"Come in," I say, mum popped her head around the door, "dinner will be ready in 5 minutes okay," I nodded and she left closing the door.
I remembered back to the dream, I was so confused by everything. I didn't have time to think about it too much because dinner was ready, I heard mum calling as I walked down the hall still smelling Miss Young's perfume which was intoxicating.
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Jake was skating on thin ice, very thin ice in fact. By Wednesday I had completely forgiven him for the fight, but we had an another fight at school, because he wouldn't let me use his phone to search up something. Which lead to me to getting upset, because it made me believe that he was cheating on me.
"Are you cheating on me?" I growled in a hushed tone. He looked at me in disbelief, the next thing I know he hit me across the face. I pushed him away with all the strength I had in me and I walked off holding in tears. I somehow unconsciously ended up outside of Miss Young's room. I don't know exactly why I ended up here but I did, and before I could stop myself I knocked on the door. I was kind of hoping she wouldn't be there but the door opened, she looked a little confused at first until she saw my face and saw how upset I was.
"Serena are you okay?"As soon as she asked me that I couldn't stop the tears, I'd been holding them in for too long, I shook my head and put my hands over my face. "Darling come here," She took my arm and lightly pulled me into her room. She quickly closed the door, then she pulled me into a hug. I stood there shocked at first, I eventually removed my hands from my face, and wrapped my arms around her, pulling her in closer. She smelt fruity, and it was intoxicating. I closed my eyes, and listened to her voice trying to get me to stop crying. Her voice instantly calmed me down and didn't take long before I stopped crying. She pulled away from the hug, and went to get me a tissue. I smiled thankfully as she handed it to me.
"I'm sorry for just showing up especially being new and all, I just felt like I could trust you," I sniffed
"That's okay, do you want to explain what the tears were for? And why your face is red?" She asked gently. I nodded looking up at her, she had a concerned look on her face, I went to sit down, and she followed sitting next to me.
I sighed and ran a hand through my hair then started talking "So I was sitting with Jake, my boyfriend, just before and I asked to use his phone to search something up, and normally he lets me no problem because we've been together for nearly 6 years, but today he didn't let me," I sniffed a bit then continued "He refused for me to touch it, let alone even look at it, so I immediately thought he was cheating on me and got upset, and asked him if he was. That's when he hit me, I pushed him away and walked off, I somehow ended up here, and I'm glad I did," I looked down at my hands, I felt a hand stroking my arm, sending a spark through my body, I didn't understand what that was all about.
"I'm so sorry honey that he did that too you, that's not right at all. Can I ask besides him not letting you use his phone, what else made you think that he's cheating on you?" I nodded, and sniffed again before replying.
"During the summer he hardly called or texted me, and whenever I called or texted and he replied he would always be very blunt, and it's not the first time that he's refused to let me see his phone. I ignored it the first time, and when I asked to see him he said he was busy every time, and 3 years ago he cheated on me but I forgave him completely," I looked up, her eyes looked worried, "and we fight over the stupidest of things," I added, a couple of tears sliding down my cheeks. She wiped the tears away with her thumb, which caused butterflies to go off in my stomach. Which confused me even more. She pulled me into a hug again, I melted into her arms, smelling her intoxicating perfume. She pulled away but was close enough I could feel her breathing.
"It's going to be okay" she whispered, her breath smelt minty, I nodded again, looking into her eyes, which looked at me then down to my lips and back up again. She started slowly leaning closer to me, I didn't know what to do so I just sat there frozen. Just as her lips were about to connect with mine, the bell rang. I quickly stood up "thanks for the chat, I'll see you in class tomorrow," I said awkwardly and left.
The rest of the week flew past and by the time Friday came around I was a little disappointed that it was weekend, I couldn't quite figure out why I was feeling this way.
On Saturday morning I called up Ayla,
"Hey babe what's up?" She answered,
"Can you come over? we need to have a massive d&m session," I asked praying she'd say yes, "yeah sure mum is going out in 10 so I'll ask her to drop me off,"
"Alright see you soon," I said and hung up.
An hour later, Ayla is sitting on my bed and I'm half way through my story on why I want to break up with Jake. By the time I had finished my story, I was crying, while Ayla was hugging me. "He's a dickhead, if you honestly feel this way you should break up with him. He's not worth your time, and he's cheated on you before. You deserve so much more,"
"We've been together nearly 6 years, I still love him though," I tried explaining.
"But the question is are you in love with him still?" I thought about it for a while, thinking about everything I told Ayla. About all our fights, and all the fights we'd had, and just every stupid little thing that had happened in our relationship.
"No I'm not," I sighed realising that Ayla was right.
"Well there's your answer then!" She looked at me, I had tears welling in my eyes, she pulled me into a hug as the tears spilled out. She stroked my hair, "I'll be here for you babe, always. You're amazing and don't deserve to be treated like this," I woke up sometime later Ayla and I cuddling. I looked at her smiling thinking how truely amazing a best friend she is.
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It was now Monday, and I had been dreading it all weekend. I hadn't spoken to Jake over the weekend, he didn't try calling or texting once. I rolled my eyes at the thought.
I was sitting in class not paying attention to a word Mr Morris was saying, I never really wanted to do PE anyways, it was so boring. I snapped out of my thoughts by the sound of the bell ringing.
I packed up my books, and left still not really paying much attention to anything, that was until I walked into someone, my books falling on the ground. I realised it was Jake, I picked up my books rolling my eyes, and started walking away.
