"He's such a cutieee!" Rosie grabbed onto Charlie's cheek, his cheek were flustered, who wouldn't be? He had six attractive girls sitting around him in a circle, he was the center of attention. They all nodded their heads as Rosie expressed her love for various part of Charlie's body. Ranging from his cheeks to his nose to his finger size. Margot just rolled her eyes at the comments.
"I bet he's handsome without a shirt!" another girl giggled, and they all laughed along. Margot's stare was intense, Charlie dived into her ocean eyes but it wasn't a nice ocean. It was an ocean on a stormy day filled with big waves, flipping him over time and time again. He was so lost that he wasn't aware about his surroundings and what the other girls were saying.
"Who's the prettiest girl here?" Rosie asked, waking him up from the ocean. Charlie shrugged his shoulders, he knew the answer. It was the ocean, the ocean that drowned his thoughts every night. She sat right across from him with a book in her hands, she seemed to be in another world.
"Uhm..." Charlie mumbled, the girls stared at him waiting for an answer, warming up his body, making him sweat. He rubbed the back of his neck, and tried to answer but nothing came out expect for a silent stutter. Margot turned the page of her book, too loud according to the giggling girl next to her.
"Can you please stop with this?" The girl grabbed Margot's book and threw it across the room. The look in Margot's face was something Charlie never had seen before. Margot saw red, her fists were clenched, her eyebrows were lowered so much that she had twenty-one lines in her forehead, Charlie counted them.
Margot pulled the girl's long hair tied up into a ponytail causing the girl to fall to the ground. She got on top of the girl, punching the girl like a punching bag. Memories from Margot's past played in her mind as she punched the girl.
"What are you doing?! MARGOT?!!!" Rosie screamed, tears dripping down her face, biting on her lip trying to think about what to do.
The girl underneath Margot pushed Margot away, she started running to the bathroom. Margot chasing her. It's like something dark took over Margot's body, she had never ever been violent before. The girl pulled the door knob, Margot used her entire body's strength to try to open the door. The girl managed to lock the door.
Margot didn't give up, she threw her heels across the room and then started to kick on the door with her bare feet, her toenails were painted white exactly like her finger nails. Charlie pulled Margot's arms and placed her on the wooden floor.
"What were you thinking?" Charlie yelled, Margot's eyes let down a teardrop. The eyes let down another one and then a flood of tears came, streaming down her face. Margot started hyperventilating trying to grasp air into her lungs. She felt her throat drying up and her throat closing up which made her panic even more.
"I-I can't breathe!" Margot managed to get words out of her mouth.
"Margot?" Charlie wiped away Margot's tears with the sleeve of his shirt. Margot felt her eyes getting heavy, she could hear her surroundings but not grasp what they were saying.
"Call an ambulance!" Charlie yelled, the loudest he had ever yell. Rosie quickly dialed in 911 into her phone, Charlie put his head on Margot's chest. Teardrops filled Margot's shirt.
1 month and 30 days before, 01:21 am
Charlie and the girls sat in the waiting room of the er. Charlie didn't like hospitals, they made him feel weird. Most lives start and end at the hospital, some people have the worst day of their life and some the best. All in the one place. They all held hands to get some comfort. A nurse walked up to them, she had a smile on her face.
"She's fine guys, she just had a panic attack." the nurse exclaimed, Charlie face lit up. She was alright! The nurse took him to Margot's hospital room, the others decided to leave. There she was, she looked completely calm. She smiled at Charlie as he walked into the room. She put on her leather jacket before letting out a sentence.
"Let's go to my house." she said, they walked out of the hospital, hand in her. Charlie could tell that she was happy that he decided to stay. She took out a cigarette once they got outside. Charlie didn't want her smoking that but what could he do?
"Have you ever had a panic attack before?" he asked Margot, she took a blow before answering.
"No, it was the scariest experience in my life." Above them was a sky filled with stars, the warm smoke warming up the atmosphere went up towards the sky, towards the moon, maybe towards another planet in another universe.
Margot sat down on a field of grass, Charlie next to her. She laid down on the cold grass and looked up at all the stars, Charlie looked at her. She was the star in his life, lighting up every room she walked into. He was so thankful for her. She had changed his life completely.
"Don't look at me, look at the stars!" she giggled noticing him looking at her. He looked up at the stars. He didn't see anything special with them. They were just suns from other universes far away. What was special about them? They all looked the same.
"I love the stars, imagine how many humans and animals on this earth are watching the same set of stars as we are? It's like we're all connected in some odd way. Look up at the stars each night and think of me, I will do the same." Margot mumbled with a smile on her face.
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The Ghost Of You
Teen Fiction"Whaaaat? You have NEVER had your first kiss before?" Margot is the definition of the type of people you should stay away from according to your parents. She parties almost every weekend, and sometimes on weekdays, she smokes away her stress instead...
