Fake Smiles and Cut Wrists (a Chandler Riggs fan fiction)

Chapter 26

Chandler's POV

It was Monday morning, and today Laura was coming back to school.

I've never been more happy to be honest, I miss seeing her happy and not laying in a hospital with a bunch of tubes hooked up to her.

Andy came in my room to 'wake me up' but I was already awake.

I hardly ever sleep nowadays, what's the point anyways? I'll just wake up at 3 am sweating and on the verge of a panic attack. So let's not do that.

Right now, I was sitting on the couch next to Payton watching some sort of cartoon she put on.

"Hey, Chandler. Come here, I need to talk to you." I heard Andy say from the kitchen. "

"W-what is it?" I asked once I got there, I was kinda scared I was in trouble or something.

"How about we paint your room on Friday? It still looks like a guest room in there and it's yours so we could paint it however." He said. Wow. Not expecting that.

"O-Oh, um... A-Are you sure?" I ask and he laughed a little. What's so funny?

"If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't have asked. When we were painting Payton's room the other day I let her have some friends over to help. Why don't you do that? Invite some friends over and stuff, they can spend the night, it'll be fun." He explained.

"Th-thank you so much." I said, astonished that I was actually gonna be allowed to have my own room, and paint it.

"No problem, kid." He said.

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When I sat on the bus next to Zay, I immediately invited him over to help decorate the new room. It still kinda feels weird saying 'my room's because when I think of my room, I think of baby blue walls with torn pieces of animal stickers on them, toys that haven't been played with in three years, a bed that I've had since I was seven and a stained and torn carpet.

Anyways, when Parker got on I invited him as well. "Can Ava come too?" He asked me.

"Yeah, sure." I answered. I hope she can, I don't wanna make Andy mad by having too many people over. Wow. I never thought having too many friends over would ever be a problem for me, the only friend I've had before now was a boy named Sam when I was five. And he moved away.

"So, you inviting Laura over?" Zay asked me, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Obviously." I reply and smile.

"Hey, you guys know that new girl?" Parker asked.

"You mean that Brianna girl?" Zay asked.

"Yeah, I think we have a new enemy. I saw her flirting with Jared...and I think they might be together." Parker answered. From the corner of my eye I saw Zay shake his head.

"They're not." He said.

Then I remembered, Jared.

He wasn't on the bus. I really hope I didn't hurt him too bad.

"Chandler, you good?" Zay asked bringing me out of my thoughts. "Yeah, it's just, Jared didn't get on the bus. I-I didn't mean to hurt him that bad I just...He was talking about Laura." I explained.

"I get it man." Zay said simply. Suddenly we heard a voice coming from the back of the bus.

"Jared's okay. He's got a minor concussion but it's his own fault." Autumn yelled loud enough for them to hear her.

"Welp." I said, even though I didn't mean to say it out loud.

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