Sawyer Monroe

       It had been a month since Sawyer left. Four weeks. Thirty-one days. She didn’t mean to count, but it was so easy to look at a calendar and know it had been a month since she last saw her friend. Their shared room was empty without her, and although Sarah often wondered why they hadn’t replaced her, she wasn’t about to remind them. The lack of replacement was the only lingering hope that perhaps her roommate would be coming back.        Waiting for group therapy to start, she was focused on her sketch of the student across the room when the girl’s sudden words nearly made her jump in her seat. Sawyer? Her eyes lit up for a moment, and a quick glance to her right confirmed it: her old roommate was back in town–for now. She reminded herself this was only temporary. Sarah turned back to her sketchbook and feigned nonchalance, returning to her sketch. “I dunno,” she said with a shrug. “If you get sent back to juvie again, they’ll prob'ly give you a free pass.”

Sawyer just paused as she heard Sarah’s statement and she nodded. “Okay that’s fair. I promised I wouldn’t go back last time and I messed up and got sent back but now I’m here. For good.” Sawyer said and then looked down at her hands. “They told me that if I get sent back another time that I’m not allowed to come back here to Silver Creek.” She admitted with a grim look on her face. “So I’m staying.” she said firmly, more trying to convince herself that she could do it then she was convincing Sarah. 

“Oh that reminds me. We stopped out in the real world for a bit on our way back and I got you something.” Sawyer said with a smile. She had gotten one for both Simon and Sarah, as they were both her family. She pulled out one of those beaded distance healing bracelets and handed it over. “I got Simon one too. I’m usually not into sappy crap like this and in no way do I think that they’re actually useful for ‘healing’ but i just figured that it’d be cool if we all had like matching ones? I don’t know. I think i just missed you guys in juvie and I wanted to do something sappy. And no, before you ask, I didn’t steal it.”

“My statement stands,” she snapped. “If it’s that important to you, you would find a way.” Katerina felt no guilt, she had not been the one to start with an ugly attitude and she would have preferred the other to just leave her alone. “Does it matter?” Regardless if the girl had been snippy or not, Katerina was not here to make friends. She pushed away her real friends and she was not going to replace them that easily.

“I may hate people but I’m not just going to violently push past them to get back to my room.” Sawyer said and rolled her eyes. She was sarcastic and quiet but she wasn’t violent. She just didn’t trust many people other than the two friends she had claimed as her own. “I was just trying to make conversation because we’re stuck next to each other but god nevermind....last time i try to be nice to anyone.”

Katerina considered ignoring the whiner but she rarely got the chance to release her bottled up tension. Turning her head to spare the other a glance, she stared unblinkingly into her eyes as she spoke. “It would actually. If I walk any faster I’ll fall apart and die. Tragic, I know.” She rolled her eyes as she continued her steady pace, in no rush to get anywhere. “Go the fuck around if you’re that pressed about it,” she called out.

“Do you not see how packed this hallway is?” Sawyer asked annoyed but it was whatever. She guessed she would take it and just walk at the same pace as everyone else until the hallways clear up. “god I just want to get back to my dorm and have a smoke.” she muttered before looking at the other girl. “But i guess I’m stuck walking with you until these idiots decide to move faster.” Sawyer said, deciding to be decent and talk to someone for once. “Are you knew? I don’t think I’ve seen you around before.”

– “I’m trying to make things feel normal instead of all weird and sappy. I think we both need a healthy dose of troubled kid normal,” Simon said with a laugh, offering her his Juul for some good ol’ nicotine. “It’s mango flavored. And yes, I did start vaping in the month you were gone, you weren’t here to stop me and I decided to become a douchebag.” He had felt bad about not going to group, but he couldn’t help it. He’d just have an extra one on one with Dr. Jillian later that week to make up for it. There was so much he had to tell Sawyer, so many things she had missed, so many things kept close to his chest. Simon was close with people, he couldn’t deny that, but he was extremely selective in who found out what about him. He wasn’t fully open to anyone. Not even Sawyer. “And no, they have not. Not with alcohol, drugs, nicotine, it’s kind of wild.”

