101 Reasons To Hate Butterflies
Chapter 1
Sophie's POV:
My alarm went off at 6:20am
Fuuuuuck.
I rolled around my bed till 6:30, and then finally got up.
Leaving my bed was the last thing I wanted to do.
I really didn't wanna get up.
I've been sleep deprived since Thursday.
But I had to.
I shouldn't skip. I have stuff to do and work and I don't wanna be a day behind. Especially not in math. Ugh that would be hell.
I'm always especially grumpy in the morning. Though that didn't matter. I barely talked to my brother in the morning anyway.
My dad was sleeping.
And my mom was normally already at work.
So it was basically just me.
I figured I would have a lazy day, so I could have a lazy outfit that corresponds with it.
I slipped on my sweat pants and put on a bra, along with a hoodie.
After getting dressed, I slowly made my way into the kitchen to get some cereal.
What looks good? I thought as I scanned the cereal section in my cabinet.
"Frosted flakes sounds amazing right now," the words accidentally slipped off my mind and into the universe for all to hear.
Luckily, "all" was just my lovely four-legged canine brother Buddy and I.
I sat down at the counter and started eating my cereal, all the actions up to eating had awakened me, so all I had now was finish up getting ready and then wait for my brother.
7:12am rolled around and my brother and I got in the car, ready to go to school.
I plugged in my head phones as the car slowly came to a start, and played my music, singing bits and pieces of it on our way.
After what seemed like years, we finally arrived at my high school.
Music blaring, I walked into school. Straight to my locker when I spotted my friends, noticing me from afar.
I figured it was my move to release the words first;
"Hey."
"Hiii." Kaelee replied
"Hey!" Lindsey said
"You'll never guess what happened this morning."
I edged her on. "Oo, do tell."
"I woke up this morning and my phone was ringing. It wasn't a number that I knew so I figured it was just K.C," Kaelee explained.
K.C was our friend. He was like a brother to Kaelee and I. He always had phone issues so we would expect a "Hey this is K.C" from an unknown number quite often.
Kaelee continued.
"So when I answered it, I was like: 'hello?'", her voice shifted from happy to monotonous and tired in a split second as she imitated herself.
We all giggled at her story, along with her.
"But anyway, it was a detective. He was asking me a bunch of questions from the other night at the record studio party, when -that Gabby girl?"
My response was quick.
"Yeah."
"Was raped. Or, 'sexually assaulted', as he said."
I tilted my head, looking at her in confusion.
"She was never actually 'penetrated'." Kaelee informed me.
"Oh okay. So what'd he say?" I asked.
"He just asked me about like what I knew on the topic and stuff since she came to me first."
"Ohhh, right. Okay. And?"
"He's going to call me again after school. He was asking me a bunch of questions like 'was I on anything when it happened' and 'if I ever came in contact with the guy'."
"What did you say? You weren't on anything, were you?"
"No, I was basically down by the time it all happened." She smiled.
"Oh, I was gonna say..." I smiled back.
The warning bell went off, as we all started dragging our feet to our first hour classes.
Flash forward to 2:30pm
Kaelee and I wandered out of seventh hour when the last bell had rang. Laughing and talking loudly about how much we dislike our student teacher.
We went down to the locker, when I noticed a third of me getting her stuff from our locker.
"Anna!" I called out to her.
"Hey Sophie, hey Kaelee!"
We talked for a minute until we heard the words that we knew was going to be the start of an adventure, our heads perked up;
"Hey, what are you two doing after school?"
That was all it took. Before I knew it, I was running to my best friend's car in the school parking lot. "Shot gun!" I heard Kaelee yell.
We got into the car and sped off, beating the busses.
I stuck my head out the window.
"WOOOOOHOOOO!"
My head eventually became my upper torso, screaming as the sunshine hit my face and the wind flowed through my long brown hair. The adrenaline was too much, it became my addiction.
"SOPHIE, oh my god what are you doing?! GET IN THE CAR!" Anna flipped.
"Chill out! I'm okay! I have my seat belt on, it's okay!" I laughed into her window. "Turn up the music!"
Kaelee did, and I sang out the window in between laughs.
"Kaelee! You should join me! Haha!"
She laughed and watched me, smiling.
Anna was getting mad.
"Ugh, SOPHIE!!"
Abby's POV:
Yeah, that was a good time. I decide to sit on the chair near my bed as Hanna talked.
"And that time we went night swimming. And we snuck into your neighborhood pool after it had closer. What, oh damn it must've been like 10:30 or 11 at night that night and your parents had no idea."
She started tearing up.
No no, Hanna don't do that. I'll be okay. Hanna! No please don't cry. Awhh, stop! I screamed at her.
She grabbed a few Kleanex and dabbed her eyes.
Oh, Hanna. I sighed.
She looked down at the vibrations spawning from her pocket, via her cell phone. She answered it with very little breath.
"Hello?" She sounded worried.
Hanna, who is it?
"No, I'm in Abby's room."
What, Hanna, who is it?
"No, no movements. Just little moans." She answered.
Is that me? Just little moans? Hanna, if only you knew I was screaming at you!!
