FIRST CHAPPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CHAPTER 1
~*~*~*~Ashley’s POV~*~*~*~
I woke up to the beeping of my alarm clock.
6 am. Too early to get up. But I still did.
I went straight to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. My eyes were still red from crying the night before. I looked on my arm to see a disgusting looking purple bruise with a large scab in the middle.
I took a wet cloth to wipe off some of the dried blood.
“I guess I’m gonna be wearing long sleeves today.”
I couldn’t let any of my teachers see any of the bruises from Brian. They would automatically think my mom was abusing me. I couldn’t let my mom be blamed for something she didn’t do.
I got dressed and put on a large amount of black eyeliner to cover the redness in my eyes and headed out of the apartment building to catch the bus.
I got a seat next by the window and turned on my iPod. The first song on the shuffle was Paperthin Hymn by Anberlin, so she just let it play.
I thought you said forever
Over and over
A sleepless night becomes
A bitter oblivion
These thoughts run through my head
Over and over
Complaints of violins
Become my only friends
I arrived at school and met my best friend Ena at the door. Well, my only friend Ena. She was the only one I could really talk to.
~*~*~*~Ena’s POV~*~*~*~
I saw Ashley walking towards me and smiled and she smiled back. She didn’t really had a good life so I tried whenever I could to cheer her up, which isn’t really that hard for me, since I’m really energetic.
“Hey Ashley!” I said smiling.
“Hey.” She said smiling weakly.
My smile faded. “He hit you again last night didn’t he?”
She nodded and rolled the sleeve of her shirt up to reveal an ugly purplish bruise.
“Omigosh…” I said.
“Yeah.” She said.
“Hey Ashley.”
I turned to see Tim coming towards us. Tim was kinda our guy friend we hung out with a lot. He didn’t know what was going on with Ashley, but he knew us pretty well.
“Hey Tim!” I said cheerfully.
“Hope you studied for that Social Studies test! Josh says it’s bound to be a doosy!” Tim said.
So I headed to my Math class and Ashley and Tim headed to Social Studies. I reached my desk and fiddled with my purity ring.
I hope Ashley’s fine. I didn’t get much time to talk to her.
~*~*~*~Tim’s POV~*~*~*~
I finished my test in about half the time and looked over at Ashley. She was still struggling. I couldn’t help but pity her.
Ena and she both thought I didn’t know about Brian, but I did. In fact, he boasted about it to all the other guys. It made me wish I could do something to help her out of this mess. But I didn’t know where to start.
I watched her brush her long light brown hair with blonde highlights out of her face.
Gosh she’s beautiful.