He Hurt Me

[Kailin Bishop]

Backtrack Early June

What did a girl do when she had just gotten her heart shattered into a million pieces by a single person? Did she go and scream at them? No, Kailin didn't even want to see Anthony in that moment. Did she go drown her sorrows in Ice Cream? No, the whole point of this was she obviously wasn't pretty enough for him to be satisfied with. She'd probably cut the carbs completely for a few weeks. So what did she do?

Kales went to her only other best friend - her Prince Charming. 

Tears streaming down her face, she held her head low as she pushed past the boys dorms and into the co-ed, looking for the room that she knew Salem was in. Without much thought, opened the unlocked dorm room door, and stepped into the common room, heading towards Salem's door. 

"Salem," She knocked, sobbing his name. "Salem open the door, please? It's Kailin."

[Salem Hirch]

Finally things seemed to have settled, it was early summer, people seemed more relaxed. Salem had finally gotten over some minor issues from the past year, well minor according to him. A certain boy, who shall from this moment on remain nameless, was very forgotten. He had managed to pick up his guitar again, for the first time in months. A few songs strummed out before he started working on a song he'd been writing for some time. 

His brain seemed to slip away again to that happy place that it would drift to when he was engulfed in music or books. This was Salem at his best. 

He was so wrapped up in the music that he didn't register the knock at his door. The soft, but yet very upset voice caught his attention though. It was Kales. Tilting his head at the sound of her voice, he put his guitar to one side, stood, and made his way to his door, rather quickly. Normally, he would have grabbed Kailin into a big goofy hug, but the tears on her face let him know this was important. 

Salem's blue eyes widened when he fully took in how upset she looked and he frowned. "Kales? Hun what happened? What's wrong?" The thought of something or someone making her cry made his stomach hurt.

[Kailin Bishop]

What did she say to him? All Kales wanted to do was cry on this boy's shoulder, knowing that at least there would be nothing that he could do to hurt her - at least, in the love department that is. However, in this moment she realized even the most trusted person could screw you over if you only gave them the opportunity. But everything in her heart told her that Salem wouldn't do that to her, if only because she needed to cling to somebody and cry to, and her siblings were not the best people to do that.

"T-Tony..." Her head remained down and slowly walked forward, pressing her face into his shirt. Kales knew that she would probably have ruined this shirt with tears by the time this session was over, and she really hoped he didn't mind, because she most definitely didn't want to look him in the eye; she couldn't look him in the eye.

"He... cheated on...me"

[Salem Hirch]

Slowly, Salem guided his dear friend into his room with him and shut the door. This was the first time he'd really had anyone crying on his shoulder at wasn't really sure what to do. That on top of the fact, that this was Kales crying. Then she mentioned Tony and he frozen. "Kailin...wha..what happened?" He stammered out, fearing something terrible had possibly happened to his best friend. No, that wasn't the case. Tony was about to have something terrible happen to him. Anger shot through Salem so fiercely that his whole body turned red and he heated up. "He did WHAT?" Okay, so he didn't mean to shout the last word, but he was furious.

How could Anthony do this? Salem attempted to move Kales to the bed, so she could sit and he could hold her. Honestly, the girl was the only thing keeping him from going and punching his best friend in the head. Gently, he kissed the top of her head and hugged her tighter. "Shh, it'll be okay Kales...I'm here for ya." The boy didn't know what to do, but she had been there for the whole Carter fiasco, been there when he cried like this, but he couldn't imagine going through what she was. Salem barely knew Carter and got over it (mostly) pretty quick. This for Kales and Tony was three years. It was breaking Salem's heart and even part of him wondered if Tony was okay too. "Come on hun, why don't we sit down and you can cry all you need to."

[Kailin Bishop]

So she did. Kailin followed his direction and sat down, holding onto him as he attempted to soothe her. It wasn't really working much, but she appreciated the effort more than he could ever imagine - Kailin didn't know what she would do without him.

"I just..." The blonde choked out, slightly muffled by Salem's shirtfront, "Three years and he betrays me. Am I really that awful and ugly?" The girl never really gave much indication that she was insecure about her image, but when her best friend decided to cheat on her with someone else, well, there couldn't help but have a lingering thought. And then what with Anthony's roommate telling her that she wasn't 'pretty enough' didn't help either.

"D-Did I really mean n-nothing?"