After the performance, Sophe's friends congratulate her, they walked out of the school's gate, giggling excited, sophe, Clude, Cyril, amber, squall, Chloe and Charlotte.
"That was so great, guys", Chloe told sophe and Clude.
"Sophe and Clude's performance was stunning", Charlotte said, "you're gonna teach me to dance, sophe"
Sophe and Clude were just smiling.
"Don't mention", Clude said, "Sophe should get the praises, not me-"
"I should get the praises!"
They turned to see where the voice came from and Eugene was sitting on a van with some thugs.
"Eugene?" Sophe was astonished, "what're you doing here in Pensivia?"
Eugene got down and looked at Clude, Clude's hand was holding Sophe's, sophe pulled back her hand, Eugene gave clude a slap across his face.
"Hey!", Cyril stepped forward, the gangs got hold of Cyril and the others.
"Hey, let us go!", they struggled.
"Hey, my mom's a cop!", chloe yelled. One of the boys stuck a sock in her mouth, Chloe spit it out, disgusted at it's smell.
Eugene kept slapping Clude, Clude didn't stop him.
"Stop!", sophe yelled at him, "you should be ashamed of yourself!"
Eugene turned to her.
"Is he better than me?", he said, "Huh, sophe? Is he? What does he have that I don't?"
"I have a heart!", Clude pointed out.
Eugene turned to him. "Then promise me you and sophe aren't having anything going on "
Eugene took out a gun and pointed it at him, everyone gasped.
"Say it!"
"I can't promise", Clude told him, "but I won't say I didn't act on it either. I loved sophe the first day I saw her, the first time they moved here I get to know her, I felt something for her, but a woman is not a piece of land that you can take whenever you want "
Eugene slapped him.
"Say it again!", he threatened.
"You broke her like she was some trash, Eugene!", Clude said.
Eugene stared at him."You got some guts"
"I got a dad who works for the authorities, like the general, and I'm bold to stand up to heartless people like you!" Clude said, fearlessly.
Clude turned to sophe.
"Tell me you still love him and I'll leave you alone", he said.
"I'm picturing you on fire with all of them here", Eugene said to her, "Sophe, come back to me. I was broken when you cried but problem and obstacles are part of life, you can't be normal if you don't face them, everything will be easier if we start again, I travelled all the way here just to see you, sophe, that's why I left Mexico, I left my family, my school -"
"Did I tell you to?", sophe asked him, tears clouded her eyes, "you humiliated me, Eugene, you didn't think about me when you did that. So don't ask me why I changed, ask yourself what you did to me!"
"I've forgotten the past now ", Eugene said.
Sophe cut him, "what about me? I wasn't happy. I stopped smiling because of you, I couldn't showy face in public anymore, what you did was very wrong, Eugene. You're a terrible person, how could you stoop so low like this! All I did was love you, I put up with you for so long, I'm going to give you a good reply for what you've done - I hate you! Are you happy now? I never imagined you would turn out to be like this, I curse the day I met you and fell in love with you, I don't fall in love anymore now, cause anything that falls gets broken, you changed me, I doubled my bad habit because of you, I've shown you too much decency but I'll show you what you're worth, now you'll face the consequences and I'll make sure you do, you ruined my reputation and I'll keep hating you for that, Don't ever show up here again, because whenever I see you, the more I remember the pain "
Tears rolled down Eugene's face, sophe was actually taken aback by it.
"Oh, so you know how to feel?", she asked him, "but I don't anymore. Your fake tears, they don't affect me anymore, that's because I no longer let my feelings get the better of me, I use my brain now when it gets to you"
"Sophe's a good girl", Clude told him, "she needs love in her heart but what did you do? You broke her life and torture her every single time "
"You don't know this new me, Eugene ", sophe added, "I picked up my pieces differently, and I hurt myself just to end this nightmare "
They didn't know that while they were talking and getting lost in the moment, Chloe was silently making textes in her phone to her mom who was a cop, soon the cops arrived, Eugene and his gangs were handcuffed. Chloe's mom, Courtney,ran to her.
"Are you alright?", Courtney said.
"Yes", Chloe said.
Eugene turned to sophe as he was being taken away. "My flight back to Mexico's estimated fifteen hours from now and I wanted to take you with me to make things right", he said.
"Goodbye ", squall said, "and don't ever come back"
When sophe got home, she locked herself up in her room, Clude and sophe's mom, piper, banged on her door.
