Jade helped me to my feet and rushed me out the door. I looked behind me, on the floor there was a fairly large puddle of blood. The room was filled with shocked and confused faces. I felt kind of bad for leaving them like that, without any sort of explanation.
Jade practically dragged me to the bathroom. She took me into the second stall and rifled around in her purse for something. Moments later, out came some gauze.
"Jade—"
"Shut up and take your shirt off." Jade demanded
As inappropriate as that sounded, I did what she said. She took the gauze that was already wrapped around me off. Out came some sort of brown bottle and cotton balls from her purse. She dabbed it on my cuts and rewrapped me. With every dab, I flinched in pain.
"Jade, were did you get all of this stuff?" I asked her
"I took it from the hospital." She responded still wrapping me up.
Someone came into the bathroom. Jade signaled for me to be quite.
"Jade? Cat? Are you guys in here?"
It was Tori. I heard her feet clacking against the bathroom floor. The clacking stopped when it came to the second stall. The door swung open. Tori appeared and stared at Jade with her arms wrapped around me. I guess if you just kind of walked in on what was going on, you could take it the wrong way… but it wasn't like that at all.
"Umm… Sikowits wants you guys back in class." She said and stared at me and Jade "Do you two want to be left alone for a while?"
"Shut it Vega!" Jade yelled and dropped her arms to her side. "Cat, do you need a change of clothes?"
I looked down at the shirt that was on the floor. It was mine and it was stained with blood. I looked back up at Jade and nodded, I knew she always kept some extra clothes at school. One thing you need to know when you go to school at Hollywood Arts, you almost always should have an extra everything. Just in case.
Jade left me with Tori. Alone. In a bathroom. Covered in blood. Kind of awkward if you ask me.
"What… Happened yesterday? What happened in class? Why were you bleeding so much?"
I ignored all of her questions. I wasn't in a mood for talking at all. Even though I usually was, just not now. I walked over to the sinks and hopped up on one of them to sit on. It must have been even more awkward for Tori because she kept staring at me like it was. I kicked my legs as if I wasn't the least bit uncomfortable with any of this.
I looked down at my gauze covered self. It was so weird seeing so much red and white on me, it was almost out of the ordinary. But only almost.
"Are you ok?" Tori asked me.
I almost let a tear fall from my face. All I did was nod and stare blankly at the door, waiting for Jade to appear with some clothes. Knowing Jade, the clothes would probably be black. When will she get back? I just really wanted her to hurry. When I finally heard Jade coming I jumped off the porcelain sink.
"Here you go." She said and threw the clothes at me.
It was a black shirt, just as I suspected. I put it on over my bandages. Jade and Tori walked me back to Sikowits' class. No questions were asked. Weird glances made up for the lack of questions though.