TRIGGERWARNING (The Less Intense Version)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN VIC

7am
Tuesday
Today was the day, I would have my first date in two whole years. I got ready for school, like really, I jumped out of bed and put some decent clothes on. Then I styled my green and black hair as good as possible, went downstairs and then to the bus. As I got on the bus, I saw Ember sitting with that one girl Destiny, I already hated her for stealing my girlfriend. I walked up to Ember´s seat and slapped her across the face, she looked at me with a shocked face. I didn’t care at all and sat down right behind them. Then I pulled a pro move, I put on my headphones and listened to some music over my MP3 player. But my phone was voice recording Ember and Destiny right in front of me, I knew that this was illegal, but I didn’t give two flying fucks. After good ten minutes I stopped recording and listened to the Voice date my phone had already recorded. The quality was not the best, but I understood every single word. I heard Ember say: “That dumb bitch, I wanted to drop her for ages.” Or also “That slap wasn’t necessary now” I stopped listening because it all started becoming to much for me, I turned the record off and imagined my date today. I thought about her, she had brown hair, always on fleek eyeliner and the sweetest smile ever. I knew her for some time because she sometimes hung out with me on the pseudo bathrooms. She had asked me to meet her on those exact toilets, so we could manage when and where to meet up. Arrived at school I went straight into the gender-neutral bathrooms and waited for her. She came in less than ten minutes, and we talked about when we would meet up. She recommends 3pm and I agreed, our meeting spot would be the bridge in the middle of town. It was the most centred spot, and since she lived on the other side of the town, we chose this as our meeting place. I said goodbye and went into my class, but I didn’t pay attention because I was too excited for our date. So as the class ended, and I arrived home I immediately left again and told mom I´d be sleeping at Embers. As I arrived at the bridge and Hope was already there, she looked stunning as always and I hugged her. Hope said we should go under the bridge and watch the little ducklings; I was more than happy with that since ducks are my favourite animals. We sat there for two hours watching the ducklings and talking about life. She asked me a lot of questions about Ember, I answered all of them even the cringy ones. Then she asked my If I ever sent Ember “special” pics, full of shame I agreed. Hope looked at me and said:” Girl why, now that you guys broke up, she could do anything with them. Are you aware of that?” I hadn’t even realised that yet, I immediately started panicking and questioned all of my life decisions. She eventually calmed me down and told me everything would be fine. Hope then took her backpack and took a banana out, I thought she had prepared a picnic but then she took lots of alcohol out. I knew where this was going, but I had no problem with it. We sat there for another two hours, and we drank bottle of the alcohol she had brought. In the end we were so drunk that I saw everything twice. I didn’t know what I was saying and told her all about me, because she wanted to “get to know me”. As she took something else out of her backpack, my last braincells realised this wouldn’t end up good.