Ahem, yet again a double post...but a promise is a promise... it's a little short, but i hope y'all enjoy it! It's the last update because I'm going on holiday! Yay! for 2 weeks like...ummm...I said in the post above! :D

Chapter Five

On Monday, another series of events followed. As always, Shadee woke up in the morning, had her usual bathroom routine, munched down breakfast, then took the bus to school. Yet another boring school day was about to begin.

Shadee looked around the classroom. She was the first one to arrive to school, besides the nerd twins, who didn’t exactly count.



Sighing, she let herself fall on the chair of her desk then put her head on one arm and tried to take a nap.

But sure enough, no one was going to let her. The bell rang and the “Big Six” entered the class chatting loudly about the newest gossip. Shadee looked up, threw one loving glance at Brandon, then began to take out her school books for the first hour. After the break was over, the teacher came in: Miss Dora, their head teacher. She was the sweetest thing, in her early twenties, just graduated from university. Her lifetime dream had been to become a teacher and her dream had fulfilled that year: it was the first time she was beginning to teach. Being so young, she insisted that everyone should simply call her “Dora”.



Shadee looked around the classroom. Where was Holly? She was never late, especially when the first class was with Miss Dora. She liked her a lot. The girl looked worriedly at the empty place next to her. Had something happened to her friend? Did she get attacked or something on the way to school? Shadee had to check around!



‘Miss Dora!’ she raised a hand ‘May I please go to the bathroom?’

‘Sure, Shadee! Go ahead. Just try to get back quickly.’ Dora winked and the girl was already at the door.

She hadn’t even made a few paces when a heart tearing sob drifted to her from the girls’ bathroom. As slowly and soundlessly as she could, Shadee opened the door ajar to check the room. And sure enough, in front of a cubicle was Holly, her head in her hands, crying her heart out.

‘Holly?’ she barely whispered, trying not to startle her ‘Is everything okay?’

At first, Holly didn’t answer, but started crying even harder. Shadee approached her and began to pat her shoulder gently.


‘It’s okay, I’m here!’

The poor girl slowly leaned on Shadee protective shoulder and continued to sob.

‘Everyone hates me!’ Holly finally whispered ‘Everyone makes fun of me because I’m fat! I hate this. I want this to stop!’

Shadee felt really sorry for her. Up until then, she had thought her friend didn’t find it too hard to get over all the offending words that were being thrown at her, but this proved her wrong.

‘There were these older kids in the school yard.’ Holly continued ‘I was walking up the stairs, minding my own business, but they began to shout hurtful things and made fun of me and laughed. I really wanted to get out of there as soon as possible! But they started to throw paper balls at me and one of them - one of them-’

She couldn’t continue to tell her what the boy had done, but it wasn’t necessary. Shadee had already spotted a big, gross phlegm trailing down Holly’s nape.



If she had pitied her a lot before, the feelings Shadee now had couldn’t be described! She hated the guts of “the older kids”, she would have killed them on the spot if they had been there in the same room. Instead, she grabbed a piece of paper and gently rubbed off the slimy saliva.

‘You know what, Holly? You’re too much of a good and beautiful person to be upset by a bunch of losers!’

‘Me? Beautiful?’ snorted Holly with a bitter smile playing on her lips ‘Shadee, you can’t even know how I feel. I disgust myself! Look at my body! The fat trembles when I walk!’ she sighed, gradually regaining her composure



‘Well, this is something that can be solved!’ Shadee smiled reassuringly ‘No, don’t laugh! Listen to me I could help you loose some weight if you’d let me! You always eat junk food and that’s really bad, you avoid sports…’

Holly looked her in the eyes.
‘I really can’t help eating. I eat a lot. When I’m hungry, when I’m upset, when I’m sad, when I have problems…’ her voice trailed off.

To Shadee it was clear as daylight that Holly didn’t lead too much of a healthy life. And she was seriously worried about her eating habits. Something had to be done before it would be too late!

‘You know what? I am going to take care that you only eat healthy food at school and from now on we’ll be going to the gym every day after classes! Trust me, having someone be there for you and going with you helps a lot!’ she grinned happily at the prospect.

Holly looked up at her with tear-smeared cheeks.

‘Would you really do this to take care of me?’ she whispered sadly.

Shadee nodded. It was that moment that really made their friendship stronger. There, in a stinky toilet on the first floor, an everlasting friendship was made.




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