The Bad and The Broken

Chapter 5

I woke up with a lone tear rolling down my face.

I wiped it away, got out of bed and looked to Jesse was gone.

Probably getting ready for school.

Stretched and walked into my closet.
I put on baggy blue jeans and a 5 Finger Death Punch t-shirt.

I put on miss matched socks, one blue and one green, then put on my black converse.

I brushed my hair and then brushed my teeth and walked out the door and looked across the hall to see Jesse do the same.

I looked at what he's wearing. He has on a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and his black converse.

We grabbed our bags and went down stairs. I noticed Jim was passed out on the couch with a ton of beer bottles, wine bottles, Ana a vodka bottle littered around him.

I got 2 advils and a cup of water and put them beside him, on the table between his chair and the couch.
Then we left for school.

On our walk we stayed in a silence. It wasn't a comfortable silence but it wasn't and awkward silence either.

"Why'd you do it?" Jesse suddenly asked.

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

"Do what?" I asked

"Give him the medicine. Why would you take care of him like that, when he doesn't care about you?" He asked with anger in his voice, while looking at the ground.

"Because." I told him, looking at the ground as well.

"Because why?" He pressured.

"Just because, okay!? Now leave it" I told him, anger lacing every word.

Then we got into an awkward silence.
"Look Jesse, I'm sorry. It's just..." I couldn't finish my sentence. A lump of air caught in my throat.

"It's fine, Sis." He said sincerely.

When was arrived at school, we went our separate ways.

I put my walls up, an cleared my face and eyes of any emotion before I walked through the school doors.

I was on my way to home room, keeping my head down, trying not to get noticed.

I walked into class and sat in the same seat as yesterday.

I'm the first one here.

Then students started trickling in. By the time the late bell rang, everyone was in class.

I felt eyes on the side of my head.
I turned my head to see Ryder I staring at me.

I turned my attention back to the front of the class.

"We are doing a project" the teacher announced

Everyone groaned. I stayed silent. Like always.

"But you will be working in partners." He added.
Everyone cheered.

"I will be picking your partners though"
Everyone groaned.

"So, I have noticed that everyone has their own little group." He said.
"You never take the time to get to know anyone else" he added.
"And some of you don't have any friends at all." He Continued while looking straight at me.

I rolled my eyes.

"So your partner will be someone completely different from you and you will have to get to know them. Like, what's their middle name, what's their nick name,, what are some thing they do when they get home from school, what's their favorite color. Things like that. Then present it on a power point, poster, talk about it in front of the class, I don't care, as long as it's presentable. It will be worth 85% of your grade." He finished. Then he started calling out partners.