Author's Note: Thank you for all the birthday wishes!
I'm so happy to have all of my readers back! Can't wait to read all of your reactions with what goes on in the second part of Scars. (: of course, more shit is bound to come. I never have a happy ending just yet.
In case some of you don't know, Lucas is the guy from the anime and the game from Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum. Remember when you start the game and you have to choose between which girl and guy? (the guy is Lucas!) so yeah that's him, and he had only appeared once in the anime, sadly. Since we do not know how his personality is like on the anime, I decided to create a personality for him of my own, and I had changed his appearance much likely. His hair is all spiky and blue, so. (:
Yeah, so Sinnohshipping is bound to happen.
But Dawn's heart forever goes for Paul. If you don't remember, she had told Paul, "I'll love you forever, Paul. That's the problem." In Scars, chapter 20…
Anywayyyyy,
Let's see what happens next, shall we?
She hated him so much, to the point that she felt like throwing a rock across his face. Why does Hetson always have to be a jerk? Teachers don't treat their students that way so why does he have to? What did she do to him? She had done nothing! No one in his class has done nothing to him to make him treat his students so cruelly. Professor Hetson deserved any negative thing for what he has done in return.
Dawn let out a huff and closed her eyes tightly, dropping her face back down into her hands as more tears escaped from her eyes.
"Uh.. hey," an awkward voice had said. Dawn coughed and brought her head back up to see the person who was standing before her. It was Lucas and he had her phone in his hand, pointing it at her.
"I believe this is yours," he had said, referring to the phone in his hands. Dawn blinked and lingered her eyes onto her phone, then glanced back up at him. She slowly took the phone from his hands then placed it down on her lap, staring at the floor as a low murmur left her lips. "Thank you…"
Lucas smiled barely, "Don't mention it," Dawn glanced back up at him.
"I'm sorry for what happened back there," he responded, pushing her thoughts of Paul away and bringing her attention back to him. "You didn't deserve that,"
Dawn remained silent and then looked away, shrugging. "I'm used to it," she lied.
She was never used to it; she was always irritated with it. No matter what she does or says to him he always has to treat her like crap, along with everyone else. She had hoped that one day someone will get him fired, something that he, himself deserves.
Lucas let out his hand for her to grab and Dawn was immediately taken into slight confusion. "…why, are you being so nice to me?" her eyebrows furrowed together and his blue eyes burned into her own.
"Nobody deserves to be treated unkindly," he flashed a slight smirk on her, and Dawn scoffed, "Yeah, according to Hetson, everyone deserves to be treated unkindly, whether you are a kind person or not."
"That's because he is Hetson." Lucas motioned his hand towards her once more, and Dawn remained still; her eyes lingering onto his hands and back up to his face. She was debating if she should grab his hand or not. And then he flashed her a charming smile, which made his blue eyes shine brighter than before. Sighing, Dawn rested her hand on his and he had pulled her back up on her feet before saying another comment, "Learn to not let him get to you; he's a jerk and we all know that."
"What he did to me in there was wrong," Dawn called in defense; her eyebrows furrowing down as if in anger. "He embarrassed me in there and tried to make humor out of it. How was I supposed to react? Oh—just be okay with it?"
Lucas had sighed and shoved his hands in his pockets. Dawn caught the sight and an image of Paul's face clicked onto her head and it immediately faded away. She had blinked and quickly tore her eyes off of Lucas, biting hard on her lower lip. "I'm not saying that you can't stick up for yourself, because you can." He had sighed again when she had said nothing in response.
Dawn stared hard at the floor, a couple feet away from Lucas. Her eyes were irritating her like crazy due to all the tears that escaped its way out of her system. "Yeah," she had said plainly, no emotion in her.
Lucas stared at her from the back, and then furrowed his eyebrows together in a curious manner, "Your essay topic seems…pretty depressing." A coldness settled over Dawn just as soon as she heard him bringing this up. "I'm really, really sorry for your loss…"
She had opened her mouth and inhaled a large breath of air, "You know what sucks?" she breathed, having to not turn around and continuously concentrating on the floor. Lucas had raised his eyebrows at her; staring at her back. "Having to know the fact that no matter how much I miss him, he's never coming back…" her voice sounded as if she was about to break and Lucas felt his own heart inside of his chest hurting.
She had finally turned around and raised her hands partially. "I just wish that I didn't have to suffer with all of this pain held up inside of my chest, eating me alive like I'm a whole meal." Dawn held her hand deep against her chest, close enough to her heart as she let out a breath, "The only solution I can come up with is suicide. And if that's what ends all of this agony that I feel, then why not risk the chance?"
Anger was visible on Lucas' face and he quickly got up to her face, "Suicide is not an option; don't even think twice about that. I'm sure you're a much stronger person than that, Dawn."
She had stood quiet and then tears rushed through her eyelids and poured down her face. Lucas calmed his anger down after realizing she had started crying and he let out a soft sigh, pulling the crying blunette into his arms. She had cried for a while and he let her. After all that crying she had done, he mumbled, "Would you like for me to take you home?"
Dawn slowly glanced up at him and shook her head, "Uh, it's my dorm, actually, but yeah I guess."
