Chapter 4:*Alex's Point of View*
I felt someone shaking me, I'm guessing my father had gotten tired of hitting me and went to bed because when I woke up, it was Max who was waking me up. After about ten minutes of Max saying, "Alex wake up." I got out of the bed. I felt dizzy as soon as my feet touched the ground. I stumbled around my room for a few minutes till I started to gain some balance. I turned on my light and I couldn't stand it so I turned my light off. My head was throbbing.
"Ugh, Max what time is it?" I said as I walked downstairs to my kitchen to grab myself an Advil and a bottle of water.
"About six in the morning. I woke up and thought I would com and check on you, just to see if you were okay." Max said as he followed me into the kitchen.
"Thanks, Max. So how much damage did he do this time?" I asked as I got into our medicine cabinet. And then walking over to the refrigerator to get a bottle of water.
"Well do you really want to know?" Max asked me. Oh, God this can't be good. I thought as I walked into our downstairs bathroom and looked in the mirror. I had a huge bruise right by my mouth and my lip was busted.
I did that thing where you sound shocked and I just stared at my reflection for a while before walking out of the bathroom and over towards where Max was sitting. "I can't go to school with this huge bruise on my face. Oh, God, people are going to ask about this. Oh, great Nate is going to ask me about this in class. He is already suspicious of things happening to me this is just going to add to it." I said as my mind started to wonder to other people that will be asking about all of this. Well Mitchie already knows what my father does to me. Oh, great Sharpay will ask me about it, even though she is popular she still worries about me. Then Hannah will make fun of me for it, and so will Tess. I mean they both already hate me. Well Hannah does more than Tess. Tess hate Mitchie way more than she hates me. Ugh, today is gonna suck so badly. I thought as I started passing around the room. "Max do you think you can just make yourself a bowl of cereal instead of my cooking for you. I have to go figure out if I can cover all of this with some make-up."
"Okay, Alex. But you know I can cook for myself you don't have to worry about cooking for me." Max told me as I started back up to my room.
"Its not that, its just I don't want you to burn the house down." I said as I walked to the top of the stairs and into my room. I walked over to my vanity that I always keep all my make up on and I tried to use my make-up to cover up my huge bruise. It didn't really work that well since you could still see it. "This is so great." I said to myself before I got ready for school and walked by downstairs to where Max was. He had already gotten ready for school and everything so when we were both done eating we could go ahead and go to school.
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We walked into the school at about 7:30. And our classes didn't start till 8:05. So we basically just talked to people till our classes started. Max walked off to where his seventh grade friends were all hanging out. And I walked over to Mitchie who was surprisingly talking to Shane.
"Hey Mitchie." I said as I walked over to her.
"Hey Alex." Mitchie said then she looked at my face. "Oh. My. What happened to you after we got off the phone?" Mitchie asked sounding worried.
"I'll tell you in a little while after the you know what goes you know where." I said pointing my head towards Shane.
"Oh. Okay." Mitchie said getting what I was referring to. "So Shane I'll talk to you in World History. Alex and I have some personally things we have to talk about. So we will talk about the project later okay?"
"Okay. I have to go talk to Tess anyways." Shane said walking over to Tess who was with Hannah and Nate.
"Okay. So did your dad do this to you after we got off the phone last nigh?" Mitchie asked sounding worried.
"Yes like about two minutes after I hung up the phone. I am really hating my father lately. He just tries to make my life a living hell everyday." I said sighing and walking with Mitchie to our lockers.
"Aww. I feel so sorry for you. You know that if your father would let you, you could move in with me and my family. My parents love you and then they adore Max." Mitchie said as we got into our lockers.
"I know you told me before but you know as well as I do that my father would never ever let me actually be happy and we would never actually let me live with you or anyone but him. He also would never want Max to leave. He hated it when Justin left. He would kill someone before letting his precious Max go." I said rolling my eyes when I said 'his precious Max'. I had always hated the fact that my father had always liked my brothers more than he did me. It was really stupid of him to pick his favorites.
"Yeah thats true. He is so weird. Normally, the fathers favorite is his daughter. I mean all those girls who are daddies girls. You are kind of the opposite. Like, Hannah for instance, is the biggest daddies girl I have ever seen. He father gives her everything she wants." Mitchie said. She had a point. Hannah had always had everything she ever wanted and that was because her father would do anything to keep her happy. That's how it worked in her perfect life.
