04 | Bruises & Old Scars

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"We are all a mess,
but it is how we keep it together
that makes us
beautiful"
-  J. Iron Word

One More Mistake
Chapter four

❱  When I entered Royal high the next day, everyone was whispering and snickering. I stood by locker while everyone, especially guys, were laughing while looking at their phones, pointing at it. I ignored them all and took out my things for nexts class. When I closed my locker, Alexis's face appeared in front of me, next to her was Nate. They both had amused looks on their faces, and it made me want to know why. She was holding back a smile, when she looked at someone behind. I haven't even noticed, everyone in the hall had been quiet already, their eyes set on someone. Following their eyes, I swiftly turned around and seen a familiar girl walking in the middle of the hall with her head held up.

"Can't believe she isn't ashamed!" I heard a girl whisper.

"Right! She slept with Rory and their sex video went viral for god sakes! How could she ever come to school, I sure as hell wouldn't" they gossiped and I couldn't help but be surprised. The girl didn't give a damn about the whispers that these people were saying. She was walking down the hall like it was just a regular day at school, I would almost say she didn't even knew about this, almost.

"Don't you have anything else to do then stare, you hypocrites?!" Raine soon yelled across the hallways, making everyone stare at her wide eye. When no one moved their prying eyes from her, she went along glancing at Alexis. When she turned away she almost looked hurt but I couldn't really see her because she turned the hall. When I looked back at Alexis, she had a small smirk plastered in her lips, like she was satisfied with her work.

"You leaked that video didn't you?" I asked calmly. She soon looked into my eyes and shook her head, her smirk disappearing. "I would never" she squealed but I could tell she was lying. I looked at nate before leaving them.

When I turned the corner I crashed into someone and I almost rolled my eyes at the cliche.

"Thea" sterling said, sounding surprised. I looked behind him and there she was, Ysabel with nothing but a blank stare at me. She stood tall next to Rory who was staring at me with the same look she was giving me. I looked back at sterling and caught him staring at my neck, and I had forgotten about the bruise I got yesterday. I tried to cover it up by using concealer and a cute long sleeve turtleneck but it only covered half of it, I tried my best to cover it with my hair.

"Can you move out of the way," I say rudely. I didn't do anything to cover the bruise because I knew I was going to raise suspicion. He looked back at me and after a second he nodded his head and let me pass. I didn't spare a glance at Rory nor Ysabel and walked towards the bathroom. Once I made it, I made my way to the mirrors before taking out my concealer from my bag. I slowly pulled down my shirt and almost cringed at the sight. My neck was a covered up with a light purple color. This wasn't the only bruise I got from Bruce but it was also the one in my upper arm. It looked less painful but it was still horrible.

"Ouch, who did that?" A voiced called out, but it didn't sound concern at all. I looked up and found brown eyes staring at my bruise from the mirror. I looked away and put some concealer on the bruise before putting it away and covering it. I put my bag over my shoulder and turned around to face Raine.

"It doesn't concern you" I say back to her, while crossing my arms across my chest. She raised her hands up in surrender and shrug her shoulders.

"Okay, but just to assure you I'm not going to tell anyone" she said and left out the bathroom. When I was sure she had left, I sighed and turned back around to see the bruise imprinted on my neck. I couldn't believe he had gone this far to hurt me.

Once I heard voices coming towards me, I covered it up and walked out the restroom towards my class. The bell had rang a while ago but there was still people in the hallways hanging around. When I was near my class I got pulled by my arm in which I had the bruise on and I couldn't help but yelp. I was thrown into an empty class but the person was still holding me.

"Let go!" I yelled once I seen who was manhandling me. Sterling let go but didn't move away from me. He looked angry, very angry when he had met my eyes. He was breathing hard and I thought something was wrong with him. He soon flicked his eyes towards my arm, in which I was holding and rubbing it.

"Bruce did this huh? That stupid bastard, did he do anything else then this?" He asked as he pointed at my neck and arm. By then I knew I couldn't really denial anything because he knew, he knew me too well. I nodded and I seen him clench his jaw before closing his eyes.

"Thea! We are supposed to tell each other everything, we always tell each other everything, your my sister" he declared and I couldn't help but get angry. How could say this after everything? How dare he, he's just a coward who ran away and nothing would ever change that.