"Which dorm?" he asked, curious.
She hadn't even thought twice if it was the best idea to tell him which dorm she was staying at, but then she just responded absentmindedly. "Dorm 27,"
A smirk slipped on his face and he cocked an eyebrow at her, "Nice to meet you, neighbor."
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She had sniffed and glanced up at her dorm number. "So this is your dorm?" the boy with blue spiky hair asked. She had only nodded and wiped her eyes again, "Yeah, this is my dorm." Dawn placed her hand on the doorknob and slowly opened it, pushing her way in.
Once she opened the door, she saw Lyra playing around with her laptop on her lap. Her eyes immediately followed its way up to Dawn, and once it landed on Lucas her eyes brightened. "Oooh, who's the cutie?" she asked, reverting her eyes to her dear friend. Dawn placed her things down on the floor and climbed onto her bed momentarily, having to not respond to her question.
Lucas smirked at Lyra's comment and flashed a charming smile at her, "Lucas," he responded, "Your friend here was having a rough morning so, I decided to take her here, if you don't mind." He narrowed his eyes back on Dawn.
Lyra opened her mouth and then smiled, "Oh! No, it's fine, really." She looked at Dawn, lowering her voice. "It's good that she has finally found someone that cares for her that way…"
Lucas and Dawn glanced Lyra's way in unison. Lyra cleared her throat awkwardly when she realized she had spoken her last sentence louder than she thought; she just laughed innocently, "Well thanks anyway!" she beamed, still feeling that awkward feeling lingering in the room. The boy smiled and narrowed his eyes again on Dawn, "See you later," he called before exiting her dorm and closing the door along the way.
Lyra immediately glanced at Dawn and an excited smile was on her face, "That guy is so hot! You have to hook me up with him. But, if you like him, then nevermind, you can have him." Dawn broke out of her thoughts and laughed at her statement and sat up on her bed, looking at Lyra.
"Even if I did like Lucas, that's all it'll be." She responded, shrugging, "Nothing more."
"Why not?" her friend asked, confused.
"Because I'm not going to fall in love again," she stared at Lyra with a serious expression. Her brown headed friend just simply nodded and then frowned right after. She was beginning to become curious what had happened at school, so she decided to bring up the topic. "So what happened today? Why are you back so early?"
"I believed I talked about Mr. Hetson to you before," Dawn sighed, pulling down her bed sheets as she started to get comfortable in her bed. "He read one of my essays out loud to the class, and that essay happened to be the one about Paul…"
There was a moment of silence that filled into the air and Lyra's frown deepened when she realized how depressed Dawn must have been during class. "Well, Hetson is one big fat jerk," she huffed, crossing her arms. "He can't just use Paul against you, that is just not cool."
Dawn found herself laughing at that statement silently, and she just shrugged however and laid her back down on the bed, fluttering her eyes closed. "Well, I'm going to take a nap." She spoke halfway, yawning. As she whipped her body around on one side of the bed, she couldn't help but smile slightly. "Hey, Lyra?"
"Yes?" her brown headed friend raised an eyebrow, an innocent smile on her face.
"Thank you,"
Confused, Lyra blinked over numerous times and chuckled lightly, "What?" as if, she heard correctly.
"Thank you for being there for me. You're a really good friend, Lyra. You're actually the only girl friend I've ever had that understood where I'm coming from, and doesn't judge me in anyway…" her voice trailed off for a moment, and an image of May's face flashed before her eyes. Dawn snapped her eyes shut, and found herself becoming angry, but she held her cool.
Her brown headed friend smiled widely, "Oh, it's no problem, Dawn. I'm not a shady person—I'll always be right there whenever you need me, whether it's on your sad or angry days, I'll still be there. Because that's what friends do, they are always there for each other."
And then a thought clicked onto Dawn's mind.
"You know… I had a best friend that seemed to worry about me all the time, especially around Paul… she'd always tell me that he's not a good influence and that he's dangerous and shouldn't be trusted. The thing was, I loved him, so it really didn't matter to me if he was any of those things." She closed her eyes briefly. "I was really frustrated with my best friend. I felt like she was trying to destroy my relationship with him—that she didn't want me to be happy."
"Maybe she was concerned about you for a rather good purpose." Lyra exclaimed, furrowing her eyebrows in a curious matter. "Was there anything that Paul has done abnormally?"
Her eyes opened; another thought occurred into her mind and she shook it away, "No," she lied.
Another wave of silence filled into the air.
"Anyway, I'm really tired so, we'll chat in a few," purposely changing the subject, Dawn chuckled lightly and closed her eyes shut again. "Night!"
Lyra had said nothing, and just stared at her blue headed friend curiously. It was obvious that Dawn wasn't telling her the full truth, but since it was her past life, it really shouldn't matter now. With that said, Lyra just sighed and crashed her head down onto her pillow, staring at nothing but the colored walls enclosed around the room.
Author's Note: Nothing very interesting happened in this chapter, but I must say that Paul will not appear in a few chapters, until later on. (: don't worry, he'll soon be in the picture again, so please have patience. More chapters would include the bond between Dawn and Lucas, and etc etc. Can't give out too much away. (: Haha review.
