Baby || Zach Dempsey

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I quickly walked into the boys room shutting  the door behind me Clay was sitting at his desk just was eating something he looked over at me then looked away "what?" I ask he looked back over at me and shook his head "nothing" he said but it was very obviously not nothing

"if this about yesterday I'm sorry I finally stood up for myself" I say shaking my head and crossing my arms feeling the stinging from the fresh cuts "of course that's the picture they use" Clay said I looked over at him confused as me and Justin both walk over to see what he's looking at "yeah dude that is not your best look" I say placing my hands on my hips earning a smack from Justin beside me  "you're not looking too good right now did you sleep at all?" He asked sitting down beside him "yeah" Clay obviously lied "the nightmares again?" Justin asked "not again they never stopped" He replied

"shouldn't you be talking to someone?" I ask he looked at me "shouldn't you?" He asked my heart sank what did he mean by that does he know what does he know  "who do I talk to? What do I say I didn't kill Bryce Walker I'm not crazy?" He asked look over at me "I feel like that actually makes me sound like a crazy person who killed Bryce" he said I shake my head and shrug as he looked to Justin as Clays phone rang Justin picked it up "Mrs.Baker?" Justin questioned I look over at clays phone to see the contact "sorry is she back in town?" Justin asked handing the phone back to Clay "what?" He questioned taking his phone from Justin and look down at it

he stood up me and Justin share a look as Clay walked away from us "hey later do you wanna like talk?" Justin asked me I looked at him confused "what? Don't we talk like all the time?" I ask "no I mean like seriously monets later?" He asked I nod "yeah sure" I say worried as we walk out of the room to leave for school

I sat in the library with Zach and Alex they were reading some book for English I was thinking of possibly of what the hell I was gonna tell Justin later "are you okay?" Alex asked me I look up at him "um I need your help actually" I say getting Zach attention as well "okay so I did something like bad like really bad that could completely ruin my trust with someone I care about most and they want to talk later and I think they know so what should I do?" I ask look at the boys they both share a look with each other then look back at me

"what the fuck did you do?" Alex ask me I look at the both "I can't tell you or else you guys will flip out and go all overprotective Zach and psycho Alex" I say as I put my head in my hands out fo frustration "hey I'm sure whatever happened can't be that bad right?" Zach ashes as he grabbed my arm pulling it away from my face i quickly pull my arm away looking up at him nervously "why do you keep doing that?" He asked concerned I shrug

"doing what?" I play dumb "yanking your arm away when ever someone touches you?" Alex ask i shrug "bad habit I guess" I say quickly getting up grabbing my bag and walking away quickly

I get to the gym and quickly walk in knowing no one would be in there I take a deep breath and jump at the noise of the door closing behind me I turn and see Zach standing there "are you okay you've been acting weird?" Zach asked I shake my head as I take a seat on the bleachers next to us him doing the same "did you relapse? Please kens tell me it's not heroin" he asked frantically looking at me with worried eyes I shake my head again

"it's not that" I say quietly "then what are you hiding?" He asked "nothing I'm not hiding anything" I answer he chuckled a bit "you're lying and I know it you can fool Alex all you want but you can never lie to me" Zach spoke i sigh looking down at my wrist "please talk to me what going on?" Zach asked placing a hand on my wrist to comfort me but I went to pull it away but stopped when I looked up at him to see his face knowing that whatever I was hiding is under my sleeve

he slowly looked down at my sleeve again before slowly pulling it up I watched his face as it changed to a socked expression he looked back up at me tears slowly forming in both our eyes "I'm sorry" I say he shook his head and pulled me into his chest as we both began to let our tears fall "why would you do this to yourself?" Zach ask pulling away and holding my wrist in his hands

"I just-I needed an escape from everything" I say "kens you can always talk to me or Justin or someone don't hurt yourself" he said I shake my head "you guys have your own stuff to worry about" I say shrugging Zach quickly shook his head "no no I would rather stay up until five in the morning listing to you talk about what's going on than to ever see another cut on you" Zach said blinking away his tears trying not to cry I nod

"does Justin know?" He ask I shake my head "no but he knows something been off and he wants to talk later so I'm gonna have to tell him or lie or something I don't know what to do" I say placing my head in my hands as Zach softly rubbed my back "tell him he can help" Zach said I nod looking back up at him the bell rang we both stood up and walked together to our class

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