I walked down to the cafeteria trying to ignore the stares from the others students. I made it there with a few minutes to eat and talk with my new friends. I got my food and sat at the table next Jeremie and across from Aelita. "Good morning." Aelita greeted me with a smile. I smiled back and looked down at my tray. You need to eat. You barely ate last night, you need to start eating. I picked up my plastic fork and started picking up pieces of egg off of my plate. I put the pieces in my mouth and chewed them quietly. After the egg was cleared off of my plate I picked at the croissant. Odd and Jeremie who were in a heated argument about a video game of some sort. "I told you Odd, I can't just make a program on such short notice! It'll take a while." Jeremie said pushing his up glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Come on Einstein! You can do it! You just need some motivation!" Odd said pleadingly. Jeremie rolled his and looked toward and Aelita and I who were giggling. We broke into a fit of laughter and so did the others when they noticed. Jeremie had gotten a piece of butter from his croissant smeared on the frame of his glasses. He glared at us,
"What?!" He asked exasperated. Aelita took his glasses off of his face and showed him, still laughing in the process. "Oh."
He said taking them and wiping them off. The laughter died down and everything was silent."You guys want to go into town today?"
Ulrich asked. We all agreed to go and headed to the door. We discarded our trays at the door and walked to the gate leading to the outside world. We decided to go to the movies we were torn between a horror movie and a kids movie. Due to Aelita and Odds insistent begging we watched the kids movie, Frozen, was the title. We watched the movie without complaining, and at the end we were all happy to see Hans get punched in the face by Anna, especially Aelita, Yumi, and I. We walked out of the theater smiling and laughing. When everyone calmed down a bit we decided to go to a nearby park and lounge around. We sat in the grass in a little circle. Everyone was quiet, Aelita kept looking at me then at my arms, which were covered by the sleeves of my hoodie. She whispered something to Odd who nodded and looked at me, then whispered to Ulrich. He nodded and they both got up and walked passed me. I shrugged it off and looked around at the surrounding field area. Odd suddenly tackled me from behind. I fell in a heap dazed and confused. I felt him pin me to the ground and Ulrich pulled my jacket off, trying not to hurt me. He got it from me and Odd got off. I stood up and attempted to grab my jacket. "No Jade." Aelita said walking up behind me. She put a hand on my shoulder and I turned to face her. The others gathered around me. She took me hands turned my arms so they could see my scars. "...Jade..."
I heard whisper. I felt tears spring into my eyes. "Jade, why do you do this to yourself?" Yumi asked standing next to Aelita. I fell to my knees and started crying. Aelita released my hands and helped me up. She steadied me and I looked at her my eyes were puffy and tears stained my face. Odd wiped my eyes for me and pulled me into a hug, soon everyone joined in creating a group hug. I grabbed Odds shirt and started to cry again. I felt the others let go and Odd rubbed my back soothingly. Eventually they got me to stop crying and I sat on the grass and Ulrich and Jeremie helped me put my jacket back on. "Jade, we want you to stop. Were not suggesting it, were demanding it. We don't like seeing you like this."
Ulrich said. standing next Yumi. "It hurts all of us to see you like this- it hurts to see anybody like this." Yumi shuddered and helped me up. I looked at my friends and they pulled me into another hug. "Thanks you, so much." I said barely above a whispered. We got some ice cream then headed back to Kadic. We headed to my room and they took anything I could use to cut myself and decided to ask Principal Delmas if Aelita and I could start sharing a dorm. "We think it would be good for you, Jade." Jeremie said reassuringly. They explained my situation to and he agreed and signed me up for appointments with the counselor.
The group and I sat and mine and Aelitas room. Jeremie and Aelita were at her computer doing something weird and Yumi,Ulrich, Odd, and I sat on the beds. "Jade, I we also signed you up for Pencak Silat." Yumi said while sitting next to Ulrich on Aelitas bed. I looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "It'll help you get your anger out." I sighed heavily. "Oh, and Odd is going to take it too. Hes wanted to for a while actually." Ulrich added. Odd was too bust sitting at the foot of my bed playing a game on his Nintendo DS. "Huh?" He said not bothering to look up. I shook my head and laughed at his carelessness. I pushed him off of the bed with my foot, he fell but didn't stop playing his game. "No!" He cried out after a few seconds of playing on the floor. I perked his head up at me from behind the bed. "You made me lose." He said narrowing his eyes at me. I laughed again and I could see him smile slightly. "Knock it off Odd." Ulrich said. He shrugged and went back to his game. "Anna, what are your favorite colors?" Aelita asked nonchalantly. "Purple and black." I replied looking over towards where she and Jeremie were standing around at Aelitas laptop. "Just wondering." She said flashing me a smile.