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Chapter 9- School
Ruthie woke up at 7a.m and went to stairs, still tired and dreading the thought of going to school. She remembered when she was happy about going to school, that seemed like a dream now.
Simon came down the stairs, all dressed and sat down beside her. "Hey Ruthie, are you reading for your first day back?" He asked.
"No" She answered, plainly.
Simon nodded and Ruthie went upstairs to get dressed and ready for school. She entered her room, took off her pajamas and looked at her leg. It was a deep, dark red and fairly long. She smirked to herself. She got dressed in a pair of jeans and a new blue T-shirt. She went in to the bathroom and while she was brushing her hair, noticed the large scars on her wrist from when she tried to kill herself. She deicided to throw on a sweater, so she ran in to her room, grabbed one and finished getting ready. She went downstairs where Simon was waiting.
"Ready?" He asked
Ruthie nodded, and they went in to his car. Neither of them talked the whole way their. Ruthie suddenly remembered what Robbie said, she'd forgotten all about it. He used to cut too, but not anymore. He'd had therapy. Ruthie's so called "therapy" was just making her feel worse.
They arrived at school and Ruthie got out. Everyone avoided Ruthie in the yard, no one said anything mean to her, no one said anything at all to her. Inside the school, in her classes the teachers were being so nice, they were treating like really fragile glass, and just one wrong thing, she'd break. The day was going awful. Nothing was how it was supposed to be and even though no one was teasing her, she hated it more then she hated it before. She couldn't wait to leave
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Finally, school was over, yet Ruthie still wasn't happy. She would have to go see Chandler, again. She was so afraid. Simon was going to take her there, and pick her up after. When Ruthie got into the car, Simon noticed she looked very scared, maybe someone threatened to hurt her or something. He never suspected she was afraid of Chandler.
"what's wrong Ruthie? Are you ok? Did something happen at school?" Simon asked
"I'm fine, nothings wrong, no nothing happened at school" Ruthie answered.
Simon knew that something was up but he didn't want to pry at her. Ruthie desperately needed to tell someone. She could see the church up ahead. She was so scared.
"Simon?"
"Yeah?"
"Never mind" she said. She couldn't tell, he wouldn't believe her. The car stopped, she got out and Simon drove away, still wondered what was bothering her and desperately wondered what she was going to say.