Aqua543: Please forgive me, second chapter that i've updated in one day, to make up for keeping u waiting. lol sorry.
You see potential in all my flaws And that's exactly what I mean
"I swear, the rest of my weekend was horrible," Alexis told me as she walked with me to second period. It's Tuesday again and Alexis and I have only gotten closer to each other. We know each others secrets, what makes us feel down, and that we can trust in each other, she's like a sister to me.
Even if the doubts are still in me, still thinking that Jacob might like Alexis, but it's clear: Alexis isn't into Jacob. And when I mean isn't I mean, in her own words, "Would rather drown myself than actually be interested into someone so irritating like him." It was a breather for me, after she left on Saturday, Jacob called me and we had a long talk about little, silly things.
"Why? What happened?" I asked her, getting back to the topic before I completely forget what she's talking about. I cross my arms against my chest as I breathe in and out, I soon see my breathe coming out, and is distracted by it as Alexis tells me.
"Because I heard that my cousins are coming to live with me and my obese family."
I laughed as I shake my head and look over to her and say, "That's not nice, your family is not obese." She looks over to me with a face, "What?" I finally say as her face can't help by make me smile.
"Nothing, Renesmee." She says as she looks away from me.
"Tell my Lexi!" I laugh.
"Okay. You see, technically our family, if you put us all together, we make up an obese person. And if they come over, it's going to be even bigger, plus they're large, and annoying, and I just can't stand her!"
"Stand who?" I ask.
She looks over to me, and then looks down on the floor as we kept on walking. I didn't answer, instead I switch over to another subject that of course she is going to love: Music.
It sparks interest and she begins to blame about this subject until we came through the door and smiled at our teacher and made our ways to our seats.
The next couple of minutes of class is just boring, the teacher is going over a lesson that I know front to back and side to side. I look over to Alexis and I see her yawning as she tries to focus on the teacher.
I look outside the window to see if there is anything going on outside, nothing, just the occasionally rain and clouds. It reminds me of Jacob, I held the bracelet he gave me, I smiled as he told me that he liked me. My heart began to dance when I thought of his amazing smile and warmth.
I turn back to the board as the teacher keeps on boring the rest of her class, ignoring that two third of the students have fallen asleep. While the rest of us, try to pay attention, or just in cloud nine.
The clock from the bell ticks by so slowly, as I just begin to draw random things on my folder. I bite my lip as the clock began to tick so slowly, only four minutes are left in the class.
I look over to Alexis and I see that she had fallen asleep, her hoodie to her sweater was up. She opened one of her eyes and looked at me, she mouthed 'what time it is.'
I look up at the clock, I said one minute. She lifts her head up and smooth her blond hair with her gloved hand.
She looks up to the teacher and then around the class and then back to me. She shakes her head and begins to snicker.
"What's so funny?" I whispered.
"Nothing," She tells me, and the bell rings, waking up the students, we get up and walk out of the class and into the busy hallway.
Third period didn't drag, our teacher is actually fun and makes coming to school worth it. She tells us one of her funny stories about her and her family about going to some country.
She then lets us talk for the last five minutes of class and I soon look over to Alexis. We soon talk about last period and how she knocked out once the teacher started talking, no energy what so ever.
"She's like a lullaby to me," She shakes her head and her eyes widen.
"You don't have any will power, Lexi."
"Yes I do, I just don't have power."
The bell rings and we head out and go straight towards lunch. We sit with our families and begin to talk about the weekend, even though it's only Tuesday.
I couldn't help look across the table to see Sharon, Alexis' sister, staring at me while talking to my mother. She stared at me with her blue eyes that seemed unnatural and inhuman. I tried to ignore her, but it wasn't working. Alexis took notice of this and just gave her sister a look, she looked away from me, turning her attention to my mother.
"Hey, can we go to the bathroom." Alexis tells me as she stares at her sister Sharon who pretends she didn't hear her.
"Sure," I reply as I go to get up, but I see that she grabs her stuff. I give her a questioning look.
"By the time we get back, the bell will ring." she tells me.
"Okay." I wave goodbye to my family, and walk off with Alexis. I look from the corner of my eye as I see Sharon frown towards us. Her eyes seemed hostile, scary, and inhuman, I looked forward and just tried to ignore it.
When we went in, Alexis went immediately into a stall, I waited for her and began to check my hair, sweater, necklace and earrings. My long, red hair down my shoulders, and my brown eyes popping out from my pale face.
"You know your beautiful," I jump, I never noticed her there, she was fixing her hair and a frown was on her face, "me, on the other hand, looks hideous."
"Alexis, you are drop dead gorgeous," she shrugs her shoulders and crosses her arms across her chest and looks down, "why would you say that?"
"Because I'm not like my sisters, who are all…"
"Beautiful?" I finish her sentence. She nods and walks away from the mirror, I saw her eyes wet and walked over to her and hug her. "Your just as beautiful as any of them, do you hear my Alexis." She shrugs her shoulders and looks up to me and just wipes her eyes.
"I hate them all." She whispers.
"Why, Lexi?" I ask her.
She looks up to me and takes a deep breath, "I hate them, my cousin, every stupid person in my entire family."
"Why don't you like them?" I asked her.
She looked back at me, "What? Oh, my cousins, we've never gotten along," She tells me as she rolls her eyes, "My cousin, Erika, is my age, and we use to be really cool with each other. We would do anything to set off my sisters, but when she came to visit us where we use to live…she was different."
"You mean that she grew up?"
