Collided
Chapter 36:
"So Lena why did you go to Juvy?" Joey says with both hands behind his head. The rest of my friends stood in place waiting for an answer. I froze where I stood. This is the conversation I hoped I would never have. I turned around to look at them.
"It was nothing..." I started. "Have you ever wondered why I only had 2 friends in Vancouver?" I said looking at the ground.
"I used to have more..." I looked up at them.
"It started when this girl was saying rumors about me and at first I didn't really care. She would bug me every day saying stuff like oh you're so ugly and you're so stupid and stuff like that." I started to feel tears but I held them back. I looked at Seth who's face softened. I was going to tell him I just didn't want him to find out this way.
"Most of the time Erick and Maggie would tell her off and she would back off. After a while the rumors got worse. She said stuff like I was sleeping around with guys and I was a slut and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to stop." I couldn't hold the tears back any longer.
"Everyone believed her... People stopped talking to me and soon enough I had only Erick and Maggie left." I looked at the ground again.
"She wouldn't stop bugging me and one day in the girls bathroom I was washing my hands when she walked in and started bugging me saying I wasn't pretty enough and that I was a whore and I had enough... When I was younger my mom signed me up for boxing cause she thought it would help me control my anger it did a bit I guess but the problem was I would lash out if I didn't train for a certain amount of days a week... Anyways I was in the bathroom and she was harassing me so I hit her. All I remember was all the blood on me and on the ground. Only problem was I couldn't stop hitting her I was so angry that by the end of it she was knocked unconscious and was in a coma for 4 days and had to get surgery to fix her face." I looked up to see Joey and Caleb's jaw dropped and Izzy just staring and Seth face still was soft. I could tell he knew how much pain I was in.
"They sentenced me to juvy for 3 weeks but I got out early and yea.." I said wiping my tears. I didn't want Seth to know about this.
"To this day I still don't know why she bugged me." I finally finished. I was scared now that Seth would think I'm a bad person and that he would reject me and would be disgusted with me. Caleb was the first one to hug me.
"It's ok don't worry we all have our stories that make us regret things... Or make us feel like we're bad people... But that's life we are going to have hard times and you will do stupid stuff in the moment but all you gotta do is learn from it." That was probably the deepest thing I have ever heard Caleb Daniels' ever say. I looked up at Seth and walked over to him. He gave me a hug and I hugged back tighter.
"My girlfriend is such a bad ass!" He said high fiving Joey. They both laughed. I was not expecting that.
"You don't think it makes me a bad person or that you're disgusted with me?" I asked smiling.
"No I actually think it's kinda hot that you can beat up someone that bad." He said and we both laughed.
"Lena your still perfect to me. You'll always be perfect to me." He said right before kissing me. I smiled in the middle of the kiss.
"Awww!" All my friends said. "Let's get out of here!" Izzy said walking towards the bus stop.