Then there was the day that I came home with a shiner. Did they care? Nope. They didn't take a second look at me. They barely took a first. My brother? I didn't even know where he was at the time, as always. He seems to never be home. And my parents think he's the perfect son. If they only knew what he was really doing every Friday night when he said he was going to a movie with some friends. yeah right. Lord knows he goes to unsupervised parties every week. And he's was the most amazing son in the world in my parents eyes. They didn't care about my black eye. It didn't faze them.
I was at school with Jade. We were sitting in the Asphalt Cafe, waiting for the others to show up. Sikowitz held them back for a little bit to clean up, we had done a food fight improv today. A big mean looking girl came up to me and Jade. I knew who she was, she was Amy Harris, one of the top bullies of the school. Jade did try to protect me from her, but it didn't work out too well. Apparently, I started some rumor about Amy actually being a boy. I don't remember saying that though. I could've accidentally said it, but I'm almost positive didn't. But I still smiled at her.
Amy came over and lifted me up into standing position. Then she proceeded to lift me at least a foot of the ground. She had me by my shirt and shook me a little. Jade tried to make her drop me, but she only got shoved aside. Poor Jade. Amy made her scrape her elbow. But that didn't stop Jade.
"Put. Her. Down!" she kept yelling.
Amy never did put me down. She looked deep onto me with her menacing eyes. She slowly reeled her fist back. Everyone gathered around but no one stopped her. I could see Tori and the others try to break through the crowd but they couldn't get to me in time. Amy threw her fist at me with full force. It hurt. A lot. I saw stars for a couple of minutes. They were pretty little stars.
When I finally came to Jade, Tori, Beck, Andre, Robbie, and Rex were gathered around me. They were all kneeling and looking sown at me. I was still on the cold cement. Everyone who was in the crowd had disappeared, especially Amy. They all looked down at me with sad eyes. Everyone was so quite. Tori reached down and touched my eye but Jade smacked it away after a few moments.
"Are you ok?" Jade asked me.
"No, my face hurts."
They all laughed at me. I didn't know what to do so I just laughed with them. I rubbed my cheek and Jae helped me off the ground. Tori went through her purse and took out something small, flat, and purple. She handed the little purple object to me. I opened it up and it revealed to be a compact mirror. I looked at my reflection and gasped. There was a huge black spot surrounding my eye.
As my friends walked me out of the school everyone stared at me. Tori and Jade had to support my body to keep me up. If they didn't I surely would've collapsed in a pile of mush and not want to get up. I just wanted to go home, take this stupid smile off my face, and wallow in self-pity.
When I finally got home, guess who didn't care about the huge black spot on my face. Oh, and guess who was "out with his buddies." As I had promised myself in Tori's car, I went up to my room, stopped that stupid smile that covered my face, and wallowed. I wallowed my little heart out.