“You’re such a good friend. You even remembered how much I hate sappy reunions.” Sawyer said, her grin just getting bigger. “But it’s cute that you missed me still. I missed you too Reign.” Sawyer started following him towards the entranceway to the roof stairs and she looked at the Juul. Her eyebrow quirked up and she looked at it and then at Simon and then back at the Juul and she shrugged and took it, taking a drag and then handing it back. She coughed as she laughed at his joke and Sawyer couldn’t help but shrug. “I mean you were sleeping with one for a bit.” she teased but made it clear that she was completely joking, since she didn’t know where the two were at anymore. There was so much they had to catch up on and so much Sawyer had to tell Simon about what happened at Juvie and she wanted to know how he was and...god she just missed him. “You think a school for troubled kids would be more strict considering all the rules they have in place.” she said and rolled her eyes. “but hey if that mens we get to smoke on the roof interrupted then I’m not gonna complain.”

– They fit together like two halves of a peach, and when Sawyer had got sentenced to juvie again, Simon was terrified he’d never see her again. Not that he would be out soon, but it felt like they were growing further and further apart, because Sawyer kept doing stupid shit and well… Simon was just a distant sort of guy. But he was going to put in an effort this time, he cared about Sawyer too much to lose her to the system. 

– It was just about 6.22PM and Simon knew that she would be out of group therapy in about eight minutes. Eight minutes of waiting for his best friend. Not like he hadn’t spent the last month just waiting for someone that he could talk too and have them understand again, but still. Just eight minutes. 

– Finally, 6.30PM hit and Simon jumped up from where he was slumped in the grass and walked closer to the academic building. He didn’t want to hover just outside the room where group therapy went down, partially because he skipped his session today and he was in the same group as Sawyer, and Jesse, the reason he skipped, and also because it was too beautiful out to wait indoors. When he saw Sawyer and Sarah, his eyes lit up with joy and he waited for the two girls, who were obviously in love, to part ways.

– “Hey, Sawyer,” he smiled as he walked across to his friend. “Do you want to go smoke on the roof?”

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Sawyer was back. She was back and she was with Sarah again and soon she’d be with Simon and things would be better than ever. Honestly, she needed them to. Sawyer couldn’t go back to Juvie, she couldn’t. Things were too good to lose and this past month at Juvie had probably been the worst one that she had ever experienced. The girls there were getting worse every time she came back and she just couldn’t lose this again because Sawyer knew that if she went back, she wasn’t coming back to Silver Creek. That had been made clear. 

So in group therapy she had clung to Sarah and took every moment that she could in and internally she was watching the clock. Simon hadn’t been there and she had already told Sarah that as soon as therapy she was over, she needed to find him. Sarah had complied and so when they left and Sawyer saw Simon standing there waiting for them, her eyes lit up.

The two girls parted ways and Sawyer quickly made her way up to the boy with a grin. “That’s it? We haven’t seen each other in a month and that’s all I get? I figured you’d be more excited.” The girl teased before nodding. “yeah i would kill for a smoke actually.” she said. “but the roof? security guards still haven’t caught on that you go up there? I swear its like this school makes it easy to break rules”

Sawyer hated people and the fact that today was a busy day of school meant they were everywhere. Sawyer was trying to move and walk quickly back to her room, but everyone in front of her was walking so ungodly slow. Sawyer huffed as she walked through the people, being small had advantages, but soon there was a girl in front of her that she found were slowing everything down so she just huffed again and she couldn’t hold her tongue. “God, would it kill you to move any faster or are you purposely going slow to piss people off?”

She had promised Sarah the last time that she would never go to Juvie again and yet here Sawyer was, getting off the bus and coming back to school from juvie once more. She had messed up and she regretted it and it was stupid, but this time they had been more lenient and only kept her in a month. Sawyer had been better this time around too because she had actually kept in contact. She knew that she was going to end up coming back so she had wanted to keep talking to Simon and Sarah. Sawyer knew it would be her only motivation to getting out early.  So here she was again, walking to the group therapy room as she had been directed. The excitement and anxiety over getting to see her two best friends again was taking over but it slowly dropped when she didn’t see Simon there. Her eyes scanned the room and she realized Jesse wasn’t there either and so they were probably trying to ignore each other. Her eyes kept scanning until they stopped on Sarah and her excitement promptly returned. She quickly ran straight over and plopped down beside her and leaned over, knowing that Sarah wasn’t paying attention enough to realize it was her. “soooo is there like a way we can get out of this meeting today or are they really forcing the mandatory thing?”

Have you seen BEX TAYLOR KLAUS around campus? No that’s just SEVENTEEN year old, SAWYER MONROE! She is a JUNIOR here at Silver Creek! They’re known to be ACCEPTING and SARCASTIC. I’ve heard that she’s/he’s/they’re here because SHE’S BEEN IN AND OUT OF JUVIE HER ENTIRE LIFE FOR STEALING, when in reality it’s probably a rumor.