The Girl Who Never Lived

The sunrise seeped through the opened windows of the classroom, brightening almost the whole rectangular space. Sweat droplets formed on Mr. Clark’s forehead as he struggled to explain the details of our upcoming science project.

My ocean eyes fell away, staring emptily at the blank sheet resting on my table. Mr. Clark’s voice echoed again in my ears and this time I grabbed something like, videos, an essay, and the usefulness.

 I looked up at the board, a part of me actually trying to listen to whatever he was saying while the other part of me didn’t really want to, as I was going to kill myself latest, this week ending.

 I sighed, closing my book shut once the siren rang all through the school. Mr. Clark smiled as though, eager to see what interesting thing we would create.

 "I’ll announce your partners tomorrow", he muttered.

 I rolled my eyes, swinging my bag straps over my shoulders as I walked out of the class. Along the hallways, I could hear chatters of students like myself, talking and hanging out for a short while until the next class fully began.

 I tried to shut everyone out, as I continue to walk blank-faced to my locker. When I got there; I jerked it open, stuffing the books that I wouldn’t be needing in the next four days there.

 My eyes fell to my watch and I frowned when I registered that I still had five minutes before the next class began. My eyes fell on the people around me who were laughing and chatting away and a hint of sadness fell across my face.

 No one would even notice if I’m dead

 This place was choking, I needed some space and fresh air. Tight-lipped, I began to walk towards anywhere that wasn’t covered up with several happy faces.

 I stopped when I reached the outdoors of the school, my eyes moving over the surrounding, and stopped when I spotted a bench and then my lips pursed in thoughts.

 Was that Aiden? One of the new transfer students?

 A frown appeared on my face when tall, brown curls and green piercing eyes didn’t disappear into the thin air.

 I was not dreaming

 I registered as my feet creaked the ground slowly, heading towards the direction of one of the biggest jerk-face in school, deciding to sit at the edge of the bench as that was the only one nearest to the hallways and I didn’t want to go too far.

 I sat down on the bench with a huge amount of me wondering why one of the most popular guys in school wasn’t out there having fun with his millions of friends. His greens turned to me, giving me a brief look over before returning to using his phone.

 He had a small frown across his face and he seemed slightly worried. I didn’t bother to ask, as minding my business was a natural part of me.

 I brought out my phone, plugged my ear pods, and began listening to one of my favorite songs. There was a comfortable air between us as no one was disturbing the other.

 When the song stopped, I realized that I’d been closing my eyes the whole time. I opened them to change the song but instead, I’m met by a pair of greens looking at me with something peculiar in his eyes; perhaps, amusement.

 I didn’t want to utter anything as I was not in the mood of talking today and just wanted to be left alone but when he didn’t stop staring I was forced to say something.