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I waited for Edward and Alphonse to come pick me up for homecoming. My parents didn't say anything. Not even. "I hope you have fun." Nothing. The door bell rang. Thank god they were here! Edward blushed when he seen me.
"You look, um nice" He said.
"Thank you"I said. I'm not beautiful, not even pretty.
We walked to the place where it was being held. Since it was dark outside he couldn't see my bruises and cuts on my arm. Not yet anyways.
Once we neared the place I became nervous. I didn't want them to see. Once we got in the didn't notice until we sat down to the table where we were going to eat dinner.
"What the hell." Edward said.
"Did you dad do that?" Al asked.
"Ye-yes" I said.
"You gotta tell someone then" Al said.
"No, I can't if he found out he would just beat me more."
"Then maybe, you can stay with us.". Edward said.
"I um well okay I guess so"
I had my arms under the table so they wouldn't notice my cuts. But it was time to eat. Edward had gotten my food for me so I didn't have to get up. I stared at it.
"What are you waiting for?" Edward asked.
I slowly lifted up my arms and reached for the fork.
"What the hell, I thought you stopped after the hospital!" Edward said.
"I'm sorry." I said.
"Just don't do it anymore, please."
"I'll try." I said
"Come on lets go dance!"
"Dance?"
"Yeah it'll be fun!"
He grabbed my hand and led me to the dance floor. He put his hands around my waist and pulled me closer to him. I rested my head on his shoulder and wrapped my arms around his neck.. I felt so relaxed, like nothing else in the world mattered. But then someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around. It was Derek and a bunch of his friends.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
I didn't say anything.
"Who would want to dance with you, let alone be around you."
His friends laughed.
"Go to hell" Edward said.
"Excuse me?" Derek said.
"You heard me."
"You shouldn't talk to someone who out ranks you in popularity!"
" I don't care about popularity. And by the way you shouldn't talk to a Major like that"
" Major?"
"Yeah that's right, I'm in the military." He said as he pulled out his pocket watch.
"Please that's fake"
"And where are you gunna get a fake state alchemist pocket watch"
Derek had reached his boiling point and tried the punch Edward in the face but was easily blocked. He beat them all in a matter of seconds.
Danielle was off getting some punch while as this was going on. She got a cup of punch and was going to go sit down when she bumped into some girl, and spilled punch all over her.
"You little bitch!" she said.
"But I didn't mean to"
She slapped her in the face. Some of her friends saw what was going on and broke her away from me. Damn the bitch slaps hard. I thought.
"You guys, look at what she did to my dress" The girl told her friends.
"That little bitch," one of them said.
Another said. "Why are you even here? Nobody likes you, If you died nobody would even notice or care."
Tears started to swell up in my eyes. I ran out of the building.
I keep falling down. I fall, and get up. This is my never-ending cycle. This is the human that I've become. I fall over and over and over again. And it hurts. Every single time.
I heard Edward call my name and he started running after me. I didn't want him to see me like this. I ran faster, soon I was out of his sight. I ran for as long as I could, I got tired out and went to a nearby park and sat by a pond. I sat there crying. The tears dripped down my face. I was so pathetic. Crying over something someone had said. But I just want to fit in. Belong. Why does everyone hate me?
"There you are" Edward said from behind me. He sat next to me on the ground. He took my arms and pulled me up onto his lap. "Your going to get your dress dirty if you sit on the ground." He said. I wrapped my arms around him and gently sobbed into his shoulder. He took his hand and lifted my chin up and softly kissed me. I kissed back. We kissed for minute but to me it felt like forever. His kisses where so gentle but loving. After we broke away, I leaned my head back down on his shoulder, and he held me for a long time. "I love you" He whispered in my ear. "I love you too." I said.
He took his hand and placed it on my left arm, He traced his fingers over my cuts. "Why do you do this?" He asked.
"A lot of reasons, I want someone to be afraid of losing me." I said
" I don't want to lose you."
"And people. People are so cruel. People are going to disappoint you, I get that, I kind of expect that, but I don't know. What if you wake up one day and realize you're the disappointment?"
He wrapped his arms around me again and said. "I won't disappoint you, I promise."
"Thank you"
"So, um do you wanna stay at my house for awhile?"
"Yeah."
"Alright then lets go." He picked me up and carried my all the way to his house. I was happy. I was truly happy.