SHATTERED HEARTS

TWO - Lucky days

Katherine's POV

The next morning starts like every other. I wake up early, freshen up, and get dressed. The orphanage is quiet, which I like. I grab one of my books and set a timer for 45 minutes. This way, I can sneak in some reading before waking Scarlett. She’s a deep sleeper—an earthquake wouldn’t stir her—and it’s always a battle to get her moving.

When the timer goes off, I put my book aside and gently shake Scarlett awake. She mumbles something incoherent, and I can’t help but smile. Morning conversations aren’t my thing either.

My voice is always groggy, probably from all the crying I do at night also with the cold season I can barely utter a word till I've been awake for almost four hours.

I really don't know how I'm mechanized to function this way.. It’s just another reason I avoid talking in the morning.

But its not like I'm that much of a talker so people don't realize otherwise that would be another one of the things to add to the bully list of why I should be bullied even further.

After Scarlett finally gets up, I pack my assignments and a few other books that I'll be reading up later on before putting my bag aside and walk towards the kitchen where I get us breakfast, but really it's just Scarlett's. Breakfast is the usual affair: simple, whatever Anita managed to prepare with the little we have.

I skip it, as always. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the effort; I’ve just never been a fan of breakfast. Scarlett, on the other hand, eats quickly, and soon we’re out the door, walking the younger kids to their school before heading to ours.

The walk to school is only fifteen minutes, but it feels longer today. Scarlett and I walk in near silence, exchanging a few words here and there. She’s quiet in the mornings too.

If you want a talkative version of me which is rare, it's probably not visible in the mornings trust me, neither is Scarlett's but her energy levels spike later on once she's past getting her body to cooperate and compliment the mind.

It's about ten minutes to first class. I don't like walking to school this time since the popular squad which is in charge of my bullying arrives to school at such times but If I dragged Scarlet earlier than what I just did shed murder me but there's also some other pros, teachers are also in the hallways by now either arriving or walking into their classes for those who are extremely punctual.

By the time we get to school, the halls are starting to fill with students. I drop Scarlett off at her classroom before heading to mine.

It’s a routine I’ve stuck to for as long as I can remember. Scarlett doesn’t know the full extent of what I go through at school, and I intend to keep it that way. If I can shield her from even a fraction of the pain I endure, I will.

School for me has never been something pleasant that I'd be happy to wake up every other day just to walk in there. School has been a representation of a terrible nightmare for me that I hope I'd just wake up from.

Which might just be about as soon as possible considering the fact that my finals are almost here, they are just around the corner and then I can have the privilege of calling this nightmare up and done.

More so today might just be one of those few lucky days i have as I haven't seen my main bully around. Chase isn't in school and I couldn't be any happier.

He's the source of my nightmares and his crew but without the main vigilante in place the minions aren't as ruthless as the 'Boss'. But that doesn't mean I still won't get s**t from them and Mackenzie.

Oh no she's not Chase's girlfriend like in the bad boy next door kind of movie where the worst cheerleader dates the bad boy. No the two cannot even tolerate each other but somehow they seem to be on mutual agreement when it comes to me.

Well at least Mackenzie has a valid reason if I put it that way, though it isn't a reason enough to put me through whatever they do.

So Mackenzie had a crush on me and Scarlett's guardian, I call him that since he was, Trevor. While Trevor was around the bullying had stopped but still Chase found ways to go behind Trevor's back and get to me but it wasn't much damage.

He was the typical boy next door being in the basketball team. Been in the team ever since he was young which gave him a couple of reigns. He was our saviour and even that didn't last long. It only lasted for a year and that year was the best I've heard so far.

He was two classes ahead of me. In my freshmen highschool year I met him for the second time only this time I was more pathetic than the first time I met him and I was on the ground by the tree lines just almost next towards the basket ball court lying on the ground since Chase had managed to get his hands on me yet once again I was crying and trying to get up when Trevor walked out followed by his Friends. I thought I was quiet enough but I guess I wasn't.

"It's a girl." One of them said and I stilled. I didn't know what to expect.

"Yeah we can see that I thought it was some wounded animal." Another one said before they shushed and I could feel them walking towards where I was and I folded myself into a ball bailing myself for what's to come next.

But the blows never came. Only retrieving footsteps I heard. When I was sure I couldn't hear anymore steps I unfolded myself and looked up only to be met with blue eyes that almost resemble mine and I barked away immediately only to hit the back of the tree.

I bit my lip to stop the wince from the pain from leaving my mouth. A few uncomfortable minutes passed by before I heard footsteps once more and his friends were back but with an emergency kit. And I looked at them stupidly wondering what they were doing and why they were being kind.

That was when I knew I had to have a kit with me. Trevor got me my first one. Him and his friends became our guardians. But all good things came to an end and they did.

Trevor's dad got moved and so they had to leave his friends and we were back to where we began only this time there was an addition to our predicament, Mackenzie..

And well Mackenzie since then made it her mission to make me suffer for taking away her man's attention from her which was far from the case. Trevor didn't have a girlfriend in the days I knew him. I should have known nothing good ever lasted in my life.

It's petty of her to still be pursuing whatever it is she seems to be pursuing considering it's been almost three years since Trevor left and I don't think she knows where he is, nor do I for that matter, I don't have a phone to communicate with so I'm a bit behind with the times.

I look up at the teacher explaining one of the topics in biology but I'm really not interested in whatever it is. But still I don't make a fuss and just sit through it quietly as if I'm paying attention which I far away from the case.

Like I said I don't like school. If I had a choice I'd just never go to school but somehow education is a stage I have to go through which means school so yeah... I look at the clock and almost sigh in relief before I remember my other problems and the relief is gone as soon as it came.

This should be the last class. I don't plan on sticking around as much after this I'm gone, I'm not waiting up for another beating. It's not like I participate in any club.

Even if I tried still I'd end up being excluded and that alone irritates me but I can't really keep on hoping they'll change and treat me differently probably with open arms. That's impossible. Unless in my dreams of cause.

As soon as the teacher is done I walk out and head towards Scarlett's class we get together but she has this group discussion that their teacher assigned her and I just let her be as I walk towards the library and head towards a secluded place and try to blend in with the books hoping that today won't be as bad as yesterday.

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