Anne-Maria (Completed)

Jessie's Birthday Party

I woke up early from my "sleep" to the smell of bacon and pancakes. I was excited for my mom's pancakes and bacon, which she makes every Sunday. Since I had to leave at around twelve, and it was around 9 A.M in the morning, she tried to rush her cooking. My brother Tom and his wife Raina joined our breakfast and he had on an arm cast. Seeing his cast reminded me of how I was supposed to visit him before leaving to the water park. 

"Why were you out so late?" I asked Tom, setting down my fork and grabbing more bacon from the platter in the middle of the table. He looked at me, then down at his cast, then back up at me. "Raina wanted some oranges, so I went to the store and on my way back someone hit me from the passenger side and the car flipped over. I'm clearly fine though," He said. I didn't know the accident was that bad, I instantly felt bad for asking the question instead of first making sure that he was really okay. 

Raina apologized to Tom and I like it was her fault or something. I reassured her that she didn't cause any of it and that I should be the one apologizing for my rudeness. My father agreed and we continued on eating our dinner as Tom talked about how everyone surrounding the accident were really helpful. The breakfast was wonderful and lasted for about two hours, making it eleven A.M. I said my goodbyes and made sure to hug Tom and Raina, just in case anything else happens. 

I rushed up to my room and grabbed my outfit for the day. I picked out a flowy white dress and put on black tights. Being the lazy person I am, I grabbed my slip on vans and asked my mom to take me to Jessie's house for the party. My mom was unaware of the party and wanted to get Jessie a present, so we decided to get her pink, sparkly, flowers. 

On the way to her house, no one talked. I looked at the trees through my windows, and only saw flashes of a faded orange and red color. I went over the events of last night and realized how boring it was, how boring every night was. Is this going to be my life? Never really going to sleep?  I never was going to be able to really sleep again, even though I am always energized and wide awake throughout the day. When I am tired, I can cure it, by living in another "world". I also realized that I hadn't seen Kan for the past few days, ever since he asked me to help him. Maybe he woke up, and I never would see him again. I didn't have time to think about, I needed to snap back into reality. My mom stopped in front of Jessie's house. I looked at the slip of paper with her address on it so I can make sure that I was at the right house. 

I waved goodbye to my mom and walked up the walkway that led to the door. Jessie's house was very beautiful and she had a large plot of land. I liked her more after finding out how rich she was, all I needed to do to find out she was so rich, was walk into her house. She invited me in quickly, and I was in utter shock. Her house was so beautiful, so clean, and so bland. The walls were all a shiny white, and all of the floors, except upstairs seemed to be marble. After you get past the gigantic family area, there are two beautiful staircases leading up to the second floor. She led me up there and I was shocked again. Everything was again so beautiful, but it wasn't as bland as the first floor of the house. I felt like I was in a mansion, and that I was going to become a princess. If only Jessie was my sister, than I would be able to live in the beautiful house that I was visiting for the first time. 

She led me to her spacious room that had a balcony. Her doors were open and a sudden cool breeze filled the room, rustling through the curtains. Jessie told me to stay in her room as she grabbed the flowers away from me. She left the room quickly, shutting the door slowly, making sure it didn't interrupt the peaceful quiet. I walked over to the balcony and felt the breeze as it flowed through my hair. Everything was so beautiful, until I started to feel sick and dizzy again. I wondered why I was barely starting to feel like this after a few days of nothing happening. I wanted to stay in the quiet forever, with no one bothering me, but that didn't last too long. 

"Hey Maria," Connor said, making me jump. He had scared me and I turned around to face him. Standing behind him was Jessie and Kevin. Great the whole "crew" was here to witness me faint. I walked over and sat on Jessie's soft, comfortable bed. She said that there was food waiting for us in the dining room. Connor agreed quickly, and Kevin gave in. Kevin didn't really trust other people offering him food, and knowing that we all just met Jessie, I would feel the same too. Jessie said she would just bring it up to her room, so she left, shutting the door slowly again. 

My vision started to blur, not again. I was so angry with myself, why couldn't all of this just end already? I had no one to help me, except Kan. I hoped that since this was happening again, I would at least get to see Kan, hopefully. I fell back onto the bed and the last thing I heard as Maria was Connor gasping and Kevin doing the same. 

I woke up and realized that Kevin looked pale and was scared, so did Connor. This was connor's first time witnessing me fainting for no reason. It must have been harder for Kevin though, because he had seen me faint more than once already. I walked around and sat next to my body, everything was calm in my world. Connor ran out of the room and Kevin slowly walked to me, pulling out his phone. I moved my bangs away from Maria's forehead, I made it look like the forever lasting breeze moved the strands of hair so Kevin wouldn't be that scared. 

Kevin picked me up to where it looked like we were a married couple. He was the groom, carrying his new wife out of the chapel, holding her close to his chest. I followed Kevin out of the room and down the stairs. He still looked pale, and I'm sure I grew pale too. I was worried about what he was going to do next. Jessie was shocked to see my body being carried by Kevin down the staircase. She had her phone in her hand but Kevin reassured her that I was going to be ok. She put it down. She seemed to understand everything that was going on. 

I looked at her, and saw the resemblance of someone I had seen before. She looked so much like him, so much that I wondered why I had not asked her if she was related the Kan earlier. I had no choice but to leave while the door was still open. 

I followed Kevin to his empty house. No one was home, so he had nothing to worry about. He took me out to his back yard, and laid me in the freshly cut grass. Kevin's yard had always looked so beautiful and I felt like everything was going to be ok. I wanted him to know that everything is ok, and that I am just fine, but how? How will I ever be able to tell him?