Broken

1.

"I dare you to touch me little girl." The girl teased.

Celeste kicked the girl stool over causing her to fall and started to attack her.

"Girls! Girls!" The teacher yelled.

"Get her off of me!" The girl screamed.

I got Celeste off the girl and she smiled at how she was on the ground.

"Principals office. Now!" The teacher gave Celeste a slip. She rolled her eyes and walked out the class.

The girl's friends helped her up and class continued. I didn't like the fact that Celeste got in trouble for something that I could have handled. Now the girls are probably going to start messing with her too.

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I walked out of the class and I walked to the cafeteria. I took a seat at a empty table and took out my phone and headphones and blasted Life by Ivy Sole.

I looked up and saw Celeste sit in front of me with an ice pack on her fists.

"Are you okay?" I laughed a bit.

"I am, actually. I finally got to hit her for a good reason." She laughed "They're going to hate on you the whole school year just so you know. She's mad she's not as pretty as the new girl" She smiled.

I disagreed with Celeste.

"What's her name?" I frowned.

"Jasmine." She sighed "She's the biggest b word here and no one but her boyfriend can stand her. I don't think he can even stand her."

"Who's her boyfriend?"

"The guy with the month as a name." She mocked me.

"Oh" I laughed.

"Where are you from?"

"Is it because of my accent?" I looked at her.

She smiled and nodded.

"Born in Trinidad and I stayed there for a while, before moving to the states." I said.

"Oh! Island girl? You're cute." She giggled "I'm mixed with black and black." She joked.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around and saw... October? Again.

"Wassup." He sat next to Celeste.

"Hi."

"What do you want?" Celeste mugged him.

"I came ova' hea' ta' apologize bout what my girl said ta' you" He looked up at me

"It's fine. I wasn't driven by it." I shrugged.

"Well I was driven to the max. That girl deserved what I gave her." Celeste said while punching air.

"Headass." October shook his head. "Anyways, let me see ya' schedule." He held his hand out.

I pulled it from my pocket and gave it to him.

I watched him scan through and he smiled "I got my next two classes with ya'"

"Cool." I smiled and took it back from him.

"August, you should walk her." Celeste said.

So his name isn't October. It's August.

"You want me t-"

"It wasn't a question. You're going to walk her. Get to know each other." Celeste smiled before walking away.

"Well then lets go lil' mama." He picked up my books for me and we walked out of the cafeteria.

"You likin' it so far?" He asked me.

"Not really." I said honestly. "It seems hard to fit in around here."

"Nah, as pretty as you are, you should be good." He smiled down at me.

I disagreed with him about the pretty thing too.

We walked into the class and took our seats right next to each other. The class was loud and I already knew I wasn't going to like it.

"Whoa, who is you?" A boy from behind me asked.

"Izel." I turned around and he smiled at me.

"Dang lil' mama. You fly." He showed off his grill and I frowned.

I turned back around and moved my hair out my face.

"A nigga can't get a thank you? You bitches ungrateful."

"Maybe she ain't think ya' weak compliment skills was good enough for a thank you." August told him.

I heard the boy kiss his teeth and he stopped talking. Why did it seem like people were scared to talk back to him?

"Thank you." I told him.

"I got you" He smiled at me.

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Finally, it was the end of the day and I was so ready to get home. I started walking and I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and seen August.

"You not about ta' walk is you?" He chuckled.

"I have to." I frowned.

"Let me give ya' a ride. You live far?" He asked while blocking the sun out his face.

"Uh.." I looked behind him and saw Jasmine walking our way. "I'll walk. It's fine." I gave him a faint smile.

He gave me a weird look. "Aight, I'll see ya' tomorra' den."

I nodded and walked off.

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When I got home, I was relived that my stepdad wasn't home because I'd have time to do my homework before he'd come in my room and pick an argument with me just so he could hit me or touch me.

When I was done with everything, I took me a quick shower and laid down staring at my ceiling, soon dozing off to bed.
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Hi.

Did y'all enjoy the first chapter? Could y'all let me know if i'm doing bad or good because I really want this to be a good book 😭

I start school this monday, so this just kind of came to mind.

And do y'all like for story august to have an accent? I like to type like that for him because it's exactly how he sounds 😭 but it could get annoying reading that so let me know.

I'm sure y'all don't care so i'm going to stop and go update 😂😂