"Was your adopted sister" I spit out, trying to hurt him and it did. "Sterling you left me alone and you didn't care, you just cared about yourself so how dare you tell me, we are supposed to tell each other everything if your the one who didn't even follow that, you ruined that. You ran away and now you can't just come back and act as everything were the same. You aren't the same person anymore, I'm not the same person anymore. I needed you, but you didn't need me, we could have gone through it together like we usually do but you left and Sterling you made that decision" I say in one breath.

"It wasn't my decision!" He yelled, making me freeze. He stood in front of me with sad eyes staring at me. "It wasn't my decision, Thea" he said lowly this time, making me believe that he actually didn't have a decision.

"Then who's decision was it then?" I asked as I searched in his eyes for something, anything, but there was nothing. He just stood in front of me, not saying anything at all. I wanted to yell at him and hit him and just give him the pain I had when he left me. Sterling was my adopted brother since I was fifteen, not long, but it felt like I've known him longer than 2 years. We told told each other everything. He was always there for me, and I loved him so much. I always admired him but now... now I just hated him and I wanted him to hurt like I did.

"Get to your classes now!" A voice shouted, but sterling and I just stared at each other.

After a while, I gripped my bag and bumped into his shoulder before leaving the class. He may not be my real brother but that didn't mean it didn't hurt when he left for dead. Sterling was my best friend.

When I entered the classroom, everyone's eye turned to me but I didn't spare them a glance. I walked down the aisle to my seat which was in the back with a perky girl. Once I sat, I heard the Teacher going back to the lesson.

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When lunched had started, I didn't bother to sit next to Alexis or Nate. I had enough with them for now. As I made my way to the empty table that was near the big window, the cafeteria got louder and soon snickers were heard. I didn't have to look at the entrance to see who was their victim this week. She walked in with ignorance while making her way towards Alexis, who looked was surprised that she was even here at all. Alexis had big wide eyes as she seen Raine make her way towards here.

Raine now has a big smile on her face but you would know it's fake. She sat down in front of her and soon stared to talk but I couldn't tell what she was saying. I soon lost interest and became aware of my surroundings. Sterling and his friends were next to my table and I was surprised to find a pair of eyes on me.

"Thea," I heard a voice call out to me, making my eyes snap to the person who had called me. Sterling had a sad smile, while he was standing awkwardly by me.

"Can we talk, like actually talk and not argue?" He asked.

"What?" I asked when I didn't register anything sterling said earlier. He sighed and sat down, before asking me again. When he asked me, he sounded desperate and I couldn't help but nod. I wanted to talk and I needed answer too. He didn't want to talk here but he said to come over his, and we both had agreed to meet after school.



I never missed a day to visit Caine, I always went to visit him and I'm sure he was going to be suspicious about it. I only agreed to meet Sterling after school because I didn't want Caine to see the bruises on me. He would see me and he would start questioning me and I really didn't want that. As I made my way out of school, I texted Caine that I wasn't going to make it. I know he wouldn't like it but I didn't want him to see me like this. I was ashamed and I know I was being a coward.

"Ms, Nightingale" a deep voice called me and before I knew it I crashed into someone. I groaned before looking up and meeting Kace's eyes. He looked different than yesterday, more tensed maybe. He held a blank face, as he had stood before me.

"What are you doing here" I asked. He couldn't have possibly waited for me to come out. We had agreed to meet in the house if I were ever going to go out. I obviously wasn't planning to make it to the house so he wouldn't follow me around.

"Well, I had a feeling you weren't going to make it home right after school" he said in a robotic tone. He had acted differently yesterday, at ease but today he just looked like he was doing job only. I nodded and made my way towards my car, which was a couple of feet away. I heard him follow me, I couldn't help but to get annoyed. I got in and wasn't surprised he had parked his car near mine. Once I made my way out of school propriety I started to go to sterling's home. I wasn't so happy to be going back there again but I didn't want sterling to go to my house. I know Bruce was going to be there.

When I looked at my rear mirror, I seen a black car follow behind me. I turned my blinker on, for right, and entered the beautiful home in which once was my home too. The gates slowly opened, and the memories came in. I haven't been here since everything had happened. I loved it here and I would never replace and forget the memories I had here.

When I parked the in front of the house, I got off meeting sterling in the front. I heard another car door shut and knew Kace was still here.

"You made it" sterling said while smiling at me and looking at me with some look, like I had finally came home. Sterlings eyes soon looked behind me and curiously stared at Kace. Before he can ask me anything I heard a voice, a voice I could recognize wherever.

"Thea?" Lilian, my adopted mother, asked softly.

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