"Uhh, floor 12, room 41....12?" She said uncertainly. "Yeah, 12."
I wondered who she was inviting into my room.
"Okay, love you too, bye."
She hung up her phone.
Her mom? Dad, maybe?
God, it had been weeks now.
Weeks since everything went down. Weeks since I had talked to any of my friends. Weeks since going to school. Weeks since I had listened to music. Weeks since I was normal.
I just wanted to go home. I just wanted to tell everyone I was okay and I missed them all so much.
I wanted to tell Kyle that it was okay, it wasn't his fault. There was ice on the road. We shouldn't have been speeding, but his car spun out of control. I don't blame him.
I just wanted my old life back.
I sighed, when suddenly the door opened.
"Hanna, oh darling, this must be hard for you." Mrs. Thomas said.
"Yeah. Mom?"
"Yes dear?"
"I wanna go home." She started crying again.
My eyes got watery.
"Alright. Do you wanna say goodbye?"
"No, I just wanna go home, mom."
"Alright let's go. Should we send the nurse in?"
"Yeah."
They pressed the nurse button as they left.
I watched them go.
Bye, Hanna.
I walked over to my bed.
God, look at me.
My hand and eyelid was swollen.
Skin covered in burises and scratches.
My left wrist was in a cast.
Head throbbing.
My leg, perched up on a pillow.
So many different things hooked up to me I looked like a test subject.
My nurse came in.
Nurse Scott.
Ugh, wake up me! Abby wake up! Touch him! Move your hand up! Mumble something!! FOR SCOTT!!!
"Good Afternoon, Abby. Doing any better?"
Say something!! MUMBLE!!
"You're a lady of many words, Abby."
He smiled and his eyes crinkled.
Oh my god Abby say something, do something, be something!!
"Don't mind me, I'm just gonna ice your arm and adjusting your records. Your friends mom said little moans. That's good! That's improvement definitely."
Awh, thanks Steve. Is it cool if I call you that?
"Don't worry Abby. If you can hear me, the doctors said they're are going to do one of the tests to see if you can go home soon, since you've been so stable."
Thanks, Scott. Will you go get my mom?
"Sleep tight, little soldier." He said as he left my room.
I'll take that as a no?
Ugh.
You know what? Just forget it. I'm going to bed for tonight.
I say down in the chair.
It a while before I got comfortable, and I finally drifted off to sleep with the sounds of Friends entering my cerebellum.
Maybe Monica and Chandler can get my mom.
My alarm went off at 6:20am
Fuuuuuck.
I rolled around my bed till 6:30, and then finally got up.
Leaving my bed was the last thing I wanted to do.
I really didn't wanna get up.
I've been sleep deprived since Thursday.
But I had to.
I shouldn't skip. I have stuff to do and work and I don't wanna be a day behind. Especially not in math. Ugh that would be hell.
I'm always especially grumpy in the morning. Though that didn't matter. I barely talked to my brother in the morning anyway.
My dad was sleeping.
And my mom was normally already at work.
So it was basically just me.
I figured I would have a lazy day, so I could have a lazy outfit that corresponds with it.
I slipped on my sweat pants and put on a bra, along with a hoodie.
After getting dressed, I slowly made my way into the kitchen to get some cereal.
What looks good? I thought as I scanned the cereal section in my cabinet.
"Frosted flakes sounds amazing right now," the words accidentally slipped off my mind and into the universe for all to hear.
Luckily, "all" was just my lovely four-legged canine brother Buddy and I.
I sat down at the counter and started eating my cereal, all the actions up to eating had awakened me, so all I had now was finish up getting ready and then wait for my brother.
7:12am rolled around and my brother and I got in the car, ready to go to school.
I plugged in my head phones as the car slowly came to a start, and played my music, singing bits and pieces of it on our way.
After what seemed like years, we finally arrived at my high school.
Music blaring, I walked into school. Straight to my locker when I spotted my friends, noticing me from afar.
I figured it was my move to release the words first;
"Hey."
"Hiii." Kaelee replied
"Hey!" Lindsey said
"You'll never guess what happened this morning."
I edged her on. "Oo, do tell."
"I woke up this morning and my phone was ringing. It wasn't a number that I knew so I figured it was just K.C," Kaelee explained.
K.C was our friend. He was like a brother to Kaelee and I. He always had phone issues so we would expect a "Hey this is K.C" from an unknown number quite often.
Kaelee continued.
"So when I answered it, I was like: 'hello?'", her voice shifted from happy to monotonous and tired in a split second as she imitated herself.
We all giggled at her story, along with her.
"But anyway, it was a detective. He was asking me a bunch of questions from the other night at the record studio party, when -that Gabby girl?"
My response was quick.
"Yeah."
"Was raped. Or, 'sexually assaulted', as he said."
I tilted my head, looking at her in confusion.
"She was never actually 'penetrated'." Kaelee informed me.
"Oh okay. So what'd he say?" I asked.
"He just asked me about like what I knew on the topic and stuff since she came to me first."
"Ohhh, right. Okay. And?"
"He's going to call me again after school. He was asking me a bunch of questions like 'was I on anything when it happened' and 'if I ever came in contact with the guy'."
