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Creative Writing: (Highschool) | Lost In My Head

Lost in My Head

Introduction Scene

Walking in the loud, crowded, corridors of the hall. Feeling lost, even though this place has become my home for the past four years.

Everybody walking in the opposite direction as I walk around, staring at the posters on the wall, and at the gum and graffiti stuck on the smallest corners of the rooms.

I turn around, gazing at this maze of a school, turning back around to the direction I was going first, and find myself colliding with a body.

"Hey watch it, dude," a school jock tells me.

I want to answer by saying, 'I'm a girl, dude,' but what comes out is a whisper of a 'sorry' and I begin to walk again.

"Hey," a familiar voice says, it's Nathanial, my known to be 'best friend.'

"Hi, Nathaniel." I roll my eyes.

"What's up, Layla,"

"The sky," I retort, walking to our next class.

"Hey," Nathaniel says, trying to catch up, "It's actually the ceiling," he calls after me.

And this is how my life goes.

Scene #1

"Mom, I'm home," I yell as I enter the front door of my house, dropping my backpack in the process.

No answer comes.

"Yes," I think to myself, "Home alone." I run up the spiral staircase all the way to my room.

I put on Michale Jackson and began to dance. "Just Beat it," I sing along to the words.

As that song finishes another one of my favorite Michale Jackson songs comes on.

"She's Out of My Life." I sway sadly with the music, acting like I'm heartbroken, just as the song is ending, I lean against the staircase, closing my eyes, "To think for two years, she was here....And I took her for granted... I was so cavalier.." I stopped singing as I heard the front door opening, indicating that my mom is here. I stop the music and jump on my bed, pretending as if I have been sleeping this whole time.

"Sweetie, I'm home," I hear her say, "Layla, I have something for you." I roll my eyes and stand up, off of my bed.

"Yes, mom," I answer, walking slowly down the stairs.

"Look," she says, but I can't see what she is talking about.

"What," I ask, walking closer to her, finally, I see it, it's a letter. "Oh, no," I think.

"I think it's from College," she tells me, smiling. I snatch the letter from her hand, "Hey," mom yelps. 

I run up the stairs.

"Layla, you come back here at once." Disobeying her, I run faster up my room and shut my bedroom door.

I lean against it and look at the letter in my hand.

Scared to find out what's inside, I toss it on my bedroom desk.

Scene #2

Nathaniel jumps up and down as we walk to school. I walk in front of him as he parades on the sidewalk.

"What's up with you?!" I ask.

"I got my College letter," he says, dancing.

I roll my eyes.

"I got in." he jumps.

"I can tell." I continue to walk, squinting my eyes from the hot summer sun.

"Aren't you happy for me!?"