"Okay, what movie should we watch?" I ask my friends Cat, Jade, Beck, Andre, and Robbie as I turned on Netflix with the Wii remote.
"Something with a lot of blood, guts, and gore" Jade answered. She was definitely a dark person, having interests in things other people were disgusted by.
Cat gasped at the answer. "Gross" she said innocently. She was thought of as the baby of the group. Cat was sweet, sensitive, over emotional, and had a train of thought comparable to that of a child.
"Why don't we watch something everyone will enjoy, babe" Beck told Jade, his girlfriend. He was calm and levelheaded. It seemed that most of his time was spent creating a compromise between the wants of Jade and those of all of their other friends. This was something he did as a second nature though and he was very good at it.
"But if it doesn't have blood, guts and gore I won't en-" Jade started to say before Beck shut her up with a kiss.
"Does anyone else have a suggestion?" I ask rolling my eyes at the couple making out on my couch.
"Beauty and the Beast!" Cat giggled.
"Any Jeff Dunham show" Robbie suggested, which wasn't surprising seeing as he carries around his own dummy named Rex. Shockingly, though, he left Rex home today. He claims that Rex told him that he wasn't feeling good, but he also felt the need to inform us that he has a sneaky suspicion that Rex wanted to stay behind because he had a date with a Northridge girl. The poor boy honestly believes that Rex is alive.
"August Rush. That kid can jam!" Andre offered up. He loves music in all ways possible. He's a fantastic musician, but when you attend a performing arts high school and all week you eat, breath, and sleep music and acting, you'd think you would need a break from it at some point. Not Andre, though.
"Well this is getting nowhere fast" I say, slightly annoyed at my friends' lack of ability to agree on something.
"Please can watch Beauty and the Beast? There's music for Andre, evilness for Jade and even things talking that aren't supposed to talk for Robbie!" Cat pointed out in an attempt to win this debate. The comment about Robbie won her a less than frightening glare from the dorky Robbie, which Cat simply responded to with a big smile, a smile that made anyone melt in cuteness. Even Jade who has a reputation of being a mean and evil girl.
"Fine, Beauty and the Beast it is" I decide as I type the title into the search box. As soon as I find it and hit play I sit back on the couch and catch a glimpse of Cat out of the corner of my eye. I look over at her as she sits cross-legged on the floor with her back against the couch, next to Jade's legs. Her eyes are lit up like a Christmas tree and there is a huge smile plastered on her face. You'd think she was about to meet her favorite celebrity, but that's just how Cat was. It was almost as if you could read every thought and every emotion Cat had like an open book. This girl hid nothing. Or at least that's what I had thought, until I noticed something right before I was about to turn back towards the TV screen.
Cat is wearing an off the shoulder sweatshirt, one sleeve of which is slightly pushed up off of her wrist. A wrist that was usually covered in different colorful bracelets, but it wasn't today. Today I noticed something else covering Cat's tiny wrist. They looked like thin red lines across Cat's left wrist. I didn't mean to stare, but I couldn't help it. Those couldn't be what I thought they were. No, Cat Valentine, always happy Cat Valentine, doesn't cut herself. There's no way. But those marks, those lines.
Cat must have noticed that I was staring in her direction because she pulled her eyes away from the TV to look at me, following my line of vision to her left wrist, which she hadn't noticed was exposed. She quickly pulled her sleeve down, a slight looked of embarrassment washing over her face, before she turned back to me and shot me one of those smiles that can just brighten anyone's day. I gave a forced smile back to my friend as I turn towards the TV, my mind now racing with a hundred different questions and concerns.