My Reality

The sound of tapping on my window startles me. I get up to see a confused Andy. I roll down my window.

"Good morning." I say, my voice still rusty.

"Is it a good morning?" He asks with a smirk.

"No, but is it ever?" I ask getting out of the car.

"Did you sleep out here last night?" He asks, his voice laced with concern.

"Yeah, I'm going to go inside now." I grab one of my bags from the trunk and enter the school. He opens the door for me and I mouth him a thank you.

"Are you homeless?" He asks and laugh a little.

"No, just there's problems at home and I couldn't stay there anymore." I say and walk down to the girl's locker room.

I take a quick shower and change into my All Time Low Tshirt, my black skinny jeans, and my black vans. I walk out right into Ashley. I can't believe I dreamt of him being such a horrible person.

"Sorry Mr Purdy." I say under my breath.

"It's okay, what's your name?" He asks.

"Scarlet Kanes, sir." I say softly and keep walking down to my locker.

I put all my stuff away and go to the library, my sanctuary. I take out my favourite book called Speak. A hand slams down in front of me on the table, leaving a little strip of paper.

"For you, a walking travesty." Taylor says and sits down across from me. She's referring to my shirt (Therapy lyrics).

"What do you want?" I ask softly, not wanting to provoke her.

"You dead, but right now I just want to piss you off."

"Can you please just leave me alone?" She takes my book and throws it behind herself.

"But bugging you is way too fun." I get up and grab my book. I put it in my bag and begin to leave. "Freak did I excuse you?" I turn around.

"I'm not in the mood Taylor."

Now I'm just pissed, I don't know if I can take her bitchiness today. She gets up and stands right in front of me. She brings her hand up in a fist and punches me in the eye. I fall to the ground covering my eye. She goes through her purse and puts on her gloves. She spits on me then leaves. I slowly get up from the floor, grab my bag, and rush to the washroom. I get a lot of toilet paper and put it under cold water. I bring it up to my eye, and it stings even more. I leave the washroom and start walking down the hall to the music room. I accidentally walk into someone and mumble a sorry.

"Scarlet, what's wrong with your eye?" I look up to see Andy. I shake my head and rush off to the music room.

Lunch has finally arrived and I'm not prepared for it. I run down to the guidance office to look for James. There he sits playing on his phone. I sit down next to him and he smiles when he sees me, but it fades when he sees my eye.

"What happened to your eye?" He asks, I shake my head.

"Wouldn't matter if I told you." I say. He puts his arm around me and let's me lean into him for a bit.

Before I know it, lunch is over and I have to go to my drama class. I love that CC is my drama teacher, he's really awesome at what he does. In the class right now, we're doing improv games. At the moment we're playing 'Darling I Love You'. A person has to walk up to someone and say "Darling I love you, won't you please, please smile?" And the other person has to say without laughing or smiling, "Darling I love you, but I just can't smile.". I'm really good at this game. The class gets interrupted when Andy walks in.

"Coma, you have a call down at the office." Andy says.

"Can you watch my class for me?" CC asks and Andy nods.

CC leaves and the game continues. Andy joins in and now it's his turn. He examines everyone in the room and then walks up to me. He takes my hands and gets down on his knees.

"Darling I love you, won't you pleasseeee smile. Please darling." He says in a weird high voice. I accidentally smile, bringing a huge grin onto his face.

Soon Andy leaves and the games come to an end. Luckily the bell rings and I run off to English class. I sit in the desk right in front of Andy, all I want to do is think about him, all the other stuff can just burn.

"Alright class, we will be studying the book Romeo & Juliet this semester. First, who here has already read it?" Andy asks. I'm the only one who raises their hands, making him smirk. "Okay good, only one person." He grabs the stack of the books and hands them out. "You will have time in class to finish reading this novel, and during which I'll be handing you out your first ISU. I'll allow this class to being fully dedicated to reading this text." He says and sits down behind his desk.

I sigh as I flip through the book and scan the pages. I've read this book about eight times and remember everything last thing about it. After ten minutes of basically doing nothing, I get up and walk up to Andy's desk.

"May I please go to the washroom?" I ask and he nods.

I don't need to pee, I'm just as bored as fuck. I could be working on my poem, but I'm not really in the mood. I take a long walk around the school and end up being away for like twenty minutes.

When I get back into the classroom, I realized I still have about forty minutes left in the period. Oh brother! Andy sees my boredom, and just crosses his arms and smirks at me. I mimic him, making him let out a light chuckle. He gets up from his seat and walks to the door. He opens it and motions me to join him in the hall. I get up and walk out with him. He shuts the door behind me.

"I'm guessing you don't need to reread the text." He says and I nod. "... You know you still didn't answer me about your eye."

"I was trying to reach a book in the library and it fell hitting me in the eye." I lie.

"Fine, don't tell me." Why can he see through my lies?

"What? You don't believe me?" I ask.

"Please don't bullshit me, just tell me what happened."

"Why do you care?"

"Why don't you?"

"Because I've been punched many times before."

"So you've just become so used to it that it doesn't make a difference anymore?" He asks and I nod. "Who?"

"What?"

"I need a name."

