Ch.6

Marley

Ellis had come found me sometime before lunch before I could find a place to smoke and dragged me to meet her friends. Of course just another group of spoiled rich kids talking about shit I couldn't relate too or didn't care about.

I was able to escape just before the bell and was now at my locker contemplating skipping the rest of the day. I only had art and gym left and the rest was a free day. I still had to wait at the school for a ride back to the house. And I wasn't really in the mood to go to art.

I sighed and shut my locker with a little more force than necessary. My gaze flickers to a figure draped in red and black with a brown mop with bangs hiding hazelnut eyes.

"Hey, Marley right? I'm Owen. We have Chemistry together." He smiles brightly as I deadpan.

"I don't take chemistry." I start to walk away but he follows chuckling.

"Right I think it's-" I stop abrupt in my tracks before he can try another corny line.

"I'm not interested." I stare him down, pinning him with my point but he's to dense to get it.

"Look I just know you're new and I wa-"

"I believe she said no Owen." A voice that felt oddly familiar vibrates from behind me.

"Oh hey Caesar. Didn't see you there." Owen tosses Caesar a cocky smirk before he salters away. "See you around Marley." I roll my eyes and turn to continue towards class.

"You okay?" The mountain of a boy match's his massive stride to my own. He was tall enough for me to only come to his bicep which was almost the size of my head. I honestly wouldn't think he was in high school if I met him outside of here.

"I'm fine." I answer dryly, scanning the numbers on the walls for my classroom.

For some reason Caesar was still following me and I was getting slightly annoyed. "Something I can help you with?" I glare up at him but he just shrugs and continues to match my stride.

"Where'd you move from?"

"Why?"

"Just curious."

"You shouldn't be. There's no mystery here, now go away." I attempt to ditch him to go for a smoke but he only smirks at my glare.

"Are you sure your related to Ellis Ryan. She's kind of the sweetheart of the town and you're," he took a moment to pause.

"The complete opposite." I finish for him as I stop at the double doors behind the school.

"See ya." I toss a mock salute and push out the door backwards as he looks at me with a look I didn't bother to decipher.

Ducking out the parking lot I wait until I get a few blocks before sparking a joint. Stumbling onto a park I collapse lazily into one of the swings to finish off the blunt.

My phone buzzes in my bag again and I sigh. Pulling my lip into my bottom teeth I swallow, pulling the little black device from my pocket I take a moment to stare at the shattered screen from the accident that I didn't have the heart to get fixed.

I click the lock bottom and Miles and Dads smiling faces blind me, behind the hundreds of messages and notifications.

Something inside me tightens.

The sadness climbed up my throat as a knot and I let out the broken sob before opening the phone. Instead of answering anyone back I go to my photos. It's so painful but I flip through the pictures, my tears flowing down my face freely as I look at the photos behind the broken screen that mimicked my heart.

"I miss you guys, so much." I swipe at my tears roughly before plugging in my headphones and letting my music blast through my ears and wash away whatever pain the weed missed.

I needed this, I needed to breathe.

I couldn't breathe in that house, in that school. God, this place was suffocating me. I just wanted to go back home and wake up from this awful, horrible night mare.