Sight

One.

Another day, another hurricane of feelings, it was the same game always played on me. The lonely strange girl, the freak, another name I loved being called.

High school is nothing like what they portray it to be. It's just a bunch of lies, the damsel in distress, and the nerdy/ geeky but cute girl always getting the guy. It isn't like that, why do people have such strange fantasies? Why do we feed ourselves such a stereotypical hypotheses?

It's so frustrating.

Yet I walk through those large metallic gates which expose me to a whole new, merciless world of teenagers.

"Maria!" My best friend Avery shouts as she sees me enter the hall, she skips and slings an arm around me and leans and whispers in my ear, "Happy Birthday!" I feel her hot breath against my ear and it brings certain moisture to it.

I smile and cringe at the same time and loop my arm around her waist in the form of a side hug as my other arm is holding onto the strap of my bag, "Thanks Avery." I say as I smile, "Come here! I want to give you my gift, finally eighteen!" She squeals and pulls me to her locker, rummages through it and finally hands me an envelope.

A hint of excitement inches over me as I rip open the letter and find a coupon. "It's a coupon worth 200 bucks in Forever 21! We can go shopping and have so much fun!" Avery continues to scream and I see her bouncing up and down a little.

I smile and look at her, "Thank you so much Ava." I give her a proper hug now, "But this is too much, 200 dollars? Ava, I can't." I say shaking my head and handing her back the envelope, "Shut up and take it." She shuts me down as she loops her arm around mine, "Did the parents get you anything?" Avery continues talking, I roll my eyes, "They're still in India, and you know that."

"Oh, right." She responds and suddenly, I have a searing ache in the pit of my stomach, my legs begin throbbing and tingling, "Ria... you okay? You don't look so hot." Avery looks over to me and slows down her pace, "Yeah, I'm fine, just a little dizzy." I say as I lean on one of the metallic lockers, the cool of the metal reassuring me as my skin screams with heat. "Hey, Maria, look at me." Avery says but the words sound muffed, as though my ears are covered, suddenly my vision goes blurry and I go under.

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"Ria? Maria?" I hear Avery's voice in the distance and slowly the voice is taken to a body. I see Avery above me, her red hair hanging on either sides of her face, worry igniting her features. "Avery?" I say, my voice sounding like I haven't spoken in years. "Maria!" Avery's voice tingles with relief as she hugs me.

"What happened?" I ask, only now do I truly impersonate Morgan Freeman.

"You...You just passed out. Like fainted." Ava said as her as her deep blue eyes bulged out of her eye sockets and she dramatically gesticulated.

"Do you remember anything?" I see the school nurse in front of me, only then do I realize I'm on a bed with white sheets and surrounded by blue tiles. To my left is a translucent, white satin curtain and behind the curtain were two desks for the nurses. Files piled up and filling the desk, they even covered the keyboard which was connected to the computer. The nurse stood there with one of her arms holding back the curtain, Ava was seated on the bed with I laid on.

"Not really, no." I said with a certain degree of uneasiness coming my way. "All I remember are hot flashes of pain and suddenly seeing black." I say, my tone shaking out of fear, what if I didn't remember a large portion of what happened? Things like this scared me, terrified me really.

Avery looked at me and recovered when I shot her shot her a look of distaste on seeing her uneasy expression. "Nothing happened, Ria. You were in and out." Avery reassured me.