"Leave me alone! I don't want to talk to anyone!" Sophe started scattering everything in her room, she fist her wrist on the wall until it was bleeding.
"Go away! Leave me alone!", she screamed, "leave me alone to die in pieces!"
"Sophe, please open the door", Clude said.
"Leave her", piper said to Clude, "she don't want to open the door, she won't. You should leave my daughter alone, Clude, let her breath in peace, I can't bear to bear to see her die like this "
"I understand how you feel", Clude told her, "what happened is already very bad but I'm going to fix this, I'm sorry "
"You said sorry, that's better. But is she? Sorry isn't worth the pain, it's not by saying, it's by action. I won't let anyone take advantage of her, out yourself in my shoes and feel it for once! I can't bear to see her in this state!"
"I can't either, Eugene gave her so much humiliation that she didn't deserve, I feel terrible to see her in this condition too, I feel the pain too!"
"This is about my daughter's life and death now, she would slit her wrist, Clude, she would kill herself! If anything happen to her, I'll die. Please give her the space she deserves "
Clude nods and walked away.
Soon sophe sat in her bedroom with Chloe helping her to treat her wrist injury.
"All done", Chloe said and got up,"I'll go ahead now"
"Yes "
Chloe wiped sophe's tears.
"I'm sorry ", she said, "I didn't know that jerk will come all the way here"
"I told you don't worry about me ", Sophe said, "I'll handle things here"
Chloe leaves.
At bedtime, piper came into sophe's rom to see if she was asleep yet, instead sophe was sitting at the corner of the bed, staring at nothing.
"Mom, go to bed, don't soend half your bedtime asking me questions again", sophe said, without turning to look at her.
"Honey, please tell me what's going on, we're worried about you", piper said, and sat on the bed
Sophe started sobbing afresh, she moved closer and hugged her mom, suddenly she pulled away and held her chest.
"What is it?", piper asked her, "are you having an attack again?"
"I'm feeling worser again, mom, I can't breathe!"
Piper held sophe's hand tightly.
"I need..", sophe tried to speak.
"No, you're quitting", piper told her.
"Mom, help me!", sophe cried.
Piper started humming a song she used to sing when sophe was just a little girl.
"πI have a wing, you have a wing, all good children have wings
12345 we'll fly away with our wingsπ"
Sophe was able to calm down and piper gave her a glass of water.
"If further replaces occurs", she told her, "remember to take water instead"
The next morning, Pua watched her mom dressed up to leave.
Courtney turned to pua. "How do I look?"
Pua sized her up and down and gave her a thumbs up. "Stunning"
Chloe walked in and looked at her mom.her mom saw her through the mirror.
"Stop staring at me, Chloe, you're making me self-conscious", Courtney said.
"A second honeymoon in just half a month?", Chloe asked her.
"So?", Courtney said, "It's not like I get nice moments with your dad anyways, I spend most of my time at the station "
"Wow", Chloe said, "so I have to watch over pua again "
"Oh, darling, you're doing great ", Courtney told her, "you should spend time with your little sister now before another baby comes out "
"What?", pua said, "another baby? But I'm okay being your favourite,mom"
"And I don't want another baby either ", Chloe snorted, "one annoying brat is enough for me, I don't have to deal with two"
Courtney grabbed her bag and walked away. Chloe stared at her go. "That's it?"
She turned to pua, pua poked out her tongue at her and ran away.
Sophe and squall were in the living room, playing chess when piper came down to them with a bag.
"Sophe, give this bag of tool to your dad, he must have forgotten them while hurrying off", piper said.
Sophe grabbed the bag from her with a grumpy face.
"He's handling one of the construction work at the station, down the third floor, can you do that for me?"
Sophe got up. "Do I have a choice"
Sophe alighted from the bus with some people, one of which at the state of pushing sophe so she could get down, her drink spill on sophe's clothes.
"Oh, I'm so sorry", she apologized mockingly.
Sophe looked at her. "no, you're not"
"Yeah, you got me"
Sophe took off the stained coat, leaving her with a skin tight short dress, she threw the coat at the girl and walked away. She got to the station, trying to adjust her dress, she bumped into the sheriff.
"Good morning, sheriff Al", she said, "I'm here for my dad"
The sheriff looked at her clothes.
"You lool a bit sexy today ,I've never seen you dress like this before", he said.
