"Hey, its Daniel, sorry I can't come to the phone right now. Leave me a message and I'll get back to you, Bye." Chloe's eyes widened as she figured Daniel was the person who sent out the video to everyone. But why would he do that, why would he send it out to everyone and lie about it? "Daniel? Do you know who this is?" Robert asked. Chloe began to cry again, the feeling of being betrayed by Daniel.
"I know fully well who that person is and I can't believe he would do this to me."
Chapter 15
Chloe couldn't handle anything anymore. Everyday, school became more and more vicious for her, she couldn't even walk through the hallway without having a snarky comment being tossed at her. She didn't have anyone to talk to at school anymore, after finding out that Daniel had sent everyone the video of her and Mr. Payne. And now it was becoming even more difficult because she just needed someone to talk to about the situation, she surely couldn't tell Laura or Abbie what she truly felt about everything and she couldn't speak to Robert about it because he took the subject so lightly and just always reminded her that she shouldn't tell Laura or Abbie about it.
She couldn't take it, being alone was doing damage to her. She felt like she had nobody, she was just a lone ranger with the problems of a troubled philosopher who thought too much. The deafening noise of being locked in her room with no one to talk to begin getting to her, practically eating her alive. She wanted to just scream and rip her hair out, do anything that could get her out of this horrible life she was living. She felt like giving up.
And so she did.
There Chloe stood, on the rooftop of a building, looking down at the speeding vehicles and the pedestrians who busily rushed to places and shops amongst the area. She thought this was her only way out. Surely it was, right? It's not like she had much going for her, she had no one there to support her and help her get through this rough patch in life anyway so she might as have no life at all. It wasn't worth living. She had gone through hell and back hand it was about time she wanted to get out of it.
Chloe stood on the ledge, breathing out quickly as she stared down at the concrete that she would be dead on in a few seconds. Just jump already. Do it.
"You'll fall if you lean any further," She heard a voice coming behind her, turning around to be met with a blonde haired boy, his blue eyes looking intently into her brown ones.
"Yeah, that's the point." Chloe spoke and the boy nodded, understanding what she meant.
"If you're going to jump, do a flip." He spoke which baffled Chloe. Do a flip? What the fuck was wrong with this guy? Here she was, about to end her life and a stranger was telling her to do a fucking flip off the building?
"You're fucking crazy," Chloe stared at him with wide eyes.
"Says the one who is about to jump off a building." He chuckled and Chloe huffed out. She already had enough on her plate, she didn't need some egotistical, blue eyed boy to come in and make her even more upset than she already was.
"Go on, jump," He taunted her, biting his lip as he played with the lip ring that was hooked in the corner of his mouth. With those words said, Chloe closed her eyes, trying to muzzle up the courage to do it, to actually jump. She took a baby step forward and felt the wind hit against her face. She wanted to jump so badly and get it over with, but she couldn't, she was too scared.
"Here, I'll help you," The boy took a step forward, latching his arms around Chloe and jerked her forward, making her scream in terror, until he pulled her back and off of the ledge, back onto the concrete rooftop.
"What the fuck? You almost dropped me and I could have died!" Chloe screamed at him, hitting his forearm in the process. She was bewildered that a stranger merely pushed her and could have ended her life.
"But isn't that what you wanted? Weren't you trying to do that? That's what committing suicide is, you die, y'know." The boy spoke and Chloe huffed slightly.
"See, I knew you really weren't going to do it." The boy flashed a smirk at her, knowing fully well that he was right. Chloe could only roll her eyes and recover from her almost life ending moment as she began walking away from him, wanting just to go back and cry it all out.
"Wait! Where are you going?" He asked as he began following Chloe out to the door.
"I'm going home." She curtly spoke.
"If you wait fifteen more minutes until closing time, we can bond over a slice of pizza?" He asks, shoving his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
"I don't know you," Chloe slowly spoke.
"Yet."
And so with the slight convincing of that strange boy, she waited fifteen minutes just like he had asked her
