this is the story of Two Pieces by Demi Lovato:
Demi and her friend Trenton Cole Bailey Stout. They were best
friends. They had known each other since Demi was 2. He was a
year older than her. He stayed at their house a lot, it was like
his second home, and Dallas was like his sister. They both lived
in Colleyville, Texas. As they grew up, their friendship only got
stronger. But you see, since Demi was a grade below him, she
didn’t know his friends, what was going on, and all that in
his grade. Like she said, she’d gotten suicidal thoughts
when she was 7, but he got her through it all. She stayed strong
for him. She started getting an eating disorder, and he could
tell, he worried about her, so he tried to stand up for her, but
it didn’t work very well. He was bullied before that, but
just in his own grade, after trying to stand up for Demi, he was
bullied in both the grade below him and his own grade, making it
nearly impossible to have friends, or feel safe. He and Demi were
a lot alike, they both struggled so much with peer pressure,
bullying, and that type of stuff. One day, the walked to school
together, Trenton seemed fine. They had a normal day and went
home, hung our for a while at Demi’s house, then he went
home. Demi was about 12. Trenton was about 13. The next day, he
didn’t walk to school with her, worrying her. But she
thought he might’ve been sick- even though he was never
sick and had never missed a day of school in his life. She
thought about him all day and worried about him. At the end of
the school day, she’d still heard nothing about him, no one
knew what happened, not his friends, not anyone in his grade, not
the teachers, not her friends, which turned her stomach in knots.
As she was about to walk home, she got a call from her mom. Her
mom was crying, and told Demi that Trenton had died. Demi
didn’t believe her and ran home. Her mother hugged her
tightly, as the ambulances surrounded her house, and
Trenton’s house. She ran over to his house, and she saw his
body. She didn’t think he looked like the Trenton she knew.
The Trenton she had loved. She fell to her knees crying, and her
mom just held her. After a while, her mother explained what had
happened. Trenton had hung himself with his belt, because of how
bullied he was. Demi immediately blamed herself,
wishing she could’ve helped him, even just one little
sentence, she was convinced, could’ve changed his mind. And
that’s when she admitted to had fallen in love with
Trenton. Her first love, ripped away from her. She never got to
tell him, she was too scared, but she always wondered how he felt
about her, but she would never get to know. That’s what
pushed her over the edge, and that first night- she cut for the
first time. It felt to het like the pain was flowing out of her,
so she kept doing it.
This post is in remembrance of Trenton Cole Bailey Stout.