3 chapter3 - poor little thing(katherine)

It was lunch. I was very hungry, I am always hungry. So I went over to the counter and started piling up food on my plate. I was heading to where Clayton was seated. I was glad that I had successfully dodged all the Richie riches, but the moment had to be ruined. I saw Nick and his friends walking over in my direction and Nick had this weird but cute smile on his face but as soon as he reached me he turned it to a grin.

"Hey! Kitty kat"

"Hey" I tried to move past them but Nick blocked my way and we almost collided.

"Aren't you gonna ask us how the practice was? " and all of them laughed.

"No I'm not interested, now let me go."

What did I ever do to them, just because I don't have an enormous amount of money doesn't mean that I deserve to be treated this way? But revolting against them is only gonna make them play with me more because that's what they want.

I had tied my hair later in the first period with my favourite red scrunchie. Jake took it off and destroyed it. My eyes started watering and I wondered if I'm going to be tormented like this for the rest of my life.

I stood there silent as all of them disrespected me and got bored as I didn't react so they left, except Nick was standing "Here is the thing, nobody likes you or wants you. Poor little thing."

Hearing these things from him, I know he didn't like me but he never said it out loud. I'm tired of all this. My plate fell on my feet, it ruined my shorts and a tear ran down my cheek and I didn't want anyone to see me cry. So I ran directly over to where the bicycle was, Clay ran after me and started unlocking his cycle too.

"No, clay. I want to be alone. please." My voice was weak from all the sobbing and crying.

"You sure, you're gonna be okay?" I see the worry in his eyes. He cares for me but I'll be fine, I just wanna be alone, just with myself.

I nodded and he smiled weekly and went inside the school.

I saw Nick standing at the cafeteria gate. I wiped my tears, turned my head and paddled as fast as I could. Why was he staring at me while I was leaving? It's him and his friends' fault, if he didn't want me to feel bad then why embarrass me in the first place. I just want to feel the air, and think about nothing.

So I closed my eyes, tears continued to pour and I thought about nothing but the wind slapping my face. I heard the sound of somebody's car horn.

And the next thing I know I was lying in the middle of the road with my bicycle on top of me. It was getting hard for me to breathe. I didn't know what happened to me. I was gasping for air. My whole body was in so much pain, my leg felt like somebody or something broke it. I could not move. I could not see properly, my vision was blurred, but I saw people I didn't know around me and then suddenly the weight that I felt was digging me to the ground lifted. And I saw a familiar face. I could not make out who it was, someone held me by my shoulders and I focused on the face of the person and it was Nick.

I managed to cry out "Nick"

And then I felt nothing. I felt darkness surrounding me. I could not feel the pain, the breathlessness, nothing.