The Sound of Revenge

Thursday

I walked to school feeling happy and enlightened. This week had been my favourite week since the beatings started. Jarrod had been away from school for all of the days until today. At the time I was trying to tell myself that Jarrod would be away again today but I knew that he would have to come back sometime. Today was that day.
I got to school pretty early, but this was not unusual as I got to school at this time pretty much everyday. What was unusual was that there was a school bag sitting outside Jarrod's locker. Jarrod was never early, nobody other than Samantha was ever.
My heart started beating a million miles per hour. Jarrod, here, now! This would be the perfect time for him to be here too. Hardly any teachers were around and no students were here yet. I was scared and anxious. I leant against the wall and slid down so I was sitting up against it.
"Hey Samantha" Jarrod said, coming round the corner. I hated how he always started off talking to me casually as though he couldn't remember what he had done to me through the past weeks.
"What do you want?" I asked, looking up at him in disgust.
"Cranky today? Are ya? What's wrong" Jarrod asked with sarcasm.
"What do you think?" After that I just started crying. Crying and crying. I didn't care if he saw me crying anymore. I was so broken and sad. All these things had been happening in my life and every one of them had gone wrong. I thought about how I had once considered Jarrod as my friend and how it had gone down from there.
He knelt down to me and put his hand on my face. "It's alright Samantha. Don't worry, you'll be alright" Jarrod smiled. I pushed his hand away and kept on crying. "How can I make you feel better?" He asked. I just shook my head and wept. He sat down next to me and slid closer until he was right beside me. "Could you unzip your dress? It's a hot day, maybe you'll feel better if you get cooler."
I cried harder and pushed myself away from him. "Are you scared? I won't look. Just unzip your dress and then you'll be much cooler."
That was it. I'd had enough. I got up and ran. I ran right into the girls toilet door, which was locked so I ran further into the girls change rooms. Jarrod was following close behind, shouting all kinds of abuse. I locked myself in one of the showers and didn't come out until halfway into the first lesson. When I did get to class I lied that I had been at the nurse.
Jarrod didn't do anything else that day until I got home and checked my phone.