**look i said it would only take a week for a chapter to come out bu then school was like hello i exist and i havent slept in 4 weeks henlo ok enjoy the story**

kris' P.O.V.
As expected, I wake up to a blaring alarm in susies bed. As she slept she had drifted towards me and now I am stuck in a cuddle. I wiggle a little to wake her up, because the alarm seemed to have failed to do so. She groans.

"Good morninggg.." she yawns and hits the alarm. I snuggle her to say good morning back and suddenly have a thought.

Mum.

I curse under my breath, and slowly get up. I reach for my back pocket and surely enough my phones still in there. Pulling it out, I already notice the 42 notifications, and I start trembling.
I have to go to school to get my ciggarettes..
Mum is going to be at the school..
I don't have clean clothes..
Susie somehow notices my worried expression.

"Whats up?"

"mum.." I mumble. She sighs.

"Look, if anything happens i'll take responsibility for i-" I interrupt her immediatley.

"NO!" I yell, not thinking. Fuck no. I dont want my mum punishing her like she did with me. Never.

"I mean.. it's my fault. I'm not lying to my mother." She gives me a 'well fine' look and groans again.

"Hnnnngh... we have school..." She says, standing up and walking to her closet. I get up as well and walk over.

"C-can I borrow clothes?" I mumble.

"Psh.. of course." She opens a drawer and chucks me a white tshirt, black hoodie and grey trackpants.

"Thanks.." I start to get dressed. We've been together long enough that I really don't mind, and I trust shes not gonna stare at my ass or anything.

I let the fact i have multiple bruises everywhere drift away from my mind, and chuck on the tshirt and trackpants. Susies bedroom is warm from the heater, so I leave the hoodie off and go to sit on her bed again, leaving my arms bare. I open my phone and scroll through the endless abyss that is my mums missed text messages. Words like "come back", "hurry up", "you better come home right now" are all over my unread messages. I ignore them, and scroll through deltagram for a bit.

Susie's P.O.V.
I stick with the usual white shirt, purple cardigan and jeans. Mum had to leave early for work so im skipping breakfast, too. I hope Kris is okay with it.

I walk out of my closet and stare at Kris on her phone for a bit. She doesn't notice, in fact shes clueless that i'm staring at her. Shes so pretty..

My eyes land on her arm for a short amount of time. I'm not far away from her, so I can see them easily.

Her arms have multiple blueish-lurple spots on them.

Bruises?

In a moment of thought association, I walk up to her and grab her arm to take a closer look. The look on her face knows something I dont. She tries to pull her arm back from my grasp, but she can't.

"Kris."
She keeps struggling, and she seems to be starting to tear up.
"Kris.."
She doesn't stop.
"KRIS." I say sternly. She looks up at me with worried eyes.

"May I..?" I ask. She looks down and I turn her arm around. There are 3 bruises on her right arm, and 5 on her left. A number of clear unhealed self harm scars run along both her arms. I sit down next to her in shock. I can't think straight.

"Let's just.. let's just go to school.." she mumbles, throwing on the black hoodie i gave her. I sit for a bit as she gets her stuff together and try to process what I had just seen.

"Who... did that to you?" I ask quietly. She pauses.

"Well who do you fucking think." She picks up her phone and some other small object and I follow her downstairs and outside.

I'm still in shock. What do I do now? I'm not sure..

"Why didn't you.. say anything?" I ask nervously. She takes wide steps towards the school. I assume she wants to get out of the conversation.

"Because sometimes you just gotta suck it up, wait for shit to heal, and get back when you've got the chance." She says all wise-looking. We continue down the road to the school in absolute silence. I decide I will tell my mum when i get the chance. She can sort it out. All I can do at the moment is provide support.

We arrive at the school and Kris walks in fast. We're relatively early.. I'm not sure why Kris wanted to leave so early. We step inside and Kris immediatley heads for her locker. She opens it, takes something out and starts walking the opposite way, shoving the locker door closed.

"Where are we going, baby?" I ask, letting the nickname slip out of my mouth naturally. She slows down to walk with me, not in front, and holds my hand.

She leads me to the front of the school again, and then around the side of the school to some abandoned shed.

We head inside and Kris imediatley lights something. Her lighter is pink and has a cat that looks like hello kitty.

Ah.. thats why she wanted to come to school early. To smoke her problems away. She takes a deep breath in and blows it out again.

"Hate to break a promise but I need this right now.." She apologises and continues to smoke. I sit down and sigh.

Fuck.

**ty for sticking w me this whole time im shook that some of you still read this lmao.. cya next chapter**