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Failing Lights

Jaimeina

*Scar Pov

During the Pierce the Veil shows, when I wasn't interviewing the concert-goers I was hanging out with the merch girl Laura. We would always laugh at funny stories that we had of Jaime, Tony, and Mike, we never really talked about Vic till one day...

"So Mike pretended to have a girlfriend who was named sugarplum, who was also invisible?" She laughed.

"Yea. It was so funny. We all knew that it was fake because obviously right? He kept trying to go along with it, and the lies just got weirder and weirder."

"Mike is so dumb. So hey what's the deal with you and Vic? You avoid each other like the plague." She asked.

"Well in high school he used to torment me and stuff and he refuses to believe that he did it." I responded and sighed.

"So you are her!" She squealed.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I asked.

"When I first met him he was drunk off of his little mexican ass. Have you ever seen his arms before?" She asked. I shook my head no. "They had all these crazy scars. I sat down next to him and asked him about them. He told me: 'Have you ever loved someone? I did. I loved this girl so much. One day this bitch manipulated me into pushing down my feelings for the girl. She helped me believe her manipulative non-truths. She made me like her, and soon enough I had my feelings so damn deep it was like I didn't feel it anymore, but I did. I remember one day I felt so bad about myself as the feelings were slowly rising. I saw her and pulled her hair pushed her back. She was on the floor and I couldn't help myself. I kissed her and felt everything again, but was so stupid I couldn't see threw the bitches lies. I felt so angered. I should love the bitch, I was with her, not the girl. I kicked her in the side and told her to die. Later I went by her house, to just see if she was alright. I would always do this after I felt like shit about how I had treated her. I saw her cutting herself away. Normally she would do this, but it was different this time. I saw her etch the word 'Die" into her arm. Her cuts started getting deeper and deeper. I knew this was her attempt at dying. I ran in there and intervened. She passed out in my arms while I was carrying her out. I threw her in my car, and drove her to the hospital. I remember whispering to her near-lifeless body, "I will never hurt you again. I'm not making it a day after high school. Darlin you'll be okay." I tried to keep my promise. Mike saved me, but I still think about her, I've tried to push it down, but only allow myself to feel everything when I'm drunk.'. Oh my god Scarlett!" She grabbed my wrist at an inhuman speed and rolled my sleeve back.

"Stop Laura. Really." I gave her the death stare.

"Die." She traced the words I etched into my skin.

"He didn't. He just sung a damn song to me one night that he probably wrote for 'the bitch' to keep me around so he could torment me, and I don't even know if that is true. Mike kept implying it when I told him about the dream. He had Vic finish the lyrics I remembered from the song. He hates me and I don't want to be around him at all. He's mean and cruel, he played on my emotions." I sneered. "He let.." I trailed off a tear rolling down my face.

"Scarlett calm down. You know what let's go out tonight and i'll distract you." She smiled, "Be ready by five."

"Okay who's ready for girl's night out!" She sarcastically yelled into my bus.

"I am!" I teased back. I ran over to the door. "Shit I forgot my purse. Hold on."

Click Click. That sounded like high heels.

Sure enough there was Jaime, squeezed into my red long sleeve dress, wearing a goofy blonde wig, and wearing my three inch heels.

"Jaime what are you doing?" Laura sneered. He was getting on her nerves a lot recently, very easily I might add.

"Who is Jaime? I'm Jaimeina silly." He playfully punched Laura's shoulder.

"Um Jaime?" I asked.

"Jaimeina. I'm Jaimeina darling." He said in a really high pitched voice.

"Jaimeina, this is a Laura-Scarlett night." I tried to explain to Jaime

"Fine but this is plain mean. You won't have as much fun without me." Jaime walked away totally struggling in my heels trying to sway his butt as much as possible.

"Since when did Jaime become a prick. So fucking annoying." She repugnantly walked off.

Great now one more thing to figure out.