"She is. But that's because she has the perfect life. She gets everything she wants while the rest of us have to suffer. I mean take my life for example compared to hers. Her father would never in a million years hit her. And her mother never has to work all night. Her life is just so perfect she would never have to go through the crap I have to go through." I said as I was in my locker looking in the mirror trying to figure out a way to cover up the bruise. I had no way of fixing my busted lip.
We had been talking for about twenty minutes because we heard the bell that meant that there was only fifteen minutes left till class started. So we actually got our books out of our lockers and then tried to leave before Sharpay went to get into her locker which was right beside ours. We didn't leave in time because she came over and started to talk to us.
"Hey, Alex. Hey, Mitchie." Sharpay said as she got into her locker.
"Hey, Sharpay." Mitchie and I said in unison.
"So what is new with you girls? Have you fallen downstairs anymore, Alex?" Sharpay asked as she got into her locker which was covered in pink.
"Well, yeah, I have. You know me I'm so clumsy." I said turning around to look at her.
"Oh, my!" Sharpay said when she saw my face. "How the heck did you do that by falling?" Sharpay asked being super worried.
"Well, I fell up the stairs and hit my face on the side of a step." I said lying. I would never actually tell her the truth. She is to close of friends with the she-devil herself. Plus, I don't really trust anyone that is close friends with Hannah and Tess. I mean Sharpay is kind of the opposite of them but she hangs up with them because of Jason. And Jason only hangs out with them because of Nate and Shane.
"How the? Okay so I'm just going to stop asking questions about this because I will never understand how you can fall up the stairs and do that to your face." Sharpay said turning back to her locker.
"Well Sharpay, we are going to head off the close so we will see you later." Mitchie said as we walked to class together. "Wow. I don't get why people are so nosy around here. I mean if you have a mysterious bruise on your face its really none of their business." Mitchie said as we walked into class and I just looked at her. "Okay, so its normal for people to ask but it gets kind of annoying."
"Tell me about it. You aren't the one that has to answer the question about a billion times a day." I said as I walked over to Mitchie's seat with her. " I so wish that my seat wasn't by Nate. I know for a fact that today he will be asking me so many questions and pretty soon, I won't have that many more lies left in me. I'll have to tell him the truth sooner or later." I said looking over at Nate who was sitting at his assigned seat.
"I know that so sucks. But you need to tell some other people than me the truth. Maybe some other people can help you with all of this. I mean maybe they can try to help you get out of this whole mess that you are in." Mitchie said giving me a good point to think about. I do need to try to get some help because pretty soon it will be too late for me to tell anyone.
"You are right. I will need to tell someone. But when that day comes I'll tell someone. But not right now. I don't need everyone in this whole school talking about me. I like being the nobody that I am. I'll talk to you after class." I said before walking over to my seat.
I put all my stuff down and sat with my face away from Nate so he wouldn't see.
"Shane already told me about your face. How did that actually happen?" Nate said as I gave sigh and turned towards him.
"I fell up the stairs last night. I am very clumsy. I do this kind of stuff all the time." I told him. I kinda felt bad for lying to him because I knew that he was only trying to help me but right now I didn't really need his help. I needed him to stop trying to help me so much.
"Yeah, like I'll believe that. I have pushed Shane up the stairs before and nothing like this happened to him." Nate told me looking at me. "Who would actually believe something like that?"
"Sharpay." I said turning away from him.
"Of course. My brother could have dated a smarter girl but no he had to date the pretty blond." Nate said shaking him head. "You know as well as I do that Sharpay will believe anything you say. You could say you are an alien and she would believe it. You could tell her that I am a Jonas Brother and she would ask me for an autograph.(a/n: Sorry I just couldn't help it. I always put stupid things when I am trying to make a person seem dumb)" Nate told me and I giggled a little bit. If you look at him in the right light he could actually pass for Nick Jonas.
"Well, yeah, your right. But can we just drop the whole subject on how I got this bruise and busted lip. I don't really feel like talking about it. And I don't really want people to worry about me. Just pretend I'm invisible like you did two weeks ago. Just go back to ignoring me like you have always done. Just forget that I exist. It will be better for the both of us if you do." I told him as I pulled out a notebook and started doodling in it.
