No One Cared

She just sort of wandered from class to class all day, sleeping in some, only half paying attention in others. She was too preoccupied with the thought of going home to her mother.

"Hey, where's your lunch?" Layla asked as she brought Ebony out of an unpleasant thought of her mom's next hangover.

"Lunch? oh...I'm too fat..." She spoke out of brain-washed habit from hearing her mom yell it at her.

"Well even with that jacket on I'd say your too thin." Will said smiling as they herded her towards their table, but even as she tried to turn and escape she found herself slam into a body that smelled strongly of...

Burning wood...

There was fire everywhere, she hurt so bad as she screamed and tried to escape the flames that billowed from her body. But then HE had come, HE had tamed the flames and taken them inside himself as he picked her up and hugged her as she cried...

He smelled like burning wood...

Ebony fell to her knees, eyes not fully seeing anything as she grabbed her stomach and hit the ground curled into a ball as darkness covered her.

"Wake up. Hey Scary Girl, up." Warren said shaking her and even as she opened her eyes to see him she felt it deep inside her. She ran towards the bathroom suddenly wide awake and as she collapsed coughing up blood into the toilet she heard Layla walk in.

Wiping her mouth quickly as she stepped out and leaned on the counter. An angry girl with hacked up black hair stared back, her flawed eyes filled with hate.

"Hey, Ebony are you ok?" Layla asked quietly before she slammed her fist to the counter and shouted. 'I'm fine! I know I'm fine! I...I'm sorry..."

"It's ok lets go, first days a half day. I bet you can't wait to get home." Layla said cheerily as Ebony sighed and walked beside her. She could only assume they'd make her hang with them no matter how long it took.

"Mom! Open the door!" Ebony hammered on the screen before, finally having enough, kicked it until it swung open.

"Who said you could come in?" Her mom's voice echoed in her hunger induced haze as she searched for food. She ate a cereal bar as she ran out the door dodging a beer bottle thrown by her drunken mother as the baby in her mom's arms screaming.

She wandered down the street and soon found herself in the dumpster of the paper lantern once more, laying on the trash bags tiredly as another fell from above.

"Hell!" she yelled as she shoved it off her and soon saw a face appear. It was Warren Peace, his hair pulled back as he wore a tank top.

"Why are you in there?"

"Why do YOU care?"

"Why don't you just come inside if your worried about the rain?" He looked at her with an amused sound in his voice.

"I don't feel like moving." She yelled at him as she rolled over and curled into a ball.

He shrugged and walked back inside.

Leaving Ebony alone as the rain started the fall, and in the silence, in the dark, Ebony started to cry, tears of red blood rolled down her face, but no one saw, no one heard.

No one cared.

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