Sophe sighed. "You know something happened to me in the bus earlier ", she said, "there was this annoying girl that shoved me aside so she could get off, her drink spill on me. I know this dress is a bit improper "
"No, it fits you"
"Oh, cut It out"
"Third floor"
The sheriff stared at her as she walked away, making sophe uncomfortable, sophe walked into the elevator and bumped into Clude inside, she almost tripped into his body because she wasn't looking where she was going.
"Hey", Clude said.
Sophe didn't apologize. "Why are you here?", she asked him.
"My dad is the sheriff, remember", he said.
"Oh"
Suddenly the elevator got stuck. Sophe started panicking, Clude was finding a way to open the door.
"Help us, we're stuck in this elevator!", he banged on thr elevator door, "hello? Somebody there? Anybody?"
Sophe stood at a corner, grasping for breathe.
"Sophe, are you okay?", Clude asked her.
"My... chest", sophe muttered, "I ...I can barely breathe"
Sophe turned around, sobbing and mumbling a song. "πI have a wing, you have a wing
All good children have wings
12345 we'll fly away with our wingsπ"
Clude tapped her and turned her around. He was surprised to see tear filled eyes.
"I thought you never cried?", he asked her.
"Are we going to die here?", sophe whimpered.
"No, listen to me, everything is going to be fine. Just relax, stay with me, please "
Sophe kept gasping for breath.
"Sophe, inhale ", he said
Sophe inhaled.
"Exhale "
Sophe exhaled. Soon they sat on the floor, waiting for help.
"Still no help", sophe said, and turned to Clude, "Clude, If this would be the last day of my life, I want you to know that -"
The elevator door opened, they got up, the inspectors helped them out.
"You alright?", they asked them.
"It's about time", Clude said, "what happened to your elevator? You have to fix it"
Then Clude looked at sophe.
"You sure you'll be okay?"
She nods. "Yeah"
"You were going to say something ", he told her.
"Nevermind ", she said but she imagined... "If this would be the last day if my life, Clude, I want you to know that...I love you"
She imagined Clude's response. "I love you too. If you were just a dream, then you're the most beautiful dream I've ever had I'm my life, and if you really were a dream I'd rather stay asleep "
Sophe walked out of the station, some rough looking boys who were sitting at the side walk got up and blocked sophe's path.
"I really like you, I like your dress ", one said. They pushed her down and two held her hands, the other got hold of her clothes , sophe struggled. "Help me!", she said, "let me go!"
Clude walked out of the station with his dad, they saw the boys harrassing sophe.
"Hey!"
The boys let go of sophe and made a run for it, Clude's dad, dugg, went after them. Sophe crawled to a corner, sobbing. Clude leaned over her.
"You okay?"
He touched her face, sophe pushed his hand away, still sobbing.
"I'm upset because of you", she said.
"What did I do wrong?"
"You'll keep making me weak. My strength and boldness has been drained from me, I hate me now"
"I can't see anything I don't like about you ", Clude told her.
"But you will", sophe said.
"Listen, sophe, when it feels scary, that's when you jump, otherwise you'll end up staying in same place your whole life "
Sophe got up and wiped her tears.
"I wanna be someone's first choice ", she said.
"Maybe you're someone's first choice. You never know when you gonna find your dream person, anyone on the street could be 'they'"
"It seems like you Googled how to talk to your bi-sexual friends "
Clude yawned. "I'm hungry", he said.
"You can eat what my mom made", sophe said.
"What did she made?"
"Me"
Clude laughed, sophe smiled.
"There's a meeting at the jay musical tonight ", he said, "just be yourself, act normal "
"Which one? I can't do both"
Dugg returned, panting heavily.
"I lost them", he said, "You wanna write a statement, sophe?"
"No, it's okay ", sophe said.
"I hope so", Clude said, "So are you okay?"
"I will be eventually "
*Jay musical tonight*
"Anyone else got a burden to share ", Jay asked them.
"I wanna share my ex ", sophe spoked, "he's a burden that I don't want to carry anymore. Even my dreams are so much complicated now, problems come up on their own, loneliness have followed me my whole life, everywhere. You know what I regret most? I regret opening up to some people, they didn't deserve to know me like that-"
"You have family at least, a boyfriend and a best friend", amber cut her, "I only have my dad and my little brother, jozz"
"Jozz and dad", Jo-Jo said, "I only have my mom, the principal "
"You guys have loved ones?", Jay said.
"I mean this constant need to be loved by everyone is kind of pathetic ", sophe said, "I got hurt, and even though my outsides got better, my insides never did "