I think this chapter is a bit better then the last. I hope people like it. "/ If not im gonna carry on writing anyway lol. I can still improve.
Very SI Triggering
Chapter 2
I stood at my back door I took a moment to wipe the mascara from my cheeks. I was hoping my mum was still asleep, I didn’t want her questioning me about why I’d been crying.
I didn’t know what time it was. All I knew was that it was late and that I had to be up for school in the morning. I opened my back door and stood there in the kitchen for a moment.
Please be asleep. I thought as I walked over to the door and popped my head around the door to check if my mum was still asleep. I sighed with relief when I found her asleep on the couch. I went back into the kitchen, and got myself a glass of water, trying to be as quiet as I possibly could be. I looked up at the clock I was surprised to see that it was only 1:30am the night seemed to be so long. How could it only be 1:30? I asked my self.
I went up stairs and turned shower on. All I could think about was getting in the shower. I felt so dirty and disgusting. I stood in the bathroom taking my cloths off slowly as I watched the shower run. I turned the shower up to full heat and got it I watched the water trickle down my skin and the steam coming off. I watched my skin go red from the heat. I was so confused I just stood there in the show staring into space. I picked the razor up off the windowsill and started to shave my legs. Without noticing I started to shave my arms. Every time I dragged the razor along my arm I pushed it down harder. That wasn’t enough I deserved to be in pain. I deserved what John did. I led him on it was my fault. I should be apologising to him. I started to break the razors snapping the handle off, I couldn’t get the blades out. I got out of the shower leaving it running. Dripping wet I walked into my room and opened the draw to my dressing table and took out a pair of scissors. I ran back into the shower taking the razor again and breaking it with the scissors. I cracked the plastic off and took one of the blades.
Holding it between my index finger and my thumb I stuck it into my thigh. I felt so much relief as I pulled it along my skin. Almost like “That’s better” kind of feeling, but it still wasn’t better I needed to do it again and again and again after all, I did deserve it. I looked down as I dragged the blade down the inside of my thigh over and over again. I watched the water from the shower wash the blood right down my leg and onto the show floor turning the blood into a see throw red.
Still bleeding I put the blade down on the windowsill. Picked up the flannel and soap. I started scrubbing my body I just wanted to feel clean again. Scrubbing my legs antil I felt them burn. I wanted to feel my skin burn away. I hated my self. I was a fat lazy disgusting pig. Just utterly worthless.
Finally I turned the shower off. I reached over and picked the towel up off the radiator. I wrapped it around the self inflicted wounds on my leg, and held it there for about twenty seconds before removing it to view the damage. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it had stopped bleeding, but was really stinging. I wrapped the towel around myself and walked off into my bedroom. I put some clean pyjamas on and got into bed.
I did feel that little bit better but, the night was just going round and round in my head. I didn’t understand what happened. I still didn’t think that John would do anything to purposely hurt me. I still missed him. It wasn’t his fault it mine. My own stupid fault! I felt so guilty for leading him on like that and maybe I didn’t make it clear enough. Maybe he thought I wanted him to do it. I stopped thinking about what happened and started thinking about all the old times when John and I used to hang out. I missed that John the John that cheered me up when I was down. The John that turned my frown into a smile. My friend John, who gave me shoulder to cry on when I needed it. The John I saw at the beginning of the night. Where did he go. I need him now I need him to make me smile; I need his shoulder to cry on. I need him to protect me from bad John.
As I lay there with all these thoughts running through my head. I closed my eyes I was mentally and physically exhausted. I just wanted my body to give up and sleep, I was so tiered.
I must of dozed off because the next thing I heard was;
“Jenna!” It was my mum screaming from the bottom of the stairs. I wanted to get up before she started an argument, but I couldn’t get up. My mind was telling me to but I was still so tiered. It felt like I had only been asleep for a minute. I tried to ignore my mum and go back to sleep. I was dozing off and then I heard her shout again this time she sounded angry;
“Jenna its quarter past eight are you getting up you lazy little cow.”
“I’m up”. I shouted. Although I wasn’t up. I was awake, but I wasn’t up.
I must of drifted back off because I heard my mother come stomping up the stairs. She dragged my covers off me.
“You better get up now!” she said.
“I don’t feel very well”. I said squinting my eyes trying to look at her.
“You don’t feel well? Your pathetic you get a little cough and you think your dying your so ****ing dramatic. I’ll make you feel unwell if you aren’t up in two minutes!”
Before I could say anything she walked out of my room and slammed the door shut behind her.
I forced myself out of bed and walked to the bathroom
ohh crap I thought as I noticed that I didn’t moved the broken razor from the bathroom. I was pretty sure my mum hadn’t seen it. So I moved it and put it in the bin in my room. I didn’t throw the blade away I hid in a book that I then put in my dressing table.
After I cleared all the evidence of my self destructive shower. I started to get ready for school. Washing my face and brushing my teeth before I started to put on my make-up. I was ready by 9:00am. School started at 8:30am but they never say anything if I turn up late.
I got downstairs and there was my mum sat on the couch with her two laptops around her, she was always on her laptops. I hated the bloody things.
“Can I have my dinner money?” I asked.
She took another drag of her cigarette, then put it down in the ashtray. She started routing throw her handbag, then handed me two pound coins.
“Thanks” I said I took a cigarette out of her packet and said;
“I’ll see you later”.
“Alright then.” She replied.
My day at school went by quickly. Especially maths Katie and I have the same maths lesson, and she always spends it making me laugh it was the last lesson of the day and I didn’t want to go home. I never wanted to go home when I was with my friends. I wanted to stay there laughing forever, because I knew when I got home I wouldn’t do much laughing. My mum never made me laugh. My mum and I barley spoke. She lived downstairs and I lived upstairs. I was past caring though. I had only been living with her for six months she had just done a four year sentence in prison. She didn’t know me, although she thought she did. She’s been in and out of prison all my life. My grandparents brought me up, and they did a good job. I was always happy I just wish I could return to that.
Ding ding ding! It was the bell. I stayed in my seat and looked around the classroom. To see everyone standing up and putting there coats on. Then I stood up to, I put my coat on and swung my bag over my shoulder. Our maths teacher let us go row by row. Katie and I made our way out of school pushing past all the year sevens that was running around the corridors.
We walked towards the school gates still chatting and laughing, Katie paused for a second before saying;
“Isn’t that John!” I swung my head around and looked up at the school gates it was John. I felt my heart beating fast. He was stood with another lad about his age.
“I haven’t seen him in ages. What’s he doing here.” Katie said. She sounded happy to see him. What was he doing here that was a good question he left school last year.
“I don’t know”. I said.