Eighteen year old Daisy Phillips is the volleyball captain of Greenville High School in Bettendorf Iowa. Daisy isn't the most attractive girl at Greenville High, most of the boys at her school go for the girls with skinny figures, painted on skinny...
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It had been two weeks since Dakota's little episode and I was still slightly shaken up. I had all these thoughts swirling through my head and it was not helping my anxiety. It was really hard for me to focus during school and I wasn't at my best during practice. Coach Jules knew what happened so she didn't push me. I couldn't get my mind to shut down for five minutes.
If you were there you could've prevented her episode.
That one lovely thought has been in my head since her episode. I feel like I've been slowly spiraling to a place I don't ever want to visit. It's dark, cold, and I'm completely alone. I would never wish that place on my worst enemy.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" McKenna shouted at me. I blinked a few times as I saw my old volleyball captain standing in front of me. Her posse was behind her with looks I didn't like.
"What do you want McKenna?" I sighed, already getting a headache just from being this close to her. McKenna quit the volleyball team after we didn't make it to the championships. She still goes to school at Greenville but she plays volleyball for a different school.
"You haven't changed one bit have you?"
"Either get to the point or leave me alone." I gritted out, already done with this conversation.
"Your game yesterday. You played exactly like you did when we were supposed to move to the championships. Maybe you should just quit while you're ahead."
I didn't have anything to say. She was right, yesterday's game was awful. We were frustrated and I couldn't get my head in the game. I chose to forget about it and move on, but McKenna wasn't giving me that choice anymore. All the memories were flooding back, and not just from yesterday either.
"You had to just go and throw our chance at the championships out the window, didn't you Daisy?" My captain spat out at me as she walked past and deliberately shoved her shoulder into mine, forcing me to take a few steps backwards. I could feel the tears threatening to fall.
I could feel those tears again, they were coming in fast. McKenna stood there with a smug look on her face, I wanted to slap her but I turned and ran instead. I turned and ran down the halls, I didn't have a destination in mind. I just kept moving my legs as the hot tears burned their paths down my face.
I swear I could hear someone call my name, but I didn't look to see who it was. I needed to get out, I could feel my chest caving in on me. It was getting harder to breathe, the edges of my vision were blurring and the tears weren't helping.
I think I'm outside now, I ran past what I think is the football field and to the edge of the forest before I collapsed against a tree. I threw my backpack off my shoulders and struggled to get out of my jacket. It was freezing outside but my body was burning up. Everything was spinning.
You had to just go and throw our chance at the championships out the window, didn't you Daisy?
I could feel myself hyperventilating as my mind was going a thousand miles per hour. My hands were shaking as I was trying and failing to get my hair up on the top of my head.