"What did you say? You weren't on anything, were you?"
"No, I was basically down by the time it all happened." She smiled.
"Oh, I was gonna say..." I smiled back.
The warning bell went off, as we all started dragging our feet to our first hour classes.
Flash forward to 2:30pm
Kaelee and I wandered out of seventh hour when the last bell had rang. Laughing and talking loudly about how much we dislike our student teacher.
We went down to the locker, when I noticed a third of me getting her stuff from our locker.
"Anna!" I called out to her.
"Hey Sophie, hey Kaelee!"
We talked for a minute until we heard the words that we knew was going to be the start of an adventure, our heads perked up;
"Hey, what are you two doing after school?"
That was all it took. Before I knew it, I was running to my best friend's car in the school parking lot. "Shot gun!" I heard Kaelee yell.
We got into the car and sped off, beating the busses.
I stuck my head out the window.
"WOOOOOHOOOO!"
My head eventually became my upper torso, screaming as the sunshine hit my face and the wind flowed through my long brown hair. The adrenaline was too much, it became my addiction.
"SOPHIE, oh my god what are you doing?! GET IN THE CAR!" Anna flipped.
"Chill out! I'm okay! I have my seat belt on, it's okay!" I laughed into her window. "Turn up the music!"
Kaelee did, and I sang out the window in between laughs.
"Kaelee! You should join me! Haha!"
She laughed and watched me, smiling.
Anna was getting mad.
"Ugh, SOPHIE!!"
Abby's POV:
Yeah, that was a good time. I decide to sit on the chair near my bed as Hanna talked.
"And that time we went night swimming. And we snuck into your neighborhood pool after it had closer. What, oh damn it must've been like 10:30 or 11 at night that night and your parents had no idea."
She started tearing up.
No no, Hanna don't do that. I'll be okay. Hanna! No please don't cry. Awhh, stop! I screamed at her.
She grabbed a few Kleanex and dabbed her eyes.
Oh, Hanna. I sighed.
She looked down at the vibrations spawning from her pocket, via her cell phone. She answered it with very little breath.
"Hello?" She sounded worried.
Hanna, who is it?
"No, I'm in Abby's room."
What, Hanna, who is it?
"No, no movements. Just little moans." She answered.
Is that me? Just little moans? Hanna, if only you knew I was screaming at you!!
"Uhh, floor 12, room 41....12?" She said uncertainly. "Yeah, 12."
I wondered who she was inviting into my room.
"Okay, love you too, bye."
She hung up her phone.
Her mom? Dad, maybe?
God, it had been weeks now.
Weeks since everything went down. Weeks since I had talked to any of my friends. Weeks since going to school. Weeks since I had listened to music. Weeks since I was normal.
I just wanted to go home. I just wanted to tell everyone I was okay and I missed them all so much.
I wanted to tell Kyle that it was okay, it wasn't his fault. There was ice on the road. We shouldn't have been speeding, but his car spun out of control. I don't blame him.
I just wanted my old life back.
I sighed, when suddenly the door opened.
"Hanna, oh darling, this must be hard for you." Mrs. Thomas said.
"Yeah. Mom?"
"Yes dear?"
"I wanna go home." She started crying again.
My eyes got watery.
"Alright. Do you wanna say goodbye?"
"No, I just wanna go home, mom."
"Alright let's go. Should we send the nurse in?"
"Yeah."
They pressed the nurse button as they left.
I watched them go.
Bye, Hanna.
I walked over to my bed.
God, look at me.
My hand and eyelid was swollen.
Skin covered in burises and scratches.
My left wrist was in a cast.
Head throbbing.
My leg, perched up on a pillow.
So many different things hooked up to me I looked like a test subject.
My nurse came in.
Nurse Scott.
Ugh, wake up me! Abby wake up! Touch him! Move your hand up! Mumble something!! FOR SCOTT!!!
"Good Afternoon, Abby. Doing any better?"
Say something!! MUMBLE!!
"You're a lady of many words, Abby."
He smiled and his eyes crinkled.
Oh my god Abby say something, do something, be something!!
"Don't mind me, I'm just gonna ice your arm and adjusting your records. Your friends mom said little moans. That's good! That's improvement definitely."
Awh, thanks Steve. Is it cool if I call you that?
"Don't worry Abby. If you can hear me, the doctors said they're are going to do one of the tests to see if you can go home soon, since you've been so stable."
Thanks, Scott. Will you go get my mom?
"Sleep tight, little soldier." He said as he left my room.
I'll take that as a no?
Ugh.
You know what? Just forget it. I'm going to bed for tonight.
I say down in the chair.
It a while before I got comfortable, and I finally drifted off to sleep with the sounds of Friends entering my cerebellum.
Maybe Monica and Chandler can get my mom.
Notes
Short and boring. But hey, it get's the story moving. Sophie's next POV will be exciting.
If you have questions, feel free to comment. Things should get clearer over time as you continue to read, so if it regards to something that i've already written in one of the upcoming chapters, I'll give you hints but I won't tell you.
Hope you enjoy :)
9/14/13