Saskia
“Saskia? Saskiaaa...? Hello...?”
I snap out of my daze, the bones in my neck nearly snapping with the force in which it turns.
“Oh! Yeah...? What’s up?” I blink.
Ayla sighs knowingly, “She was looking at that quiet girl.”
“What? Why?” Nova raises an eyebrow at me quizzically.
“Just... she just looks really sad...” my face twists into a melancholy frown.
I look back over at her. She’s sat on the grass, against a tree in a way that blatantly shows she slid down it, her knees pressed against her chest with her arms wrapped round them tightly. She’s wearing the usual hoodie and joggers, her hood up with the cords pulled. Her head is in her knees, her long hair falling over them, so I can’t actually see her face, but I don’t need to. She’s crying. Everything about the way she’s just sat there radiates struggling, and I don’t need to see it to know it.
“She always does. I swear she’s depressed.” Nova shrugs.
“What the hell?” I cry. “That’s not funny!”
But then my mind takes a heart-stopping turn. What if she actually is depressed...?
“You know what, I’m going to go check on her. Jerks.”
And with that, I walk off.
I swear to God, how can people be so ignorant? So dismissive?
What the hell?
What if she actually is depressed? What then? They’re just going to shrug that off too because it’s not their business? Just another joke?
What if they were depressed? Would they want someone to joke about them behind their back? Or just simply shrug it off without a second thought?
No.
What if I was depressed? Would they shrug that off too? Or joke about it? Their best friend?
No.
Just because they don’t know her personally doesn’t mean she doesn’t matter. She’s not ‘just another girl’, or ‘just the quiet girl’, but that’s what they’re acting like.
And I hate it.
I walk over to her, unballing my fists, as it turns out I’d subconsciously balled them in my fury. God, she looks so sad. And now I can see her better, I can see her shoulders trembling slightly too. If I didn’t know before, I do now.
She’s definitely crying.
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