Charity dressed and walked out of her room. Nadia was passed out on the sofa. She walked out of the trailer clinging tightly to her messenger bag and crept out.
She walked out of the trailer park and to Arcadia High.
"Charity!"
She looked up and saw Luke running toward her. She turned away from him and walked away quickly but he touched her arm. "Hey," he replied.
"Oh, hi," she said. She turned her head. She had ran out of the trailer before she could cover up her new bruise.
"Kevin told us about what he saw you doing," he replied. He couldn't come out and say that Kevin saw her cutting herself. Personally, he didn't want to believe his brother but he had seen the blade and the blood with his own eyes.
"Yeah?" Charity asked.
"Yeah," he replied.
She turned and looked at him. "So?" Her face was completely exposed to him.
He stared at the bruise and he reached out. "Who did that?"
She spun around. "No one," she replied. She took off toward the school at a run. Luke slumped back where he was standing. He decided to go to the office and say he was sick and his mom would take him home. It wouldn't entirely be a lie, he felt like he was going to puke right there in front of almost the entire school.