Marcel's POV

“I can do this,” I say to myself in the mirror. I run my hands through my hair and take a deep breath.

I'm going back to school.

It's been over two weeks since I've gone to school.

I'm extremely nervous. Everyone probably has their own assumptions as to where I've been. Or they know...

I have to see Ethan again too...

Cami pulls up and I start to head out the door.

“Are you sure you can do this?” my mom asks, hugging me.

“I'm sure, Mom,” I mumble into her shoulder.

She kisses my forehead, “Text me whenever you can, even though I know you don't like to text in school. Remember, you have to go to the guidance counselor this morning. I love you, sweetie.”

“I'll try. I love you too, Mom. Bye...”

I hop into Cami's car and she looks over at me with worried eyes.

“You ready?” she asks quietly.

I nod slowly. She reaches over and gives my hand a squeeze. My nods get slower and slower until a tear slips out of my eye. The slow nods turn into shaking my head no. One tear turns to multiple.

Cami looks over worriedly, not quite sure what to do. She's never seen me cry like this. I can't stop. The tears just keep flowing. I wipe at my eyes frantically, and Cami hands me a tissue. She gets out of the car and walks around to my side.

She opens the door, “Marcel, look at me.”

I can't look at her.

“Marcel. C'mon. Just please.”

I slowly turn towards her, sniffling non stop. She puts both of my hands inside her dainty hands.

“Marcel,” she says quietly, “You can do this.”

“No, no I can't.”

“If I didn't think you could do this, I wouldn't make you go. But I'll be with you all day.”

“You're not in all my classes,” I say through my tears.

She wipes my cheek with her thumb and smiles, “I am now.”

“What? H-How?”

“The guidance counselor thought it'd be a good idea for you to have someone with you all day. So all my classes are switched.”

“How are you going to do all AP classes?”

She waves her hand, “I don't care, I'll find a way. As long as you're okay though, that's all that matters.”

I sniff, “You'd do that for me?"

"I'd do anything for you! I love you."

"What would I do without you?”

She shrugs, “I don't want to know...”

My crying is slowing down now. I can finally breathe normally.

“Are you okay now?” Cami asks.

“Yeah, I'm alright, I guess.”

She hugs me tightly, “Good. Okay, now let's go. Don't worry. You'll be fine.”

The whole car ride, she talks nonstop to try to make me less worried. I'm thankful for that, because it helped. She always knows how to make things better for me.

*

Cami and I are walking into the cafeteria. Ethan hasn't looked at me all day, which I guess is a good thing. He's avoided me all day. I wonder if he's scared of me... Yeah, right. No one would be scared of me.

I'm walking to our lunch table when I notice someone already sitting there. What the? I look over at Cami, and she's smiling.

“Marcel, there's someone I want you to meet,” she tells me.

I scrunch my eyebrows together, “What?”

“Hi, I'm Niall!” he says. Cami sits down across from him, I stay standing. She pasts the seat beside her, so I obediently sit down.

“Hi?” I say confused.

“Niall's in a band,” Cami says.

Niall is smiling at me and seems excited. I've gone to school with him for four years and he doesn't talk to me until today? What is going on?

“So Marcel,” he says, “I saw your concert with Cami.”

“Yeah, and?” I'm so confused.

“I was wondering if you wanted to be in my band...”

I look over at Cami, shocked. She's smiling widely. A band?

“Who's in the band?”

I'm not so sure about this... I never really wanted to be in a band with people I don't know.

“Well, they're older than us.”

“Did they go to school here?”

“Yeah, one of them did. His name is Louis Tomlinson.”

Louis Tomlinson... How do I know that name?

I'm a Freshman. It's my first day of highschool. I'm tiny for my age, I wasn't tall back then.

“Hey, nerd,” someone says, shoving me into an open locker. He kicks me inside. I'm squished inside, I can't move at all.

“Louis, make sure it's locked!” someone shouts. They all run away except for one boy.

He has brown hair and looks older than me. He shuts the door, locking me inside. He looks at me through the cracks in the locker. He seems sad and scared. He whispers something but I don't hear it. All I can hear is the sound of my racing heart.

That was the start of it all...

I stand up from the table, “I'm not being in the band.”

“What, why?” Cami asks.

I clench my teeth, “Never in a million years would I join his band.”

Cami's POV

Niall looks over at me confused after Marcel walks away.

“What was that? Does he not like me?” he asks.

I shrug, “I have no idea. I'll go find out.”

“I'll come too.”

“No, I think it's better if you stay.”

He sinks down, “Okay...”

I walk down the halls, searching for Marcel. I can't find him anywhere. Where is he?

I find him in front of locker, staring blankly at it.

“Marcel, what are you doing?” I ask him, putting my hand on his shoulder.

“Louis,” he mumbles.

“What?”

“Louis was in a group of boys that bullied me.”

That's why he doesn't want to be in the band.

“Seriously? Are you sure it was him? He seems really nice.”

“100%. He locked me in this locker when I was a freshman. I'm not joining the band,” he says stubbornly.

“That's okay. I understand. You don't have to be in it.”

“Good. I never want to see Louis again.”

“You don't have to,” I tell him, holding his hand, “Let's go back to lunch.”

“I should have never come to school today.”

“I'm sorry, Marcel. I didn't know...”

“No, it's not your fault. You had nothing to do with it.”

He walks silently down the hall back to the cafeteria. He has a blank stare, he's emotionless.

I wonder what's going on through his mind right now...

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