A Song for Elodie

Chapter Eight

21/8/19 5:43pm

MannixK: Hey elodie r u there?

EllieMoreno: yeah i am.

MannixK: lets facetime.

Two minutes later, a request to Facetime popped up on Elodie's cracked phone screen. She clicked on it and Mannix's friendly face appeared.

"Hi Elodie!"

"Hello Mannix."

He peered at her sickly face worriedly. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, haven't been very well these past weeks." Elodie tucked her hair behind her ear. "What's up in Brisbane?"

"Jake has a girlfriend!"

"Oh my gosh, who?"

"Remember Rosalie? Yeah, they started going out about a week ago."

"Rosalie?!" She and Elodie were family friends. "Didn't they hate each other back in year three?"

"I know! Sophie and I are so confused. Anyway, now it's down to the two of us."

"Wow, is Jake hanging out with Rosalie every day?"

"Yuh-huh." Mannix lowered his voice to a whisper. "You know, I'm actually thinking of asking Sophie out."

"Really?"
"Yeah, what do you think?'

Elodie hesitated. "Well, you have been friends for ages, almost as long as you've known me. Then again, I'd think you'd make it work since you know each other so well."

"You think?" Mannix's eyes lit up.

"Yeah go for it. Listen, I gotta go. Call you soon? Maybe next week?"

"Sure, see ya later potata."

"In a while crocodile."

Elodie hung up. She went over to her secret hiding place and extracted her diary out of it.

Wednesday 21st August 2019

Dear Diary,

Every day I go to school, and Layla and the girls I thought were my friends tease me and hurt me. Not just emotionally, but physically too. I grazed my elbow today and the scab on my knee has only just fallen off. No one likes me, and they walk past as if I don't even exist. I'm a ghost at school, whom no one cares about. I'm so alone. I have no future, and everyone is against me. I don't know what Layla has against me, but it's never going to stop. Maybe she's right. Maybe I am worthless. Maybe the world will be better off without me. No one will miss me if I'm gone. I just wish I was dead. I already feel like it anyway.

This is horrible. I just got more messages, telling me to kill myself. Now more are coming through, multiplying before my eyes.

That's it. I'm truly sorry, but I can't take this anymore. I have to stop this pain.