CHAPTER 13- Typical

Izzy's POV 

       As I pulled up to the house the first thing I noticed was Marissa's car gone. That second, I got a text. 

From: Mar
Hey babe, went to go get some things for dinner, be home in 10, love you(: 

     I quickly replied 'Okay' and walked into the house, and up to the bathroom, nearly screaming at my reflection. My eyes were bloodshot from crying, cruises around my throat and hickeys on my chest. My hair's a complete wreck, matted with dirt. I felt disgusting. A wave of nausea came over me and I threw up into the toilet bowl. I leaned against the cool ceramic, it felt good against my burning forehead. I heard a door open downstairs. 

"Izzy?" I reached over and locked the door, then turn the shower on. 

"Yeah?" My voice was raw and hoarse form all of the screaming i'd done. 

"Are you okay?"

I bit my lip, not at all. 

"Yeah!" 

I heard her moving around downstairs, so I began to undress, hoping a shower would get rid of the feel of Sean Mendez's hand on me. It didn't.  I stood in the shower until the water ran cold and Marissa was knocking on the door. 

"What are you doing in there? Drowning?" 

Not a bad idea. 

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        Once I was out of the shower, and had put makeup on to hide the bruises, I walked downstairs, my face blank and empty. Marissa was in the living room, the whole floor was covered in blowup mattresses and pillows and blankets. 

"Hey babe." I glanced up and gave Marissa a small smile. She must've taken my lack of emotion for my mom not being here, because she held up two movies. 

"Which one." 

The choice was between John Tucker must die, and the notebook. Both of which I had no inclination to watch because it never works out like it does in the movies. Love never lasts, no matter what kind it is, father and mother, boyfriend and girlfriend, wife and husband, parent and child. 

So, instead of giving her my detailed analysis of why we should watch a movie similar to the titanic, in which it is proven that love in fact does not conquer all... 

I shrugged, so she held up the case holding 'The Notebook' hopefully causing me to roll my eyes, typical Marissa. 

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