"Babe,are you okay," luna asked with concern "Tell me if something is bothering you!"

"No, I am fine..totally fine, luna"

"But you look upset" she exclaimed and I could see concern on her face for me

"Well to be honest yes I'm  little bit upset, but right now I don't want to talk about it anymore"

"Does it have anything to do with that accident?"

"May be yes or may be no. I'll tell you later. You know I cant hide anything from you. All I need is to spend some time alone. Is that okay with you, luna?"

"Yes of course sweetheart, you can tell me whenever you feel like, but please share with me so that you feel free or else your heart would remain burderned with things that are bothering you" she said politely

"Yeah sure" I smiled pretending that I was okay

The school is over now so I said goodbye to her and found a vacant seat near a window in the bus and sat there with earphones pluged in my ears.
I raised the volume so that I don't have to hear annoying noises by the fellow students.

The drive home was quite normal as always but people won't stop staring at me. So I tried to avoid them and focused on one of my favourite song Stitches by shawn mendes.

🎷I thought that I'd been hurt before,
But no one's ever left me quite this sore
Your words cut deeper than a knife
Now I need someone to breath me back to life.... 🎼
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"Mommy, I'm home" I informed my mother as soon I reached home. She was doing something in the kitchen. My mother is a babysitter and my father runs a mobile shop. Basically I'm from a middle class family.

"Yes sweetheart, go and change your clothes. I have made apple pie for my princess"

My mouth watered by hearing the name APPLE PIE.

Mum was just so perfect in baking that delicious pie.
I forgot everything and ran hurredly to change my clothes. Then I came back to the dining table and took a large bite of my pie.

Nom..nom..nom
"Mommy you know what, you are the best. No one can compete you in this dish. I just want to lick your fingers as well"
For a moment I forgot how sad I was some minutes ago.

"Lol honey stop acting like a kid, you are seventeen now so grow up" she commented

"Oops, sorry" I laughed

Then after eating I rushed upstairs to my room which is always a mess.
Two hours went by and still words of that witch were repeating again and again in my ears.
Huge glasses...old fashioned..oil..eww..attention
Ugh! I need to erase these words from my mind...

I tried to divert my mind so I opened my books and started solving calculus, then I realized only ten days are left. How will I manage to cover up my studies? "Please help me God, please shower ur blessings on your child"

"Stella, Zach its dinner time," mum shouted from downstairs "Come fast both of you"

"Yea Mommy...coming" I shouted back

Oh I forgot to mention about zach!
He is my brother who is eight years old.
He is a very pampered kid in the family. I have one sister also but she lives with her fiancée in LA.

"Stella, how was your day?" zach asked

"Umm..it was okay, but why are you asking this?" I asked lifting my left eyebrow

"Oh I heard some mishappening took place today there with you" he covered his mouth from his cute little hands and chuckled

"What?," My jaw dropped "Naughty kid, tell me how do you know about it??" I asked making a question mark in the air

"I think you're forgetting something" he said with an evil smirk on his face.

"Forgetting...Forgetting what zach?"

"Both of you, will you keep your mouth shut? Finish your dinner first, you have a whole day to talk, right"
mum said with anger filled in her voice

Actually she don't like talking in between, eating habits you know!

"But mom,"

"Zach shut up" eat it first

"Alright" zach hissed

As we were over with the dinner I grabbed zach's hand and took him in his room being curious to know that how come he know all that happened today.

"Oh c'mon sis, my best friend Jim's cousin is in your school. He asked me whether you okay or not! So I asked him why he's asking me about you?
Then he told me about that incident, thats it!"
'poor you' he laughed and disappeared

God dammit! Now this shit is spread all over the school. Why is this happening to me? I have never done bad to anyone!