He grabbed arm roughly, "Serena wait," I tried pulling my arm away but he tightened his grip. "Let go of me Jake," I hissed. He didn't and I tried yanking my arm away again, his grip tightened even more, my arm was so sore, tears welled in my eyes. "Jake please," I begged, I looked into his eyes, he realised he was hurting me and loosened his grip a bit. "Babe talk to me please,"
"You don't get to call me that," I hissed
"Please" he begged, I could see the pleading look in his eyes but I ignored it,
"I don't have anything to say to Jake, leave me alone," I spat raising my voice still trying to pull free "let go of me,".
"Let go of her," I heard looked up seeing Miss Young, he let me go and started to walk away, "where do you think you're going Mr," Miss Young called raising her voice, Jake stopped and turned around,
"You don't ever treat another student like that, apologise," she raged. "Nah I'd rather not. She's my girlfriend, I can treat how I want, our relationship is non of your business," he smirked, anger built in me.
"It became my business when you started bullying her," she said. He shrugged, "she deserves it," this pissed me off to the max.
"WHY? IM NOT THE ONE WHO CHEATED!," I screamed at before continuing, "I don't want to be with you anymore Jake," my voice cracked and tears started rolling down my cheeks.
"FINE DYKE, I NEVER REALLY LOVED YOU ANYWAYS," he yelled back. My heart ripped out of my chest, breaking into a million pieces as I dropped to the ground, covering my face with my hands.
"That is enough," Miss Young said rage in her voice, "Jake you've got an after school detention for the rest of the week. Now leave before I make it two weeks," He left just as the bell rang out. Miss Young walked over to me and bent down, "come on lovely," she helped me up. Once I was up, she grabbed a tissue out, and wiped the tears away. I followed her to her classroom, she closed the door behind her. I set my books down on the table and sat down. The tears wouldn't stop flowing.
All these questions were running through my mind. How could he be so mean to me? What did I ever do to deserve this? I couldn't do this anymore, I didn't want to be here. I stood up and ran to the door. "Serena where are you going?" Miss Young called out. I didn't want to reply but knew I had too. "I don't want to be here anymore I have to go," I kept on going, and only stopped when I felt a hand on my arm, "alright at least let me drive you home so I know you get home safely,".
"Isn't that illegal?" I asked confused. She just shrugged, as I followed her to her car. She has a red Suzuki Swift, I jumped in the passenger side. The tears had stopped by now, my eyes were still red and blood shot.
"I love your car," I said as she hopped in and started up the car. "Thanks I won her last year,"
"Cool," I replied, we didn't talk for the rest of the ride except when I directed her to my house.
"Thanks for the lift," she had just pulled up outside of my house. "No problem, anytime," We both got out of the car, and walked to my front door. I unlocked the door and opened it, she pulled me into a hug, I relaxed into her body hugging her back, she eventually pulled away, "here, message or call me if you need," She handed me a piece of paper with her number on it.
"Thanks," i blushed slightly, she tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear and kissed my cheek, "see you tomorrow," she said then left before I had a chance to reply. I went inside the house, closing the door. I suddenly felt very lonely. I went and curled up in bed, the tears started up again, I put my headphones in and turned up my music to drown out the feeling of loneliness.
MISS YOUNGS POV
After I left Serena's I went back to school because I still had one more class to teach before I could leave. My mind was all over the place, I couldn't concentrate not knowing if Serena was okay or not.
Finally the bell went for the end of the day, I gave the students their homework for the week and sent them on their way.
I checked my phone just to see if Serena had texted me, she hadn't. I was a little disappointed but it wasn't too surprising I was her teacher after all.
As I was making dinner that night my mind kept on wandering to the thought of Serena. She was so beautiful, she had long blonde hair, and the most beautiful blue eyes. Her smile lit up the room, and she was so confident and intelligent. Jake definitely didn't deserve someone like her especially her. She did mention that they had been together nearly six years, wow! So she has been with him since year 7. I haven't even had a relationship last that long, the longest mine lasted was 4 years. Anyways I just hope Serena will be okay, and if not I hope she talks to someone. The fact that Jake had cheated on her made me so mad. I would never cheat on her, wait she's my student why am I thinking about like that, then I just smiled, I knew why but I don't know if I should.
The next day I got up looking forward to seeing Serena. I did my makeup to the best of my ability and chose a cute outfit which I'm sure Serena would like me in.
I finally get to school and notice Serena's friends but no Serena, maybe she just hasn't arrived yet I reassured myself.
The day dragged on and by the time lunch was over I was excited to see Serena. I still couldn't quite figure it out, there was just something about her, it was something special.
I tried not to let the disappointment show when Serena didn't show up, I hoped she was just late to class but after 10 minutes she still hadn't shown up and I had to close the door.
Throughout the class I heard snippets of a conversation going on between two students.
"Did you hear about Serena?" Bree asked, Jodie shook her head, "apparently her and Jake got into a massive fight yesterday and she broke up with him, and he was a total dick to her,"
"okay he probably deserved it all, I never liked him," Jodie replied, "yeah you're just jealous that you could never be with Serena instead," Bree said laughing, Jodie went bright red.
I got interrupted by the bell ringing, "don't forget that homework I set yesterday is due tomorrow,"
Serena didn't show up to school the next day or the day after either and by Wednesday I was really worried about her.
At recess time I went to the staff room and went and sat down with some over teachers and joined in their conversation,
"I heard she's in hospital," Justine said, "who is this?" I asked curiously, "Serena Jade," my blood ran cold and I began mentally freaking out, "do you know why she's in hospital?" I tried keeping my voice steady trying not to let the panic show. Justine shook her head, "the only thing we've been told is that she's at Mercy Grace hospital, her mum isn't sure when she's getting out yet," I stood up, "you okay? You've gone awfully pale,"
I nodded "yeah I'm fine I'm just not feeling well," I left and headed straight to the front office, I got replacement teachers for the rest of the day, and headed the Mercy Grace hospital.