"Yeah well you're not getting one."

"Why are you so stubborn?" He asks pacing back and forth. I giggle at his comment.

"Did you seriously just ask a young woman why she's stubborn?" I ask and we both laugh.

"Okay don't tell me, but I think I should take you to the clinic to get it checked out."

"I can drive myself."

"I'm not going to allow you to drive yourself, no I'll take you." I smirk at him, still wondering why he cares so much. In my dream it made sense because well it was a dream, but this just doesn't make sense.

"Do I have to go in there and suffer of boredom for the remainder of the period?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"Grab your stuff, you're excused till the end of the period. Come back to the classroom after and I'll take you to get your eye checked out." He says and I do as I'm told.

I sit in my spot under the staircase of the entrance to the school. I take out my notebook and start doodling. I hear the bell ring and watch as the other students run out of the building and to their friends. By the time I get to my feet, no one is around and I go back into the school. I walk down the hall in silence, the only thing I hear is my footsteps. I turn around the corner and see Sam. I begin to walk the other direction and then are pulled back by my arm.

"Let go of me!" I yell and he does.

"Wow, what's going on with your eye?" Sam asks as if he cares.

"It doesn't matter just leave me alone."

"Listen, I need you to cooperate with me here. I paid five thousand dollars to marry you and even though you're not interested, you need to come home with me. If your father finds out you ran away, he'll kill you. Look, I care about your safety and I actually still love you."

"If you cared about me then why did you hurt? Why were you so cruel to me? Why did you cheat on me? I loved you and I let you walk all over me. Why would I let you do it again?"

"Scar please just-

"No! It's Scarlet to you! And I've moved on!" I storm off down the hall to the English classroom.

"You ready to go?" Andy asks and I nod.

We walk down the hall and to his car in silence. I like dream Andy better, he wouldn't be in awkward silence. We get into the car and halfway there he asks; "Do you wanna stop by my apartment afterwards? You can meet Juliet."

"Sure, sounds like fun." I say.

Moments later we arrive at the clinic. My eye's fine of course, and Andy drives us to his apartment afterwards. Andy opens the door and we both step in.

"Jules I'm home!" He yells and takes off his black vest. "Would you like something to drink?" He asks.

"Whatcha got?" I ask as he enters the kitchen area.

"Monsters, cokes, water-"

"Water please." He smirks and gets me a glass of H20. "Thank you."

"Andy do you know where I left my blue bra with the lace?" Juliet asks from the other room.

Andy smirks before saying; "No idea. By the way, we have company." I giggle a little.

Juliet walks out from the back room. "Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed." She says as she enters. "Hi, what's your name?"

"My name's Scarlet, it's amazing to meet you!" I squeal.

"Scarlet's one of my students." Andy says and Juliet nods.

"Well it was nice meeting you, but I have to go. Ella wants me to go out shopping with her." She says. She kisses Andy, making me want to throw up, and leaves the apartment.

"So what do you want to do?" Andy asks and I shrug.

There's a couple moments of awkward silence and then... "When I was in the hospital, did you ever talk to me or sing a few songs or..." I ask.

"I'll admit I did sing you a few songs I wrote, you were asleep and I was bored." He says.

"Then why'd you stay?" I ask.

"Because I felt responsible for you, and I was hoping that you'd wake up when I was there and you did." I blush a little.

"Okay, back onto topic. I had no idea you wrote songs."

"Yeah I started when I was a kid. I have always dreamt about being the lead singer of a rock band. You know I've always been influenced by bands such as KISS and Montely Crüe. I don't know, I was a kid. So did you like any of the songs?"

"My favourites were The Mortician's Daughter, Knives And Pens, and Carolyn. I believe those were the song titles."

He sits down on the couch in the living room area and I join him. "Thanks, do you wanna watch a movie?" He asks.

"Uh sure." I say making him smile. He turns on the TV.

"You wanna watch The Dark Knight Rises?" He asks, his face lit up like a child.

"Of course, I love Batman."

Halfway through the movie, he gets up and makes popcorn. He sits back down putting his hand accidentally on my leg. I jump up. "Where are you going?" He asks.

"I think it's best that I go now." I say walking to the door.

"Why?"

"Isn't this a little inappropriate seeing you're my teacher?" He shrugs.

"Wait, I'll drive you." I sigh and nod.

He gets up and we walk down to his car. We get in and he turns to me. I'm shaking uncontrollably and my breathing is really heavy.

"Where's your house?" He asks.

"Uh just take me to the school." I say under my breath. He begins driving.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah why wouldn't I be?"

"Well it looks like you're having some sort of panic attack."

"It's nothing really, just... No it's nothing."

"No tell me."

"Just when you touched my leg, it's nothing. I just have some PTSD problems right now."

"I'm sorry."

"No don't be, it's okay."

"Well we're here." He says parking the car.

"Thanks." I say getting out.

"Are you going to sleep in the car again?" He asks.

"Might."

"Go grab your stuff, you're staying at my apartment tonight."

"Andy really it's okay."

"No, now do as you're told and grab your stuff."

I sigh and grab a bag from Sam's car. I put it into Andy's backseat and we ride back to his apartment.

Notes

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