The next morning I woke up in my bed and I lifted up the covers to see my stomach bandaged up. I slowly got out of bed, which hurt a little because of my ribs, and I walked over to my full length mirror that was on the back of my door. As soon as I saw my face I was worried about going to school on Monday, I had a black eye and a busted lip with cuts and scratches on my cheeks. I was so tired so I just crawled in my bed and went to sleep.
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Monday came around and I put on a black jacket and pulled the hood over my head since my black eye, busted lip, and scratches were still there. I still met up with Max and Erica and as soon as Erica saw me she ran up and hugged me and she said "oh my god Alex I'm so sorry for what happened and thank you so much for standing up for me, your the best."
When Erica got off me Max asked me "hey Alex how bad is it" so I took off my hood and they both winced "man dude that's pretty bad."
"Yea what about your ribs, I saw how bad they were kicking you" said Erica. I lifted up my shirt and pulled the bandage down and showed them the dark purple bruise that stretched down my right side.
"The doctors said that I have two broken ribs but they'll heal" I said.
"Gosh man, that sucks, but I heard that the guys that did it were caught molesting someone else" said Max, trying his best to comfort me.
"Well thank god those perverts were caught, I have never felt so violated before" said Erica, choking back a tear.
"It's okay Erica we're here for you" I said while putting my arm around her. When we arrived me and Erica walked together to science and she sat with me at the back table but I could tell that she wanted to sit with Ashley so I said that she should go sit with her. When I heard the bell ring I practically ran out of the classroom because I was so excited for my first day of musical rehearsal.
When I got there Mr. Robinson, who was also the musical director, pulled me aside and said "what happened to you, are you okay, will you be able to practice?"
I responded "nothing and yes I think I will be able to," he walked away and I walked into the theater and started practicing but due to my injuries I couldn't really do much, because of this they brought in someone new to do my part. The person they brought in was the new kids who's first day was today, his name was Luke Miller and the reason he was in the musical was because he had been in a few TV shows and movies and the only reason he was my understudy was because they didn't want to take away my part. Now I'm okay with people being better then me because I know that I'm not the best at anything, but it really hurt knowing that everyone thought and knew that your understudy was better then you and that you only have the part because people didn't want to hurt your feelings. The worst part was that I couldn't hate Luke because I really liked him, he had a great voice and was an amazing actor and dancer, also he had the cutest blue eyes and blonde hair. Things weren't going great in my life at the moment with my friends ditching me often and my part probably being taken away, but Luke always brightened up my day and we became close friends fast and my life was now great. Little did I know that something was going to happen that would change my life drastically.
