High School Sweethearts (wlw)

• Chapter 11 •

(Emily POV)

⚠️⚠️Massive TW: Domestic Violence⚠️⚠️
Please skip if necessary, it is relevant for the plot but you can get along without it. Just be careful if this triggers you.

Chat with Rose🥀

Hear me out

I'm listening

First off sorry for my mum
She likes to show her wealth
Unlike yours

Yup I noticed

She's had a hard past
So don't judge her please

Hard to do when she's judging me

Come on
You're better than that

Yeah but idk if I wanna be
That woman really seems to hate me

You know that's not true

Do I?

—[•~]—

I sighed to myself. Rose had a point.

"Honey, come on. Don't be all depressed back there." my mother said, slightly turning her head back.

I just looked out of the window.

"Mum, do you hate Rose?"

I was met with silence.

Long silence.

"I mean, her mother doesn't exactly seem very poor, even if she dresses like it..."

"That's not what I was asking, mum. I was asking about Rose."

My mother shrugged. "As long as she doesn't try to make you... one of them, I'm all for your friendship."

I rolled my eyes.

"Come on sweetie, you know what it's like with all this new... LGTB stuff. You see it on the internet and automatically think you're part of all of it."

"That would make sense mum, except that Rose doesn't have any social media." I said, smirking.

"Honey, that doesn't mean anything."

She talked on, but I didn't listen. I didn't want to hear her talking about Rose.

I put on my headphones.

High School Sweethearts by Melanie Martinez.

Why now.

If you can't handle a heart like mine, don't waste your time with me...

—[•~]—

In a small street, moving further and further away from Emily, stood Rose.

Laughing at a joke Maggie's father had made.

Making a pancake for Max.

Trying to forget Emily's mother.