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The Forgotten Fuentes

I Kissed The Scars On Her Skin

Vic's POV~

I followed Alli, but she never noticed. I saw her go into the bathroom by the cafeteria, I sat outside the door and waited for her. She didn't come out for a long time, and I heard sobbing. I wished that didn't know what she was doing, but I did, and I couldn't believe I'd caused her to do it. That in itself made me want to cry with her, though I knew I couldn't. I wished so badly that I could go in and comfort her, but there were quite a few reasons that I couldn't, the most prominent being that she was in the girl's bathroom.

As I sat there, I heard a shrill girly voice float down the hallway, followed by two different laughs that together sounded like nails on a chalkboard. I knew what was about to happen, and I had to think quick to try and prevent it.

Arianna and Jeannette, the two most obnoxious and stuck up girls in my senior class, walked down the hallway, chattering and laughing. The stopped when they saw me standing in front of the girl's room doorway.

"What the hell are you doing, emo? Like, I know you look like a girl, but seriously, move. This is the ladies room, in case you can't read," Arianna sneered. She and Jeanette laughed and attempted to move me out of the way.

"No, there are bathrooms everywhere in this school. Pick another one to stuff your bras in," I retorted, mocking their stupid little laugh. Their jaws dropped and Arianna looked at me, and started to speak, but then her eyes caught something behind me, and she smiled evilly.

"Ohh, I get it. You were trying to protect your little slut back there until she could clean up from the bathroom sex, right? You guys are disgusting, and tell your little girlfriend that she needs to do a better job of hiding those hideous cuts on her wrists. Like, gross, no one cares, just stop being a wimp and off yourself already," Arianna said, still smiling, as she turned with Jeanette and they both laughed.

I heard a gasp behind me, and I turned to see Alli standing there, with a tear-stained face, and a blood-stained arm. She looked up at me, and I thought she was going to run away again, but she didn't budge. Instead, she wrapped her arms around my neck, and buried her face into my chest. I held on to her, and she began to sob again. I lifted her up, and she wrapped her legs around my middle. Not in a sexual way, but in a way that was similar to a small child being picked up by a parent, or an older sibling.

I carried her out the back doors of the school, and towards the woods. Towards the tree that Mike hid in for most of his freshman year. I sat Alli down under the tree, and grabbed her arm. She tensed up at first, but then she let me take it into my hands anyways. I pulled her frail arm up to my face, and slowly kissed every one of the scars on her beautiful skin.

After kissing every single scar, I held her hand, and looked into her beautiful eyes.

"I kissed the scars on her skin, I still think you're beautiful," I whispered to her. I heard a soft gasp above me, and we both looked up. I saw Mike sitting on the branch opposite of the one he usually sits on, grasping a piece of crinkled notebook paper, and covering his mouth with his other hand. I reached up, and Mike handed me the note. As I read it my eyes grew wide, and a look of recognition clouded Alli's. She snatched the paper from my hands, and took off.

I looked up at Mike, and he swung down beside me.

"Where did you get that?" I asked. "It fell out of Lilly's pocket when she fell out of the tree," he replied. "Is that the girl Alli was with?" I asked, now curious as to who Lilly was. "Yeah, they're sisters. I brought her out here because she started having a panic attack," he said. Everything clicked. They were sisters, they'd lost their family, Alli self harmed, Lilly had panic attacks, they were......... just like us.