Chapter 2- The Party
After school, Simon drove Ruthie home and again no one was home. The living room was so dark, she was almost nervous to walk in there. She turned to Simon, who was smirking. She turned on the light and everyone jumped out, Mom, Dad, Matt, Sarah, Mary, Robbie, Lucy, Kevin, Ben and Sam and David.
"Happy Birthday Ruthie" everyone shouted. Ruthie forgot it was even her birthday. Wow, she thought. For presents she got some clothes from people, CDs, make-up and her mom and dad got her a dress for her grade 8 graduation this year. "wow, it's so pretty" Ruthie said. "Go Ahead, try it on" everyone said. "uh.. No thanks not now" Ruthie said and ran up to her room. "I'll go" Annie said. Ruthie was sitting on her bed when Annie came in. "honey, if you don't like it, we can take it back, it's okay." Ruthie looked at her "No, I jus, I just don't wanna try it on right now, with everyone here, maybe later, maybe" Ruthie said. "Ok, well at least come back to the party" Annie replied. "No thanks, I'm tired, I think I'll just take a bath and then go to bed" Ruthie said, Annie nodded and left. Ruthie realised she could no longer cut her wrist, at least not now, since she had to eventually wear the dress. It actually was a nice dress. Baby blue with spaghetti straps, and long so it covered all her legs. Legs, Ruthie thought, I can cut my legs. She took a quick bath then lay in bed. She smirked to herself for a while and then fell asleep.
When she awoke the next morning, she looked at the calender and realised it was Friday. Yes, almost the weekend. Everyone was still at the house, they weren't going home till Sunday. Mary drove her to school, since she was there and wanted to spend some time with Ruthie. "Why didn't you want to try on the dress, kiddo?" Mary asked in the car. "oh, no reason really, I was just tired" Ruthie said, this was getting harder to cover up she thought tp herself.
At school, the same things as usual happened, all the "cool" kids teased her, she wrote some poems and this time in the washroom, she cut the top of her leg. She couldn't wait to go home, she hated school, no more school for 2 days, she couldn't help but smile.
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