I occasionally mumbled as me and mother sat watching Finding Nemo on the sofa. "Mom?" I whispered. "Mm hm?" Mom hummed. "Well..." I stuttered, "I'm scared. What if my social anxiety gets in the way of things?" I mumbled to her. My mother shushed me and she then kissed my forehead. "It'll be alright. Everything's fine. " she whispers to me, with her words in my ear, I drop off to sleep. When I woke up I was king in my bed on top of my blanket. I lifted my head up which was buried into my pillow, and there was black, wet splices. I'd been crying in my sleep. I glanced at my face in the mirror and traces of black and silver tear tracks stuck to my face. I slipped off my bed and walked over to the ladder in the corner of my room, it leads to the attic but I transformed it into my secret den. I climbed up the ladder and lifted up the door. Once I was up I closed it and locked up. I switched on the lights and opened the window. I went over to the bookshelf and picked up some candy and my journal, then I climbed out the window and onto the roof. I was up thee for hours it felt like, I had written a full song, a diary entry and six pages of one of my stories. "Dani!" I heard my mother shout. "Yeah?!" I shouted back. "Look down!" She laughed, and I did. Standing in the front garden was mother, smiling up at me. "You alright?!" She asked and I nodded, then she walked back into the house.
I clambered back through the window and placed my journal back on the bookshelf, along with my collection of forty seven notebooks. I popped another piece of candy from the glass bowl into my mouth. I slammed my body into the sofa and groaned. I rolled off the sofa and my back banged into the cold wooden floor, I rolled until I ended up on the soft, white, fluffy rug. I reached over and picked up my Wreck This Journal. I opened it too a random page, 'Colour the entire page' I had more than one Wreck this Journal, the others were full. I picked up the tub with my crayons, pencils and pens in it and started sketching on the page. On one page I drew a unicorn and a rainbow,and on the other page I drew a frog dressed as a wizard. I tidied up the pencils, crayons and pens then put away the book. I stood up and climbed back down into my room. I walked to my closet and picked out a fresh outfit; denim shorts, Hollister tank top, New York baseball cap and black sandals. I wiped off all my makeup and put on sun lotion and lip balm, then went back to lie on the roof. As I lay there, I began remembering about my new school, and my social anxiety. I began shivering even though it was 82 degrees outside. I knew I had to do it for mom, so I made myself a promise: "I, DANI HUNTER, WILL GO TO MY NEW SCHOOL, MAKE FRIENDS AND HAVE A GREAT TIME."
