2: M i r r o r b a l l

I want you to knowI'm a mirrorballI can change everything about me to fit in

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Amerie was sat in her home room, Amerie attended a private school that also had a home schooling service for whenever she had to travel.

The bell rang, finally it felt like long hours of classmates talking and her doodling on her hands at the back of the class.

The teen's hands were filled with doodles of stars, sparkles and hearts. It was a constant habit and not one her teachers approved of.

The teen made her way into The Hub, which was her school's pastoral/safe guarding facility.

"Amerie, hi sweetie are you wanting to do Period 1 in here today?" Miss Green asked.

Miss Green is Amerie's favourite teacher, she's apart of the support staff, but also is Amerie's music teacher.

"Yeah" Amerie mumbled.

"I'll get your work for you" The teacher smiled as the teen walked into the bean bag room.

Amerie grabbed her noise cancelling headphones and curled up onto a bean bag.

"I've got your work for you-.. oh Amerie" Miss Green sighed as she sat down next the teen.

Amerie sat up and took her headphones off as she reached into her bag to grab her pencil case.

"What's up today sweetie?" Miss Green asked the teenager.

"Nothing" Amerie shrugged.

"Well if they is you would tell me, or your Mom right?" Miss Green smiled at the teenager.

Amerie nodded and began to focus on her work.

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Amerie sighed as she stared into the mirror in the school's bathroom that was in The Hub. She was practicing her facial expressions, she sighed as she tried to find the perfect smile.

This would have to do, she exited the bathroom and headed out of The Hub.

"How come you were in The Hub?" Nessa asked Amerie as soon as she saw her.

Nessa was Amerie's friend, she's known Nessa since she first started, but Nessa doesn't know the true Amerie.

"Oh, erm I just needed someone to erm talk to" Amerie said as her hands danced, she was anxious.

"Depressing" Nessa said rolling her eyes.

"Tell me about it" Amerie chuckled as she started to pull on her sleeves.

"I'm totally skipping Period 2, Science with Mr Simmons he's a total douche!" Nessa said heading her way into the bathroom.

"Mhm" Amerie mumbled.

"Ayy you wanna get out of here" Nessa suggested

"I'm not sure" Amerie shrugged.

"Come on it will be fun! Why are you so I don't know.. weird recently" Nessa sighed

"It's nothing I'm just stressed about school" Amerie sighed

"So let's get out of here then! You won't have to be stressed" Nessa said excitedly

"Yeah maybe you're right.." Amerie sighed

Skipping school was not something Amerie would usually do. But, hey you only live once, right?

The two teens dashed through the hallways exiting the school building through a side door.

"You just gotta jump the fence girlie!" Nessa encouraged.

"I don't wanna fall!" Amerie sighed.

"You won't trust me I'll catch you!" Nessa exclaimed

Amerie made her way out of the fence, it wasn't all that hard it was actually easy.

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Amerie received a notification from Nessa, she stared at her phone blankly. Nessa posted to her public account and tagged Amerie... the Swifties would sure see this.

"Nessa? You posted a picture of me" Amerie asked.

"Yeah the pose it's cute right" Nessa smiled.

"Yeah, but my Mom might see or her fans.. anyone might" Amerie sighed.

"So? People have seen pictures of you before your literally famous" Nessa chuckled

"But if they see it they will know we're skipping school" Amerie sighed

"Okay? I don't care and neither should you, it's not a big deal" Nessa sighed

"Yeah sorry you're right" Amerie hesitated, but deep down Amerie knew skipping school was wrong, but Nessa was only trying to help her not feel stressed and have a good time right?

Nessa rushed into the dressing room and Amerie took this as a sign to look at any of the comments on Nessa's post.

@taylorlover13: why is Amerie not in school?

@amyswiftie25: @taylorswift

@harpsyx: gorgeous girl <3

@selenagomez: Amerie get back in school! 🙄

@reputationfan1: @taylorswift think your girl is skipping

Amerie sighed looking at the comments, they went on for a while. She needed to get out of here and get back to school.

"LOOK AT THIS AMERIE!" Nessa shouted out leaving the dressing room.

This startled Amerie, she put her hands over her ears and started to panic.

"Amerie.. why the fuck are you covering your ears, gosh you've been acting so autistic recently!" Nessa laughed.

"Autistic.." Amerie asked cluelessly.

"Yeah like weird." Nessa chuckled.

"But autism is a disorder" Amerie questioned

"Yeah, but they are weird so people say autistic for when people are being weird you know, I'm only joking like I'm not trying to offend you" Nessa chuckled.

"But.. that's not right.. autism is a literal disability people have... you can't use autistic as insult to call people weird.. autism isn't weird it's the way someone's brain works" Amerie defended.

"Gosh, why do you care it's not like you have it" Nessa sighed as she barged past Amerie.

Amerie sighed, deep down she knew she was autistic, she had a disability, but on the surface it didn't appear that way.

"Wait Nessa! Let's do something fun!" Amerie sighed, this was a bad idea but she needed to please Nessa.

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Amerie sighed as she posted to her account, fuck it, it's fine!

Her phone was flooded with notifications and missed calls, she ignored them. This was her time with Nessa away from school.

Amerie watched as a black SUV pulled up.A tall blonde lady in sunglasses and a hat stepped out... her Mom.

"AMERIE IN THE CAR NOW!" Taylor yelled.

Amerie sighed and obeyed her Mom's orders.

"What is this Amerie, what is going on with you?" Taylor sighed as she sat in the car.

"Nothing!" Amerie protested.

"You're grounded! What you did was very wrong and this is serious. I will be managing all your socials from now on, what you post will go through me and also my team, you will also give me your phone at the end of every day before you go to bed and I will be doing searches. Amerie I don't like being strict with you, but what you did today was out of character, when we get home we will be having a serious talk. Now if they anything you would like to explain?" Taylor spoke firmly.

"I didn't mean to" Amerie sighed.

"You didn't mean to skip school?..." Taylor frowned.

"No, Nessa she kinda dragged me to it, and I was stressed and I thought it would help if I got out, and Nessa started to want to do more things, and she was pressuring me and I wanted to fit in and please her, so I went along with it and skipped school, and now your mad at me, but I'm really sorry, I am super super sorry and I won't do it ever again" Amerie rambled on.

"Hey breathe.. look I'm not mad at you, I'm just upset and disappointed. I see why you did this and it's none of your fault, Nessa dragged you into this situation, that's on Nessa not you, but you need to learn to say no. Nessa doesn't know you're autistic, does she?" Taylor said with concern

"It hasn't came up yet" Amerie sighed.

"Amerie you know it's okay to be autistic, it's not a bad thing" Taylor said reassuring the teenager.

"I know, she just said some things" Amerie sighed.

"Like what?" Taylor raised her eye brow

"She sorta used autistic as an insult and called me it and called me weird" Amerie sighed

"Amerie... she can't be saying things like that. You know your not weird, your my special princess, your my pride and joy, never forget that" Taylor spoke wise words of encouragement.

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