HangmanTheory

My Ruined Reputation
2006-03-07 22:06:14 (UTC)

Nothing Ever Changes

Most of the time it's true...Things don't change readily.
So why are people so afraid of it? I would welcome change
greatly. My dad stopped by today. He came about 5 minutes
after my mom and my brother had left. So I was stuck with
him.

Old habits never die, isn't that what they say? I guess
it's true. In this case, anyways. It's like when you see a
friend you haven't seen in years, and you start treating
them exactly how you did all those years ago.

The only person I ever told about this was Jacob(Stent).
That was when we were still going out. I felt that since
he was my best friend before we went out, that I could
trust him. I had known him for about 2 years by that time
anyways. I don't know what happened after that. I got
called to the counceling office by that one guy, whatever
his name was. It was like DeSomething. I would always go
to Donoghue. He was my counselor. But this time I had to
go to the other one, which was probably a good thing since
he didn't know me.

He asked to see my arms, and I asked him why. He told me
to just take off my jacket. So I did. He asked me what the
bruises were from, and I paniked. I didn't know what to
say, so I made up some bullshit story about how me and
someone else were trying to play volleyball but all we had
was a basketball. It worked well enough.

Over the next few days, more people started to notice my
arms. Nick noticed them in History and told his aunt, who
was the teacher. He would always look at me strangely and
come over and ask if I was ok. At one point there was a
big handprint bruise. It looked like what that chick in
The Ring did when she grabbed that one girl.

Then me and Jacob broke up, and of course the story spread
around the school. I had so many people come up to me and
make fun of me because of it. Tyler would always walk up
to me and grab my arms and say, "Does that hurt?" I would
ask why and he would just say oh, just wondering.
Kapitanski, who was in a few of my classes, would always
ask me, "So, how are things at home and with your dad?
Have you seen him lately?"

But after a while everything died down. I stopped seeing
my dad so much, and if he came over, I would just leave.
Seeing him today practically killed me. Yesterday, too. I
don't want anyone to notice. If this keeps happening, and
if it happens around the time that Jacob comes and visits,
I don't know what'll happen. Some people think it's funny.
I don't really think so.

I don't know...




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