I awoke to the sound of my alarm. 3 am. I slowly crawled out of my comfortable bed, and stiffly walked into my bathroom. I turned on the light, and slowly looked into the mirror.
Once I looked at my face, and feeling of being tired and the little comfort I had from sleep vanished, and I gasped when I looked at my eye. It was dark purple, and swollen. I started to tear up, but pinched myself to keep myself from giving in to the pain my mother gave me. Because then SHE would be winning. I cautiously lifted up my shirt, to find my stomach covered in bruises. I bent down to reach into one of my drawers so I could get my makeup bag which held my razors, and let out a small yelp when I felt a sharp pain in my stomach and back. My whole body felt pain as if it were electricity going through my veins, and my vision blurred.
I grabbed the bad through the pain, and pulled down my shorts on the side. I began to slice my hip while quietly sobbing in case I wake up my mother or her boyfriend.

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When I cleaned myself up, I looked at my clock and read 3:33 am. I sighed and took out my notebooks and binders from my back pack and started on my homework.

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Before I knew it, it was 5:50 in the morning, and I was jumping in the shower. The hot water burned my hip and my entire body, but I eventually got used to the pain. While I was in the shower, I tried thinking of ways to cover my eye. Everything else I could hide easily with bracelets.
I wrapped a towel around my body, and took another for my hair, and stepped out of my shower. I looked at the neat stack of clothes I laid out for myself earlier, and unfolded my outfit for today. I opened my bathroom door and walked into my room wearing my favorite Panic! At the Disco shirt, and jean shorts. I learned my lesson yesterday, since I was hot as hell.
I did my makeup and packed up my backpack. Once all that was done I brushed out my drying- hair, and inspected the fading purple.

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I trudged downstairs and walked fast past my mom. "I see you tried to cover your eye" she said with a smirk, and pointed at the sunglasses I put on. "Fuck off." I mumbled, and watched her jaw drop as a ran out of the house and into my car.

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I had to look like a total dumb ass in school because I was wearing sunglasses indoors, but other than that, I got a lot of compliments from the guys on my shirt. They gave me weird looks about my glasses but I ignored them. By guys, I mean Mikey and Ray. I haven't seen Frank yet. We're pretty sure he slept in, and from what the other two told me, he does that a lot.

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Frank walked into 1st period a half an hour late. As he walked in, our bitchy teacher looked up from her desk, dramatically turned toward Frank, and started cussing him out in front of the entire class. She ended up giving him a detention, and stopped paying attention to her class once more. She stormed back to her desk, and plopped down into her seat. I kept my head down so she wouldn't see my sunglasses and make me take them off.
Frank walked over by me, and took the empty seat next to me. I kept my head down, hoping he would leave me alone so I didn't have to face him with my glasses, but I felt a tap on my shoulder.
And another tap
and another
and another.
It ended up speeding up and getting more and more annoying, so I shot my head up, and said "WHAT?" very loudly.
The whole class turned to me, and I put my head down again. A minute later, the tapping started again. This time, I slowly looked up and over at Frank, who looked very attractive today, who was looking at me and smiling.
"What are these for?" he asked me as he pulled them off of my face. "Stop!" I said, but it was too late.
Frank and Mikey's faces both went serious and their mouths dropped. I looked down in defeat and embarrassment .
"Natalie. Who. Did this.. to you." Mikey spat out, anger clear on his face. I heard Frank mutter, "that motherfucker." and in barely a whisper, I said, "Nobody."
"Natalie. This is serious." Mikey sternly said to me, looking into my normal eye.
"ok. my mom" I looked up at him and when I saw his face turn into shock, a started to cry. Which isn't like me. I normally keep my guard up.
As soon as the first tear fell, Mikey pulled me into his chest. I thought I saw Frank glare at him from the corner of my eye, but the thought was interrupted by Frankie pulling me towards HIM instead, and giving me a kiss on the forehead. Now i saw Mikey glaring at HIM. Okay. What is happening?
"Thanks guys" I whimpered and snuggled into Frank's chest.

Notes

hi sorry i've been gone for so long! I was in New York and my mom and I keep fighting. I'll try and update as soon as I can!! Next update will be like part 2 to this haha