"I'm not going to. It was wrong of me to ignore you for our whole lives. And plus, I have a feeling that there is something wrong. That there is something that you don't really want people to know." Nate said looking at me.
"Yeah, there called secrets. I have a ton of them that you will never know. That no one but Mitchie will ever know and some that Mitchie will never know. I don't like people knowing everything about me. Cause when they know they always use it against me." I said just waiting for our teacher to come in and start the lecture.
"Whatever. I'm just trying to help you out. Since it seems that you might actually need some help." Nate said getting a little annoyed with me.
I was never so happy when class started. But the happiness slowly faded.
"Okay, class. I am going to assign you partners for your projects. Okay so the person. I will be assigning all of your partners in class today so pay attention for your name." our teacher Mrs. Johnson said to us.
Great this is just perfect. Since, everything is going to be bad today most likely she is going to make Nate and I partners. Thats how its going to go. Ugh, I am so going to start hating this class. I thought as I listened for my name.
"Okay, so first is, Mitchie Torres and Shane Gray. Okay so you will also being sitting with your partner for the rest of the year so Shane, Mitchie go sit in the back where Mary and Joey are sitting." Mrs. Johnson said. I best Mitchie is ecstatic. This is the second class the they are partners. "Okay, so Hannah Montana and Tess Tyler, you two will be partners."
"Aww. But I wanted to be partners with my Natey." Hannah said in her annoying whiny voice.
"And I wanted to be with my Shaney." Tess said in the same tone that Hannah was using.
"Well, get over it. You two are partner and you can't switch okay. So go sit in the seats in the middle of the room." Mrs. Johnson said to them. I now remember why this is one of favorite classes. Mrs. Johnson hates Tess and Hannah as much as I do. I love you, Mrs. Johnson. I thought as a smile crept across my face.
"Ugh, fine." Hannah said as she grabbed her stuff and moved to the seats in the middle of the room.
"Okay, so Alex Russo and Nate Gray, you two are partners. You two can just stay where you are sitting." Mrs. Johnson said as she continued down the list of students. I knew that we were going to be partners so it didn't really surprise me that much that she had put us together.
"Wow. I didn't see us being partners." Nate said kind of shocked that we were partners.
"I'm did." I told him continuing to draw on my notebook.
"How did you figure out that we were going to be partners for this whole thing?" Nate asked.
"Well, since everything in my life has been sucking lately and the one thing I really wanted was to not be your partner, I figured that I would be your partner since I never get the things I wanted." I told him.
"Why don't you like being around me?" Nate asked me, just looking at me.
"Because, I just don't. I'm not really used to people caring about me, except for Mitchie and my little brother Max. I'm just used to people like you just walking by me and ignoring me. And I like it like that." I told him as I heard the bell ring. "I'll see you in biology." I said walking out of the door. I knew that he was going to follow me all the way to my locker. I knew he wasn't done talking to me.
"Why do you not want people to care about you?" Nate asked me kind of sounding caring.
"Because I know that everyone that cares about me will someday leave me. I know that when we graduate Mitchie will leave me. I know that when Max grows up he will leave. Though I will most likely leave before him. Justin already left me. And I am pretty sure my mother is going to leave pretty soon." I said not meaning to say that last part.
"What do you mean, your pretty sure your mom is going to leave you soon?" Nate asked looking at me with concern in his eyes.
"I mean, that my mother is most likely going to be leaving my father soon. You know a divorce. Only she is going to leave Max and I with him. Even though we both want to go with her. Or to live with Justin. But I know that she is going to leave soon." I said sighing while I got into my locker.
"I feel so sorry for you. I didn't know you were going through that kind of stuff. I mean, I had no idea what you were going through but I didn't know it was that bad." Nate said to me sounding shocked.
"Yeah, and that isn't the half of it." I said closing my locker and walking away.
Hi, guys. Sorry this wasn't out earlier but I was kind of busy all day but its out now. This is actually the longest chapter I have put out so far. So please enjoy and PLEASE REVIEW. I would like a few more that i get. I mean on chapter 3 i have only gotten 1 so far. So please review on this.