"Uhhh…." I was honestly speechless. It was Amber. She smiled at me when I mentioned my love for scary movies. Her smile made me get a few butterflies in my stomach.

"Do you want to go first?" She politely asked as we stood around, staring into each other's eyes as others got on with introductions. "Oh...yeah sure!" I got into my happy attitude, and I said everything on my poster in a robot voice "My name is Nicole, I like ramen, I love watching YouTube in my free time, I like Moana, my favorite subject is art." My robot voice got her to let out a laugh

YESSS IT'S WORKING!

Amber messed with her hair when it was her turn to present. I listened and stared at her face, taking it all in.

"She's beautiful." I thought to myself.

"My name is Amber Fabiana, I like ANY kind food, I like to watch The Walking Dead in my free time, My favorite movie issss…...any kind! My favorite subject is art."

She's funny too…

"Have you seen The Walking Dead before?" She asked me.

"No, I always wanted to though." I responded, trying to continue the conversation with her.

"Hmm...Do you have Netflix?" She asked another question.

"Nope." I replied politely, Amber smiled back at me and told me,

"You should watch it sometime, it's really good!" She told me, making me smile a little.

"I'll look it up when I get home then!" I replied to Amber, making her smile.

"Alright guys, rotate to your next partner!" Me and Amber looked at each other and frowned, we wanted to talk a bit more, but Amber had to move so she smiled and waved to me "Byeee!"

I waved back as I moved on to the next person. Today was a good day….

"YEAH! I GOT TO TALK TO AMBER TODAY, WOOOOO!" I screamed in my mind, I smiled to myself, she's so polite, funny, and a rebel! Awesome!

The day continued like a normal day, I made new friends in Art class, the whole day I thought about Amber's smile. I loved it.

Weeks went by, me and Amber started becoming more friendly with each other, more closer, we added each other on snapchat and I would send her some funny snaps. It was perfect until….

I was betrayed.

"Oof!" I felt myself fall backwards after I was shoved by my best friend, Brooklyn

"Haha!" Ryancie, Ashtyn, Brooklyn and Mahina laughed as I was nearly shoved to the ground by Brooklyn's shove.

I brushed my hair out of my face, dusted myself off and walked back to the group. Acting like nothing had happened, but Ryancie and Ashtyn backed up and I Brooklyn pushed me away

"Stay away from us, creep!" Ryancie laughed at me, I came onto the cement walkway towards them, Brooklyn took off her flip flops and began throwing them at me, both missing. "Wanna fight? huh?!" Brooklyn yelled at me, drawing attention to us, I felt tears well up in my eyes, I wanted to run away, I wanted to tell someone, I wanted help.

Why does this always happen to me? Why am I always the one getting picked on….? Please help me….someone…

The bell rang, and Brooklyn went on, leaving me in a mess.

I went to class and did my studies, I was so mad at them, why did I have friends like them?

Oh that's right...no one wants to hang out with me…No one knows, why am I having to live like this, I always help others, but I get hurt in the end! No one knows….what goes on behind my smile.

I buried my face in my work, hoping the day would be over, so I could go home and cry into my pillow.

When I got home I decided to take a snapchat, about what was happening to me, I sent it to Eleiah, Reyna, Logan, Aprilyn, Ma'alea, Amber, Keanna, Jaydin, Natalie, Nikki, and a lot more. I sent my snap to 14 people in total. I took a shower to freshen up and I got a snapchat when I got out of the shower and put some clothes on.

*Snapchat from: Amber Fabiana*

I looked at the little notification on my screen, then opened my phone to open snapchat to see what she sent me.

"Hun, don't put yourself through this, if they treat you like this they aren't good friends, don't let them do that to you."

I stared at those words, taking it in, she was right, I was like an open door, letting all the abuse come in and I don't do anything about it.

I took a black screen photo and put a caption "Its hard to leave them, no one else but them will even notice me, I don't have anyone to be friends with."

Delivered to Amber Fabiana

I turned my phone over and stared at the ceiling, getting reminded of what happened today. Awful….I'm such an idiot…

*Snapchat from: Amber Fabiana*

I quickly open snapchat to read what she sent me "True friends wouldn't hurt eachother, if they do that to you it's not friendship, you need to stand up to them for all this trouble they are causing you."

I smiled.

"She's so amazing."

I had sent another snapchat.

"Thank you, I would honestly be lost without your advice. Can I hang out with you? I want to avoid them as much as possible."

Delivered to Amber Fabiana

*Snapchat from: Amber Fabiana*

"Uh, yes of course you can, but I can't say i'll fully hang with you because I have my own problems but yeah." She sent a smiling emoji at the end.

"Friends help each other right? Let me help you :)"

Delivered to Amber Fabiana

*Snapchat from: Amber Fabiana*

"Nah, don't worry about me, I can handle it."

With that, she made me feel reassured, it was crazy what she was capable of, she made me feel safe. I loved it….