Looking at my watch and realising that I was late, I cursed to myself and quickly rushed down to my locker, collecting my books when suddenly I was cornered in a dark hallway with no one in sight.

Then Lily and her little brainless minions came up to me, slapped me hard on across the cheek and I tried as hard as I could not to give them pleasure of seeing my tears.

A sly smirk dances across Lily's lips as she whispers, "How does that feel whore? Huh? You slut."

Laughing hard as if someone just exclaimed the funniest joke, she hits me across the face again and as if on cue, her minions, aka Meg and Julie, started laughing hysterically as if they could never stop.

"I am not a slut." I declared in a quite hushed tone, not willing to fight fire with fire.

"Yes, you are bitch!" Lily exclaimed while kicking me in the stomach, as I buckle over and sink onto the floor.

Was I? I was bruised, broken.

I was useless.

"You should go kill yourself."

"Nobody cares about you."

"Even your friends don't care, they are only with you because you are a walking pity party."

A kick in the gut, a rough slap across my cheek and a punch, one after another until I absolutely couldn't take it anymore.

Suddenly I woke up, finding myself in my room, in bed, sweating profusely.

"Thank the Lord I am safe." I whispered to myself before tears started rolling down my eyes like a fierce waterfall.

Ever since my parents and Sebastion left for their unknown trip I have been living alone in the house. I used to get bullied a lot by Lily and her minions but Sebastion would always save me, and now because he was not here, I have no one

Yes, you might say you have your friends, but I don't want them to be concerned about my problems because Lily will make their lives more miserable and they deserve the absolute best.

Feeling a sudden burst of pain in my stomach, I crumble down on the floor clutching my abdomen and crying, tears falling uncontrollably down my stained cheeks.

After taking paracetamol, my stomach was calm and wasn't aching anymore. Lifting up my shirt, I saw a huge blueish black bruise on my stomach from the constant kicking that Lily was giving me.

"No wonder I had felt so much pain." I said to myself as I gently traced a finger across it.

Lily and her idiotic friends have been doing this for a very long time. Physically and emotionally I have been scarred by their taunting and insults. At this point I am actually starting to believe her, now cutting my skin.

I know this is bad but it's hard to get through this by my own with no support and no one to understand me.

Now I always make up excuses on why I wear long sleeved shirts even though its boiling outside and I also keep my distance from my friends so they don't suspect anything.

Looking at my clock, I realize I will be late to school. Getting up, I start to get ready for another day in that hell hole.

***

"Hey guys!" I smile brightly as I approach Tristan, Jayden and Isabelle.

"How are you so happy in the morning? It's incomprehensible." Tristan scowls then yawns, covering his mouth with a large hand.

"I am going to class y'all, see ya." He says, turning and walks away from us.

"Hey Isabelle, you okay?" I ask as Isabelle looked lost in her own world. If you would look at Isabelle now she would appear dead to you but because she is moving we know she is still alive.

"Yes, I'm fine. I just didn't get much sleep yesterday." She explains while smiling, but the smile didn't quite reach her eyes. Furrowing my eyebrows at her in confusion, I ask:

"Oh and why are you wearing long sleeve clothes? It's like 45 degrees outside!"

And she bluntly answers me with a simple: "I know."

"If you say but I gotta get to class so bye!" I say while hugging her unusually frail body tightly.

I felt her flinch slightly in my grasp and when I pull back she has a smile plastered across her shadowy face.

Now something is definitely wrong I thought to myself, as I was walking to class.

As Trish left, Lily and her minions came up to me and started their usual abuse,then left. This time I was just fed up with them, no one cares about me and if my friends find out about what happened they are gonna be really mad, and stop being hanging out with me. I mean I am a slut, a piece of crap, useless and no one needs me.

After thinking for awhile, the bell rings signaling the class is over and lunch was now.

I decided not to go to lunch today and go to place where no one would see me.

A place where I would be calm.

A place where all my worries would go away.

Isabelle had been acting weird, like very weird.

She would flinch in the slightest of contact and she had been looking very unhealthy, very pale, distant, not her usual bubbly self.

I realized she as acting like this since the day her parents left for vacation. I am starting to get worried and so are our friends.

And being told, Boss said that there will be suspicious activity going on, I needed to keep an eye out on the suspect.

Which is becoming harder every second.

Drifting from my thoughts, I stride over to the table where Trish and Jayden are sitting.

Oh how much I hate Jayden thinking he could like Isabelle! She doesn't deserve him.

"Hey guys." I smike as I lean against the table.

"Wait, where is Isabelle?" I ask with concern etching my voice.

"I don't know I thought she was you." Trish says looking frantically around the cafeteria.

"And also she has been acting very strange lately don't you think?"Trish said.

"Yes, very."

"I think we could just wait and see when she comes " Jayden say while casually taking a bite of his sandwich.

"Jayden, this is Isabelle you are talking about here, your so called crush who you care about! Have some respect and start searching for her!" Trish exclaims angrily while Jayden just stood there dumbfounded and jaw wide open.

"Ho-wh-what do you know?" He asks very quietly, crimson red creeping up onto his cheeks.

"Now is not the right time dude. We need to search for her now." I say, quite shocked with myself that I kept calm during this whole conversation. I mean his face looks pretty punch able right about now.

No offence.

Oh wait yes I did wanted to punch it.

Then suddenely my phone rang, flicking the caller ID I saw that it was boss.

He never called me in school, in fact he rarely even called me.

"I need to take this be right back" I said while rushing out of the cafeteria.

"Hello?"

"Tristan, you need to come to Base right now and start getting your weapons and approach the location. I am gonna send you as our rivals are on our territory and the info we need is walking there alone, with no one there! What are you waiting for? C'mon Tristan!"Boss says, practically screaming in my ear.

"Okay guys I am gonna go and search for Isabelle outside." I said.

"If you find her, please call me, okay?Stay safe." Trish says, furrowing her eyebrows in worry.

"Alright, sure will. Bye!" I exclaimed, quickly rushing out of the cafeteria.

One thing I know right now is that this night isn't going to end well, and someone will end up hurt or lies and truths will be revealed.....

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