She shakes her head, "No, like, she didn't look like herself physically or personality wise, she was more of a bitch than the saint she used to be. Sneaking out in the middle of the night, every week a new guy and every week they would disappear without a trace. And whenever I would look at her, she reminded me of Sharon and all of my other sisters and brothers."
I stare at her as she tries to hold back her vulnerability. Refusing to show this side of her to me. But she keeps on pouring out to me. "She even told me that I'm worthless, just a worthless piece of space and just stares at me with a smirk and the she says, 'You won't be in a while' she would finish and just walk away from me."
"Wait, what do you mean she is similar to your sisters?" I asked.
She shook her head, "Not similar, they are identical, it's not even funny. When she passed by, I was scared. I thought Sharon cloned herself to bother me, God I hate her."
She walked away from me and went into a stall, I followed her and knocked on the stall.
I stood in front of it and leaned on it, "Why don't you like Sharon or your family, Lexi?"
"Because, they all treat me…different, I wish my mom was still around." She muses the last part. I felt my heart sink as I knocked on the stall door.
"Come out Lex." I tell her.
She didn't respond, I rested my forehead on the door. "Just go to class, Nessie, I'll be there soon." She told me.
I shook my head, "No, I'll wait for you." I replied.
"Just go to class," Her voice wasn't hers, it wasn't her happy tone, it was, darker more aggressive.
I backed away from the stall and went to go grab my things, "See you next period," I told her, she never answered.
Fourth period. Alexis wasn't here, I looked around the class to see if she was hiding in the corner. The teacher took roll call, she also took notice that she wasn't here, she asked me if I knew where Alexis could be. I shook my head, she can't still be in the bathroom…could she? What if she had another one of those cough attacks. She told me they were normal, that they happened all the time, but that they never happened in school ever again.
Halfway through the class, the door opened and in came Alexis with her hoodie up and bag. She handed the teacher, Mrs. Brown, a white slip. "Are you alright?" She looked up at her with worry. Why was she worried? What happened?
"Yeah, I'm decent." Thick sarcasm in her voice as she stared at her.
"Are you sure, you still look pale. Are you running a fever?" She asked her, Alexis shook her head. I couldn't see her face because of the hoodie, I tried to see if anything had happened.
"Can I just sit down?" She asked her, the tone was monotone. What's wrong with her?
"You sure you don't want anything? Any food, water-"
"No," She retorted, she took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of her nose, "I just want to put my head down, if you don't mind?" she finished.
"If that's what you want. Okay then."
"Thank you."
She walked toward me and sat the desk behind me. I turned my head and saw her staring at me with the same eyes Sharon stared at me. Her eyes were still green, but I noticed that there were small specks of icy blue appearing in them, around the pupil. I noticed that she put heavy eyeliner and made her eyes pop out, and scare me even more. Bags under her eyes that suddenly appeared and they were bruised.
She sighed and put her head down, her eyes traveling down to her nails, long and painted black. She tapped them on her desk.
I turned back towards the class and tried to erase the way she stared at me, but I couldn't. I swallowed hard, waiting for the period to end. I kept on hearing her tap on the desk, making my heart beat even faster. The way she stared at me was similar to how a wolf would stare at a defenseless, vulnerable fawn.
Alexis tapped my shoulder, I turned my head towards her and she whispered in my ear, "You okay?"
I looked back at her, "Yeah, why?"
I searched her eyes and saw that those hostile Sharon eyes where no longer there, only Alexis' eyes. "Because your tense and shaking like a little mouse, what's wrong?"
"Um, have you noticed your eyes lately?" I looked into them, the icy blue specks appearing in her light green eyes. Only this time there's even more of them, mixing in with the beautiful green and eerie blue.
She gave me a confused face, she went into her bag and got her mirror. She stared into it and gasped, she covered her hand over her mouth. I saw the mirror trembling, and her eyes widening, "No…, no, no, no," She repeated as she dropped her mirror on the table. She went through her bag trying to find something, she began wheezing and began to take out stuff. "Where is it? Where is it?"
"Alexis?" Mrs. Brown called to her, I looked over and tried to keep Alexis calm. She didn't stop trembling and saw her face in shock, she got up from the desk and ran out of the class room. She followed her out and let out a scream, I got up and so did the other students, worried and confused. Mrs. Brown came back in the classroom, her face filled with shock and horror, "Call 911! Someone call 911!" She yelled at her students.
One of the girls grabbed her phone out of pocket, while another presses the call button on the wall to call the office. Two of the boys went outside to assist the teacher, as the door opens I hear someone retching. One of the girls come to me and tries to take me away from the door, she was panicking, everyone was. The intercom with the student shouting for help, five girls calling 911 at the same time, some of the students looking through the other door window. Girls screaming as they saw whatever was going on outside.
One of the boys came back in, his hands covered with blood, I fall back hitting myself against the wall. My breathes come quickly, I begin to think the worse, I soon tremble and fall to the ground as I soon scream as I saw from outside someone on the floor vomiting blood with Mrs. Brown calling her name, shaking her, the other boy trying to check her pulse and yelling down the hall for people to get away.
"Alexis!" I heard Aaron yell, he was soon at his sister's side and tried to resuscitate her. Putting his hand on her chest and pressing down on it and yelling at her to stay together, to wake up. But she wasn't, she wasn't waking up. I closed my eyes and hoped that this moment would be over, that my best friend would be alright and live. But I remembered the image of Aaron in the bathroom, his mouth covered in blood and his eyes. That's when I knew, she'd live, that she would be alright.
Another girl appeared behind Aaron and whispered in his ear. He looked at her and soon nodded, she looked at them all and soon closed her eyes, a strange humming sound entered my ears and soon, everything disappeared.
