That's disgusting. You give money to something that causes cancer? That's just sick." I exclaimed.

"Not as sick as you." Another girl said. I turned to them and walked right in their faces and said,

"You know, it sucks to not be able to breath. It sucks. Yesterday i was in the hospital because I woke up not being able to breathe. And its completely sucks! And soon you'll end up like me. Do you really want that?!"

"No.."

"Exactly. So stop smoking. Because it sucks. And causes people death." They all out our their cigarettes. I walked back to our table. My teeth gritted and my hand clamped on the handle and my other hand clenched into a fist. I sat down and stabbed my fork into the meat.

"Woah. What happened?!" Gus said.

"That group of girls minus Ryn were smoking in the bathroom." I stated. Gus movies closer to me and hugged me.

"Those little... ughh." Sarah said. 

"Well lets just say that they won't be bothering me again. I put them in their place." I said.

"That's my girl!" Gus said.

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I had language so Gus and I parted ways. I hugged him. "Bye. See you later." 

" Bye. Love you. "

"Love you too!" I called over my shoulder. Sarah walked up to me. 

" Hey. What class do you have? " she asked. 

"language. " i said while grabbing my notebook out of my locker. I dropped my book and groaned. Sarah licked it up for me. I tried to reach over and grab it but she put a finger infront of my face. 

"Ah. Ah. Ah. I 'll carry it. J have language too." Sarah offered. 

" Um. Okay. Why are you be ing so nice to me? You barely know me? " i asked. 

"Well one because your my cousins girlfriend, 2 because i think your pretty cool." She said. I smiled at her. We made our way up the stairs... Again. We were almost to the third floor when i had to stop. 

"Hold up." I caught my breath. " Okay. Lets go. " Sarah smiled at me. 

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Layla POV: 

UGH. That new girl... Hazel is irritating. Shes dating the guy i like no love and she isnt that sensitive. So this is my plan: jus t !ake fun of her and be rude until she breaks! And never do it around Gus. Always be super sweet to her around him. its fool proof!

 So after language the girls and i watched until sarah was out of sight. Then we advanced. We walked over to Hazel. The girls and I discussed a nick name for her. 

"Hey, Sick Girl."