Imogen Moreno burst through the door of her quiet household and stomped up the stairs, breaking the peaceful silence that once filled the area. She made her way to her bedroom in record time, taking the steep stairs two at a time. Her parents were nowhere to be found, but that was expected at this time of day. Imogen had decided to skip her lunch period and come home after what had just happened. Although she knew that she didn't have many friends at Degrassi, Imogen had never expected that anything like this would happen. She had been walking aimlessly around the hallways, successfully avoiding a lecture that was taking place in her Global Studies class, when a large guy approached her in the hallways. Their encounter had been brief and terrifying. He said that his name was Vince and that he was looking for Bianca. Imogen, completely unaware of where Bianca was, replied that she didn't know.
The next thing she knew, this complete stranger had shoved her into a bank of lockers and she fell to the floor like a rag doll. Imogen immediately felt the sharp pains in her side, but stood up despite the pain. She had began to run after that, and she had run all the way home. But that was then. At the moment, Imogen was inspecting her wounds. She winced as she ran her fingers gingerly over the bruises on her hip. "You'll be fine, Immy," she spoke aloud to herself in a shaky, unconvincing voice. Imogen placed an ice pack on her hip and felt the tears begin to slide down her cheeks. This was all too familiar. As the memories of being bullied at her other school began to come back to her, Imogen threw the ice pack down onto the carpet and hurried towards her bed, then buried herself under the covers. She would be okay. And if she wasn't, she could pretend to be. Imogen was an actress, after all.
