Chapter 7 Painfull truths.

Carrie POV.

Carrie was playing with her skirt, avoiding looking at the adults around her. The adults in the room were talking to each other. They were very pale and had expressions of anger and sorrow on their faces. They were at the moment sitting in the office of the principal. They had been here now for several minutes.
Off all the reactions she had expected this was not it.

In the past she might have held the believe that people would care about how momma sometimes treated her, but that hope had died a long time ago along with any kindness the people of Chamberlain used to show her when she was little. The principal was sitting behind his office. At the right and left of him were Ms Drew, Mr Frogg, and Mrs Martina. Right behind Carrie was Mr Snell, Mrs Holt and Mrs Watson. The school Nurse was in her office, waiting for Carrie to check her for injuries, And Rita was of course next to Carrie.

"Carrie, please talk to us". Carrie felt Rita holding her hand. She knew they wanted to talk to her about what her mother had done to her. She couldn't.
It took everything in her to keep breathing. They knew and everyone was acting so different than she had expected and she was scared. Scared of the unknown, scared of how her mother would react. She knew that what she and momma had was not a normal relationship, but momma was the only one she had. She would not betray her for these people that before today had looked down on her.

Rita POV.
Rita was shaking with rage. Seeing one of her students, one of her kids so broken was horrible. Carrie refused to say anything, ignoring their looks and words and gestures to reach out to her. Underneath the anger for Margaret and the sorrow of a lost childhood was deep regret. For not seeing it, for letting opinions cloud her judgement and that it took a literally mysterious force to give them the rude awakening they needed .

How many times had she saw Carrie with a bruise of something like that? And everytime she had believed Carrie when she told her how she had got that bruise thanks to her own clumsiness. It had been small ones, although she suspected that Carrie had much bigger ones carefully hidden underneath her heavy clothes. She had failed her student. She would do better, she would not fail Carrie White again. Rita took Carrie's hand and gived a slight push. Making clear that she was there for her now.

Sue POV.
Sue Snell was a girl who got it all. Great friends, great looks, an amazing boyfriend and loving parents. It was thanks to that hard to think that Carrie had grown up without those things. She looked up at the screen, the image of Carrie crying and bleeding. She heard the screams, the whispers and tears from her peers and those families. It was funny to think that not an hour ago Carrie was the 2nd most hated person in Chamberlain, (behind her mother) and that now everyone was feeling sorry for her.

Not in a 100 years had she thought that Margaret White could hurt her daughter. She was crazy, but no one had thought she was violent towards her own daughter. How much had Carrie sufferd? What had that woman done to her for her to act the way she did? That were questions she had no right to ask. They all felt sorry now, but how many times had they hurt Carrie? No one had beat her up or something like that, but they had bullied her for years. The name calling, cruel jokes and so much more. A part of her could not help but wonder if they were truly so different from Margaret White as they liked to believe.

Chris POV.
Chris felt like she was kicked in the stomach. Her whole life she has know that her looks and wealth would get her anywhere and if not her daddy would fix it for her. That and good brains, although she did not always use them as much as her father would have prefered. Life was one big game where it was better to screw, than get screwed. She had bullied Carrie because of reasons that now seemed d worse that where not Carrie's fault.

Once she had access to all the puzzle pieces, it had not been difficult to piece everything together. Her behavior and of course Margaret's behavior. Margaret wasn't a loving mother, but a manipulating bitch. Driving Carrie every day to school for her own good. Pfffffffffffff! Bitch was probably scared her daughter would skip school and escape to Mexico. The thought made her laugh.

Her mother Cecilia had told her many times not to bully other childeren, that she didn't know what she was doing to those kids. That it was no problem if she did not get along with someone, but that it was different if you went out of your way to hurt her. She had though she had been in her right, now she wasn't sure anymore. Ohhhhh! If she had listened to her mother! For the first time in her life, Chris Hargenson felt sorry.

Billy POV.
Billy felt odd. If someone had told him before today he and most people of Chamberlain would get kidnapped by some outer force he would have laughed at that person and beaten them up. Everyone thought he was a hopeless case and a criminal. And yeah he was. He had no grand illusions that he was a upstanding guy. He liked breaking the rules, he had a temper and if everyone in the room died he probably would not give a shit. But he also knew unlike most people in the room the feeling off a slap and the cold indifference off a mother that put herself before her only son. Maybe that was why he was feeling a connection to the girl? He would wait and observe like he always did.

Freddy Holt POV.
Freddy Holt was a very smart guy. He got A's very easy and had known Carrie since second grade. Then how hadn't he noticed something? Freddy had read books about the behavior of abused people and Carrie did fit some of criteria, but it had been such a strange concept that one of his classmates was getting abused that he had never giving it any thought and Carrie it turned out was a great actress.

A skill she had probably refined during her childhood with her mother. A skill she had need to survive life with her horrible mother. Why had Carrie not said anything? They could have helped her. As soon as the thought came up he snorted. Of course she hadn't told it to anyone. The teachers ignored her and her peers bullied her. The only person in the school that had given her a chance in years was their new gym teacher Miss Desjardin but that was only in the beginning. He had noticed that the last months her patience had also run out for the most part.

No, Carrie had not anyone she could have trusted with her secret. He didn't know everything what his more popular peers had done to Carrie, but he had heard all the rumors. And while he had never bullied her, he hadn't helped or befriend her either. No one had ever done that. Even the biggest nerds and losers. Most of them had exactly bullied Carrie too, in the hope to gain some popularity. Freddy started looking at the door. He wonderd when his mother would return. His father gave good hugs, but in this moment…he needed a hug from his mother.