Her life and Brielle

Steven's P.O.V

Today was Friday and Jennifer didn't come to the canteen for lunch after Tuesday. We weren't that bad of a company too. Maybe it was the thing Helena told her, but what could be so scary that she was scared to even sit with us. So when we were about to go to the canteen, Roth told me to go and call Jennifer to sit with us and so I went to call her.

I was looking for her in the classes when I saw her going to the library. So this is where she had been spending her lunch breaks. The moment I started approaching her, she started to walk in the other direction. I called for her name but she turned a deaf ear to me and started walking faster. So I ran towards her and spun her around so that I could see her.

"Didn't you hear me calling you? You know you need to stop avoiding us especially me."

"I-I am n-not avoiding you at all." She stuttered.

"Well then why haven't you been spending the lunchtime with us, is it the threat that Helena gave you?"

"Well you see I have been given a lot of homework for this week and w-what t-threat are you talking about, w-why would I be scared of her." she finished the sentence stuttering in the end. I knew something was fishy but I didn't want to push the topic, maybe it was the threat that Helena gave her.

"Please just come for today at least, Roth misses you on the table." She mumbled an okay and followed me to the canteen.

I sat down next to Asher and she sat down in between me and Roth. This girl is different, she doesn't care about make-up or dressing up, but she definitely is the girl to decorate her phone cover. She has got these amazing green eyes and hazel lock.

I looked as Roth whispered something in her ear and she looked at the phone. The moment she looked up, Roth gave her a tight smile before she continued eating but Jennifer was just staring at her lunch.

"I warned you." Came the school bitch's voice. Yeah, I do call her the school's bitch too.

"I warned you didn't I? And you still dared to sit over here."

"So what if she sat over here?" I said not like she was my girlfriend to act all possessive about me.

"You thought it was an empty threat? You thought I didn't know about them?" she started ignoring me. We all turned our heads in Jennifer's direction.

"Oh! So you haven't told them as of yet, they don't know, do they?"

"What is it that you want? Just go away." Roth hissed.

"Oh don't get me started about your life too Dorothy, and let me give you all an introduction about our Jennifer over, here didn't you tell them how your mom gave up on you and passed away in a car accident." She finished with a fake pity smile and we all looked at her, the shock was evident in our eyes. I looked as Jennifer bought one of her hand behind her back and started to dig her nails into her palm and that too with a great force so, I gently caressed her fist, the moment my hand came in contact with her, her fist relaxed a little.

"Leave," Josh grit out.

"Maybe her mother realized how much of a pathetic soul she was and the most interesting part is she had to suffer due to her sadist father. Why don't you tell them, what all he had done to you huh? Maybe even he had realized what a pathetic soul you are." She continued and Jen's hand tensed again and she started putting more pressure on her fist, so I undid her fist and brought her hand under the table as I examined it.

"Please! We don’t think what you’re trying to do is working. We clearly won’t love Jen any less because of something she didn’t have control over." Gianna snarled. 

"Oh! And not to forget about Brielle." The moment she mentioned the name Brielle, Jennifer looked at her, the shock was evident in her eyes. The name Brielle brought me memories of the Brielle I knew, the Brielle who had passed away, the memories of my cousin, Brielle. I looked at Jennifer as she let go of my hand and punched her square in the face.

"Listen here, Brielle's name doesn't deserve to come out of a cocksucker's mouth and why are you doing this? So that they dump me, well guess what bitch, they are not immature enough to dump me based on my past, hence it would be better if you concentrate on what is the best for you." She stated before she stormed out of the canteen.

I looked at Roth, she was hyperventilating as Asher went up to her and hugged her, I looked at the other 4, they were clearly shocked and I looked towards the canteen door.

"S-Stop Jen before she does something that she will regret, Go." She said and so I went up behind her and saw her enter the stranded classroom. I went after her and as I approached the classroom, where she was sobbing and punching the wall.

"Roth please go away, just leave me alone for some time." She told me between her sobs.

"It's not Roth, it's me, Steven," I told her as I approached her. She quickly wiped her tears away and asked me as to why was I here.

"Roth told me, to come after you because you may do something that you will regret later." She just smiled and I took her hand in my hand as I started to examine her knuckles and her palms.

"Why would you do this? Why hurt yourself?" the moment I finished the sentence she tensed up. I looked at her as she looked at me with teary eyes and then she did the last thing that I expected her to do, she hugged me and I was shocked for a while before I hugged her back.

"She told me the same thing when I used to do this to myself, Brielle told me the same thing." I just sat quietly as she cried on my shoulder. It may have been a while as the bell rang indicating that the break was over and with that, she quickly got up and I could faintly see a necklace that she wore around her neck. There were 2 of them, one had a ring and the other had a B&I tag. B? Who could it be? Was it her boyfriend?

"Sorry, I got your shirt wet," she told me as she wiped her tears away.

"No problem, its ok," she gave me a tight smile before leaving the classroom.

You see Jen and me, we have the same classes except, she had taken dance and I have taken gym. So I went to the gym and waited for the day to get over because the last lecture on Friday was a free lecture for us.

Today because Helena mentioned Brielle, I decided to meet her.