Souls You Can't Save

Post Holidays

So as expected, the rest of the holidays were shitty, but I won't go into details. I spent New Years with one of my old friends, Natalie, and she was just as fun as I remember. I miss her. We used to fangirl over Pentatonix and Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi and Superfruit, and I unintentionally came out to her. I was ranting about the girl I liked showing up to the football game and being really sweet to me, and then flaunting her  girlfriend in front of me. And Natalie was totally chill about it. Yeah, she was surprised, but super happy for me.

I had a crush on her for a little while, but I realized that there was no way in hell it was going to happen, and I gave up.

After that, I celebrated my mom's birthday, and that was sort of not hell, but then, I realized what was going to happen.

I went back to school in two days.

And I was pissed.

I didn't really talk to anyone over break, but Jade and Nevaeh were trying to get me out of my giraffe onesie and into the outside world.

I just couldn't do it.
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I heard my alarm blaring, and opened one eye to look at the time.

6:05 am.

Even though I picked the least annoying ringer for my alarm, every sound is annoying at 6:00am.

I heard my sister coming down the hall to wake me up, and groaned,
"Go away I'm awake"

She laughed and went back to her room.

My sister had graduated high school last year, but stayed out of college to help my dad adjust to being single.

I forgot to mention, my adoptive parents are divorced. Sounds worse, right? Nah it actually better than hearing my parents scream at each other at 3:45 am, thinking none of us are awake.

Now to get ready to go to hell.
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I got to school, and it was surprisingly not horrible. I went through the band room in my usual normal routine, and got to my locker without being disturbed. I opened my locker, which wasn't hard considering it was broken and opened if you kicked it in the right place.

I quickly glanced around the shelves, looking past the abandoned coffee cups and half eaten mini cereal boxes to find a cutely wrapped Christmas package on top of my English binder. I eyed it suspiciously before noticing the card that said "To the most beautiful girl ever, from a secret admirer."

Sighing deeply, aware of what happened last time I opened an anonymous "gift", opened this one slowly, tearing off the paper in little strips.

Inside, on a soft bed of cotton, was a VERY pretty, VERY sparkly, VERY expensive looking necklace. The small tag inside said it was handmade anonymously by the giver, and was addressed to me.

Studying it closely, I was so entranced by the way the light shone off the jewels I didn't even notice Nevaeh walk up behind me.

"holy shit Celeste, who's that from?"

I glanced at her astounded face before handing her the necklace and simply saying, "I don't know".

Scott walked up, calmly looking at his phone before handing it to me.
"If you bothered to check your Instagram, you would know." he said, nodding at his phone.  I saw a picture of the necklace, the picture captioned "a very pretty lady is going to be extremely happy on Monday".

Not recognizing the username, I clicked on the account before realizing that it was a guy that I had suspected liked me for a few years.

But I had never liked him.
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AN-

Sorry I ended up falling asleep while writing this chapter last night, so I finished it and here it is