Oliver guides me to the top of the hill and when I look down my heart beats faster. I look at him and then I look back at the view in front of us. I didn't know that this existed here. All I can see in front of me is yellow daisies. A carpet of amazing flowers.
"This is amazing," I say walking down the hill. I open my palms wide when I get to the first flower. I smile feeling so happy. "Why didn't I know this was here?" I ask looking back at him.
"You haven't been skipping school so..." He says playfully. I smile turning back around.
"Well, I'm glad I did today," I say sitting down in a less dense area. Oliver comes and sits in front of me. He stretches his legs out and he leans back on his elbows looking at me.
"It feels good to see you happy again." He says staring at me. I frown thinking about the disaster he walked me out of. I wish that was a dream and not the truth. Trust my life to get messed up just as everything was
End of the school dayI'm glad this day is over. What Marlene pulled on Ryo was terrible. Thkis is bullying on another level. Why are highschool girls so mean? I breathe in the fresh air happy to be out of this oppresive building. I'm going home and going to take a long bath and fall asleep on my comforatable bed. I don't have time for all this drama.As a matter of fact Ryo is also not into all this drama.My phone pings and I take t out of my bag and smile. I'm glad to see Ryo's name pop up on the scren.HeyThank you for todayI know I freaked out when I saw that pictureI'll forever be thankful to you for being there for meI'm fine nowI'll see you tomorrowRy "How is your little friend doing?" Marlene says behind me and I amost scream.
"Ry." I hear my mother call out to me as she walks up the stairs and towards my bedroom door. "Honey," She says and she opens my door. I listen to the sound of her feet walk towards my bed and I hold my breath as she places he hand on my back."Are you coming down for dinner?" She says her voice soft. I let the breath I'm holding go and the tears start falling. "What's going on honey?" She asks when sees my body shake from the held-in cries."I..." I say and choke up. I try to calm my nerves but the tears keep falling. I can't get the words out."Baby you're scaring me. Talk to mommy." She says and I can hear the fear in her voice. She's probably thinking the worst happened to me right now. Since I can't say what's going on, I choose to show her. I take my phone and hand it to her. "Oh, honey." She says when she sees the picture. She knows how insecure about the picture I am. I begged them to throw it away when I was younger. They tried to convince me th
"Hi," Jameson says when I open my front door. He smiles and then he opens his mouth to say something. I stand still and wait to hear what he has to say. I can imagine he has a lot to say about the picture. I don't want to hear what he has to say but I won't stop him. Jameson is a good guy and I know he won't say anything to hurt my feelingsAnd I can't be mad at him. He's not the one that turned me into a joke."Am I early?" He says and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding."Yep," I say stepping aside to let him walk in."That's cool." He says as I close the door. "This way," I say leading him to my mother's plant room."Wow!" He says his voice getting so loud. I look at him shocked at the emotion he just displayed. I sometimes forget how beautiful this place is because I live here. But every time someone new sees it I am reminded of its beauty. "Oliver told me about this place but my imagination coul
It's about 30 minutes after everyone and we're sitting comfortably on the floor in my mother's flower room. Since Oliver and I's he doesn't want to sit anywhere else but this floor. He loves it in here."So I thought we should go over the assignment together again," Kelly says looking at me encouragingly. We haven't spoken since I had my freakout in the school toilets earlier today. I'm a hundred per cent sure that she's dying to know how I'm doing. "I know we've made a lot of progress with the essay. I think we should give it another read and see if there's anything we want to change or if are we leaving everything as is and just add the conclusion and then we will be ready to submit." She says looking from Oliver to Jameson."Okay. That makes sense." Jameson says and Oliver nods in agreement. Kelly opens her laptop and she starts reading what we've written so far. "Our world in black and white," Kelly says reading the title
For the first time in months, I feel like myself. That incident with Marlene brought me back to reality. She reminded me of who I was before I started dating Oliver. She reminded me how much I loved the simple things. How much I loved going to work. How I loved being invisible. I love being in my own world. I loved that I didn't pretend to be someone else to be liked by others. As a matter of fact, I didn't care what other people thought of me. I had a solid idea of who I was. I didn't need people to clap for me, I didn't need anyone to tell me that I am beautiful. My father taught me that the opinions of other people don't matter. He taught me to stand tall and stand by what I say and what I do. He would remind me every day that the world would try to break me. All I had to do was be true to myself and I would survive. When Oliver and I started dating I got swept up by the whimsy of the moment. I forgot who I was. Suddenly I cared way too much what people that were looking at him
I walk into Ms Swan's class and everyone stares at me. I stand up tall and look at all of them with my chin up in the air. I'm not afraid of any of them. They can stare at me all they want. There's nothing they'll do or say that will hurt me any further. I walk to my seat and sit down. I can feel everyone's eyes on me. The room is deathly silent. I bet they were expecting me to cower, and hide myself. I won't be doing that anymore. Anyone that has something to say to me must face me head-on. They must confront me. I don't care. "Okay, class. Please settle down" Ms Swan says and everyone sits down. "I wanted to remind you that there are two days left before your due date for our assignment." She says and murmurs erupt in the class. "I don't want to hear it. You had enough time to prepare. You were working in groups. So whatever excuse you have. Save it!" She says her voice stern. "What if we need more time. You know to make sure that we..." "I don't want to hear anything about ex
At lunch break Kelly and I are sitting at our table. She hands me half of her sandwich and I give her half of my fruit bowl. We look at each other and smile."Do I get a share of the lunch?" Oliver says sitting at our table. He places his lunch box with a thud and I see his hand reaching for my half of Kelly's sandwich."What am I going to eat?" I ask as he takes a huge bite. He shrugs and then he hands me his lunch box."Well, there goes the tastiest sandwich you will never have," Kelly says laughing at me.How is that funny?" I ask opening the lunch box."What's that funny?" Jameson says sitting opposite Kelly"What you did in Ms Swan's class," Kelly says and we all stare at Jameson"What the hell was that?" I ask still shocked. He didn't tell us he was going to do that. We gave him our assignments to submit on the due date, not on a random Tuesday."We were done with the assignment. I didn
"Jameson. Here is your group's assignment. Graded that is." Ms Swan says as we walk into the class. I look at the paper and then at her. What does she mean it's graded? Today is the due date. She still has days to go before we grade it. "I got curious and read through it." She says in response to our shocked faces. "And I wasn't disappointed." She says when I sit down in my seat."Yo!" Jameson says excitedly when she sees the grade on the right-hand corner of the paper."What the hell?" Oliver says high high-fiving Jameson when he too sees the grade. He places the paper on my table and my jaw drops in shock at the number there. 98? I can't believe it, she gave us an amazing mark."I told you guys this thing was gold," Kelly says smiling at me."Very good indeed." ms Swan says when the rest of the class walks in. Marlene enters last. Everyone looks at her the room silent. She doesn't take English with us so I can understand th