Secret Singing Superstar

Twenty-nine ~ ♫♪♫

Helina reached the driveway of Cailyn's house, and stared at the two-storey house as it towered above her. She looked down at the concrete she was standing on, and remembered the day when she had first come here.

She couldn't exactly remember the details, but she could remember the excited feeling she'd had when she'd first knocked on the door with her mother behind her. A little eleven year old girl with dark hair had opened the door and the first thing she'd done when she'd seen her best friend was collapse on the couch in hysterical laughter. Cailyn had been very weird that day. And she had been happy. Helina was sure that Cailyn was nowhere near happy now.

The world also seemed to be mocking her; the sun was high in the sky and there were no clouds. The weather was basically playing with her emotions, and she hated it. The endless bright blue sky stretched for miles, like a blanket covering the earth. It was comforting but also a creepy feeling at the same time. She couldn't explain it to anybody - they wouldn't understand.

Caitlin might, though. She was a special girl.

Helina had never known anybody who was so dedicated to help others before. Caitlin was a really good and an extremely sweet friend - although she still refused to listen to songs by S.H.E (Helina's favourite band) when Helina had asked her to at school. Caitlin had said the songs were too gentle for her liking. She liked rock songs - like Bring Me the Horizon songs, for example.

She was grateful for Caitlin for making her life better by talking to her every night and saying positive and encouraging things. She didn't know it yet, but those words were the only thing that kept Helina going. Otherwise she might have given up and melted into a little brokenhearted puddle long ago. Her pain was that bad.

Cailyn helped, too. But Helina had been depending on Caitlin recently. She was a mentor for her - somebody for her to follow. She would do anything Caitlin asked her to do. She owed her that much for everything she'd done for her. So if Caitlin told her to tell Cailyn about maybe needing therapy, she would do it, even when she didn't want to, for fear of hurting her.

She tasted salt on her lips. She hadn't even realized she was crying. She trembled and hugged herself for comfort. It was at these times when she felt like she was alone in the world. Lost like a tiny leaf blowing in the breeze. If only she could regrow into a tree and stabilize herself again.

If only life stopped being so complicated. If only people were really as nice as they pretended to be. If nobody backstabbed others. If only they didn't leave people with a broken heart.

Her tears were rapidly flowing onto her pink jumper, soaking it. She could feel the wetness on her arms already.

She was about to reprimand herself for being so stupid - crying outside her friend's house - when she felt someone's arms go around her and hug her tightly. She tensed, turning around, then smiled in relief.

It was Cailyn. When their eyes met, the other girl burst into tears and hugged her tighter.

None of Cailyn's parents came out of the house after her daughter. Perhaps they didn't even see her go outside. Nobody else saw the two girls crying outside in the driveway.

It seemed like forever, but finally they both slowly stopped crying. Cailyn let go of Helina.

"Come sit," she said, turning away and hopping onto the brick wall on the side of her house. It wasn't that tall, and Helina easily leaped up to join her. Cailyn wiped her eyes. They were puffy and red. "Why are you crying? I look out the window and I see you standing there sobbing. What happened? Did he do something again? Because I swear I will kill him if he did something to you."